HARP

(HERE Artist Residency Program)

Epyllion • Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith

Show Description

Carnal and spiritual collide and entwine through worshiping the simple and mundane. Inspired by the fantastical imagery of Magical Realist painter Remedios Varo and the poetry of Rumi, Aeolian Theatre presents a new creation told through puppetry, dance, ritual and song. Born of a collective wrestling to find the story that belongs to all of us, we offer a world that seeps in through the senses, flooding our hearts, inviting performers and audience alike to peel back some of the many layers around our hopes, sorrows, fears, and secret delights to reawaken the purity of our primitive selves.

Music Master by Rumi

You that love lovers, this is your home. Welcome!

In the midst of making form, love made this form that melts form, with love for the door, soul the vestibule.

Watch the dust grains moving in the light near the window.

Their dance is our dance.

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless,

directed by the one who teaches us, the pure joy of the sun, our music master.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.
 

 

Artist Bio

Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith, artistic director of Aeolian Theatre, is a Brooklyn based artist and physical performer. Since moving to New York she has been working predominantly with puppetry as a performer, choreographer, teacher and builder. She began her study of puppetry with Alain Recoing in Paris, France. In recent years she has worked with Basil Twist as an original company member of Arias With a Twist, and recently joined the cast of his production of Petrushka. Other credits include Nami Yamamoto’s Flying with my Shooting Stars, Mabou Mines’ Peter and Wendy and Red Beads, Lake Simon’s White Elephant, Drama of Works’ Warhol, Kate Brehm's A Seemingly Unified Spectacle, David Michael Friend’s Moonfishing, Happenstance Theatre’s Prufbox and Kevin Augustine’s Animal. Puppet design and choreography credits include Nu Dance Theater’s Hinterland and Elle d’Elles and Montgomery College’s Butoh Macbeth. Last summer she re-entered the world of acting with the one-woman show Domestic Snakes written and directed by her mother and DC theatre artist Karin Abromaitis, combining spoken word, aerial work and puppetry as part of the DC Fringe Festival. Her own work includes an adaptation of Cupid and Psyche with composer Daniel Jose Older and a dance puppet piece Finding A Way Back that she co-created, designed and composed music for. She wrote, designed and directed two children’s shows Grandfather Frost and Dragon Dreams for the New York Public Library’s Holiday Extravaganza. She has taught puppetry to both children and adults across the East Coast and Midwest. Lindsay is ecstatic to be a resident artist at the HERE Arts Center.