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HOTEL ROOM
A Sightline Film [2015]
A woman arrives at a hotel room contemplating an irreversible act. In the hotel room, the parallel paths of strangers begin to collide.
Written by Arlo Hill and Calla Videt
Directed by Calla Videt, Rick and Jeff Kuperman
Cinematography by Sheldon Chau
With Estelle Bajou, Pepper Binkley, Jack Haley, Arlo Hill, Bob Jaffe, Jun Naito, Owen Shipman, Aya Tucker
PLEASE DO [NOT] DISTURB
Audio adventure in association with Theatre C [2014]
Welcome to your hotel room. Is it your room? Or does it belong to someone else? Take a moment to look out onto the bustle of the city. What a spectacular view on this rainy New York night. Aren't you glad you're not stuck outside like Frank and Elise?
Written and Directed by Jeff & Rick Kuperman and Calla Videt
Sound Design by Eric Sluyter
With Pepper Binkley, Marc Cardarelli, Danny Erickson, Jack Haley, Lane Halperin, Arlo Hill, Sarah Kenney, Kyle Mullins, Jun Naito, Ilker Oztop, Gracie Terzian, Aya Tucker
MY MACHINE IS POWERED BY CLOCKS
Presented at Ice Factory /\ New Ohio Theater [2013]
As with any kind of new technology, there are potential pitfalls and abuses. Like pieces in a game of Jenga, everything is stacked up on top of everything. You move something from the bottom; the top pieces collapse. You can escape your own time and context, but you may lose focus. You may even forget who you are.
Written by B. Walker Sampson
Directed by Calla Videt, Choreography by Rick and Jeff Kuperman
Designed by Jon Cottle, Victoria Crutchfield, Grace Laubacher, Mary Ellen Stebbins
Performed by Merrie Jane Brackin, Isabel Carey, Melanie Comeau, Rick Kuperman, Jeff Kuperman, Tatiana Pavela, and Avery Pearson
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“A very beautiful, very complicated piece of theater [with] visual images and danced/physicalized moments that capture a mood or emotion or idea with real visceral incisiveness. The imagination and invention displayed by Walker and Videt, and their designers is awe-inspiring.”
—Martin Denton, Editor, NY Theatre
“The fantastic cast make the piece comes to life with constant comic energy. An entertaining evening and the dynamic cast is well worth seeing.”
—Angel Lam, TheatreIsEasy
THE EDGE OF THE MAP
Presented at Harvard University /\ In collaboration with Microbiology 213 [2013]
A woman wrestles with a predisposition towards genetic disease; a man is convinced he has one; a couple set out to create a child who is genetically… perfect. Developed collaboratively in conjunction with Microbiology 213: Social Issues in Biology, a course taught at the Harvard Medical School by Professor Jon Beckwith, THE EDGE OF THE MAP tackles urgent, universally relevant questions about genetic identity and inheritance.
Directed by Calla Videt
Designed by Jack Ausick, Chris Masterson, Mary Ellen Stebbins
Performed by Garrett Allen, Darcy Donelan, Daniel Erickson, Anna Hagen, Brianne Holland-Stergar, Teis Jorgensen, Zena Mengesh, Ilker Oztop, Eli Wilson Pelton, Mariel Pettee
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“The multiple dimensions in which the piece unfolded brilliantly evoked the interconnectedness of our biological and social natures and the complexity of our so-called "genes." It beautifully satirized the ways in which our consumerist culture of competitive acquisitiveness and desires for control extended even to our genomes. I came away from the performance of Edge of the Map with a sense of exhilaration.”
CONVERGENCE
Presented at terraNOVA as part of soloNOVA Arts Festival /\ New Ohio Theater [2012]
How far would you go to protect your family from harm, or to ensure them a spot in the Kingdom of Heaven? A haunting story of fear and love, faith and reason, Convergence explores the intersection of seemingly opposed forces, and the explosive consequences of their collision.
