Bedtime Stories
“The genuine fairy-tale must appear prophetic, idealistic and inevitable, all in one” - Novalis
“All form is a process of notation.” - Dick Higgins
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Premiered July 2023 at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. An early excerpt was presented in April 2023 at re::BOUND Westminster Dance Alumni Concert
Inspired by Stith Thompson’s Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends
featuring Sara Caldiero, Elijah Cook, Indigo Cook, Megan Fotheringham, Gray, Katelynn Killian, Leo Lynn, Dani Mendez, Amelia Millward, Joshua Yago Mora, Milo P. Ono, Jordan Reynosa, Ellen Weiler, Cam Welch, Nathaniel Woolley
“an outstanding philosophical multimedia collage” - Les Roka
music from Arooj Aftab, Henk Badings, Béla Bartók, Delia Derbyshire, Silvana Estrada, Lankum, Robert Levon Been, Dani Mendez, Anthony Newley, Daphne Oram, Éliane Radigue, Rosalía, and Roxy Music
text from Shanan Ballam, Angela Carter, Gray, Kelly Link, Rebecca Lindenberg, and Stith Thompson
Cinderella tree sculpture by Cyan Larson
Video art by James Westervelt
Costumes by Indigo Cook, Dani Mendez, and Nathaniel Woolley
Directed and choreographed by Indigo Cook in collaboration with the artists
