Taste Sound Studio
Dance & Stage
Composition/Sound Design/Concept/Live Collaboration
Produced by: concert:Nova
With three story tellers, eight singers, and thirteen musicians, composer Zac Greenberg, librettist Micheal Burnham, director Kelvin Chan, and production company concert:nova bring four stories from Ray Bradbury's, The Illistrated Man, to life as an evening length modern rock opera.
Strelitzia
Produced by: Charlotte Katherine
and Dora Novak
An individual human feels small, stark, and vulnerable. As individuals we can only grow so much, to grow we explore and connect. This process of adaptation begins with our environment, challenges ourselves through experiences, and then blossoms in community. We bring it in, to let it overwhelm us. Through this process we redefine our capacity and flourish - our brightest, most complete being. Our connection to our community, humanity, diversity makes our colors radiate with a vibrancy. We find comfort in its entirety. It’s in our lungs, our breath. Humanity stands beside us and within us. We see it, we share it, we become it.
weeble/wobble
Produced by: Charlotte Katherine
and Joseph Cicio
An individual human feels small, stark, and vulnerable. As individuals we can only grow so much, to grow we explore and connect. This process of adaptation begins with our environment, challenges ourselves through experiences, and then blossoms in community. We bring it in, to let it overwhelm us. Through this process we redefine our capacity and flourish - our brightest, most complete being. Our connection to our community, humanity, diversity makes our colors radiate with a vibrancy. We find comfort in its entirety. It’s in our lungs, our breath. Humanity stands beside us and within us. We see it, we share it, we become it.
Pyriscene
Produced by: Charlotte Katherine
and Joseph Cicio
Pyriscence is described an adaptation to an environment in which fires are regular, and in which post-fire environments offer the best germination and seedling survival rates. Throughout this year our country is continually ravaged by physical, social, economic, and political inferno. Despite these devastating losses, we adapt and move forward. After the voracious force of a wildfire there is a calm: the land is left barren, but fertile and ready to rapidly sprout new life. I see the parallel between the pain, quiet, and harmony of our human selves and our landscape. We can listen, adapt, and use that fertile, still moment to once again blossom and thrive. Pyriscence aims to capture the moment when all the elements of loss and opportunity are present, connecting with each other, and moments away from the spark of germination. The elements of music, dance and cinematography hold equal importance in this fine art film.
Cavernous Consciousness
Produced by: Charlotte Katherine
Pyriscence is described an adaptation to an environment in which fires are regular, and in which post-fire environments offer the best germination and seedling survival rates. Throughout this year our country is continually ravaged by physical, social, economic, and political inferno. Despite these devastating losses, we adapt and move forward. After the voracious force of a wildfire there is a calm: the land is left barren, but fertile and ready to rapidly sprout new life. I see the parallel between the pain, quiet, and harmony of our human selves and our landscape. We can listen, adapt, and use that fertile, still moment to once again blossom and thrive. Pyriscence aims to capture the moment when all the elements of loss and opportunity are present, connecting with each other, and moments away from the spark of germination. The elements of music, dance and cinematography hold equal importance in this fine art film.
Collected Works
2021: Strelitzia, directed by Benjamin Tedesco, produced by Seoul International Dance Festival in TANK (SIDFIT)
2021: weeble/Wobble, directed Charlotte Katherine, director of photography Joseph Cicio
2020: Pyriscene, directed by Angeline Herron and Joseph Cicio, produced by The Luckman Arts Complex, Cal State LA
2020: Appalachian Trail, produced by Concert:Nova
2020: Sixth Sense, directed by Scott Kelly, produced by SIDFIT and Los Angles Dance Festival (LADF)
2020: Cavernous Consciousness, directed by Katherine Grace Murphy, produced by SIDFIT
2019: Dust, produced by Brockus Project Studios (evening length modern dance)
2018: The Bradbury Tattoos: An Opera, produced by Concert:Nova (Full Length Opera) (Funded by the NEA)
2017: Life, produced by The Cincinnati Ballet (Ballet Suite)
2017: Dead Oasis, directed by Katherine Grace Murphy
2017: Celestial, produced by Sean Greens’s Shield Wall (Evening Length Modern Dance)
2016: Terrestrial, produced by Sean Greens’s Shield Wall (Evening Length Modern Dance)