'The End Of Cinematics' A MultiMedia Theater Experience
By: Beau Higgins Dec. 28, 2006
CARNIVAL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS THE END OF CINEMATICS
A 90-MINUTE AUDIOVISUAL JOURNEY INTO A POST-MTV-HYPER-EDITED-VIDEO
THEATER UNIVERSE
Live performers, an original Beatles-influenced-electronica- infused score, digital video footage, and massive projections create a modern hyper-real film experience on the Ziff Ballet Opera House stage.
Conceived, written, and directed by Mikel Rouse.December 29
8 p.m.
Carnival Center for the Performing Arts presents The End Of Cinematics, a multimedia theatrical experience created by Mikel Rouse featuring live performers, pop-infused electronica, digital video and bigger-than- life projections, in the Center's Ziff Ballet Opera House on Friday, December 29 at 8 p.m. Juxtaposing music and lyrics, images and narrative, live performance and video, Mikel Rouse creates an immersive, sensual experience that examines the 21st-century phenomenon of viewing media content in fragment form. The End Of Cinematics presents original film footage shot by Rouse on the street of Paris which has been manipulated through computer-generated imaging to provide video backdrops for live performers, including Rouse himself. The performers and backdrops are then captured live on video and projected onto a scrim, creating a live 3D film right before our eyes.
To view the trailer and live performance excerpts or listen to audio clips, visit http://www.endofcinematics.com. Sacramento News & Review describes the show as: "confounding and daring, visceral and cerebral, and sort of like being inside a Talking Heads video." Produced by Mikel Rouse, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and Double M Arts & Events, The End Of Cinematics was inspired by Susan Sontag's 1996 New York Times article "The Decay of Cinema" and her 1997 essay "A Century of Cinema." The work is the third part of an "opera veritÃ" trilogy consisting of Failing Kansas and the critically-acclaimed "talk show" opera Dennis Cleveland. Each of these works combines live performance with original music and video/film; each makes use of Rouse's counter-poetry technique, the use of multiple unpitched voices in counterpoint to create a layering effect with multiple textual meanings. The works are linked thematically in that they refer to American popular culture and how America looks at religion and spirituality.
Described by the New York Times as "a composer many believe to be the best of his generation," Rouse has created a Beatles-influenced-hip-hop-flavored- electronica-popping soundtrack that transforms the show into a dreamlike meditation on the possibilities of cinema. "Mikel Rouse is one of those young creative spirits forever on the alert for new ways of telling stories... Rouse's approach is always unconventional, with its blend of pop music, minimalism, poetry, psychology, and layered sounds pushing the notion of contemporary performance art into new forms." (The West Australian) Tickets are $15 - $78 and are available online at http://www.carnivalcenter.org or (305) 949-6722.
For group tickets (20 or more), contact (786) 468-2326. Exclusively for this performance, Carnival Center has partnered with New Times and The Coast 97.3 FM to create Sex, Love & Video, Miami 's hippest end-of-the-year experience at Carnival Center. The first 300 people to purchase tickets to The End Of Cinematics are invited to a pre-theater ice-breaker at the Center's outdoor Thomson Plaza for the Arts at 6:30 p.m. with complimentary cocktails and appetizers and free admittance to the exclusive cast party at the Pawn Shop Lounge immediately following the show. Offer only available with online ticket purchases at http://www.carnival center.org.
A 90-MINUTE AUDIOVISUAL JOURNEY INTO A POST-MTV-HYPER-EDITED-VIDEO
THEATER UNIVERSE
Conceived, written, and directed by Mikel Rouse.December 29
8 p.m.
Carnival Center for the Performing Arts presents The End Of Cinematics, a multimedia theatrical experience created by Mikel Rouse featuring live performers, pop-infused electronica, digital video and bigger-than- life projections, in the Center's Ziff Ballet Opera House on Friday, December 29 at 8 p.m. Juxtaposing music and lyrics, images and narrative, live performance and video, Mikel Rouse creates an immersive, sensual experience that examines the 21st-century phenomenon of viewing media content in fragment form. The End Of Cinematics presents original film footage shot by Rouse on the street of Paris which has been manipulated through computer-generated imaging to provide video backdrops for live performers, including Rouse himself. The performers and backdrops are then captured live on video and projected onto a scrim, creating a live 3D film right before our eyes.
For group tickets (20 or more), contact (786) 468-2326. Exclusively for this performance, Carnival Center has partnered with New Times and The Coast 97.3 FM to create Sex, Love & Video, Miami 's hippest end-of-the-year experience at Carnival Center. The first 300 people to purchase tickets to The End Of Cinematics are invited to a pre-theater ice-breaker at the Center's outdoor Thomson Plaza for the Arts at 6:30 p.m. with complimentary cocktails and appetizers and free admittance to the exclusive cast party at the Pawn Shop Lounge immediately following the show. Offer only available with online ticket purchases at http://www.carnival center.org.
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