LUSTER
What captures your imagination, catches your breath, gives you tingles?
What can you not take your eyes (ears, fingers, lips) off of?
What if we turned it up?

Mugwumpin joins forces with acclaimed photographer Pak Han to bring your visions of lush beauty to life. Through a series of interactions with Mugwumpin performers, audiences are invited to delve into their appetite for the ravishing and sublime. This discussion inspires the artists to develop impromptu transformations and choreography, which Pak Han channels into a dual portrait of the artist and participant. But this performative manifestation of your beautiful ideal is amped up: more splendid, more plush, more saturated. Between you this and thing of beauty is a pulsating space, vibrating with energy. The performance moment, alive for only a brief time, results in a photographic image that becomes part of an ever-growing mosaic of beauty and grit.

Performers: Stephanie DeMott, Natalie Greene, Michael Mohammed, Maryam Rostami, Michelle Talgarow, Christopher W. White

Photographer: Pak Han // Costumes: Sarah Roland // Sound: Theodore Hulsker // Stage Manager: Katherine Bickford // Costume Assistant: Sig Hafstrom // Asst Stage Manager: Sienna Williams

In Event of Moon Disaster

Excerpts from the final production of "In Event of Moon Disaster," produced by Mugwumpin in association with Z Space and Intersection for the Arts.

January 3 –28, 2018
Z Below

Performer/Creators: Stephanie DeMott, Erin Mei-Ling Stuart, Isa Musni, Nayeli Rodriguez, Soren Santos, and Don Wood

Director: Natalie Greene
Advisor: Michelle Talgarow
Dramaturg: Christine Young

Costume Design: Christine Crook & Alice Ruiz
Lighting Design: Ray Oppenheimer
Sound Design: Teddy Hulsker
Projections Design: Wolfgang Lancelot Wachalovsky
Video Content Design: Darl Andrew Packard
Moonhead Design: Kal Domici - Based on an original design by Soren Santos

Production & Stage Management: Allie Khori
Rehearsal & Assistant Stage Management: Paige Hart
Assistant Stage Management: House
Technical Director: Leighland Hooks
Production Assistant: Rebecca Capper
Alternate Stage Manager: Maria Kosta

Costumes and puppets of the previously shown work a·nam·knee·sis are designed by Christine Crook (http://christinecrook.squarespace.com)