Acqua Alta: Information
Acqua Alta: Show Description, Cast List, Poster
Acqua Alta show program booklet
Acqua Alta
Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Writer: Lily Selthofner
in collaboration with the cast
Dancers:
Adara Allen
Marissa Caldera
Nina Kulkarni
Lynn Wilcox
Dancer and Singer: Maddy Manning-Bi
Dancer and Narrator: Moksha Akil
Cellist and Guitarist: Daniel Weitz
Narrator: Eric Butler
Composer and Pianist: Rory Bricca
Composer and Musician: Jane Meenaghan
Singer and Musician: Makae Brieschke
Lighting: Isabelle Cowen, Sophia Ling
Costuming: Lily Selthofner, Adara Allen, Barnard Costume Closet
Venezia Scalzo film credits
Director, Dancer, Poet, Voice, Editor:
Lily Selthofner
Cinematographer: Anna Kasun
Composer and Pianist: Rory Bricca
Makae Brieshke – Vocal Composer and Singer
Special Thanks to Elizabeth Leake
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This project was made as a part of the Student Artist in Residence program of the Movement Lab in the Milstein Center of Barnard College
Acqua Alta is an interdisciplinary experimental performance art piece that wades through the waters of Venice, Italy, featuring a cast of eight student performers. Acqua Alta uses live ballet and contemporary dance, with live cello, opera in Italian and English, and spoken word accompaniment, as well as film, text, and visual arts, to bring contingent narrative vignettes into a labyrinth flow. Venice’s waters suffuse and lull as a linguistic, corporeal, and reflective motif: mortal and eternal, void and full, mundane and sacred, beautiful and putrid. Desire is mechanized as the decadent pain of acceptance — surrounded by undrinkable water, yet still finding solace and nourishment in the grandiosity of the everyday. Intimate and oceanic, Acqua Alta winds through Venetian canals, provokingly juxtaposed forms, emotions, and experiments of truth.
