Kid Koala
The Storyville Mosquito
Sat, Nov 2
McCullough Theatre
Ink
Thu, Nov 7
Bass Concert Hall
Kid Koala The Storyville Mosquito
Huang Yi Ink
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ART BEYOND THE STAGE
Discover works from Landmarks’ collection at Bass Concert Hall
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Landmarks’ mobile tours are generously provided by Sheri Clark Henriksen.
Koren Der Harootian, Prometheus and Vulture, 1948.
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Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox present
Kid Koala The Storyville Mosquito
Support for The Storyville Mosquito is provided by the Carolyn Rice Bartlett Charitable Foundation, Z. T. Scott Family Endowment for the Performing Arts, Moritz Center for Societal Impact Good Neighbors Program, College of Fine Arts O’Donnell Visiting Artist Endowment, and an anonymous donor.
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Creative Team
Director / Musical Score
Producer
Production Manager
Art Director
Assistant Set Designer
Puppet Designer
Director of Photography
Musical Director
Co-composers
Music Prep / Copyist
Lighting Designer
Technical Directors
Additional Set Builders
Additional Puppet Builders
Kid Koala / Eric San
Ryhna Thompson
Brian Neuman
Corinne Merrell
Nancy Belzile
Patrick Martel
AJ Korkidakis
Vid Cousins
Vid Cousins and Dave Campbell
Marcus Takizawa
Olivier Gaudet Savard
Brian Neuman / Guillaume Briand
Nancy Belzile, Faustine Berthet, Joseph Gagne, Bruno-Pierre Houle, Alizée Millot
Isabelle Chretien
Sophie Dealauriers
Véronique Poirier
Marie-Pierre Simard
Sandra Turgeon
Colin St-Cyr Duhamel
Touring Team
Musicians
Puppeteers
Cinematographer
Sound Mix Engineer
Video Editor
Tour Manager
Assistant Puppeteers
Management: Represented and
Produced by
Eric San (Kid Koala)
Markus Takizawa (violin)
David Campbell (cello)
Blake Turner (viola)
Patrick Martel, Anne Lalancette, Colin St-Cyr Duhamel, Sandra Turgeon
AJ Korkidakis
Rena Kozak
Phil Creamer
Brian Neuman
Alizee Millot & Maggie Winston
Envision Management & Production
ARTIST STATEMENT
One of my fondest memories from childhood is watching Charlie Chaplin films with my parents and grandparents. It was one of a few moments I remember where all three generations of my family sat together, laughed, cried and were moved by the same piece of art. Since then, it has always been a goal for me to try to create things that joyfully connect people.
It was also the first time I realized there was a “production” behind what I was seeing on the screen. A whole team of people such as set builders, lighting designers, cinematographers and more all working together to make the magic on the screen.
I’m so thankful to be working with this incredible team of artists and performers to create this “live film” for audiences each night on stage. You will get to see the final film (on the screen) and the “making of” (on the stage) simultaneously. That’s twice the value for your hard earned ticket buying money!
At its heart, The Storyville Mosquito is a good old fashioned love story about meeting new people, sharing
your story, finding your voice and searching for that something that connects us all.
This production is a place where my favourite things collide: cinema, live performance, soundtrack music, storytelling, comedy, drama, puppetry and turntables! Enjoy the show!
-Kid Koala
Co-commissioned by Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Place des Arts and its Foundation and NYU Abu Dhabi The Arts Center. Created with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec. Developed with support from the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund. The performances in Hamburg are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada and the Embassy of Canada Berlin and SODEC Quebec.
Photo by Corinne Merrell
ARTIST BIOS
Creator, Director, Musical Score
Eric San, a.k.a. Kid Koala, is a Montreal-based scratch DJ, film composer, theatre producer and visual artist. He has released 6 solo albums, and worked on multiple collaborations and soundtracks. He has toured with Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Beastie Boys and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He has collaborated with Gorillaz, Deltron 3030 and produced the Music To Draw To album series featuring vocalists Emilíana Torrini and Trixie Whitley. He has composed music for The National Film Board of Canada, Cartoon Network, Sesame Street, Adult Swim, The Winter Olympic Games, and contributed to musical scores of several films including The Great Gatsby, Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and Looper. He has created music for several video games, including the complete soundtrack to the award-winning multi platform video game Floor Kids.
He has written and illustrated the award-winning graphic novels, Nufonia Must Fall and Space Cadet.
Kid Koala’s unforgettable live shows range from touring
turntable carnivals like Vinyl Vaudeville to immersive multimedia shows like Nufonia Must Fall, Satellite Turntable Orchestra and his most recent “live film” production The Storyville Mosquito; each of which expresses his unique form of storytelling with music, live animation, film and interactive entertainment.
