PRESS KIT CELLISTA’S ÉLÉGIE
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Artwork by Joseph Loughborough. Cover design by Ryan Calloway.
Élégie
a stage poem about serenity
Directed and performed by Cellista
A one-woman show for cello, static trapeze, and cinema.
Choreographed by Cellista, Kennedy Kabasares, & Joel Baker
Film editing by Jennifer Gigantino, cinematography by Bryan Gibel
A one-hour stage poem starring Cellista as Élégie, a blackbird who shape shifts into human form and back.
Élégie awakens one day in her magical tree outside the walled off city of Cloture to find its entire population has disappeared. In their departure, the citizens have left behind a city of altars, decorated with unlit candles; each containing the memories and mementos of the banished citizens. Élégie SHAPE SHIFTS INTO HUMAN FORM TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO CLOTURE’S DISAPPEARED. IN HER JOURNEY SHE FINDS SERENITY.
“Watching Cellista find new relationships with the instrument she has already spent so much time with has been inspiring to me as a director. It takes patience and courage to change patterns we are used to performing with. Cellista is brave enough to connect elements that you would not expect to be seen together.”
“Cellista is a unique artist. She pools her diverse talents together to combine into a captivating whole. From music to circus to visual art and the crafted word, Élégie is a full package experience, a feast for the audience.”
—Elsie Smith, founder of NECCA, Nimble Arts and Gemini Trapeze
Photos by Temira Decay/Yellow Bubbles Photography 2023
Upcoming presentations:
January 25th, 2024 - NECCA
Cellista presents a workshop recital of excerpts from Élégie
7:30pm Tickets: $10-15
74 Cotton Mill Hill A-330 Main Mill & A-354 Brattleboro, VT 05301 (check in at studio A-330)
https://www.necenterforcircusarts.org/about/cellista-solo-show-excerpts/
March 23rd, 2024 - Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts
Cellista debuts Élégie
Prologue by: The Drood
Dustin Schultz (Skinny Puppy) and Hilary Whitmore
7:30pm Tickets: $10-15
https://thedairy.org/event/cellistas-elegie/
April 13th, 2024 - San Jose’s Anno Domini Gallery
Élégie
Cellista live loop set followed by Élégie
7:30pm open to public
April 27th, 2024 - Santa Monica’s Highways Performance Space
Élégie
Prologue performance: Ron Athey, Hilary Whitmore, Christos Tejada, The Zero Collective
7:30pm Tickets $15-20
https://www.highwaysperformance.org/shows
June 7th, 2024 - Jacksons Lane in London
Élégie
Prologue by Hilary Whitmore, Dead Voices on Air; DADU