05/27/2025
Baby’s first opera! ☀️
SENSORIUM EX premiered last week and I’m without words to describe the intense, overwhelming, and full experience it was - bold, difficult, lovely, harrowing, surprising, insightful. Ok, maybe I do have some words. The words cannot, however, encapsulate the immensity of this moment for me, for us. Words fail, but the new, blessed variety of utterances I’ve learned to listen to throughout this process - those persist and grow.
There are innumerable people to attribute to the experience but sharing this premiere w my partner x in direction, the duo x bringing the work to life. Paola, I’ll be forever dreaming in your finale.
The cast! The designers! The band! The crew!
and the VISIONARY w superb hosting skills by
FIRST AID CREW: .ham .niederhoffer - I hold you in my heart so deeply
To my fabulous crew of dancers (consultants) I’ll forever speak your name and you’ll always have a place at any table in which I am. x
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Videos, thus
#3 writes in camera view but I’m transfixed by the shadows above it that are lit
#4 The opening night bow. Oh!
#7 The chorus revolves around the young Kitsune while our robot Sophia comes to life
#9 Inspired design by a screen flickers at the entrance w Corp’s eye logo pasted atop it
#13 Jay lays in the bed giving a peace sign to the camera
#20 The chorus revolves around illuminated truss trees in our forest as our Sophia sings. It is my crowning staging achievement- something simple yet deep to articulate the way life must persist in spite of everything.