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In Performance: Banana Bag & Bodice’s Space//Space (NYC)

Banana Bag & Bodice
Space//Space
June 14 – July 1, 2012
The Collapsable Hole
146 Metropolitan Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
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Two brothers volunteer for a work program and are placed in a time capsule, then launched into outer space. One brother falls into a deep sleep while the other entertains himself through awkward stand-up comedy routines. One brother evolves into a female while the other spirals inward towards death. This space experiment provides the ideal setting for comedic futility and existential tragedy and is a ruthless examination of how human beings cope in the most arduous and punishing conditions. Employing otherworldly sound scoring and video projection, in combination with the tiny, jewel-like space pod, Space//Space evokes the expansive cosmos beyond and the loneliness of our inner orbits.

Text – Jason Craig
Music & Soundscape – Dave Malloy
Direction/Dramaturgy – Mallory Catlett
Lighting – Miranda K Hardy
Set – Banana Bag & Bodice
Sound – Brandon Wolcott
Costume – Enver Chakartash
Video – Zbigniew Bzymek
Stage Management – Denise Lum
Assistant Sound – Paul Piekarz
Production Intern – Jimmy D’Amico
Producer – Jessica Jelliffe
Associate Producer – Sandra Garner
Poster Illustration – R. Black
Additional Text – Peter Blomquist
Design ConsultantsPeter Ksander, Jamie McElhinney

Performers – Peter Blomquist, Jason Craig & Jessica Jelliffe

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Caden Manson is a director, media artist, and teacher. He is co-founder of the media ensemble bigartgroup.com and network, blog, and publisher, contemporaryperformance.com. He has co-created, directed, video- and set designed 18 Big Art Group productions. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, NYC, and Portland; performed PAIN KILLER in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; Taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; the ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS122, and Wexner Center for The Arts. Caden is a 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. Writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit. Caden is currently an associate professor and graduate directing option coordinator of The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

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