THINGS WE'VE DONE BEFORE
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Rite of Spring
Paris, May 29th 1913 8:00 pm
Le theater des Champs-elysee The audience begins angrily crying out, screaming. writhing, biting, tearing, pounding, in a tumultuous mass of self-destruction....Programs flutter around in the air. The music hardly audible above the shouting, crying, screaming of the audience. Back on stage, the choreographer calls out the cues to the dancer...- Collaborator Myron Johson of the Ballet of the Dolls. “astounding, profoundly disturbing, even brilliant at times in its singularly brutal way”
-Camille LeFevre, Star Tribune
Presented by the Ritz Theater in collaboration with the Ballet of the Dolls and Zorongo Flamenco
Project Director for Live Action Set Vanessa Voskuil Co-created and performed byGalen Treuer, Sarah Jacobs, Vanessa Voskuil Artistic Support Megan Odell and Noah Bremer Video John Koch Sound Design Vanessa Voskuil with support from Katherine Horowitz Music Excerpts Stavinsky - "Rite of Spring", Steffen Schleiermacher - "Stille Und Klang", Friedrich Goldman - "sinfonie 3" Costumes Vanessa Voskuil, Galen Treuer, Sarah Jacobs The Piano Tuner (premiere: The Southern Theater, 2008)
Critically acclaimed performance ensemble Live Action Set returns to the Southern to premiere their latest hybrid theater-dance-music work, The Piano Tuner. Known for a surreal logic where anything is possible, this exciting and award-winning collection of physical theater artists creates a grand and romantic new work of dangerous elegance. Inspired by the dissonant labor of the Southern Theater’s own piano tuner, the production brings to light a community out of tune and the unassuming master craftsman who is pulled into their drama of discord.
“Live Action Set... is responsible for some of the most innovative and fearless work in town these days.”
-Caroline Palmer, City Pages
Cast: Heidi Berg, Noah Bremer, Laurel Cameron, Tim Cameron, Ryan Hill, Paul Kovakovic, Nicole LeDuc, Andrew Lynch, Katie Melby, Eric Sharp, Mike Swanson, Sheila Regan, Kimberly Richardson, Galen Treuer, Jessica Weappa.
Director: Megan Odell Assistant Director: Noah Bremer Music Director Paul Kovacovic Set and Lighting Designer Paul Whitaker Costume Designer Lindsey Strange Stage Manager Stacy Davis Spensley Desiderare: desire the undesirable (Premiere: The Red Eye, 2007)
A passionate and provocative event of theatre and dance, Desiderare: desire the undesirable explores the act of wanting what we don’t have and wanting those things we wish we didn’t. Critically acclaimed experimental theatre company, Live Action Set, collaborates with Robert Rosen, co-founder of the Tony Award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune, to create this physical new work about desire, transgression, and what happens between realization, repression, and expression.
“This surprising melange of transgressive theater and dance is disturbingly funny.”
-Rohan Preston, Star Tribune
Cast: Noah Bremer, Megan Odell, Galen Treuer, Vanessa Voskuil
Director: Robert Rosen Assistant Director: Leah Cooper Filmmaker: Kevin Obsatz Dramaturg: Amy Radermacher Stage Manager: J.J. Johnson Lighting Designer: Ron Albert Set and Costume Designers: Everyone! Presented by The Red Eye as part of the New Works 4 Weeks Festival, created with additional support by the Jerome Foundation. The Percussionist (premiere Southern Theater, July 2006)
"The Percussionist" is an exciting collaboration with Spaghetti Western String Co., hailed as "the hippest string quartet in town" (Star Tribune), created as part of the Momentum: New Dance Series. This project is commissioned by the Walker Art Center and Southern Theater, and will feature guest artists and the musicians as characters alongside the performers of Live Action Set. The show delves into the dark themes of revenge, capital punishment, and explores society’s perception of normalcy.
"Another ambitious odd-angle work… this is a must-see night for followers of the local avant-garde (hype duly dispensed)."
-Quinton Skinner, City Pages
Cast: Noah Bremer, Denise Guelker, Robert Haarman, Nicholas Lemme, Megan Odell, Kimberly Richardson, Michael Rossetto, Levi Schwartzberg, Ethan Sutton, Galen Treuer, Vanessa Voskuil
Director: Noah Bremer Composers: Spaghetti Western String Co. Set and Props Design: Mark Ruark and John Catron Lighting Design: Jeff Bartlett Costume Design: Sara Richardson Stage Manager: Crane Adams Presented with support of the Walker Art Center, Southern Theater, and The Soap Factory Zombies on Ice (premiere: frozen Medicine Lake, 2006)
Presented as part of the Soap Factory's Art Shanty Project, Live Action Set explores the genre of zombie films and the phenomenon that surrounds Zombie-ism. We use roughly 20-30 actor/dancers to create a site-specific performance, using the perspective of horizontal distance that can only be captured on a frozen lake.
