
B=Essence
Benefiting: The Children’s Aid Society
Presented by ETdC Projects’ Lab
Produced by Roi Escudero
Written, Designed and Directed by Roi Escudero
B=Essence (La Esencia de la Vida)
“The essence of life is to be equal to your essence.” –The Bubulinos
“Roi Escudero mingles commedia dramática, vérité and fantasy with a touch of Lacan and Poe’s poetry to create an intriguing expressionist tale. This make-believe, based on true events, happens in a theatrical installation of performance-art, multimedia-video, dance, music, tango and other haunting sounds performed and choreographed by
Rubén Celiberti.”
With the Artists in Residence at ETdC Projects’ Lab:Rubén Celiberti, Roi Escudero, Andy Chmelko, Mitchell Conway, Amada Anderson, Mika Oyaizu, Ricardo Stevens and Jack Placidi.
Dance, Music, Performed and Choreographed
by Rubén Celiberti
Tango Choreography
by Mika Oyaizu and Ricardo Stevens
mise-en-scéne: set, costumes, mask, art-props, sound, projection lighting and multimedia video realized and designed by Roi Escudero
Music Arranged, Performed, and Voice
by Rubén Celiberti
With the participation of La Banda Argentina:
Technical Director and Lighting Designer: Ryan Metzler
Stage Manager: Valentin Ewan
Sun Umbrella virtual painting: James Ewan
Production Manager: Andy Chmelko
Genre: Site Specific Theatrical Installation, Performance–Art, Multimedia, Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Dance-Theater, Tango, Pop, Experimental.
This production features previous Planet Connections Award Winners:
Roi Escudero (2011, winner of Outstanding Performance-Art-Multimedia Event for
Roi Escudero’s “The Matra India” was also nominated for Outstanding Overall Production of a Short Play, One-Act or Monologue, Outstanding Overall Production of an Entire Evening of One-Acts/Paired Productions, Outstanding Actor in a One-Act Production (Andy Chmelko), and Outstanding Choreography (Fight or Dance
Roi Escudero (2010, Award for Outstanding Multimedia Event, Use of Projections and Special Effects for her Bubulinos’ Series multimedia performance-art play
Roi Escudero’s “11 seconds of ecstasy!” received seven nominations, including Outstanding Overall Production of a New Play 2010, Outstanding Direction 2010, Outstanding Sound Design 2010, Outstanding Choreography 2010 (Mika Oyaizu and Ricardo Stevens), and Outstanding Mask, Movement and Fight Sequence 2010 for
Amada Anderson (2010, Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Play for the role of Darcie in Andrew Rothkins’s “Danny“.)
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$18 General Admission
$9.00 for Film/Music Participants
FREE for Theatre Festivity Participants
Thursday 6/14/12 – 4:00pm = Performance #1
Sunday 6/17/12 – 5:00pm = Performance #2
Monday 6/18/12 – 6:00pm = Performance #3
Tuesday 6/19/12 – 10:30pm= Performance #4
Wednesday 6/20/12 – 8:00pm = Performance #5
Saturday 6/23/12 – 5:30pm = Performance #6
Click the dates above or the buy tickets banner below to buy tickets/reserve your seat!
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60 minutes
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At Bleecker Street Theatre (Downstairs)
45 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012
Conveniently located near:
Bleecker St (4 & 6)
Broadway – Lafayette St (B, D, F, M)
Prince St (N, R)
This is what the artists who created this production are doing for their charity:
“We will be writing about The Children’s Aid Society in our program, giving out material with information about the organization, and volunteering our time for them.
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I´m proud to be your friend and sister of Life, my dear Roi. Artists must serve the world as you do,with love, dedication and great Talent. Qualities you have, in grear quantities!!!.Congratulations for all the people that helped you to concieve this great project, I wish you al the best. Love from Ana Baxter