Karen O's 'Stop the Virgens' continues @ St. Ann's (trailer), Creators Project this weekend (set times)
“Karen O’s “Stop the Virgens” psycho opera blew my mind last night!Seriously the best piece of musical art that I’ve seen in ages.I LOVED it!” – Santigold
Karen O & friends @ St. Ann’s (photo by joshmorrissey)
“The costume, hair and makeup tell the story just as much as the music and choreography do,” Karen O explained days before tonight’s opening of her much-anticipated psycho-opera, “Stop the Virgens.” “The symbolic evolution of what happens to the characters is witnessed through their physical transformations.”
To help bring her vision to life, Karen enlisted what she calls her “glam squad”: the costume designer Christiane Hultquist (a k a Christian Joy) and the makeup artist Mike Potter. “Mike is a phenomenon. I envy his impeccable taste as a lover of beauty off the beaten path,” Karen said. “Christiane is an artist before a designer. She’s a visionary, and her costumes look amazing onstage.” The trio’s longstanding relationship — they’ve spent more than a decade taking creative risks together, onstage and off — is rooted in tacit understanding and concrete trust. “The way I work with Christiane and Mike is to mostly let them do what they want. It works best that way.” -[New York Times]
Karen O‘s Stop the Virgens debuted on Wednesday night at St. Ann’s Warehouse and continues tonight until October 22. Tickets are still available. Trailer below.
Saturday’s performance is also part of The Creators Project, which will also feature performances from Justice, Florence & The Machine, Company Flow, the newly-signed A$AP Rocky with Clams Casino, Four Tet, and many many others in addition to art installations at multiple locations in DUMBO. Unfortunately, the RSVP is closed and some people have been getting emails that dis-invite them…. oof.
If you do have a ticket or plan on sneaking in, check out the set times and more event details and event videos, below…
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THE CREATORS PROJECT 2011
Dates and Times
Saturday, October 15th; 12-10 PM
Sunday, October 16th; 12-8 PM
Saturday, October 15th
ARCHWAY
2:00 PM: Queen Sea Big Shark
3:15 PM: Chairlift
4:45 PM: A$AP Rocky + Clams Casino
6:00 PM: Four Tet
7:45 PM: Florence + the Machine
· with DJ sets from Nic Thorburn from Islands and The Golden Filter
TOBACCO WAREHOUSE
2:00 PM: Emicida
2:50 PM: Teen Daze
3:50 PM: John Maus
5:15 PM: Yuksek
6:30 PM: Atlas Sound
7:45 PM: Company Flow
8:45 PM: Justice (DJ set)
· with DJ sets from DJ Ravves and XXXChange
55 WASHINGTON
3-4 PM: Chris Keating (Yeasayer)
4:30-8 PM: Nosaj Thing + Ikonika and Koreless
8-10 PM: Girl Unit
10 PM-1 AM: Juan MacLean DJ set
Saturday, October 15-Sunday, October 16
10 JAY STREET
Life on Mars Revisited
by David Bowie, Mick Rock and Barney Clay
TOBACCO WAREHOUSE
Origin (Open October 12-23)
by United Visual Artists with score by composer Scanner
56 WATER STREET
A Physical Manifestation of Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space
by Jonathan Glazer and J. Spaceman with Undisclosable and One of Us
81 FRONT STREET
Strata #4
by Quayola
Meditation
by Minha Yang
Jumbletron
by Animal Collective and Black Dice
Freefall Highscore
by Antagonistic Applications
55 WASHINGTON STREET
R&Dazzle
by SOFTlab
Six-Forty by Four-Eighty
by Zigelbaum + Coelho
Super Pong
by SuperUber
DisKinect
by Team DisKinect
POWERHOUSE
Urbanus Female
by U-Ram Choe
30 WASHINGTON STREET
Soil
by Cantoni & Crescenti
POWERHOUSE
Saturday, October 15th
12:30 PM
Life in a Day
by Kevin Macdonald
2 PM
Scenes from the Suburbs
by Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire
2:30 PM
Night Fishing
by PARKing CHANce (PARK Chan-wook and PARK Chan-Kyong)
3 PM
The Art of Flight
by Curt Morgan (Brain Farm)
4:20 PM
Selected shorts
by Factory Fifteen
5 PM
On My Way Back Home
by Band of Horses
5:30 PM
Follow Follow
by Peng Lei
6:45 PM
Selected shorts
by Edouard Salier
7 PM
Night Fishing
by PARKing CHANce (PARK Chan-wook and PARK Chan-Kyong)
7:30 PM
Scenes from the Suburbs
by Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire
Sunday, October 16th
12 PM
Follow Follow
by Peng Lei
2:30 PM
Selected shorts
by Factory Fifteen
4 PM
Night Fishing
by PARKing CHANce (PARK Chan-wook and PARK Chan-Kyong)
4:30 PM
On My Way Back Home
by Band of Horses
5 PM
The Art of Flight
by Curt Morgan (Brain Farm)
6:30 PM
Scenes from the Suburbs
by Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire
POWERHOUSE
Sunday, October 16th
1:30 PM
In Between Worlds: The future of virtual reality, public space and architecture
with United Visual Artists, Undisclosable, SOFTlab and Factory Fifteen
3 PM
The Artist as Researcher
with Zach Lieberman, Cantoni + Crescenti, Quayola and Intel
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