Art Director
Corinne Merrell creates work as an art director for film, stop-motion animation and theatre. Her handcrafted sets create environments and spaces for storytelling. She was head stop-motion art director on the award winning animated feature The Little Prince, directed by Mark Osborne. She was also production designer on the National Film Board’s The Fruit Hunters by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Yung Chang. Her collaborations with Kara Blake continue to explore the use of miniatures in film, and ‘Illusions,’ a commission for the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal and Gryphon Trio brought their work to the stage. Corinne studied architecture at McGill University and also holds a Master of Fine Arts in Design for Stage and Film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is a faculty member in the Department
of Theatre at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.
Puppet Designer
Patrick Martel is a puppeteer, puppet designer, set designer and theatre director. He designed many theatre productions and television series, most of them involving different styles of puppetry. He has collaborated with a number of companies, including the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, Monlove and 4Darts (Lemieux/Pilon). He enjoyed a 25 year long collaboration with Théâtre de l’Avant-Pays, where he designed over a dozen productions, many of which he also performed in. With this company, he recently directed and designed sets and puppets for Mémoire de Lou. In 2004, The Arlyn Award Society awarded him a c ommendation for his puppet design work on À nous deux!, another production from this same company. Recent engagements as both puppet designer and puppet coach include: the opera production of Die Zauberflöte for the Glyndebourne Festival, Nezha the Pirate Child, with Cirque Éloize, and Toruk – The First Flight, with Cirque du Soleil.
Since 2000, he teaches at Université du Québec à Montréal, to BA students and for the post-graduate diploma in contemporary puppet theatre. His first collaboration with Kid Koala was as puppet designer, puppet technical designer and puppeteer for Nufonia Must Fall.
Director of Cinematography
AJ Korkidakis is a maniacally multi-tasking Montréal-based digital media artist. A compulsive creator, his practice blends video, animation, design & photography into unique & bizarre creations. His work spans short films that have screened internationally and have been broadcast on the CBC, music videos with beloved Canadian bands like Stars and The Dears, award winning public service campaigns for organizations such as Global Zero and the CSN labour union, two acclaimed live touring shows created in collaboration with Kid Koala that have wowed audiences around the world, and an ongoing stint as the resident graphic designer for Tableau D’Hôte Theatre, one of Montréal’s most important theatre companies. He is known across social media as AJMAKESTHINGS because of his seemingly
endless output of multimedia experiments. He will befriend your dog.
Musical Director
Since composing his first string quartet at the age of fourteen, Vid Cousins has had a varied career in music as a composer, musician, producer, arranger and engineer both in-studio and live. Beginning his career in London, UK working alongside engineers and producers including Al Fisch (Bjork, The Art of Noise), Charlie Francis (REM, Hi Llamas), Brian Rose (Robbie Williams, Longview), he relocated to Montreal as a musician and Musical Director on Spek’s Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff tour. He has since spearheaded the audio production of numerous international tours such as Amon Tobin’s Foley Room 7.1 surround sound tour, and worked with artists on the road such as Squarepusher, Bell Orchestre and of course Kid Koala with whom he has collaborated on numerous live tours as well as records and scores as producer, engineer and composer and musician. His work has been featured in the scores of a number of National Film Board films and he provided the original score to the Oscar shortlisted animated film Requiem for Romance.
Producer
Over the course of the last 2 and a half decades, Ryhna Thompson has been an artist, manager, entrepreneur, leader and change maker in the cultural and creative industries. Under the banner of Envision Management & Production, Ryhna works with artists to conceive, produce, manage and share musical projects, often in the realm where music intersects with film, animation, theater, literature and interactivity - and all in the context of building authentic, long-term careers. Projects have ranged widely from Richard Reed Parry’s Quiet River of Dust Dome show, to The Pathwaves Digital Literacy Incubator. The Storyville Mosquito is one of her latest works as a multi-disciplinary Producer, working alongside longtime collaborator, Kid Koala. She has produced tours on 5 continents. Always keen to contribute to her communities, Ryhna has sat on numerous non-profit boards and committees to support a healthy, sustainable, positive and innovative creative economy.
Photo by Mikael Theimer
NOV 7, 2024
BASS
Texas Performing Arts Presents
Huang Yi Ink
Support for Huang Yi’s performance is provided by the Phillip Auth Endowed Dance Fund for Texas Performing Arts.
The performance is made possible by the generous support of the Ministry of Culture (Taiwan).
Dancers
Hu Chien, Huang Yi, Hsieh Cheng-Yu, Chen Zhao-Li, Chen
Yi-Chen, Yeh Huan-Chun, Yu Wen-Pin, Tai Yi-Fen, Tsai Yi-Ting, Chung Shun-Wen, Huang Yen-Lin
Creative & Production Team
Artistic Direction, Concept & Choreography
Huang Yi
Calligraphy
Tong Yang-Tze
Audiovisuals
Ryoichi Kurokawa
Technical Director
Lin Chia-Liang
Technical Assistant Chen Yun-Wen
Producer Wu Min-Fang
Representation
Ichun Yeh, Sozo
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My collaborator Ms. Tong maintains a distance from technology, refraining from using a mobile phone or the internet, and she always calls me from a landline. It’s been a long time since I got a call from a landline, and it was a bit like a call from another time and space. This aspect added a unique touch to our collaboration, as our approaches to technology were extremely different.
