Future Port (2025)
an intermedia performance
for bass flute, bassoon, piano, cello, double bass, dance, voice, electronics and video
February 22, 2025 | 8:00pm | Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater (MEIT), UNT
Text, music and video by Alvin Leung
Choreography by Kelsey Wildman-Stokes
Featured performers:
Anne Dearth Maker, bass flute
Victoria Donaldson, bassoon
Agustín Alonso, piano
Colin Stokes, cello
Kory Reeder, double bass
Kelsey Wildman-Stokes, dance
Pak Hei (Alvin) Leung, voice and piano
Duration: ~60'
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Synopsis:
Future Port (2025) is an intermedia performance that seeks to explore and evoke the emotional and dramatic tension contained in the way we look at our future—it is a fascination, it is an imagination, yet it also comes with uncertainty, hesitation and anxiety. The piece is also a contemplation on time—and an exploration of the use of artistic mediums to blur the sense of the past, present and future. It is a commentary on the way we interact in the current world we are living in. It is an autobiographical reflection on my life since COVID, a way to record my maturing mind—that our lives are essentially fragile; but more importantly, that even in this highly digitalized present, I am always, always, more loved, than I would ever realize. Future Port is dedicated to my mom, who passed away—or possibly transcended to the higher dimensions—in October 2024.
