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“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”. – The Village Voice, Apollinaire Sherr

Reine Rien

(2001 - Williamsburg Art Nexus (WAX), NYC)
Choreography & Direction: Dawn Stoppiello in collaboration with the performers
Videography, Music & Direction: Mark Coniglio
Lighting Design: Susan Hamburger
Costume Design: Akiko Sato

Performers: Danielle Goldman, Lisa Herlinger-Thompson, Michou Szabo and Sandra Tillett.

Commissioning Partners: Puffin Foundation, NYFA – NYARF

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Reine Rien is an abstract, conceptual work inspired by the meditative aspects of the expansive flatlands and distant horizons of the American Midwest. The name comes from the juxtaposition of two French words that, literally translated, read as “Queen Nothing”, and was created using a method where the choreographer had no specific intention but instead trusted that through the artistic process, a subconscious knowledge would reveal itself.