Reminder: The Barnes exhibit will open at 7:00pm for patrons attending My Soul's Shadow
Please note: Tickets are available the night of this event, cash only. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
An immersive and surreal audio-visual experience, the performance extracts material from the life and writings of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca to create a hybrid theatrical-cinematic performance where silhouette and shadow blend with an installation-style set to allow the audience to explore to their curiosity’s contentment.
These performances include access to the Barnes Foundation's major exhibition, Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change, on view from February 21 through May 9, 2016.
7pm - 10pm Barnes Collection Access included for all Patrons
7pm - 8pm My Soul's Shadow Pre-Show Installation
8pm - 8:45pm My Soul's Shadow Performance
8:45pm - 9:30pm My Soul's Shadow Post-Show Installation
Manual Cinema's My Soul's Shadow is a cinematic shadow puppet installation based on the poetry of Federico García Lorca. The shadow projections are created using six overhead projectors, five puppeteers, two screens, and dozens of handmade paper shadow puppets. Original music by Kyle Vegter is performed live by a chamber ensemble. The installation includes the text of the poems that are turned into moving images in the performance.
My Soul's Shadow loosely adapts imagery, themes, and characters from Lorca's poetry, dividing his body of work into three acts. The first act is based on poems Lorca wrote early in his career in Granada and Madrid; many of these poems take inspiration from Spanish folk tradition, and are steeped in nature imagery, as well as portraits of Granada's gypsy community. The second act is based on poems Lorca wrote while visiting New York City, and the third is based on The Divan Tamarit, which Lorca wrote near the end of his life, and which takes inspiration from the Arab-Andalusian poetic tradition. The performance of My Soul's Shadow is bookended by the character of Lorca himself, and is based on biographical details of his life, including his ultimate imprisonment and assassination at the hands of Nationalist militia in the early days of the Spanish Civil War.