Sunday, November 30, 2008
How a Theatrical Angel Cultivated Martha Clarke’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’
NYTimes.com: "The economy has dropped faster than a falling angel, and investors for live performances are growing ever more scarce. But what Ms. Clarke’s nearly-four-year fund-raising experience demonstrates is how difficult finding a producer can be even in the best of times."
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I love the anecdote Martha Clarke tells about scraping together costumes and props for this production. I have worked on so many productions in which the props came from my own attic and those of friends. In this economic downturn, it seems that anything will really do. Stories like these make the art more relatable and therefore easier for audiences to connect to. Martha Clarke sounds like my mother's friend who is a ex-professional dancer. Without having heard anything about the production, I am already interested.
On top of that, the idea of transforming the scenes of a painting into a dance piece is so imaginative. I think that more theatre pieces should be based off of paintings. I would like to see a production based off a Gustav Klimt painting.
i noticed in the photo that went along with this photo that they used flying. i am very sensitive to flying after seeing so much of it in the sod's last production. oftentimes flying is extremely flat and panoramic, which in many cases doesn't work. however, the painting that is being transformed by Clarke is very much panoramic and conducive to the flat look that flying often has.
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