Cast: Willa Ahlschwede, Alecia Ball, Julia Blaha, Noah Bremer, Cara Delavallade, Julia Eagles, Jon Ferguson, Mickey Foley, Tyson Forbes, Rich Goldsmith, David Harris, Damian Johnson, Taous Khazem, Tara King, John McCarten, Theresa Madaus, Chris Morris, Chris Nelson, Rebecca Orman, Antonia Paulitsch-Leutgeb, David Pitman, Sara Richardson, Matt Ruch, Guy Schaffer, Julia Stanfield, Monica Thomas, Galen Treuer, Vanessa Voskuil, Jeremy Wilker
Written and directed by: Noah Bremer, Galen Treuer, Vanessa Voskuil Presented with support of The Art Shanty Projects and The Soap Factory Storming of the Bastille (premiere: Barbette Cafe, Bastille Day, 2005)
Live Action Set and its collaborators storm the stage of Barbette's annual Bastille Day Celebration in the style of Bouffon, a French form of grotesque clowning. Society’s misshapen castoffs seek out the jolly-making crowd, and the chaotic romp culminates in a ludicrous re-enactment of the storming of the Bastille. Viva la (twisted) France!
Cast: Noah Bremer, Kari Kelly, Megan Odell, Kimberly Richardson, Galen Treuer, Vanessa Voskuil
Directors: Jon Ferguson, Sarah Richardson Props Master: Christian Ferguson Presented with support of Barbette Restaurant and Amusements, Norcostco |
Ice Cube Documentary (premiere: Invention Arts, Bath, England, 2005)
Live Action Set collaborator Jon Ferguson filmed the building of our Art Shanty, including a light saturated time lapse of the final stages on the ice of frozen medicine lake. Available on DVD in three different running times.
Cast: Noah Bremer, Megan Odell, Galen Treuer, Vanessa Voskuil, Jon Ferguson (cameo)
Director and Cinematographer: Jon Ferguson Before Dark (premiere: Minneapolis Theatre Garage, 2004)
A character-driven work that integrates music, humor, and socio-political viewpoints: a pirate, a postman, bandito, and a cello-playing working mom – each reflecting a different aspect of the human condition, from virtuous to foibled, from revolutionary to self-obsessed.
“Fantastic! The cast of talented dancers and actors offer strikingly funny -- and sometimes tender -- vignettes that create a gripping, edgy performance… I can’t wait to see more from these guys.”
- audience review
Cast: Noah Bremer, Rebecca Disrud, Megan Odell, Galen Treuer, Vanessa Voskuil
Director: "Sascha Undine" Props: Emily Allan Bomb Builder: Big John Presented in collaboration with Jake Endres and the Theatrical Music Company Please Don’t Blow Up Mr. Boban (premiere: The Soap Factory, 2005)
A highly visual and physical clown show that is the story of Mr. Boban, his war-torn bistro, and the struggle to keep his lights on. Based on an English newspaper article about where to eat in a war zone, this collaboration with UK theatre director Jon Ferguson, is comic, tragic and hard to forget.
"Must See! A richly layered piece of comic/tragic performance art... at turns slapstick funny, abstract, physical, emotional and metaphorical, always riveting, always surprising."
-Matt Peiken, Pioneer Press
Awards: "2005 Artists of the Year" (City Pages), "Outstanding Experimental Theatre Work of 2005" (Star Tribune), “Best Stage Production” (City Pages)
Cast: Noah Bremer, Robert Haarman, Kari Kelly, Megan Odell, Kimberly Richardson, Galen Treuer, Vanessa Voskuil
Director: Jon Ferguson Set and Light Designer: Mark Ruark Sound Design and Music: DJ Bach and Rebecca Disrud Musician (October remount): Sam Adams Stage Manager: Eva Treuer Presented with support of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, The Soap Factory, and the Minnesota State Arts Board Hello Remember Me (premiere: Southern Theatre, 2005)
Live Action Set and Jerome Fellow Abi Basch explore the Southern's dusty memories to create a site-specific trilogy about ghosts, desire, and the space between. Presented as part of 2005 Best Feet Forward festival.
Cast: Noah Bremer, John Heimbuch, Megan Odell, Maesie Speer, Galen Treuer, Vanessa Voskuil, Lina Wiksten
Playwright: Abi Basch Costumes: Cesia Kearns Ice Cube (premiere: frozen Medicine Lake, 2005)
Ice Cube (premiere: frozen Medicine Lake, 2005)
Part of the Soap Factory’s Art Shanty Project, Ice Cube delves into a multi-faceted exploration of “home.” The interactive sculpture literally reflects the surroundings and people who choose to battle the elements, live, play, and build on the ice.
"I’m too cold to stay, but I know I’m lucky to see this, to have a glimpse of that larger field to which both death and life belong."
-Lightsey Darst, mnartists.org
Builders: Noah Bremer, Rebecca Disrud, Jon Ferguson, Megan Odell, Galen Treuer, Vanessa Voskuil
Architect: Dan Vercruysse Presented with support of Art Shanty Projects, Soap Factory Exposure (premiere: Minneapolis Theatre Garage, 2003)
This twisted love story is about the dynamic and metaphysical journey of four characters discovering truths about themselves, and their relationships to each other. Driven by dance and fueled by emotion, Exposure fuses art forms and creates a unique physical-theater experience.
“Wow. Short version - If you're wondering whether or not to see this, ‘SEE IT’”
- Matthew Everett, In My Humble Opinion
Cast: Natasha Hassett, Megan Odell, Galen Treuer, Vanessa Voskuil
Director: Noah Bremer Costumes: Ritchie McFadden Scene Painter: Emily Allan |