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Artist-in-Residence Raúl De Nieves and Colin Self premiere their new chamber opera, The Fool, scored in four-acts for chorus and string-ensemble.
The Fool is a mystical allegorical journey performed by a group of friends in their quest to unite themselves one with the other. The Fool is the spirit in search of experience. The Fool is both the beginning and the end, neither and otherwise, betwixt and between. The Fool is a story.
Starring Colin Self as the old woman, Raul De Nieves as the Fool and the Dog, Alexandra Drewchin as the Child, and Mehron Abdollmohammadi as the Mother.
Chorus: Lisa Kori Chung, Stephen Wood, Andy Kuncl, Cheno Pinter, Xena Semjonova, Sarah McSherry, Rogielo Ramos, Michael Bunsen, Daniel Wallace, Mz William Fortini, Ana Lieberman and Lindsey Leonard.
Ensemble: John Swartz (cello), Thomas DeLaney (cello), Liza Paap (violin), Genevieve Kammel Morris (viola), and William Nagel (cello).
Conductor: Brian McCorkle.
Raúl De Nieves is an artist, designer, and musician based in New York. His work frequently explores boundaries and taboos, spanning large scale installation and sculpture, narrative painting and multimedia. De Nieves has performed at The Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, MoMA San Francisco, MAD Museum, Performa and appears in Ryan Trecartin’s films. He performs regularly as part of HARIBO, an experimental music outfit also featuring artists Jessie Stead and Nathan Whipple. De Nieves’ sculptural shoe designs have been exhibited by the Loyal Gallery, photographed by Karl Lagerfeld and Mario Sorrenti, and worn by Lady Gaga.
Colin Self is a composer, vocalist, and choreographer living in Brooklyn, NY. His performances explore vocality, corporeality, and familial systems as a site for energetic transformation. Through his performance work, community organization, and personal life, Colin exhibits radical forms of healing as a constant praxes of collective resistance. He is currently working on his MFA at the Bard Milton-Avery Program and scoring the choreography of Julia Crockett and Phoebe Osbourne. Colin has performed at The New Museum, MoCA Miami, PS1 MoMA, MCA Chicago, Suzanne Geiss Gallery, and for Miami's NADA Art Fair.
