The Bridge, 2024by Marcos Lutyens and Volta, premiered at the MAXXII National Museum as part of the exhibition, No Time for Prophecies, curated by Chiara Ianeselli with Davide Daninos.
The work explores the elasticity of time, where temporal flows expand and contract, creating an elastic sense of reality. The Bridge links trance states to an intensified perception of time, memory, and the self.
Director: Marcos Lutyens Choreography: Mamie Green Director of Photography and Editing: Jackson Roth Voice: Marcos Lutyens Dancers: Jolyn Lambey, Ryley Polak, Lily Solomon. Score by: Patrick Shiroishi Sound Design: Aaron Drake Producer: Marcos Lutyens
Presented by the EAST Miami Hotel, Volta created a dramatic work that unfolded across four suites on the 36th floor. The Miami and LA-based cast of actors, musicians and dancers told a story of displacement and reinvention.
Choreography by Mamie Green, in collaboration with the dancers Original score by Alex Merbouti Installation by Richard Vergez Script by Sammy Loren Performed by Clinton Harris, Betty Garcia Diaz, Armando Gomez, Nicole Pedraza, Enrique Villacreses, Shoshana Sklar, Maria Burt, Sky Bison, Camila Rodriguez
Creative Director + EP: Zandie Brockett Production: Raygun Agency
SALT
Performances
2220 Arts + Archives | June 11-13, 2023 | Los Angeles, CA *Made possible by a grant from the German Consulate General Buffer Fringe Festival | October 5, 2023 | Nicosia, Cyprus *Made possible by a grant from the US Embassy in Cyprus Metre Squared | October 8, 2023 | London, UK
ABOUT
Directed by Mamie Green, writers Sammy Loren and Ellington Wells reimagine Euripides’ Medea, setting the iconic tragedy in LA’s shimmering art world. Harpist Melissa Achten and composer Eli Klausner score the piece live as actors Ellington Wells (Medea), and August Gray Gall (Jason) split the audience in two and recount their side of the story, all while leading them through edible installations by multidisciplinary artist and chef Heidi Ross. Performed by dancers Marirosa Crawford, Ryley Polak, Mamie Green, and Megan Paradowski, SALT makes audiences question their assumpitons of right and wrong, truth and power, all while leaving everyone with conflicting conclusions about what was just witnessed.
PRAISE FOR SALT
“SALT is a true full-body experience. Jason and Medea split the audience into two, each telling their side of the story until a culminating monologue from each brings your loyalty into question. Can you blame me? they ask. Text by Wells and Sammy Loren ropes you into the conflict; it is impossible to remain impartial. Above all, the movement morphs the atmosphere into an enthralling reality, grounded in the human experience but contorted by suspicion and paranoia. Disorientation has never been more luscious.” -LA Dance Chronicle
“Still, this was immersive theater at its best: In between bites of Chef Heidi’s divine dishes, the choreography and its execution seemed a perfect fit for the bare-boned space, which did happen to house several book-laden shelves.” -Fjord Review
Directed and choreographed by Mamie Green, Glass House is an immersive performance deconstructing mythologies of home. Art Direction by Gbenga Komolafe, script by Sammy Loren and Zoey Greenwald, and an original score composed and performed by Patrick Shiroishi. In the performance, audiences interact with, change and ultimately destroy their surroundings.
