By Michael Douglas Jones | Founder & Director
Tomas Tranströmer died March 26, 2015. The link below will take you to him reading his poem, Schubertiana. To music, the melting pot that is New York, Schubert and on being human. Oh my dear Tomas we shall miss you.
We are extremely fortunate to have had his attendance and advice during our Swedish workshops for dream seminar/drömseminarium. We are committed, more than ever, to the premiere of this piece to honor his memory and to share the work we did together.
In the 17th century, the philosophy of space and time emerged as a central issue in epistemology and metaphysics. Gottfried Leibniz, the German philosopher-mathematician, argued that space could not exist independently of objects in the world because that implies a difference between two universes exactly alike except for the location of the material world in each universe. Leibniz held that space is no more than the collection of spatial relations between objects in the world: "space is that which results from places taken together."
This truly plays into the ideas in Tranströmer’s poetry - the duality of things existing together: places taken together/ideas taken together/ images, colors and materials taken together - all used to define each other. The idea of space and objects that mutate and are malleable; this was the starting point for our stage director and design team.
Throughout the periodic design meetings, all four of our designers (video, costume, set and lighting) collaborated in an open forum. They provided each other with solutions to their own design puzzles in a way that informed each other’s work.This work was aided by the stage director, the composer, the scenario creators and myself, at intermittent times. Your donations have helped make this work continue.
In our past reports we have talked about costume and lighting design. Currently our video designer, S. Katy Tucker, is at work on the projections that will take us into Mats' dream world. Attached below are some of the images from which she has drawn inspiration.
For helping us fund this part of the project we thank you most sincerely.
For the construction phase of our designs, we need your continued support. Please consider an additional donation to help us reach the current goal of $25,000.00 and make the premiere in 2016 at the Gateway Theatre in Bellport a reality. Forward the link to our project page to others who might have interest in our project. Contact us for more information or just to say hello or give a comment. We'd love to hear from you!
Michael
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