Acre/The Rite of Spring

A double bill of works by Brian Brooks and Julie Atlas Muz.

Brian Brooks takes on the color green in Acre, a multimedia work exploring the full spectrum of this grassy hue. A kinetic fantasia, Acre features recorded and animated footage by Sarah Browder projected into the fabric-laden sculpted stage. Through physical play, the audience is immersed in a world of jade, kelly, olive, lime, sage, and mint. Composer John Stone has created an original score for Acre highlighting Brooks’ deceptively simple focus on complex evolutionary themes: from the stages of man to mechanical locomotion, from a droplet of water rippling through a pond to the concept of flight.

Glitter, sweat, wild abstractions of sex flowers, death metal, floral insects on eight-foot stilts, lust, fear, violence, and freedom are all a part of Julie Atlas Muz’s new work The Rite of Spring, her most ambitious creation to date. The Rite of Spring features live music from Chicago’s Butcher Shop Quartet, who transpose Stravinsky’s orchestral masterpiece to two guitars, a bass, and drums. A cast of 12 notorious NYC nightlife creatures will rip apart the sweeping majesty, subtle harmony, and brute force of the music while retaining its compositional integrity.