DAD ART - PERFORMANCE

 

                                                                DAD ART  PERFORMANCE

 

                                                 A  THREE HOUR COLLAGUED/INTERACTIVE 

                                                                        

                                                    MEDITATION ON LIFE AND DEATH

                                                             LINDA  MARY MONTANO

 

 

STATEMENT: In 1998, I began a video collaboration with my father, Henry Montano. After his stroke, I continued documenting us.

 

This collagued and  interactive experience, DAD ART, is an opportunity for those present to bring creative attention via video/performance/dialogue to the Great Matter, Death.

 

 

COMPONENTS:

 

1.  A full screen video projection of DAD ART, DVD. Length, two hours.

 

2. Montano, singing a song from the 40's, every 20 minutes.

 

3.  A Master of Ceremonies who invites audience members' participation and articulates shamanically , the feeling of the performance.

 

4. Three interactive actions, collaged into the performance and happening simultaneously:

 

      A. An artist/lifeist, sitting at a table, onstage,  handing out glasses of water to audience members who come onstage to receive water.

 

      B. An artist/lifeist, sitting at a table, onstage, writing the spoken words of audience members who dictate a letter to death.

 

      C. One or two artists/lifeists, sitting on a chair onstage,  talking with an audience member about death.

 

 5.  At the end  of the performance,  artists/lifeists from the community will process into the performance space , with sounds, flags, ceremony and will gather the letters to death. They will then lead the audience to an appropriate space outside or inside where the letters will be burned.

 

6. Questions and answers.

 

TECHNOLOGY:

 

1. Video-Sound projector for DVD.

 

2. Mixer, speakers, playback, wireless microphone for  Master of Ceremonies, wireless microphone for Montano. And all other sound equipment as needed. Microphone for musician when present.

 

3. Cd player with auto pause.

 

4. Lights and colored gels for the 3 interactive action sites, Light for the  Master of Ceremonies and light for Montano. 

 And other lighting as needed.

 

BUDGET:

 

1. Transportation for Montano. Per diem. Lodging. Honorarium. Same for Musician when present.

 

2. Video rental.

 

3. Honorarium for performers.

 

CONTACT:

 

LINDAMONTANO@HOTMAIL.COM

 

845-399 -2502,  9-5PM

 

WWW.LINDAMONTANO.COM

 

LINDAMARYMONTANO.BLOGSPOT.COM

 

 SEVEN SONGS  SUNG THROUGHOUT THE PERFORMANCE:  WITH DVD OR MUSICIAN PRESENT

1. MY FUNNY VALENTINE  A MINOR C FLAT

2. TIME ON MY HANDS  B  FLAT

3. DANCING IN THE DARK   A

4. IM IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE  A

5. IVE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN B FLAT

6. I'LL BE SEEING YOU  F

7. THE MAN I LOVE   G

7 SONGS ABOUT THE GLANDS, KEY OF  C