Feast
Photographs of Performance
Installation Overview
Project Summary
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Julia Mandle
Installation Overview
Feast was a multidisciplinary performance and architectural installation exploring the origin of desire through Plato's Symposium. Presented in a five thousand square foot abandoned stable building located near the Brooklyn waterfront, Feast’s centerpiece was a large architectural structure that resembled the building's own dramatic pitched roof.
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The architecture created a setting for Mandle to explore the Symposium’s characters and dramatic structure. The audience circulated freely through the space and watched the shifting dynamics of performers, light, and sound through eight cutout windows giving views into eight distinct interior rooms. Feast exemplifies Mandle’s multidisciplinary approach to art, bringing together choreographer Beppie Blankert, composer Paul Geluso, and lighting designer Aaron Cop as collaborators.
Feast was a multidisciplinary performance and architectural installation exploring the origin of desire through Plato's Symposium. Presented in a five thousand square foot abandoned stable building located near the Brooklyn waterfront, Feast’s centerpiece was a large architectural structure that resembled the building's own dramatic pitched roof.
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The architecture created a setting for Mandle to explore the Symposium’s characters and dramatic structure. The audience circulated freely through the space and watched the shifting dynamics of performers, light, and sound through eight cutout windows giving views into eight distinct interior rooms. Feast exemplifies Mandle’s multidisciplinary approach to art, bringing together choreographer Beppie Blankert, composer Paul Geluso, and lighting designer Aaron Cop as collaborators.
The Stable, Brooklyn, NY, 2003
Performers Joelle Arnusch, Johan Greben, Layard Thompson, Tori Sparks
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Funding The creation of Feast was made possible, in part, with funds from Danspace Project’s 2002-03 Commissioning Initiative with support from the Jerome Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs’ Challenge Program.
J Mandle Performance developed Feast with the generous support of the Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, James E. Robinson, and the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. J Mandle Performance also received funding from the 2003 JP Morgan Chase Regrant Program administered by BAC, and Meet the Composer (provided with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, ASCAP, the Virgil Thomas Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, JPMorganChase, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts).
The Stable, Brooklyn, NY, 2003
Performers Joelle Arnusch, Johan Greben, Layard Thompson, Tori Sparks
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Funding The creation of Feast was made possible, in part, with funds from Danspace Project’s 2002-03 Commissioning Initiative with support from the Jerome Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs’ Challenge Program.
J Mandle Performance developed Feast with the generous support of the Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, James E. Robinson, and the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. J Mandle Performance also received funding from the 2003 JP Morgan Chase Regrant Program administered by BAC, and Meet the Composer (provided with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, ASCAP, the Virgil Thomas Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, JPMorganChase, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts).
“Desire for information is the highest form of love. We want the audience to physically feel that sensation. They will be like voyeurs on the exterior of this set. If you're curious about a scene, you have to move. So it's almost like the audience choreographs itself, based on its own desires.” — Julia Mandle, The New York Times