STUDIO LILLETHDirector, Choreographer, Creative Director, Composer, Creative ProducerTheatre, Film, Immersive Experience, Installation, Concert, Opera
TRIPTYCH: EYES OF ONE ON ANOTHER
Photography by Maria Baranova
Created by Composed by Bryce Dessner
Libretto by Korde Arrington Tuttle featuring words by Essex Hemphill & Patti Smith
Directed by Kaneza Schaal
Featuring Roomful of Teeth with special guests Alicia Hall Moran & Isaiah Robinson
Music direction & conducting by Brad Wells
Associate Directed by LILLETH
Set and costume design by Carlos Soto
Lighting design by Yuki Nakase
Video by Simon Harding
Dramaturgy by Talvin Wilks & Christopher Myers
Performed at the LA Philharmonic, Ann Arbor, BAM, Kennedy Center, Big Ears Festival
Produced by ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann in partnership with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Situated somewhere between erotic heat and cool classicism, the work of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe obliterates the high-low divide, exploding classical conceptions of beauty. Fueled by a lifelong fascination with the artist’s transgressive, sacred-profane vision, composer Bryce Dessner (The National), in collaboration with Korde Arrington Tuttle, designer Carlos Soto, video designer Simon Harding, and director Kaneza Schaal (JACK &, 2018 Next Wave), invites us to experience these arresting images anew. Featuring photographic projections and a new score by Dessner—performed by the daring eight-person vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth and a chamber orchestra—Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) examines how we look and are looked at, bringing us face to face with our innermost desires, fears, and humanity.