Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region Fifth Wall Performing Arts

About This Show

Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region, is a new opera for folk and classical singers that follows the journey of Orna, a trans-woman, as she grapples with self-acceptance. She travels to the north of Michigan, guided by the Mother of Trees, and transforms into the white pine that sits upon Chapel Rock, on the edge of Lake Superior, overlooking it all.

About the Artists

The company, Fifth Wall Performing Arts is confronting: calling into question the institutions of performative art-making by dismantling the suspension of disbelief and by creating work that is personal, intimate, and unabashed. As an interdisciplinary performance collective, Fifth Wall produces works of opera, theatre, and music that call into question the nature of what it means to perform both “in character” and as oneself, and by what means—  what vessel, what landscape— stories, histories, and mythologies are shared.

Grey Grant is a Michigan based composer/performer, whose work currently centers around the urgency of identity and the environment. They received their BM from the University of Michigan, with a minor in Creative Writing (poetry). Grey can’t stress enough how much they love trees. Visit greymatternoise.com for more information.

Karl Ronneburg is a composer, percussionist, and multimedia/performance artist living and working in New York City. In addition to frequently performing his own music, his work has also been played by bell towers, rock bands, orchestras, and people dressed in squirrel costume, among others. Karl is also an interdisciplinary performer, including the role of the Dictator in Meredith Monk’s ‘Quarry’ and a complete adaptation of Phillip Glass’s ‘Einstein on the Beach’ for his living room.

SAT OCT 12 2019 7:30 PM

General Admission
$17 in advance
$20 at the door

students / seniors / ID NYC
$15 in advance
$17 at the door

Estimated Runtime
80 minutes

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Credits

Director/Dramaturg
Karl Ronneburg
Composer
Grey Grant
Featuring
Allison Prost
Grey Grant
Hayley Boggs
Zoe Hart
Samantha Kao
Converge New Music
Violins
Megan Roher
Malhar Kute
Viola
Ryan McDonald
Cello
Hanna Brooke Rumora
Percussion
Tanner Tanyeri
Riley Palmer

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