Collection: Project: BREAKING THE RULES TO CADENCE ZERO - Painted Opera

The story:

We are in a world of imagination, a place of para-normality. A joyful, colorful, and enthusiastic spirit invades the atmosphere. To enter this kingdom of happiness, you must first acknowledge the Immersive Purification Fairy. Once cleared, you will enter a universe of rejoicing. The abundance of enchanting uplifting phenomenons makes you lose track of time, track of the real world, you are now immersed and transported into a world of imagination made real.

The Concept:

A multidiscipline artistic, nonbinary, free expression, and an immersive experience with contemporary high-tech capabilities such as: 

• 3D Modeling/Rendering
• Virtual Reality
• 360 Degree Tour
• Live Video 
• Visuals w/3D Chromadepth Effects
• Visuals with Glow-in-the-Dark Paint 

The world of Breaking The Rules To Cadence Zero is an invitation to the viewer to disconnect to reconnect.
To reduce the speed of time, to reduce the cadence of life, to acknowledge, pause and enjoy the work of ART before our eyes, body & mind.
Calling for intentional subtitle awkwardness in the composition, by placing characters in contrast to each other, entangling them, identifying them using human hierarchy, and enlarging cropped portraits to emphasize the viewers' overall curiosity, attract their attention and enthusiasm, and then bring him/her/them to pause! As if hypnotized by all the effects at once.
Created to bring enchantment with its 6 long visuals, painted with the chromatic palette for a natural 3-dimensional depth effect, its oversized sculptures, live performances, and musical arrangements at the beach. A true immersive trip into a fantasy world.
The friendly forms, the warm palette, the joyful colors, the 3-dimensional chromatic depth, the number of brush strokes, the length of the visuals, and the multitude of happy characters in a combination of the enchanting music, vocals, and live performance transport the viewer from one painting to the other to an immersive experience where they pause and reflect and perhaps wonder:
Why? What is the meaning, and why do all this work?
The answer to that is very simple: it is to pause and enjoy what is around us just because we can.

The Works:

The paintings:
18 feet long each, printed on metal and installed at 90 cm above (3 feet above the stage floor) held and affixed to a multitude of coral reefs coming off the sand as if they emerged from underground, made with reflective aluminum material. This will provide a total of 109 feet long (5 feet high) hand-painted visual divided into 6 panels.

Choreography & Music arrangements
The dancers will perform on stage the following: live performances, each 60 sec long, following the same musical rhythm. The musical arrangement will be an upbeat remix of world music genres to carry on the choreography:
Classical Ballet - Flamenco - Belly Dancing - Tango - Asian Fusion and others up to 12 videos to match the number of TV screens on stage.
The live and recorded performances are identical. The recorded ones will be rearranged in slow motion to emphasize the “PAS” itself in coordination with the performers' breath rhythm. To show what it takes to become a pro-dancer call on the viewer to acknowledge what it takes to follow your passion, and your dreams. Hoping the viewer will be encouraged to do the same, to follow their dreams, and not fear what it takes to become who you are meant to be. 

The Recorded Performances:
Will be displayed on a double-sided free-standing verticle TV screen, secured in a metallic frame, and placed on stage in a circular fashion like the hours of a clock, to add another magical layer to the spectacle.

The sculptures:
The sculptures, 7 in total, are in part in resin and metal, free-standing, they represent oversized characters pulled out from the large paintings to create a new dimension.

The set:
Inspired by a snow globe, the set is circular (15 meters / 50 feet in diameter) and elevated from the ground at 4 feet to create a majestic dimension to the stage when lit. With an open top (no ceiling) closer to the sky in a sense and also to be seen from far. ( It is great to be filmed with a drone at all angles)

Artist Statement: