Bryan Reynolds

FRACTALICIOUS!

Transversal Theater Company, Netherlands

Studio

Professor Reynolds: BRYAN REYNOLDS
Kayla: KAYLA EMERSON
Presence: STEPHANIE DRAUDE
Directed by: GUY ZIMMERMAN
Director of film: MICHAEL MOSHE DAHAN
Choreography: KAYLA EMERSON, SHERON WRAY
Producer: OSCAR SEIP
Stage management: ANNIE JENKINS, LAUREN MCCUE
Lighting design: LONNIE ALCARAZ
Scenic design: LUKE CANTARELLA
Costume design: BRYAN REYNOLDS
Sound design, composition: DAVID BACKOVSKY, MARK CASPARY, MATT GLENN
Video Design, special Editing: MARK CASPARY, JOSEPH MELITA
Video Editing: MICHAEL MOSHE DAHAN, JOSEPH MELITA, ERIC RUSS, FABIEN FIEVET, AIMEE MURILLO, KEVIN KLAUBER, MARK CASPARY
Photography, video for publicity: JIM CARMODY, ALEX HOFFMAN, DAVID BACKOVSKY, NADINE JANSSEN
Poster design: KELLY ROBYN MANN
Assistant Lighting Design: STACY MCKENNEY
Production Assistance: FRANK VAN DER STEEN, ANDY BROOMEL, DANIEL KEEGAN, ADAM BRYX, MIGUEL GRILO

Date of the opening: december 05, 2014

Fractalicious! is “intermedial” and “post-dramatic” insofar as it blends media, spaces, consciousnesses, and realities and is presentational, ironic, sincere, and comedic, and features every design aspect working interdependently with comparable value. The performance combines five components, a coalescing pastiche of characters, subject positions, performance modes, and digital technologies: 1) an actor plays a professor’s multiple co-existing sensibilities that cascade in a chaotic unraveling and reorganizing of a stylized, often parodic, lecture; 2)  a dancer occupies multiple subjectivities and affects competing for the space of the professor for whom she is lover, sadist, and symbiotic (they present several overlapping stories); 3) singers sonically punctuate and engage the fracturings of consciousness and subjectivity as they breakdown and renew; 4) videos permute extreme phenomena from neurochemical to astronomical, human to machinic, horrific to beautiful, and so on, comprise, complicate and enhance the landscape; and 5) DJs weave symphonically various sonic lifelines, biorhythmically fusing audience with all performance elements.