Performers: Cacia LaCount, Paul Liu, Anne Kim, Avery Gerthart, Chadwick Gaspard, Mamie Green, Jance Enslin, Jolyn Lambry
PRAISE FOR GLASS HOUSE
“Glass House, a shimmering, shattering, immersive, layered, intermedia performance from Volta Collective … director and choreographer Mamie Green creates a house that pulses with mental disruption and colliding emotion.” -LA Review of Books
“[Glass House is] … something modern that makes undeniable emotions and provocative ideas out of ambiguity, strangeness, and abstraction.” -Document Journal
“Green is just so sure in sculpting the narrative with bodies… — felt like the most successful leveling of high art and ‘low art’ I had seen in a long time.” -LA Dance Chronicle
“.. this is movement the audience can feel. Volta’s dancers carried one another the way we ourselves shoulder our friends, lovers, and family — occasionally laboriously — as we build our homes: sometimes dragging them, sometimes exalting them.” -Hyper Allergic
“Immersive dance with a narrative element.” -Diana Ruzova
“10 Off Beat Art Events During LA’s Art Fair Week”” -Hyper Allergic
TRAILERS
The Procession Music Video
Music composed and performed by Patrick Shiroishi Directed by by Mamie Green & Luísa Dalé Choreography by Mamie Green Cinematography and editing by Luísa Dalé Color Grading by Marcelo Brandt Choreography by Mamie Green, in collaboration with the dancers Body Art Painting by TAIOM 1st Assistant Camera: Victor Ponce Produced by Otherly Love Records
Cast: Allen Shiroishi, Eno Lai, Patrick Shiroishi Dancers: Anne Kim, Cacia LaCount, Chadwick Gaspard, Jolyn Lambey
PRAISE FOR GLASS HOUSE The Album
Glass House documents an exceptional, cross-media collaboration of American-Japanese, Los Angeles-based sax player-multi-instrumentalist-composer-improviser Patrick Shiroishi for the dance-theater collective Volta of choreographer Mamie Green. – salt peanuts*
Shiroishi used Green’s ideas for the music and adapted the music for the movement of the dancers. The outcome is suggestive and intimate, seductive and mischievous. – salt peanuts*
“Ochko” is an immersive work by Mamie Green and Emmett Mathison for sound, movement, and architecture. The work unfolds across the bedrooms, kitchens, hallways, balconies, stairways and rooftops of Richard Neutra’s Silver Lake home. Recordings and recitations from dreams, piano notes, bodies and breathing enfold onto themselves and each other. Performed by Shu Kinouchi, Cacia LaCount, Anne Kim, Marirosa Crawford, and Mamie Green, dream and sound and organism are displaced and layered across the time and space of Neutra House.
Directed by Mamie Green, writers Sammy Loren and Ellington Wells reimagine Euripides’ Medea, setting the iconic tragedy in LA’s shimmering art world. Harpist Melissa Achten and composer Eli Klausner score the piece live as actors Ellington Wells (Medea), and George Olesky (Jason) split the audience in two and recount their side of the story. Performed by dancers Michaela Esteban, Mateo Vidals, and Mamie Green, SALT makes audiences question their assumpitons of right and wrong, truth and power, all while leaving everyone with conflicting conclusions about what was just witnessed.
PRAISE FOR SALT, NYC
“As a director and choreographer, Green deftly navigates the space between theater and dance.” – Culturebot
“SALT is a rich and energizing work. In a moment when minimalist, abstract post-modern dance is making a comeback among young choreographers in New York City, Green’s athletic lexicon of movement and embrace of narrative is refreshing. Updating a story like Medea to comment on the state of the culture industry is also clever, and places Volta in the tradition of avant-gardists who have reimagined classical myths to address their present.”– Culturebot
“I started to see the work not as a dyadic view of Medea and Jason’s experiences, but as a kaleidoscopic portrait of Medea’s psyche: a mishmash of repressed thoughts, disscociations, cathexis, projections and interjections. The dancers were not embodied reenactments of the plot, but representations of the fratured state of a woman confused and in despair.”– Culturebot
Photos by Patrick Driscoll
In the Garden David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden, Los Angeles, CA | February 3, 2024 Choreography by Mamie Green Live music performed by Nicolas Snyder and Emmett Mathison Sculptures and paintings by Christian Sampson and Ariel Dill Performed by Paul Liu, Jolyn Lambey, Avery Gerhardt, Mamie Green, Anne Kim Performed by Keilan Stafford, Marirosa Crawford, Claire You, Madi Tanguay, Mamie Green, and Megan Paradowski
PHOTOS
At the table, in collaboration with artist Joe Koppal Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Choreography by Mamie Green Chairs by Joe Koppal Live score by Alex Merbouti Performed by Nadia Maryam, Annalise Gehling, Tippy Dringman, Jolyn Lambey
Milk Institute for Art and Olfaction, Los Angeles, CA
Choreography by Mamie Green and Megan Paradowski, in collaboration with the dancers Live music composed and performed by harpist Melissa Achten and sound architect Nicolas Snyder Scents by Saskia-Wilson Brown for the Institute for Art and Olfaction Original text written and performed by Alexis Okeowo Performed by Keilan Stafford, Marirosa Crawford, Claire You, Madi Tanguay, Mamie Green, and Megan Paradowski
