Troika Ranch Presents: Future of Memory
Friday April 4th - 8PM - FREE!
Brown University - Providence, RI

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"[Stoppiello's] style is energetic but relaxed, with soft feet and open hands, and snippets of ballet vocabulary with high-octane kicks, leaps, and lunges alternating with more descriptive verses of reflexive or functional movement"
– Dance Insider

"A fascinating fusion of movement, music, text, video, costumes and lighting...a surreal world of vivid memories that became blurred, distorted, dramatized or destroyed."
– Cleveland Plain Dealer

Troika Ranch's innovative combination of dance, theater,original music and interactive digital media has led to their being dubbed "Interactive Performance Pioneers" by the New York Times and "Multimedia Mavericks" by the Village Voice. (Click for online reviews.)

The new work, Future of Memory, explores how memories are created, stored, romanticized, repressed and lost. Floating in a chaotic and cacaphonus world of movement, video and sound, the works four characters swirl in and out of reality as they attempt to regain the memories that define who they are. They are haunted by video segments, recorded live by onstage cameras, that return again and again, but become fuzzier and more distorted as time passes.

The piece features live music performed by a violin, 'cello, and marimba trio in tandem with interactive electronic music generated directly by the movements of the dancers.

We hope that you will join us for the premiere of our newest creation.

Future of Memory
Brown University
April 4th, 2003 @ 8PM

Stuart Theater
77 Waterman Street
Providence, RI
Admission is Free.

Click for directions to Stuart Theater

Online Reviews of Troika Ranch by Dance Insider and The Village Voice

"…lush soundscapes with eddies and funnel clouds of physicality… a fantasia of imagined physics — chimerical, alchemical gigabytes."
                    –Dance Insider (read the entire review)

"Stoppiello is a wonderful dancer, moving with excitement and coolness in this solo."
                   –Dance Insider (read the entire review)

"Multimedia mavericks Troika Ranch have created an oxymoron: warm, glowy conceptual art. The movement of the dancers, who are wired to a computer, releases both music (insect swarms, quasi- Gregorian chants, a splatter of rain) and a beautiful idea—that whole cities of sound are immanent in the air, and human motion makes them visible."
                 —Village Voice (read the entire review)

""Interactive webs of sound and video that tinker with our perceptions"
                 —Village Voice (read the entire review)