Ballades Mechaniques
Come experience up to 7 short interpretive plays at this dada-penny-arcade-esque installation
@ Big Bear Cafe a fabulous place that serves up the fantastic coffee by Counter Culture
Ballades Mechanique at The Big Bear Cafe
1700 1st St NW - that's 1st & R, near Florida Ave if that helps
extended until OCTOBER 21, 2007.
Café hours: M-F, 7a-9p; Sa, 7:30a-6p; Su 9a-5p.
Donations are graciously accepted.
Made entirely of found and salvaged materials, BALLADES MECHANIQUE (ver 1.0) is a Rube Goldberg-inspired machine that fashions an individual sensory experience of the play for the audience member/user. The user selects a story, thus activating the machine and the experience. The plays are primarily performed with the assistance of digital video, which re-imagines the stories with animations and puppets, creating an aural/visual accompanist to Suzan-Lori Parks' rhythmically distinct and intensely succinct writing. Video is also used to instruct the user on how to discover the stories that require the assistance of the viewer, who manipulates hand cranks, buttons, switches and such to dispense the stories.
banished? concept is hugely playful and borrows liberally from the Dadaist movement in its interpretation of its seven plays. The aim was to create a way of telling stories – an age-old practice and intrinsic human need – using a method that expressed a complex, multi-layered vision of the human being persevering in an irrevocably technological world.
Absolutely free, fun and you can grab a latte at one of the coolest coffee joints in DC when you're there.
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