Arts & Entertainment
Acrobuffos Quick Center Artists-in-Residence at Fairfield U
Following the work-in-progress showing of P L A S T I C: A Clown Opera, the artists will offer time to chat about the work.
Acrobuffos
Quick Center Artists-in-Residence
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Work-in-Progress showing
Pay What You Decide
The Quick is dedicated to supporting artists in the creative process. Now more than ever, artists are in great need for space and support to do what they love and create new work for touring. We are excited to welcome acclaimed circus company, Acrobuffos, to be in residence from June 29 – July 8, 2022. Acrobuffos has toured the world with their previous piece, Air Play. Now they are in the process of creating P L A S T I C: A Clown Opera.
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Seth Bloom and Christina Gelsone have created seven shows together, competed in international circus festivals, performed in over 25 countries, headlined at the Big Apple Circus, and were featured on a postage stamp. Christina is a former ballerina who graduated from Princeton to become a clown; Seth is a former juggler who graduated from three clown schools, including an MFA in physical theater.
More about the work:
Once upon a future time, when the natural world is a mere memory, two industrial clowns play with never-ending streams of transparent plastic.
Within the growing rubbish, double images glow in color, evoking lost life. Extinct birdsongs haunt plastic mountainsides, trash bags become clouds and jellyfish, and clowns dream of sleeping whales. A contemporary spin on the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, only this time the Sorcerer is not turning off the industrial faucet. Dark themes, but seriously funny. With imagination and laughter, P L A S T I C probes the uneasy conclusion of humanity’s current path - a world with no more nature.
P L A S T I C is the Acrobuffos’ most ambitious artistic project yet: creating laughter for a voiceless planet, compelling the audience to care.
Following the work-in-progress showing of P L A S T I C: A Clown Opera, the artists will offer time to chat about the work and their creative process.
Pay What You Decide: You reserve your space and pay what you decide following the Work-in-Progress Performance as a social experiment as you decide the value of the art.
