





Interior Opera
In collaboration with Laura Miller and dancers from the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater
A fanboy's enthusiasm and a strict Catholic upbringing inform this performance and installation chronicling the life and death of Superman. Inside a swirling vortex of white gauze, Superman travels through space in a thick bulge of icy plastic as dancers zip through the fabric, interpreting the perilous journey to earth. Superman is then cut from his plastic casing and left alone in front of an audience in an ill-fitting, child-sized costume, singing the Kyrie.
Liquid gelatin had been poured in several spots on the floor earlier in the day, and by performance time it was drying solid, loudly snapping as it peeled from the floor. The gelatins pulled the grime that had been ground into the wood grain for years as well as recorded the footprints of the audience members as they walked around the vortex.
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Liquid gelatin had been poured in several spots on the floor earlier in the day, and by performance time it was drying solid, loudly snapping as it peeled from the floor. The gelatins pulled the grime that had been ground into the wood grain for years as well as recorded the footprints of the audience members as they walked around the vortex.