CultureHub: Balls
Presented by CultureHub
On a foggy night in a cemetery, the waves have washed away the land, claiming all the graves except for two. From these graves, two unlikely companions’ voices emerge amidst the sounds of a military march, a player piano, and the sea. They battle with their pasts and contend with what looms just beyond.
The action of the original production of Balls, written by Paul Foster in 1964, consisted of two ping pong balls floating and swaying like pendulums in and out of a spotlight. Re-imagined in 2019 by CultureHub and the Great Jones Repertory Company, audience members will be laid to rest in their own geodesic dome as an audio-visual installation washes over them.
Balls is part of an initiative between CultureHub and La MaMa to explore works from the La MaMa Archive and re-discover them in a new media context.
The immersive play experience will take approximately 45 minutes and can accommodate two audience members per showing.
ABOUT CULTUREHUB
CultureHub was founded in 2009 in partnership with the Seoul Institute of the Arts in Korea and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City to serve the global arts and technology community by offering services such as livestreaming, telepresence, and video and projection design. We connect artists from diverse disciplines and cultures and provide them with environments in which to collaborate, experiment, explore and advance the work of artists experimenting with emerging technologies and fostering new artistic forms.
CultureHub pushes the boundaries of artistic collaboration and experimentation as an incubator for creativity focused on the intersection of art and technology. We serve local and global communities by providing an open space for creative research, artistic exchange and learning.
Paul Foster – Writer
Arthur Adair – Director
Billy Clark – Creative Producing and Set Design
John King – Sound Design
Oren Shoham – Creative Coding
Sangmin Chae – Creative Technologist
DeAndra Anthony – Technical Director
Mattie McMaster – Project Manager
RECORDED VOICES
Jon DeVries, Charley Hayward, Onni Johnson, Chris Wild, Sara Galassini, John Gutierrez, Valois Mickens, and Yuna Clark
CultureHub
CultureHub pushes the boundaries of artistic collaboration and experimentation as an incubator for creativity focused on the intersection of art and technology. We serve local and global communities by providing an open space for creative research, artistic exchange and learning.
Great Jones Repertory Company
La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company (GJRC) is an intergenerational ensemble of diverse artists, pioneering new forms of storytelling through radical physicality, voice, and movement.