Composer Paola Prestini’s Houses of Zodiac: Poems for Cello will have its world premiere performances as a live theatrical production at Zipper Hall at the Colburn School, presented by The Broad museum in Los Angeles on June 4 and 5. In conjunction with The Broad’s special exhibition, Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, this collaboration between composer Paola Prestini, cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, Sankai Juku dancer Dai Matsuoka, New York City Ballet dancer Georgina Pazcoguin, and filmmaker Murat Eyuboglu explore the intersection of mind, body, and nature—themes mirrored in the recent artwork of Takashi Murakami which express his interests in spirituality and ecological and manmade disasters. Murakami elucidates these issues by imitating traditional Japanese painting styles which he imbues with alternative contemporary truths.
. Houses of Zodiac is a series of cello solos, dance, lush filmic visuals, and poetic interludes by Pablo Neruda, Anaïs Nin, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Natasha Tretheway underscored by Zeigler along with musicians such as Nels Cline and Tanya Tagaq.
Filmed at MASS MoCA and Studio Polygons in Tokyo, Japan, it features the performances and original choreography of Pazcoguin and Matsuoka, who will also perform live during the June concerts, with lighting by Bruce Steinberg.
Says Prestini of the work: “Houses of Zodiac is imbued with my greatest passions: poetry, movement, collaboration, and deep muse-like bonds with the artists featured, a ‘family project’ of sorts. It is also a product of how we worked during the pandemic, across oceans but still connecting in deep and new ways.”
Tickets to the program on June 4 at 8:30 p.m. and June 5 at 2:00 p.m. are $30 and will include access to the ticketed special exhibition Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow between June 1 and June 12, 2022 during the museum’s operating hours, as well as general admission to The Broad’s third floor galleries, which feature a frequently changing selection of works from the Broad collection, one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art. Visitors will be asked to present their Houses of Zodiac tickets at the main entrance of The Broad.
Following the event, an iteration of the film that appears in Houses of Zodiac will be screened monthly on the second Saturday throughout the run of the Murakami exhibition and will be free to museum visitors. Screenings will be presented in Oculus Hall at The Broad on June 11, July 9, August 13, and September 10 . The multi-disciplinary production of Houses of Zodiac will also be presented by Choregus Productions in Tulsa in June following The Broad premiere.
Composer Paola Prestini’s Houses of Zodiac: Poems for Cello will have its world premiere performances as a live theatrical production at Zipper Hall at the Colburn School, presented by The Broad museum in Los Angeles on June 4 and 5. In conjunction with The Broad’s special exhibition, Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, this collaboration between composer Paola Prestini, cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, Sankai Juku dancer Dai Matsuoka, New York City Ballet dancer Georgina Pazcoguin, and filmmaker Murat Eyuboglu explore the intersection of mind, body, and nature—themes mirrored in the recent artwork of Takashi Murakami which express his interests in spirituality and ecological and manmade disasters. Murakami elucidates these issues by imitating traditional Japanese painting styles which he imbues with alternative contemporary truths.
. Houses of Zodiac is a series of cello solos, dance, lush filmic visuals, and poetic interludes by Pablo Neruda, Anaïs Nin, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Natasha Tretheway underscored by Zeigler along with musicians such as Nels Cline and Tanya Tagaq.
Filmed at MASS MoCA and Studio Polygons in Tokyo, Japan, it features the performances and original choreography of Pazcoguin and Matsuoka, who will also perform live during the June concerts, with lighting by Bruce Steinberg.
Says Prestini of the work: “Houses of Zodiac is imbued with my greatest passions: poetry, movement, collaboration, and deep muse-like bonds with the artists featured, a ‘family project’ of sorts. It is also a product of how we worked during the pandemic, across oceans but still connecting in deep and new ways.”
Tickets to the program on June 4 at 8:30 p.m. and June 5 at 2:00 p.m. are $30 and will include access to the ticketed special exhibition Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow between June 1 and June 12, 2022 during the museum’s operating hours, as well as general admission to The Broad’s third floor galleries, which feature a frequently changing selection of works from the Broad collection, one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art. Visitors will be asked to present their Houses of Zodiac tickets at the main entrance of The Broad.
Following the event, an iteration of the film that appears in Houses of Zodiac will be screened monthly on the second Saturday throughout the run of the Murakami exhibition and will be free to museum visitors. Screenings will be presented in Oculus Hall at The Broad on June 11, July 9, August 13, and September 10 . The multi-disciplinary production of Houses of Zodiac will also be presented by Choregus Productions in Tulsa in June following The Broad premiere.
Composer Paola Prestini’s Houses of Zodiac: Poems for Cello will have its world premiere performances as a live theatrical production at Zipper Hall at the Colburn School, presented by The Broad museum in Los Angeles on June 4 and 5. In conjunction with The Broad’s special exhibition, Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, this collaboration between composer Paola Prestini, cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, Sankai Juku dancer Dai Matsuoka, New York City Ballet dancer Georgina Pazcoguin, and filmmaker Murat Eyuboglu explore the intersection of mind, body, and nature—themes mirrored in the recent artwork of Takashi Murakami which express his interests in spirituality and ecological and manmade disasters. Murakami elucidates these issues by imitating traditional Japanese painting styles which he imbues with alternative contemporary truths.
. Houses of Zodiac is a series of cello solos, dance, lush filmic visuals, and poetic interludes by Pablo Neruda, Anaïs Nin, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Natasha Tretheway underscored by Zeigler along with musicians such as Nels Cline and Tanya Tagaq.
Filmed at MASS MoCA and Studio Polygons in Tokyo, Japan, it features the performances and original choreography of Pazcoguin and Matsuoka, who will also perform live during the June concerts, with lighting by Bruce Steinberg.
Says Prestini of the work: “Houses of Zodiac is imbued with my greatest passions: poetry, movement, collaboration, and deep muse-like bonds with the artists featured, a ‘family project’ of sorts. It is also a product of how we worked during the pandemic, across oceans but still connecting in deep and new ways.”
Tickets to the program on June 4 at 8:30 p.m. and June 5 at 2:00 p.m. are $30 and will include access to the ticketed special exhibition Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow between June 1 and June 12, 2022 during the museum’s operating hours, as well as general admission to The Broad’s third floor galleries, which feature a frequently changing selection of works from the Broad collection, one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art. Visitors will be asked to present their Houses of Zodiac tickets at the main entrance of The Broad.
Following the event, an iteration of the film that appears in Houses of Zodiac will be screened monthly on the second Saturday throughout the run of the Murakami exhibition and will be free to museum visitors. Screenings will be presented in Oculus Hall at The Broad on June 11, July 9, August 13, and September 10 . The multi-disciplinary production of Houses of Zodiac will also be presented by Choregus Productions in Tulsa in June following The Broad premiere.
