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Assembled Identity

Twin sisters discover they are clones and embark on an unexpected journey, confronting their own authenticity. Exploring ethnic ambiguity, race, genetics and eugenics, this electrifying duet uses original and found text, live cinematography, and contemporary music to explore the science of identity formation and who has the authority to define it. Collaboratively developed with Mariana Newhard and Purva Bedi. 2018 premiere at HERE.

Blog here.

“A marvelous piece of craft, using all the tools of modern theater in supple and inventive ways.” – Exeunt NYC

Photos by Paula Court

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Silent Voices

I co-created and directed Silent Voices with Dianne Berkun-Menaker and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.  It was a year long series dealing with race, gender and class. We performed multimedia concert previews at National Sawdust and FIAF (as part of Prototype festival) and premiered the full work at BAM in the Opera House.

Composers included Jeff Beal, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Paul Miller (DJ Spooky), Nico Muhly, Shara Nova, Toshi Reagon, Kamala Sankaram, and Caroline Shaw. Writers included Michelle Alexander, Patricia Bell-Scott, Pauli Murray, Claudia Rankine, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Savile, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus members.

“A fully staged multi-media work, developed and directed by Kristin Marting, to counteract how choruses are often seen as impersonal and in the background. Visuals had a major impact on the emotionally charged piece. “ – Classical Voice North America

Photos by Julienne Schaer and Kathryn Tornelli

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Bombay Rickey

BOMBAY RICKEY is a  super fun opera cabaret about Peruvian songbird Yma Sumac that I directed for the Prototype festival. Called “the future of music” (New York Music Daily), Bombay Rickey is a five-piece, Brooklyn-based band with a unique sound evocative of 1960s movie soundscapes. The group plays both covers and original music that borrow equally from the worlds of surf rock, cumbia, spaghetti Western, and Bollywood, balanced out with a “little” coloratura soprano.

“A true treat for the adventurous”  – Time Out NY

Photos by Cory Weaver.

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IDIOT

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

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TRADE PRACTICES

In September 2014, historic building on Governors Island was transformed into a living market in this immersive site-specific event. After a breezy ferry ride, the audience entered a fun and interactive world of booms and busts, as they followed a fictional currency company’s evolution from family business to publicly-traded corporation. Cash in hand, the audience chose how to invest their time and money.

TRADE PRACTICES was created  by director Kristin Marting, and designer David Evans Morris (along with writers Erin Courtney, Eisa Davis, Robert Lyons, Qui Nguyen, KJ Sanchez, and Chris Wells and designers Liz Bourgeois, Jared Mezzocchi, Natalie Robin, Jane Shaw, and Gil Sperling). Performers were Jennifer Diaz, Daphne Gaines, Megan Hart, Brooke Ishibashi, Mike Iveson, Daniel Kublick, Pete McCabe, Mariana Newhard, Mary Rasmussen, and Dax Valdes. The show premiered on August 31, 2014.

Check out our blog here.

“While theatre often provides a platform that encourages an audience to ask themselves difficult questions, this production goes beyond that and asks their audiences to consider what they value in life, and act on those beliefs.” – New York Theatre Review

Photos by Carl Skutsch

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SOUNDING

A rock star swims for her life. A past resurfaces.

Rock goddess Leda feels it coming, from deep down, from the ocean.  It won’t bow to her grief.  Hear it?  Lust, longing, life, chaos.  The music.  The Stranger.  SOUNDING is a new cross-disciplinary production for seven characters that pays homage to Ibsen’s LADY FROM THE SEA. Live cinema surges onto stage in this multi-media play set to an original soundtrack inspired by Patti Smith, Bartok and Portishead. Written by Jennifer Gibbs and directed by Kristin Marting. Featuring Okwui Okpokwasili. February-March 2010.

Our blog:   http://soundingproject.wordpress.com

 “With its visual and aural onslaught, SOUNDING is a feast for the senses…Marting’s masterful production is punctuated by gorgeous pop-rock interludes…Okpokwasili mesmerizes us with her smoky voice and stunning presence.”  – TimeOut New York

Photos by Carl Skutsch