Feb 2, 2024
In Chinese, the word for university (大学) translates literally as “Great Learning.” For composer Lei Liang (prof. at UC San Diego), composing at a university means one has the ability to collaborate with and learn from other scholars in vastly different disciplines. The work of Huang Binhong (1865-1955) served as...
Nov 25, 2023
How can we collaborate with the environment around us as theater-makers? What is the relationship between “process” and “product”? How can we see beyond the goal of a project to understand and honor its surprising reverberations outside the so-called “actual project”? Dramaturg Allyssa Schmidt and...
Oct 1, 2023
Visual artist Peter London grew up in Brooklyn NY, which perhaps makes him a city kid. But for his entire life, he has been obsessed with escaping the limitations of cities and human perception, seeking insights not from other humans, but from the natural world. He sees the cosmos as the ultimate teacher for all of us....
Sep 1, 2023
feat. Kurt Rohde (musician/composer), Dana Spiotta (writer), and Marie Lorenz (artist)
Why write a normal opera when you can write one for an outdoor performance on top of a polluted urban creek? Is it simple? No. Is it worth it? Absolutely. The creators of Newtown Odyssey, an actual floating opera, ask us to get our...
Aug 11, 2023
What's to come in Season 2 of RMN:
Newtown Odyssey opera
Kurt Rohde, composer/musician
Dana Spiotta, writer
Marie Lorenz, artist
Lei Liang, composer
Chromic Duo (Lucy Yao, Dorothy Chan)
Alyssa Schmidt (dramaturgy) & Alli Ross (movement)
Peter London, visual...