Jorge Luis Borges Gives a Lecture on Anatomy (2024)
Written and directed by Carla Milarch
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Starring (In order of appearance) Chris Berlongieri, Claire Hurley, Monica Spencer, Phil Powers, Forrest Hejkal
A capella ensemble: Petra Bora Leo Stone Leif TenBrink
Arranged by: Michael Riccinto & Leif TenBrink
Music Direction: Michael Riccinto & Leif TenBrink
Set Design: Monica Spencer
Costume Design: Mary Perrin
Technical Director: Forrest Hejkal
Assistant Technical Director: Phil Powers
Sound Designer/Operator: Brian Koepele
Videography: Bob Felts & Brad Torreano
Video Editor: Annie Gallup
Audio Mixed and Mastered by Peter Gallway
Drone Operator: Ben Peterson
Special Thanks: Chris Goosman and Baseline Audio
Pants! (2023)
Written and directed by Carla Milarch
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Starring Phil Powers, Marlene Inman, Monica Spencer and Wayne David Parker
Technical director: Forrest Hejkal
Assistant technical director: Phil Powers
Sound recording and design: Brian Koepele
Sound mixed by Peter Gallway
Set design: Christo (It’s an O-mage!)
Costume design: Genevieve Compton
Intimacy coordinator: Kat Walsh
Videography: Paul Fagan
Cameras 1 & 2: Jack Anderson & Trey Sarmento
Video edited by Annie Gallup
The Life of a Bee – A Musical in Three Songs and a Dance (2022)
Written and directed by Carla Milarch
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Starring Tessa Hanrath, Courtney Riddle, Jenna Kellie Pittman, Liz Jaffe, Hallie Fox, and Maryanna Lauter
Music arranged and directed by R. MacKenzie Lewis
Musicians: Leer Sobie – bass, R. MacKenzie Lewis – keyboard,
Oliver Bishop – reeds, Daniel King-McDonald – drums
Sound mixed by Peter Gallway
Sound equipment rental: Chris Goosman
Technical director: Forrest Hejkal
Assistant technical director: Phil Powers
Stage manager: Brian Koepele
Set design: Monica Spencer
Costume design: Genevieve Compton, Hair Design: Maria Mikulec
Sound design: Alex Isotalo
Videography: Jonathan Hoard, Second Camera: Bob Felts
Video edited by Annie Gallup. Additional footage: Robin Wilt, Stan Mendenhall, and licensed from StoryBlocks
Four Seasons (2021)
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Our 2021 Summer Gathering featured the premiere of the first three seasons of “Four Seasons,” which, with the subsequent addition of “Fall” became a 33 minute video, filmed on location in our garden. It features 5 separate short films: Winter, Spring 1, Spring 2, Summer, and Fall.
Art Snacks (2020)
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In 2020, our annual Summer Gathering was pre-empted by Covid. Instead we commissioned 4 short performances that are documented in these videos: Walking the Dog, In Defense of Max, How We Flow, and Romeo & Juliet – Thirty Years Later.
Bilbao and Barcelona on Bastille Day (2018)
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Directed by Kathe Koja
Choreography & movement: Rachael Ahn Harbert & Marianne Brass
Music: Ben Willis and Jon Taylor
Costumes and environmental creation: The Divine Iguana
Director of Photography – Paul Martindale
Drone footage by Detroit Drone
Video edited by Annie Gallup
BAUHAUS from robstan visuals on Vimeo.
Bauhaus (2017)
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Directed by Kathe Koja, ensemble director of NERVE gonerve.com
Choreography and movement by Rachael Ahn Harbert, Lisa LaMarre and Marianne Brass as the Robots, with dancers Kristine Anderson, Jena Blaylock, Alyssa Grabinski, Jared Morin, Jake Rydell, Samantha Sandler, Angelique Stringer, and Brittany Van Riper as the Puttys.
Music: Ben Willis and Jon Taylor
Costumes and environmental creation: The Divine Iguana
Director of Photography – Paul Martindale
Additional video footage by Robin Wilt
Drone footage by Detroit Drone
Video edited by Annie Gallup
Garden of Earthly Delights (2016)
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Directed by Kathe Koja, ensemble director of NERVE gonerve.com
Choreography & movement: Rachael Ahn Harbert & Marianne Brass
Bassist – Ben Willis
Masks and garden installations: Mary’s Monstrosities
Costumes and environmental creation: The Divine Iguana
Director of Photography: Paul Martindale
Video edited by Annie Gallup
Drone footage by Detroit Drone
30 Minute Ring Cycle (2015)
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By Daniel Jordan
Directed by Kathe Koja
Starring Egla Kishta as “Brunnhilde,” Steve Carson as “Siegfried” and Jonathan West as “Wotan”
Music performed by Annie Gallup
Director of Photography: Paul Martindale
Video edited by Annie Gallup
Drone footage by Detroit Drone
Peter Gallway & Annie Gallup (2014)
Performance of original songs: “Just Think Back” at 00.40, “Gazebo Effect” at 04:10, “Casey’s Nervous Corner” at 06:40, “The Battle of Brooklyn” at 11:11, “Top Hat” at 15:38, “Chaque Jour” at 21:03
Director of Photography: Paul Martindale
Drone footage by Kevin Serota
Video edited by Annie Gallup
The Tower Project: A Flower, a Bird and a Flame (2013)
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Book and lyrics by Michael Lluberes, music by Jared M. Dembowski
Starring Yana Levovna as “The Lady,” Steve Xander Carson as “The Boy” and Scott Van Sice and Vanessa Ellen Hentschel as “The Chorus”
Musical director and keyboards – Steve Deasy
Creative consultant: Kathe Koja
Director of Photography: Paul Martindale
Video edited by Annie Gallup
Bottom’s Folly or The Natural World (2012)
By Kathe Koja, Loudermilk Productions
Starring Emily Rose and Vanessa Ellen Hentschel as “The Sprites” and Scott Van Sice as “Bottom”
Costumes by Megan Harris
Music by Peter Gallway and Annie Gallup
Director of Photography: Paul Martindale
Video edited by Annie Gallup