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Thursday, October 08, 2015 - 8:00 PM
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'A contemporary Renaissance Man¦the toast of the New York City underground.' ”National Public Radio on Carl Hancock Rux 'A vocalist of inventive instinct and assiduous musicality' ”The New York Times on Theo Bleckmann
Poet and performer Carl Hancock Rux recounts the life of German-Jewish art historian Carl Einstein ”an influential scholar on African sculpture and Cubism who fled the Nazis ”together with tales of genocide and personal genealogy in this magnetic evening of storytelling. With music composed and performed live by Theo Bleckmann, direction by SITI Company's Anne Bogart, and video by Onome Ekeh, The Exalted untangles knots of heritage, art, and atrocity to reconsider the price of freedom and self-preservation.
Written by Carl Hancock Rux
Music by Theo Bleckmann
Directed by Anne Bogart
Video design by Onome Ekeh
Lighting design by Brian Scott
Scenic and costume design by Maureen Freedman
Poet and performer Carl Hancock Rux recounts the life of German-Jewish art historian Carl Einstein ”an influential scholar on African sculpture and Cubism who fled the Nazis ”together with tales of genocide and personal genealogy in this magnetic evening of storytelling. With music composed and performed live by Theo Bleckmann, direction by SITI Company's Anne Bogart, and video by Onome Ekeh, The Exalted untangles knots of heritage, art, and atrocity to reconsider the price of freedom and self-preservation.
Written by Carl Hancock Rux
Music by Theo Bleckmann
Directed by Anne Bogart
Video design by Onome Ekeh
Lighting design by Brian Scott
Scenic and costume design by Maureen Freedman
