World premiere performance/live art installation is first in series of the New Hazlett Theater’s Women in the Arts Festival events

WHAT:
echo::system: The Desert
World premiere performance installation conceived and created
by Grisha Coleman

WHEN:
September 6, 2007 – September 16, 2007

WHERE:
New Hazlett Theater — 6 Allegheny Sq. E. — Pittsburgh, PA 15212

August 23, 2007 (PITTSBURGH In a 70-minute journey through space and time, Grisha Coleman’s performance installation, echo::system: The Desert, immerses audiences and performers in a fully synthetic environment modeled after scientific data comprised of audio and visual media, movement sensors and robotics mixed with live music, dance and performance. This interactive setting recreates a desert eco-system simultaneously made up of virtual and “real” space, displaying how one affects the other. To simulate the fluidity of the natural world, the sonic and technological elements of the installation constantly shift and regenerate as the story unfolds. This artificial desert landscape transpires into a futuristic tale of an ancient species that interfaces with its future.

Co-commissioned and presented at the New Hazlett Theater as part of its Women in the Arts Festival (June 2007 – June 2008), and developed at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, echo::system will celebrate its world premiere in Pittsburgh. Performance dates are Thursday-Saturday, September 6-8, and Wednesday-Saturday, September 12-15, 7:30pm, 2007. Press night is Saturday, September 8, 2007. Late night performances on Saturdays at 10:00pm. There will be a post-performance talk-back with actors and creative staff following the performances on September 12 and September 13. Tickets are $20 and $10 for students and senior citizens (with valid ID) and may be purchased through Pro Arts Tickets at 412-394-3353. For more www.newhazletttheater.org or www.echo-system.org.

Sara Radelet, Executive Director of the New Hazlett Theater says: “The New Hazlett Theater is a flexible performing arts space operating with the intention of blending disciplines and engaging audiences in new ways by supporting innovative projects. echo:system is a project that beautifully launches the performance programming of our year-long Women in the Arts Festival. In our inaugural year, the festival celebrates accomplishments of women in the arts through performance, symposia, and special programs. Of particular interest with this project is the blending of art and science, art and technology and the mix of performing arts and visual arts traditions.”

The New Hazlett Theater is a 450-seat performing arts venue located on Pittsburgh’s Northside.
As a charitable 501c nonprofit, the organization supports and nurtures the creative performing arts, and serves as a community resource for arts access and arts education.

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