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ART & PERFORMANCE NOTES Miah Persson and Roderick Williams in Blank Out, Dutch National Opera, adapted by Park Avenue Armory. Photo: Stephanie Berger. Death in Silhouette Benjamin Gillespie Mementos Mori, created by Manual Cinema, directed by Julia Miller, puppet design by Drew Dir, score and sound design by Kyle Vegter, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn, NY, October 18–21, 2017. here’s an app for that? While this tech idiom might seem out of place in a performance meditating on death and mortality, Mementos Mori—a recent Twork by the Chicago-based performance collective Manual Cinema—spins a darkly comic web centered on a figure of death who trades in her scythe for a smartphone. Mimicking the ubiquitous personal technologies available that help us to accomplish quotidian tasks and pass the time, reaping becomes as simple as swiping left or right in the sardonically-named “reapr” app. In the production, the dulcet sounds of death’s ringtone create a kind of leitmotif throughout this whimsical yet profound piece, serving to remind audiences that death is always on call. Manual Cinema is a not only a performance collective, but also a design studio and film production company, founded in 2010 to create “immersive stories
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: Jan 1, 2018
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