Ingenuity 2009 opens at 4 p.m. Friday with another gigantic
drum jam, this one called Big Bang and headed by Brazilian composer
percussionist Marcus Santos, a veteran Ingenuity drum beater.
Throughout the 2009 Ingenuity festival, visitors can check out
Melissa Daubert’s interactive, four-wheeled sculpture “Urban Trotter,”
or visit the comic-book convention Screaming Tiki Super Con in the
Halle building.
Additional weekend highlights include Brazilian jazz
singer/songwriter Luca Mundaca at 6 p.m. Friday in Star Plaza; a
collaborative performance called Future Noir, featuring
musician/composer Ben Neill’s computer-acoustic hybrid mutantrumpet
(which he developed with input from synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog)
and artist/performer Bill Jones providing visuals, at 6 p.m. Friday, 4
p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Halle Alley; MorrisonDance’s
exploration of gravity and Goethe’s color theory,
Ingenius, at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Friday, and 3:30 and 5:30
p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre;
choreographer Lisa K. Lock’s Agua Dulce at 7 and 9 p.m. Friday
and 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday at the Tech Center fountain; Double Edge
Dance’s interactive multimedia piece Shimmer, featuring music by
Ross Feller and choreography by Kora Radella, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Friday, and 4:30 and 6:30 Saturday and Sunday, at the Westfield
Insurance Studio Theatre; Mark Gunderson’s randomized dance party,
Evolution Control Committee, with choices made by the “Wheel of Mashup”
at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 10 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday, on the All Go
Signs stage; punk girls Hot Cha Cha at 8:30 p.m. Friday on the Main
Stage; off-off Broadway director Dario D. Ambrosi’s play Night
Lights, illuminated by the headlights of parked cars and sound
played through their radio speakers, at 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday in
the All Go Signs alley; Urban Artz’s hip-hop-ified retelling of the
classic Christmas tale in Nutcracker Reloaded, at 3 p.m.
Saturday on the Star Plaza Stage, and Aliya in Wonderland, their
version of the Lewis Carroll story, at 2 p.m. Sunday, in All Go Signs
Alley; and video artist Kasumi’s Orbital Debris, featuring four
video projectors aimed at the outside walls of the Christian Science
Reading Room, at 10 p.m. Saturday.
Among the many other performances and interactive exhibits
throughout the festival, we urge you to check out the
joystick-controlled, synchronized banks of high-powered theater lights
in All Go Alley.
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2009.
