Xtravaganza
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 20, 2002
Closed May 4, 2002
Opened Apr 20, 2002
Closed May 4, 2002
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The Builders Association's Xtravaganza recreates the "spectaculars" of Ziegfield, Berkeley, MacKaye, Fuller, Buffalo Bill, and others during the 1910s, 20s, and 30s. Archival film footage and music are combined with contemporary elements of live performance to create a new multi-media experience that pays tribute to the theatrical past in both the context and technology of today's culture.
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Xtravaganza, the latest multi-media work from The Builders Association, is full of technical wizardry. Live actors are keyed into old movie footage, images are digitally manipulated so that they appear to "dance" to the rhythm of the music, and amplified sounds reverberate throughout the theater. In one sequence, a camera mounted above the stage records on-stage movements such as the untangling of a rope. The live action is not all that interesting in itself, but it is looped onto a video feed and multiplied and refracted into a kaleidoscopic montage.
Unfortunately, the technological components of the production tend to overwhelm the live performances: The actors fade into the background[...]