Name: The Silence: Work-in-Progress Performance
Start: 2019-12-12T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2019-12-14T21:00:00-05:00
Location: MIT Building W97

The Silence: Work-in-Progress Performance

The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) creates new opportunities for art, science and technology to thrive as interrelated, mutually informing modes of exploration, knowledge and discovery. CAST’s multidisciplinary platform presents performing and visual arts programs, supports research projects for artists working with science and engineering labs, and sponsors symposia, classes, workshops, design studios, lectures and publications. The Center is funded in part by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Evan Ziporyn, Faculty Director; Leila W. Kinney, Executive Director.

MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)

<H2><EM>Two sisters on the run from massive human failure hole up in a hotel where dream worlds collide with real worlds in an endless spiral down.</EM></H2>
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<H3>Featuring Ayesha Jordan, Lacey Dorn, Anna Kohler, Brandon Sanchez '18, Rionna Flynn '21, Sualeh Asif '22, and Kyleigh DeSilva.</H3>
<H3>With design by Afsoon Pajoufar, Shanise DeSilva, Kevin Fulton, Christian Frederickson, and Joshua Higgason.</H3>
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<P>Inspired by the films of Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky, director Jay Scheib is reimagines Bergman’s <I>The Silence</I> (1963). The film, described both as a “landmark of modernist cinema” (Lloyd Michaels) and a “tangle of brooding confusions and despairs” (<I>The New York Times</I>), amplifies the tense and uncomfortable relationship of two sisters at a hotel in an unfriendly, unknown city.</P>
<P>Over a half-century after the release of <I>The Silence</I>, Scheib draws inspiration from the meteoric film to “limn Bergman’s own obsession with the excavation of the most beguiling of emotional transformations.” This work-in-process presentation marks a continuation of Scheib’s exploration of live cinema and multiplatform approaches to performance. Scheib’s new live cinema performance prototype of <I>The Silence</I> brings together a team of collaborators alongside MIT students and MIT Theater Arts faculty and staff in the development of a new prototype presentation in MIT Building W97.</P>
<P><I>The Silence</I> is presented as part of the <A HREF="https://arts.mit.edu/performing-2018-19/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">2019–20 <I>MIT Performing</I> </A>series, a prototyping and presenting series programmed by Scheib and presented by the<A HREF="https://arts.mit.edu/cast/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology</A>. The series is supported in part by the <A HREF="https://arts.mit.edu/camit/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Council for the Arts at MIT</A>. <I>MIT Performing</I> promotes a research- based artistic practice and serves as a new platform for contemporary performance.</P>
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<P>Image by Jay Scheib</P>
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MIT Building W97

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