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LifeLines: Blavatsky Freud Experience

LifeLines: Blavatsky Freud Experience

Created/written by Jon McKenzie, Bryan Reynolds, and Saviana Stănescu
Directed by Bryan Reynolds

Performed by Kayla Emerson, Gosia Lorenz, Bryan Reynolds, Emilia Simeonov
Music composed & produced by Vinnie Olivieri
Sound design by Vinnie Olivieri
Video design by Jon McKenzie
Lighting design by Lonnie Alcaraz
Prefatory video designed & created by Merle DeWitt III
Stage Manager Sammie Dasia Moore
Production assistance Jacob Dovan Nguyen

March 15 & 16, 2024

Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)

LifeLines: Blavatsky Freud Experience is a unique theatrical production that combines drama, ritual, dance, and audiovisual elements to delve into the concept of creation in an era dominated by Cultural Intelligence Agencies. The story revolves around a stalled nativity scene where two time travelers, Madame Blavatsky and Sigmund Freud, share their origin stories rooted in theosophy and psychoanalysis. However, their narratives are interrupted by a conflicted mother-to-be amidst war, who channels them from her own struggles, spanning across dimensions, to free the Mother of New Age and Father of Psychoanalysis.

Original music blending American jazz and Balkan influences, along with live violin performances by Emilia Simeonov, accompanies the production. This music clashes with AI-generated digital archives, contributing to the intense and ritualistic dance sequences that aim to transcend humanity's despair in the face of global crisis.

The performance, featuring four performers, including Emilia Simeonov on violin, aims to fuse raw human experiences like birth and dance with the quest for knowledge and the juxtaposition of old and new technologies. Ultimately, it serves as a call for increased consciousness and compassion in a world on the brink of catastrophe.

LifeLines: Blavatsky Freud Experience is a post-dramatic, intermedial dance theater piece that explores themes of cosmogony, the right to choose life or death for both mother and child, and societal responsibility amidst a global humanitarian crisis.

 

Please note this show contains nudity through the use of a silicon pregnancy suit.

Performances
Evening: March 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Matinee: March 16 at 2 p.m.

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Dates: 
March 15, 2024 - 7:30pm
March 16, 2024 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
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