IDIOT is a hybrid live art-work in response to Dostoevsky’s The Idiot which I developed with Robert Lyons. This wholly new work incorporates original text, live cinematography, gestural choreography, and contemporary music. Our central character, Myshkin, is a “completely beautiful soul” whose brief glimpses of spiritual wonder suggest a transparent, guileless way to live in a corrupt world. Our immersive staging implicates the audience as part of a society more concerned with wealth and power than simple decency and spiritual epiphanies.
Developed at NACL, Catskills and New Ohio, NYC. Premiered in May 2016 at HERE.
Blog here.
“Director and choreographer Kristin Marting masterfully coordinates everything into a spectacle with sensational movement and dance.” – Theaterscene.net
Photos by Carl Skutsch
Kristin Marting 