EVERYDAY USES FOR SIGHT Nos. 3 & 7 (2000)
Everyday Uses for Sight is a pair of puppet pieces that examines the personal, emotional, political intellectual and sociological ramifications of the sense of sight: How and why we see, do not see, or choose not to see the world around us. The Home of Bill and Sandy Kelly is #3 in the series.
In The Home of Bill and Sandy Kelly, The Young American Boy fantasizes about the sexual escapades of his glamorous neighbors Bill and Sandy Kelly and later, gets the home-town bullies to build him a club-house so they’ll take their shirts off for him. Richard Nickel is killed in 1972 while photographing Louis Sullivan buildings as they are being demolished. Looking at people and buildings is a dangerous occupation.
Performed by Dan Hurlin, Roy Nathanson, Christopher Williams
Objects and puppets created by Dan Hurlin
Music composed by Dan Froot
Lights by Tyler Micoleau
Premiered at The Kitchen, NYC
Toured internationally
A project of Red Wing Performing Group
Photos: Tyler Micoleau
EVERYDAY USES FOR SIGHT Nos. 3 & 7 (2001)
Everyday Uses for Sight is a pair of puppet pieces that examines the personal, emotional, political intellectual and sociological ramifications of the sense of sight: How and why we see, do not see, or choose not to see the world around us. The Heart of the Andes is #7 in the series.
In The Heart of the Andes, The Young American Boy runs away from home-town bullies, and blocks their threats out by immersing himself in coffee table art books. Fredric Edwin Church unveils his 1859 masterpiece “The Heart of the Andes” and invites viewers to look at it through opera glasses. What you block out makes what you see more intense. Narrated by a blind man who sees more than most, as a result of having everything blocked out.
Performed by Dan Hurlin, Guy Klucevsek
Objects and puppets created by Dan Hurlin
Music composed by Guy Klucevsek
Lights by Tyler Micoleau
Premiered at The Kitchen, NYC
Toured internationally
A project of Red Wing Performing Group
AWARD: New York Dance and Performance Award (A.K.A “Bessie) to Dan Hurlin and Guy Klucevsek for creation
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Above and Right: Tom Brazil