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BEAR is the 4th interdisciplinary public performance in a life-long project, The Unreliable Bestiary: a performance for every letter of the alphabet, each letter representing a particular endangered animal or habitat. To date weve presented MONKEY, ELEPHANT, and WOLF. The project has been supported by grants from Creative Capital and the Guggenheim Foundation. Smaller versions of these sprawling, site-specific events have been presented at the Sundance Film Festival, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, the Cinema Pacific Film Festival, the Goat Farm (Atlanta), classrooms, living rooms, theaters and galleries across the country.
To reflect the bears hibernation cycle, BEAR is being presented in three parts:
FALL 2016
Unreliable Bestiary park rangers led small groups through local wild land on walking tours of six stations (one for each month the bear is awake).
BEARs low-voltage, post-anthropocentric world had the marks of a dilapidated national park. The silent rangers carried hand-crank-powered tape-players that delivered pre-recorded information for each station - real behavioral data (like most nature talks), and unsettling, decidedly non-scientific, details; shifting from the every-day towards a waking-spirit-world.
Individual stations represented particular bear species. The materials used were recycled scrap. Stations featured sculpture, sound, light, and dance.
The final installation crawled audiences through a winding tunnel to a small dimly lit den where a bear-man told his intimate story.
WINTER
Six videos, a video for each month the bear hibernates, will be released online. The videos will feature clues to a geocaching hunt, bridging the work from Fall to Spring.
SPRING 2017
Audience and performers seated at a huge wooden tables covered with cake, wine, and candles, the final section of BEAR will feature live musicians, and two intertwining tales: a bear becoming human, a human becoming a bear. What happens when each transitioning creature meets the other midway?
Set in a future of post-climate collapse, a time when were scrambling to put back in place what has been lost for good, finally realizing that for many ecosystems to actually work you need all the parts, including bears - the darkly humorous BEAR world will be built from scrap material and powered with wind/hand-crank/solar. The Fall Chapters absurd, build-it-and-they-will-come magical thinking called back the bears by re-telling a story and walking a path for hours and hours.
Lit entirely with candles, the Spring chapter will continue and alter the narratives explored in the Fall and Winter chapters - a man who has lost everything and a bear who can read. The Spring BEAR will feel communal, warm, and ultimately optimistic. We have wine. We have cake. We have light. And we have each other.
Part live performance, part hybridized documentation, the one-of-a-kind BLB BEAR and The Unreliable Bestiary will feature video from WOLF, ELEPHANT, and MONKEY, with live performed excerpts from BEAR.
NO TICKET REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES.
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LocationBryant Lake Bowl Cabaret Theater (View)
810 W Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55408
United States
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