Landscape With the Fall of Icarus

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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a new, evening-length, solo performance that explores western culture's relentless compulsion to tempt fate and reach beyond our human limits told through the eyes of six fictionalized, historical, mythological, and imaginary characters: Icarus, Pieter Brueghel, Henry Hudson, The Wall Street Minotaur, Amelia Earhart, and David Rockefeller. Writer/performer Samuael Topiary excavates the symbolic and poetic resonances between the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus and the legacy of contemporary culture's most mythological empire, New York City. Two-time Bessie Award-winning choreographer and dancer Miguel Gutierrez directs the journey from Brueghel's 16th-century Antwerp to David Rockefeller's 1960s project to build the World Trade Center. Accompanied by Peter Kerlin's electronic sound score with live musical saw and accordion by C. Ryder Cooley, Icarus blends video projections, sock puppets, spoken word, original song, fantastical costumes designed by Jocelyn Davis, and a set by Andrea Stanley into a strange, funny and chilling fugue about ambition and recklessness.