Darcy James Argue's Secret Society in Brooklyn Babylon. Photo Credit: Rahav Segev.
Brooklyn Babylon, performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society in collaboration with graphic novelist Danijel Zezelj featured live music, animation, and live painting. The show open with music played by musicians dressed like street urchins from Elizabethan England. They performed a number, which was followed by Danijel Zezelj appearing on a platform in the background. He went to the center of this platform, picked up a roller and began painting. A few minutes after he started, a screen came down between him and the audience and animations started to play on it. These animations told a story of the building of the Tower of Brooklyn which was to be the tallest tower in the world. [click to continue…]
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Daniel Bernard Roumain. Photo Credit: Julieta Cervantes.
Symphony for the Dance Floor is multimedia fusion at its most literal and dramatic: a rich mash-up of pop, R&B, classical, and hip-hop music with modern dance, ballet, and gymnastics. At its core is Daniel Bernard Roumain, an innovative aural sculptor who far surpasses the scope of his composer-violinist title.
Inspired by the earthquake in Haiti, Roumain’s piece – commissioned for BAM’S New Wave Festival – takes a brazen approach to the Caribbean disaster: that of celebration, exclamation, and outspoken energy. Roumain, Haitian by heritage, mentions his father’s frequent “celebrations of life” as a driving force behind Symphony for the Dance Floor. Even in the days following the earthquake, Haitian natives still kept their vivaciousness, “dancing and singing in the streets” of Port-au-Prince. Roumain translated this resilience of spirit into a vibrant, deeply complex musical and visual performance.
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Although it would seem that the importance of a game would be the adventure, for fans of Final Fantasy, it is all about the musical journey. If one were not an avid player of the video game, they may not have understood the excitement that was laced throughout the auditorium of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The eagerness could be seen—even through flamboyant hair and costume—and in a mixed crowd of people. While they were prepared, the inexperienced found themselves vulnerable to the unexpected. The music was very different from what was anticipated and the energy by which it was received was seemingly mind blowing. [click to continue…]
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