Written by Jennifer Lane
Performed by Avery Pearson
Featuring Merrie-Jane Brackin, Sophia Rizzo, and Chet Siegel
Directed by Calla Videt
Designed by Grace Laubacher, Trevor Martin, Mary Ellen Stebbins, Matt Stone
HOLD MUSIC
Presented by Culture Project & ANT Fest /\ Ars Nova [2012], Living Theatre [2011]
A symphonic story about the way people listen to each other and to the world around them, HOLD MUSIC takes us on a journey into the musical world of speech and memory, language and thought. Why and how does music make us feel? How do things get stuck in our head?
Written by B. Walker Sampson and Calla Videt
Directed by Calla Videt
Music by Arlen Hart
Choreography by Rick and Jeff Kuperman
Designed by Ji-Youn Chang, Laura Hirschberg, Trevor Martin, Mary Ellen Stebbins, Ginia Sweeney
Performed by Merrie Jane Brackin, Ava Eisenson, Arlen Hart, Arlo Hill, Whitney Morse, Alexander LaFrance, Josh Odsess-Rubin, Avery Pearson, Aya Tucker
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"Hold Music ... is one of the most engaging and exciting new works of theatre I've seen this season."
"Calla Videt (director and co-writer) and B. Walker Sampson (co-writer) ... mark themselves as artists to keep an eye on with this inventive, lively, and intelligent physical theatre piece."
ROLL!
Presented at ANT Fest /\ Ars Nova [2012]
Sef loses his cushy TV role after an unexpected bout of vertigo leaves him unable to tell the floor from the ceiling. Now he struggles to find balance by pursuing a burlesque dancer who cooks full-course dinners in her sleep.
Written by Jeff Kuperman
Directed by Jeff and Rick Kuperman
Original music by Owen Belton
Designed by Miriam Crow,Jeff Kuperman and Isaiah Miller, Michael McLean, Keating Helfrich, Tim Godin
Performed by Lily Akerman, Gabriel David Crouse, Courtney Crumpler, Lisa Einstein, Jeff Kuperman, Lindsey Rose Sinclair, Michael Thomas Jr., Bradley Wilson
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DIVE
Installation by Grace Laubacher and Mary Ellen Stebbins [2012]
Two of Sightline's resident designers collaborate on a multi-sensory spectacle, inviting guests to inhabit a transformed space. DIVE celebrates the work of Grace Laubacher and Mary Ellen Stebbins. Part installation, part salon, part party.
that time, and the time before that, and
Presented at Dixon Place [2011]
Things do not ‘just happen.’ Time does not just pass. Someone wants to remember. Someone wants to forget. How do they traverse time? “that time, and the time before that, and” explores the beautiful paradoxes of memory, coincidence, regret and time travel time through puppetry, dance, text, and image.
Written by B. Walker Sampson, James Morris, and Calla Videt
Directed by Calla Videt
Choreography by Rick and Jeff Kuperman
Designed by Travis Chinick, Melissa Goldman, Trevor Martin, Mary Ellen Stebbins
Performed by Melanie Comeau, Ava Eisenson, Arlo Hill, Ricky Kuperman, Rory Kulz, Tatiana Pavela, Josh Odsess-Rubin, Aya Tucker, Adam Zivkovic
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WHAT IF?
Audio adventure presented by Culture Project /\ Women Center Stage [2012]
How would you like to go on an adventure? WHAT IF is an audio journey exploring the idea of opportunity cost. Experience a set of choices through a choreographed landscape of sound and action. Catch a glimpse into the secret lives of people around you.
Created and performed by Ben Becher, Merrie-Jane Brackin, Arlen Hart, Arlo Hill, Elyssa Jakim, Meghan Kennedy, Allison Kline, Rory Kulz, Ricky Kuperman, Jeff Kuperman, Daniel Litt, Trevor Martin, James Morris, Mary Ellen Stebbins, Evan True, and Calla Videt
ONE ARM AND A LEG
Presented at HERE & Theater for the New City [2010]
ONE ARM AND A LEG places the themes of Kawabata's story in dialogue with our own exploration of physical loss, the location of home, and identity as expressed and experienced through the body. At times poetic, at times violent, the project seeks to provoke, to meditate, to linger on such questions as: Where does one person end and another person begin? In what sense do we own our own bodies? How is identity related to the physical self?
