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Kari Margolis, Tony Brown Sleepwalkers

Discipline
Performing Arts
Medium
Dance
Subject

Religion and Spirituality
State
New York
Year
2002
Status
Completed

Description

With longtime collaborator Tony Brown, Margolis creates Sleepwalkers: an imagistic, dreamlike world through the use of precise physical movement, hand-held video projectors, moveable projection surfaces, an international ensemble of thirty performers, and an abstract vocal score. Using source material from the Bible, classical Western literature, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the performers’ own contributions, Sleepwalkers uses a modern technical language to evoke ancient stories.

Kari Margolis

Kari Margolis is a playwright, director, performer, and teacher. She co-founded the Margolis Brown Theater Company (originally known as The Adaptors) wi…
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Tony Brown

Tony Brown played a key role in designing the new multimedia center for the University of Minnesota’s Department of Theatre and Dance, where he also tau…
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Project Updates

2009: Margolis receives performance residency with Millikin University to take themes and improvisational structures from Sleepwalkers and create a 30 minute performance event with 16 students
2002: Sleepwalkers premieres at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul MN