The Paper Industry's APOLOGIES (AND OTHER GREY AREAS) to Play 12/1-17

Paper Industry's Apologies (and other grey areas) will run from December 1 – 17.

Apologies (and other grey areas) is the conclusion of The Paper Industry's "ugly opera" trilogy -- a cycle of modular, music-driven dance theater focused on concepts in physics. Taking at its core the famous "Schrodinger's Cat" thought experiment and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Apologies exams the ontology of beginnings; working within the ineffable moment when something crosses from potential to actual.

These scientific theories permeate all elements of the "ugly opera". Characters, Erwin and Werner discuss these moments of genesis in The Paper Industry's continued dialogue style of poetic science, grounding theory in the reality of experience. The boxed set, by Andreea Mincic, and its subsequent deconstruction throughout the piece inform the movement score choreographed by The Paper Industry's ensemble of dancers, further exploring moments of inception and initiation. Finally composers Carter Matschullat & Hard Mix, delve into these concepts musically with pulsing electronic loops that evolve and decay, redefining themselves moment by moment. All of these elements combine in The Paper Industry's Apologies (and other grey areas)  to cut to the human meanings of  these landmark theories in physics.

Written and Directed by Jamie Peterson (TPI, Assistant Director of NTUSA, Performer with Richard Foreman), Apologies features 7 contemporary dancers, 2 actors, and large-scale set design by Andreea Mincic (Three Pianos, Half Straddle) with original music by Carter Matschullat (Dovecote Records Founder) and Hard Mix (Defaults LP).

About The Paper Industry: The Paper Industry (TPI) is a theater company, despite the misleading nomenclature. TPI strives only for one goal: To exalt the singular experience of being human by distilling our most potent experiences into a temporally digestible moment (theatre). Wishing to show, in no small terms, shadows of the human condition with clarity and insight, to create intersections of sentiment between performers and the audience.

 

 Since its inception in 2007, The Paper Industry (TPI) has created three original works, Building A House Out of Feathers (2007), Hot Dog Opera a site-specific work for One Million Forgotten Moments, a public art piece created and curated by Yehuda Duenyas for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2008), and Sine Wave Goodbye (2009). TPI has garnered extensive acclaim from the downtown experimental theater scene of New York for its seamless weaving between dance, opera, gesture, text, and music.

Jamie Peterson (Writer/Director) is the Artistic Director of The Paper Industry, through which he has written and directed 5 works for the stage. Building A House Out Of Feathers, Sine Wave Goodbye and Apologies (and other grey areas) comprise the main body of work, a music-theater hybrid performance trilogy produced by the Incubator Arts Project since 2007. In addition, he has worked extensively with downtown company The National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA) as an assistant director for their nationwide tour of Chautauqua! (PS122, The Public, Boston ICA, Mass MoCA, Vanderbilt University). He was also a performer with Richard Foreman in Wake Up Mr. Sleepy... and his collaboration with John Zorn, Astronome: A Night At The Opera. His work has also been seen at Dixon Place, ART's OBERON, Le Poisson Rouge, The Chocolate Factory and a number of temporary theater spaces he has helped build.

 Hard Mix (Composer) aka Noah Smith is currently a Junior studying Digital Information Design at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He released his first full length record "Defaults" on Dovecote Records this past year to wide acclaim. 

Carter Matschullat (Composer) is a producer and multi-instrumentalist from New York, NY.  After attending NYU's Clive Davis Department of Recorded music, his early work as one half of the production team, Expensive People, led to remixes for Rhianna, Maroon 5, The Hives, Amanda Blanc, Neon Trees, and Mew. His recent projects include production work with new bands Ski Lodge and Panopticon.

About Incubator Arts Project: Incubator Arts Project aims to further innovative performance by serving independent artists based in NYC who create original work.

By offering a series of production programs that provide space, labor, technical assistance and administrative expertise, Incubator Arts Project supports the presentation of world premiere, contemporary work in the performing arts made by dance, music and theatre artists. Core programs include the New Performance Series, MUSIC and Short Form.

Incubator Arts Project has received favorable press coverage in American Theatre magazine, The New York Times, TIME OUT New York, The Village Voice, and The Brooklyn Rail and won a 2010 Obie grant.

Incubator Arts Project is grateful to acknowledge the following organizations that support their work: New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Mental Insight Foundation & Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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