Video Killed the Theatre Star: Anonymous Ensemble

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

- | Elebash Lobby [installation]

Rendezvouz with Hilda

Name: Video Killed the Theatre Star: Anonymous Ensemble
Start: 2012-10-04T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2012-10-04T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Elebash Lobby [installation]

Photo by Eamonn Farrell

Rendezvouz with Hilda to discuss your turbulent history with her and decide on your future together. Anonymous Ensemble creates an interactive media installation that lets you decide the course of your conversation with a mediated persona. But please don’t eat the cheesecake!

Artists Involved: Jessica Weinstein, Eamonn Farrell, Liz Davito.

Lead Artist: The core of ANONYMOUS ENSEMBLE that is also Hilda und Co. is Jessica Weinstein (Hilda), Eamonn Farrell (Ludwig), and Liz Davito (Gretel). The life of Hilda began in 2002 as the emcee of TheBest, Anonymous Ensemble’s episodic rock theater revolution, which spanned the course of five years. In 2007, a new interactive Hilda show called Wanderlust premiered in the Ice Factory Festival at the Ohio Theater in NYC. The show went on to Edinburgh in 2008 where it was nominated for a Total Theater Award in Experimentation and Innovation, and followed with a London and UK tour. In recent years, Anonymous Ensemble has worked collaboratively in Greece on The Return, a live rock documentary, and The Turing Opera, a collaboration with the National Opera of Greece. Anonymous Ensemble and Hilda’s latest work Liebe Love Amour! is a theatricalized “live film” of an epic search for love, a musical collaboration with Greek composer William Antoniou and a further exploration of the company’s blend of real-time film editing and unique audience participation.

Upcoming: Liebe Love Amour! will be presented at the New Orleans Fringe Festival in November 2013.