The Pigeon & The Mouse
A land creature and a sky creature who are deeply in love learn that the earth is falling out of the sky.
Welcome to Campfire presents A twenty-minute adaptation of its evening-length danceplay “The Pigeon & The Mouse”, featuring paintings created by visual artists Olya Dubatova and Levon Petrosyan for the piece’s January premiere. Audiences are invited to tune into the sound score in real time using their personal cellular devices and headphones while viewing the work, at a safe social distance, through The Empty Circle’s glass storefront.
times and dates:
SATURDAY and SUNDAY NOV 14 & 15 AT 2 PM AND 3PM.
SATURDAY and SUNDAY NOV 21 & 22 AT 2 PM AND 3PM.
RUNNING TIME 22 MIN
*Please remember to bring your own headphones to experience Welcome to Campfire's multi-dimensional immersive sound score designed by Marc Cardarelli.
While the performances are free and open to all, Welcome to Campfire welcomes donations in support of its ongoing work on PayPal and on Venmo @welcometocampfire.
At the intersection of dance and theater, abstraction and narrative, sci-fi and fable, The Pigeon & The Mouse is a love story about two people forced to leave home in the wake of civil war. Join creators and performers Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn in the practice of what homo sapiens do best: use fiction and fantasy as a means to survive.
WELCOME TO CAMPFIRE is the story-making platform of creators and performers Tony Bordonaro and Ingrid Kapteyn. Merging dance and theater, their productions immerse characters and audiences in dystopian futures that both endanger and engender intimate human connection. Welcome to Campfire stretches the limits of audiences’ empathy by expanding the definition of immersive theatre and prioritizing the development of original stories. In our age of cyber expansion, Welcome to Campfire invites audiences back to the tribal origins of storytelling.
ART BY OLYA DUBATOVA AND LEVON PETROSYAN
OLYA DUBATOVA
Olya Dubatova, born in Soviet Union, is a visual artist based in New York City. In her work, Olya explores language, technology, time, place, sound and identity through painting, sound and performance, sound sculptures and interactive video art installations. Motivated by exploration of places, of a literal and symbolic search for home, constant personal search and beyond that, Olya lived in more than 20 cities around the world. She co-founded and directed BlenderLabs at USC (Los Angeles). BlenderLabs was awarded the prestigious Visions and Voices Grant in 2016. Her recent projects with UC Berkeley, Stanford, USC, UCLA, Internet Archive have been featured in media internationally. Olya’s work was exhibited in multiple galleries and museums internationally, including Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Museum Aldobrandini (Rome) and Riddoch Gallery in Mount Gambier, Australia. www.olyadubatova.me
LEVON PETROSYAN
Born in Soviet Union in Tbilisi, Levon Petrosyan is a Georgian painter, muralist, draughtsman and printmaker. Interested in producing his own materials and reinventing Old Masters techniques and recipes, he uses natural mineral pigments mined on his historic homeland, Armenia. The source of inspiration for his own work is drawn from Hip-hop music. His record of international exhibitions includes show’s at : “Art Villa Garikula” and “Ria Keburia Foundation” in Georgia, “The Bookstore Project” in Amsterdam, and the most recent, an art installation “The Pigeon & The Mouse” in Manhattan, New York. Exploring tactile qualities of paint to have a direct emotional and physical connection with the viewer, where it transcends our limits and has a spiritual, supersensual impact. https://leopetrosyan.com