Directed by Calla Videt
Choreography by Rick and Jeff Kuperman
Designed by Sarah Kenney, Melissa Goldman, Trevor Martin, Julie Ross
Performed by Merrie Jane Brackin, Arlo Hill, Catrin Lloyd-Bollard, Jeffrey Kuperman, Rick Kuperman, Jamie Nelson, Aya Tucker, Liz Walker
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“Startlingly visceral. Eerily beautiful. Brilliant. One Arm and A Leg is one of the most exciting theater pieces I have seen this year. Videt and her company reimagine the elements of the avant garde in their own, exciting terms—and with flashes of humor. If you want to glimpse theatre’s future, go see One Arm and a Leg.”
—Heather Violanti, TheaterOnline
“Mesmerizing choreography - fluid, rich and varied. The entire show is a unified, vibrant, and exceptional work. This is one of the best performances to play downtown this summer.”
SOUND PROOF
Audio adventure presented at Figment /\ Battery Park & Governor's Island [2011]
An opportunity to eavesdrop -- part live performance, part ferry ride, and part Governor's Island adventure. How is what we hear connected to what we see? How do images become stories? How do words transform into characters?
Created by Benjamin Glaser, Arlen Hart, Elyssa Jakim, Sarah Kenney, Allison Kline, Trevor Martin, Tatiana Pavela, Avery Pearson, Lauren Rayner, Julia Renaud, Benjamin Walker Sampson, Calla Videt
With Merrie-Jane Brackin, Kyle Dancewicz, Benjamin Glaser, Arlen Hart, Arlo Hill, Elyssa Jakim, Kara Kaufman, Allison Kline, Trevor Martin, Tatiana Pavela, Avery Pearson, Josh Odsess-Rubin, Lauren Rayner, Calla Videt, Robert Wiegmann
THE UNTITLED PROJECT
Presented at Harvard University & the Gene Frankel Theatre [2010]
A group of young artists is trying to make a play. When an idea takes hold, what results is a dangerous excursion into acts of superficial sacrifice. Someone stops sleeping. Someone stops eating. Someone stops speaking. Someone tries to say something important. For what? For art. For whom? For you. At whose expense? The silent one's.
Directed by Calla Videt
Performed by Sarah Christian, Carolyn Holding , Rory Kulz, James Leaf, Ilinca Radulian, Victoria Crutchfield, Rheeqrheeq Chainey, Kyle Dancewicz, Elyssa Jakim , Sarah Kenney, Julie Ross
UNLEARNING INTOLERANCE
Presented by Culture Project /\ Washington Square Park [2010]
An immersive, flashmob performance, UNLEARNING INTOLERANCE explores the gendered nature of the international trade in bodies and labor referred to as sex trafficking. Though often glossed as a historical phenomenon, slave labor is a resilient component of the contemporary American economy. The project forces the public to confront this oft overlooked practice, giving voice to those found at the America's margins and asking to what extent we are complicit in their silence.
Directed by Calla Videt
Choreography by Rick Kuperman
THE SPACE BETWEEN
Presented at Loeb Mainstage /\ ART [2009]
At the end of his life, Richard Feynman dreams about his youth, the death of his first love, the nature of the universe, and his work on the atomic bomb. His dying wife Eurydice reads and writes letters to another physicist from a hospital room in Albuquerque. A woman chasing down two elementary particles goes through her own journey towards understanding the universe. Her lover, an artist, tries to do the same on a canvas. Meanwhile, other scientists are deciphering Nature's secrets. When two different deaths fling the story into a reimagined telling of the Orpheus myth and a journey into a new space--a new world emerges.
Directed by Calla Videt
Designed by Rheeqrheeq Chainey, Grace Laubacher, Mark Moody, Caroline Rose, Josh Stein, Calla Videt, Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
Performed by Jesse Barron, Matt Bohrer, Catrin Lloyd-Bollard, Sarah Christian, Rick Kuperman, Julia Renaud, Rory Kulz, Simon Williams, Madeleine Bennett, Faith Imafidon, Allison Kline, Karol Malik, Jessica Napier, Carly Dwyer, Isabel Patrowicz
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“Videt has a kind of wide-eyed sensibility that sees the world harmonizing with itself at every turn, and the intuitive logic that grounds her thinking is what makes “The Space Between” go… The closing sequence is a magical, literally incandescent experience… I’ve decided to see “The Space Between” again."