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Acqua Alta
by Lily Selthofner

Booklet for Acqua Alta, with text that corresponds to the show ~
https://lilyselthofner.com/acqua-alta...

Full text that is excerpted in the show - Lido ~
https://lilyselthofner.com/lido/

Images from the show and visual art instillation ~
https://lilyselthofner.com/acqua-alta...

Piano Music by Rory Bricca ~
   • Piano Improvisations  

Saturday, December 16th and Sunday, December 17th 6:00pm each night

This project was made as a part of the Student Artist in Residence program of the Movement Lab in the Milstein Center of Barnard College

Acqua Alta is an interdisciplinary experimental performance art piece that wades through the waters of Venice, Italy, featuring a cast of eight student performers. Acqua Alta uses live ballet and contemporary dance, with live cello, opera in Italian and English, and spoken word accompaniment, as well as film, text, and visual arts, to bring contingent narrative vignettes into a labyrinth flow. Venice's waters suffuse and lull as a linguistic, corporeal, and reflective motif: mortal and eternal, void and full, mundane and sacred, beautiful and putrid. Desire is mechanized as the decadent pain of acceptance -- surrounded by undrinkable water, yet still finding solace and nourishment in the grandiosity of the everyday. Intimate and oceanic, Acqua Alta winds through Venetian canals, provokingly juxtaposed forms, emotions, and experiments of truth.

Cast:
Acqua Alta
Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Writer: Lily Selthofner
in collaboration with the cast

Dancers:
Adara Allen
Marissa Caldera
Nina Kulkarni
Lynn Wilcox

Dancer and Singer: Maddy Manning-Bi
Dancer and Narrator: Moksha Akil
Cellist and Guitarist: Daniel Weitz
Narrator: Eric Butler
Composer and Pianist: Rory Bricca
Composer and Musician: Jane Meenaghan
Singer and Musician: Makae Brieschke

Lighting:
Isabelle Cowen
Sophia Ling

Costuming: Lily Selthofner, Adara Allen, Barnard Costume Closet

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Venezia Scalzo film credits
Director, Dancer, Poet, Voice, Editor:
Lily Selthofner

Cinematographer: Anna Kasun
Composer and Pianist: Rory Bricca
Makae Brieshke - Vocal Composer and Singer
Special Thanks to Elizabeth Leake