Images by Will Hollis Snider: Selkie Project: Gestation by Divergence Vocal Theatre, January 23

Will Hollis Snider has published on Flickr a set of 17 images from Selkie Project: gestation presented by Divergence Vocal Theater on Saturday, January 23 at the Creative Research Laboratory in Austin.

Shown here are participants Chase Crossno, Caroline Sutton Clark, and Steffanie Ngo Hatchie.

The Selkie Project was a cross-disciplinary installation environment of multimedia performance, opera and new music-theater. Misha penton designed voice, text and sound design. megan M. Reilly did multimediaand lighting design.

Performers were Misha Penton, mezzo soprano; Maimy Fong, piano; Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie, Chase Crossno actors; Caroline Sutton Clark, dancer/choreography.

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Upcoming: Selkie Project: Gestation, Divergence Vocal Theatre at UT Creative Research Laboratory, January 23

UPDATE: Backgrounder by Katherine Catmull for the Austin Chronicle, January 21

Received directly:

Divergence Vocal Theater,
Houston's "renegade indie opera company,"
presents

Selkie Project: gestation

A mythical half-seal, half-human creature bobs her beckoning head: seduction to dive below the waves...

Divergence Vocal Theater collaborates to create a cross-disciplinary installation environment for multimedia, performance, opera and new music-theater: The Selkie Project: gestation.

Voice, text, sound design by Misha Penton; multimedia, lighting/theatrical design by Megan M. Reilly.
Performance: music of James Norman, Elliot Cooper Cole, Benjamin Britten and Charles Gounod.
Project Artistic Direction: Misha Penton & Megan M. Reilly.

The Selkie Project: gestation is part of the curated exhibition of experimental works, Ideas of Mountains, at The Creative Research Laboratory at University of Texas at Austin.

Performers: Misha Penton, mezzo soprano; Maimy Fong, piano; Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie, Chase Crossno actors; Caroline Sutton Clark, dancer/choreography.

Selkie Project: gestation performance: Saturday, January 23rd, 7 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: January 23 - February 6, 2010
Creative Research Laboratory
2832 East Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Austin, Texas 78702 (MAP)
Free of charge.

For more information: www.divergencevocaltheater.org