Wally Cardona Quartet | SITE | NY, NY | 2007 (21 images)

Title of Piece:
SITE

Created By:
Wally Cardona Quartet

Artists Website:
http://www.wcvismorphing.org

Venue:
Abrons Arts Center

Description of Piece:
With SITE, it is "the very act of construction and the sometimes seemingly insignificant action" that fascinates Cardona. Throughout, performers and audience alike are asked to deal with and re-define their relationship to entities they probably recognize...
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Title of Piece:
SITE

Created By:
Wally Cardona Quartet

Artists Website:
http://www.wcvismorphing.org

Venue:
Abrons Arts Center

Description of Piece:
With SITE, it is "the very act of construction and the sometimes seemingly insignificant action" that fascinates Cardona. Throughout, performers and audience alike are asked to deal with and re-define their relationship to entities they probably recognize the character of (people, paper, tape, and wood), creating a tangible environment that must be navigated by the people onstage and off. The materials used are simple, making it more evident that it is not about the materials but about what is done with the materials - how they are used, related to, shaped, altered - giving SITE a hand-crafted, made-in-the-moment feel. Building upon Cardona's ongoing interest in alternate sound sources and how this can re-construct perceptions of space and its dimensions, the evening-length work features approximately 15 musicians displaced from a conventional relationship to the viewer/listener in the theater. At various moments, groups are placed offstage left, underneath the audience seating, in the lobby behind the audience and, sometimes, from all of these positions at once, adding support, distraction, surprise, confusion and competition to the choreographed construction onstage. The recorded score features the fifty-seven members of the Capital H.S. Band from Helena, MT.
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