My past works have never used elements of traditional oriental culture, and for me, Ink holds significance in cultural heritage. I asked myself, how should Ms. Tong calligraphy dialogue with the limbs of humans and robots, and Ryoichi Kurokawa’s images?
We share the desire to maintain a contemporary and dynamic feel, and to challenge the preconceptions of calligraphy as “traditional” and “outdated,” through new media arts and the movement of human and robotic performers.
Ink interprets Ms. Tong’s Silent Music series, and the abstract nature allows us to focus on the energy, space, and texture of the brushstrokes. The absence of
specific Chinese characters eliminates the need for translation, making the calligraphic beauty accessible even without knowledge of Chinese.
When calligraphers finish a work, they typically use a stamp to leave their mark. I asked Ms. Tong if I could use her stamp, as it holds importance in our culture. Ms. Tong happily agreed, considering the culmination of Ryoichi’s audiovisual art, her calligraphy, and the human-machine interaction as a signature of our time.
I’m very grateful for this encounter.
-Huang Yi
ARTIST BIO
HUANG
YI
Taiwanese dancer, choreographer, inventor, and videographer Huang Yi’s pioneering work is steeped in his fascination with the partnership between humans and robots. He interweaves continuous movement with mechanical and multimedia elements to create a form of dance which corresponds with the flow of data, effectively making the performer a dancing instrument. Named by Dance Magazine as one of the “25 to Watch,” Huang was immersed in the arts at a young age, spending much of his childhood in his parents’ studio watching them teach tango and learning to paint alongside his father. Huang has been Artist-in-Residence of the National Theater & Concert Hall, the National Performing Arts Center, Taiwan, and is widely considered one of Asia’s most prolific choreographers.
Huang’s groundbreaking and award-winning work, Huang Yi & Kuka, in which he and his dancers perform alongside an industrial robot he programmed, has opened the Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), TED Conference (Vancouver), and toured globally since 2015 including
in Australia, the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the UAE.
Huang Yi premiered Under the Horizon, a hybrid opera, in collaboration with Berlinbased Ryoichi Kurokawa and the Netherlands Chamber Choir, in Holland and Taiwan in 2018. In February 2019 he premiered A Million Miles Away at Taiwan’s celebrated National Theater. His latest work, Ink, premiered at the National Taichung Theater and the National Theater in Taipei in June 2023.
Special Thanks to:
Multinational Company Long Dedicated to Community Investment CANJUNE
Taiwan Top Performing Arts Group Project, National Culture and Arts Foundation (Taiwan) Hong Foundation
National Center for HighPerformance Computing (Taiwan)
Industrial Technology Research Institute (Taiwan)
ABOUT INK
In their newest collaboration Ink, choreographer Huang Yi and audiovisiual pioneer Ryoichi Kurokawa dismantle and reconstruct the lines from a hundred artworks in renowned calligrapher Tong Yang-Tze’s “Silent Music” series, exploring the various texture between body, sound, visual and space.
Hovering between delicate and frantic dynamics, Huang digs deeper into his cultural roots and reveals a wild movement language, turning dancers’ bodies into brushes that paint and leave marks on stage. With speed and a ferocious vocabulary, dancers churn like a vortex in one moment, only to become flowing liquid in the next. Kurokawa transforms the inkblots into luminous tracks, echoing and merging with the unique brushstrokes of Tong, constructing a continuous flow of paintings via stunning holographic projection.
Combining Huang’s explosive and precise language and Kurokawa’s meticulous and sophisticated artistry, Ink is a work that crosses borders and fuses analog and digital, reflecting the harmonic tension between the realms of ancient practice and future design.
Ink is an original production of Huang Yi Studio +, co-commissioned by the National Taichung Theater and National Theater, Taipei in Taiwan and had its world premiere in June 2023.
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Honor, An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor
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Versa-Style Street Dance Company Rooted Rhythms
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A gift from longtime Texas Performing Arts members Bill and Anita Cochran enriches the lives of thousands of Austin-area children.
The William and Anita Cochran Endowment for Performing Arts Access and Education supports performances by nationally recognized artists for students from elementary through high school. With their gift, the Cochrans are helping Texas Performing Arts continue to be one of the nation’s highest-impact live arts organizations.
You can support Texas Performing Arts, like the Cochrans, through your will, trust or estate plan to share the joy of vibrant performing arts programming for generations to come.
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