Thursday, September 15, 2016

Bliss

THE FLEA THEATER 
presents 
BLACK MOON THEATRE COMPANY’S
BLISS
based on THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD


Director: Rene Migliaccio
Text Adaptation: Alessio Bordoni
Performer: Alessio Bordoni
Dancer: Charlotte Colmant
Music: Amaury Groc
Artwork: Estella Dupree
Lighting Design: Cindy Shumsey
Choreography: Charlotte Colmant and Rene Migliaccio
Consultant Choreographer: Eric Pettigrew
Assistant Director of Production: Isabella Schiller

The Flea Theater
41 White Street in TriBeCa, 3 blocks below Canal Street between Broadway and Church Street
Call 212-352-3101 or visit http://www.theflea.org
Tickets can be found at
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/961264 for $20-$30.
September 8 – 25, 2016

Black Moon Theatre Company presents BLISS based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead at The Flea which embodies adventurous theatre Off-Off Broadway. In this new multi-disciplinary production, Artistic Director Rene Migliaccio staged the story through dance, voice, visual projections, and music.

Bliss follows a man’s cycle of life based on the theory of reincarnation performed by Alessio Bordoni. The journey began when he became conscious during the interval between death and rebirth. He was shadowed by a Butoh dancer, Charlotte Colmant, who represented his supra consciousness on the path of liberation from his former body so that he could successfully enter a new body. Between death and rebirth, as the man was striving to awaken to a Higher Consciousness, he experienced a wide spectrum of moods from dark to ethereal. Pictorial screen projections, in front of the performer and dancer, symbolized the various stages of his journey. Music accompanied the actor as he recited his journey. Altogether, this visual and poetic dance odyssey served as an allegorical guide for the living— when all of us will one day cross to the other side of the veil continuing the cycle of reincarnation.

Bliss was written, produced, directed, and performed with the spirit of adventure and is for like-minded audience members and those with open minds.

- Laura Thompson -