Kelsey Oliver
Kelsey Oliver
Summertime
Music : Marc Rebillet
Choreographer : Betty Mansion
Dancers : Betty Mansion, Veronique Lemonnier, Sarah Magassa, Kelsey Oliver, Ellen Houck, Gabriel Goux, Alessio Sutera, Pierre Lamour, Jérôme De Meûter Videographer : Luca Fernandez
Réalisé avec l'aide de la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Service de la Danse
RUb A DUck
Performed @ Motion Media Arts Center in Austin, TX November 2018
Rick Said So is an eerie absurdist 75 minutes of physical theatre. Through cycles of dexterous movement, surreal images, candidly intimate monologues, and original live music, Rick Said So follows themes of what compels us as humans, ultimately essaying the absurdity of existence.
In Rick Said So, “Rick” (who/whatever Rick is) becomes a metaphor for a multitude—internal impulses and external forces that drive decision-making toward an eventual and yet undefined endpoint. At times suspenseful and at times nutty, Rick Said So highlights the exemplary and the mundane through physicality and text, venturing into human cognition with pleasantly shocking doses of perspective.
CO-PRODUCERS: Kelsey Oliver, Alexa Capareda, Chris Conard, & Roberto Di Donato
CO-DIRECTORS/PERFORMERS: Kelsey Oliver & Roberto Di Donato
ARTIST-COLLABORATORS/PERFORMERS: Alexa Capareda, Erica Saucedo, Khali Sykes, & Travis Tate
MUSICIANS/PERFORMERS: Urban Eisley & Walter Nichols
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR/LIGHTING & SCENIC DESIGN: Chris Conard
SOUND ENGINEER: Nathan Patterson
FILM ARTIST: Joe Cornelison
COSTUME CURATOR: Aaron Flynn
STAGE MANAGER & PROJECTIONS OP: Ashton Bennett Murphy
Frank Wo/Men Collective is fiscally sponsored by Salvage Vanguard Theater and this project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
