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Kristin Marting

English - Hybrid Performance, Directing, Theatre
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Kristin Marting · 7M ago

Hello world!

I am a director of hybrid work based in NYC.  Over the last 20 years, I have created 26 works for the stage, including 11 original hybrid works, 8 adaptations of novels & short stories and 7 classic plays. I make theatre because it forges community. I seek to create immediate, substantive work that
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Kristin Marting · 2Y ago

Happiness- Think Tank May 4th

On May 4th  we gathered to discuss Happiness.  25 People joined together in the Here rehearsal space to delve into Happiness.  We had a lively and engaged conversation, we spoke of personal connections and national ideals, happiness as a product or a process.  Over the next week we will post transcr
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Kristin Marting · 2Y ago

LUSH VALLEY

An interactive live art event, LUSH VALLEY is hatched by a creative artistic team and shaped nightly by an ever-expanding community of you. LUSH VALLEY invites audience members to abandon their spectator hats and become key players in shaping an alternative national ethos through real-time video int
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Kristin Marting · 2Y ago

SOUNDING

A rock star swims for her life. A past resurfaces. Rock goddess Leda feels it coming, from deep down, from the ocean.  It won’t bow to her grief.  Hear it?  Lust, longing, life, chaos.  The music.  The Stranger.  SOUNDING is a new cross-disciplinary production for seven characters that pays homage t
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Kristin Marting · 2Y ago

THE POSSESSED

1991 After spending a year adapting Dostoevsky’s epic novel, THE POSSESSED, with my collaborator Robert Lyons, I began rehearsal with a 14 person cast. About a week into rehearsal when we began the process of taking exploratory work and translating it into staging, I began to instinctually feel the
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Kristin Marting · 2Y ago

MAD SHADOWS

1997. My dance-theatre adaptation of Canadian novelist Marie Claire Blais’ first work, MAD SHADOWS, was centered on an intelligent but ugly girl’s relationship with her hatefully vain and shallow family and her attempt to create her own better family.  I had been exploring using a gestural vocabular
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Kristin Marting · 2Y ago

DISPOSABLE MEN

2005. Although I had worked with media before, I first began deeply integrating media on DISPOSABLE MEN, a solo work by James Scruggs about the representation of African-American men in our culture. We used original, found, and live feed video projected onto cylindrical, fabric and flat screens as w
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Kristin Marting · 2Y ago

ORPHEUS

2004. This is an image from ORPHEUS, a music theatre show that  I directed a few years ago. ORPHEUS was a true hybrid collaboration of music, text, dance, and media. It was co-conceived by myself, the set designer and lighting designer. Once we created the concept and outline, we invited the other c
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Kristin Marting · 2Y ago

(RUS)H

2008. Here is an image from (RUS)H, a multimedia show I directed by James Scruggs at 3LD (while HERE was being renovated). Pictured is Lathrop Walker, Marc Bovino, Luis Vega and Dax Valdes.  (the goofy oval cropping is cause I snagged the image off the HERE site) With (RUS)H, we were wrestling with
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Kristin Marting · 2Y ago

Hello world!

Welcome to my blog.
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