Bring On The Lumière! is an evening-length multimedia dance-theater-light installation in which the Lumière Brothers, the French founders of cinema, find themselves trapped inside their own films. The work is a collaboration between choreographer/director Catherine Galasso and lighting designer/ installation artist Elaine Buckholtz. The work was commissioned by The San Francisco Foundation, and developed with support from the Mellon Foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts and SFMOMA. It will premiere in San Francisco November 11-13 2011 at ODC Theater , followed by a New York premiere January 26-28 2012 at Joyce SoHo. The brothers are played by international dance artists Christine Bonansea and Marina Fukushima. You can follow our process through the online Blog.
Using dance, sound, video, and interactive lighting, Bring On The Lumière! is a fantastical journey in which the Lumière Brothers find themselves trapped inside their own films. By melding the categories of modern dance, experimental cinema, and light installation, one goal of Bring On The Lumière! is to bring different audiences together and expose people to genres they might not see otherwise. An excerpt of Bring On The Lumière! was performed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in May 2011.
As with Galasso’s previous work, she researches historical subjects in order to extract the emotional nuances and create an independent world, one that is far from the original topic in terms of recognition, but still embodies the core ideas. Music for Bring On The Lumière! includes a score by Catherine’s father, the late internationally acclaimed composer, Michael Galasso (In The Mood For Love, Seraphine).
Project Advisors
Rebecca Solnit
Brenda Way
Jess Curtis
Ralph Lemon
Jesse Hewit
Support
The San Francisco Foundation, ODC Theater Artist-in-Residence Program with the Mellon Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Theatre Bay Area’s CA$H Grant, Dancers’ Group Lighting Artists in Dance Award, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Cinematheque, and individuals in the U.S. and Europe.
More info about Catherine Galasso here: www.catherinegalasso.com
More info about Elaine Buckholtz here: www.nighthouse.org
