Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is delighted to present the world premiere of 4TRAINS, a spectacularly innovative, shadow theater production by renowned TED Fellow, director and inventor Christine Marie and her ensemble of performers. A totally unique and mesmerizing form of poetic and visual storytelling, 4TRAINS will debut at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for three performances: Thursday, December 4; Friday, December 5 and Saturday, December 6 at 8:00pm.
4TRAINS asks the question: How does one live with dignity in a changing
technological society in which we seem to have so little control? Relevant to
today’s ever-changing technological landscape, 4TRAINS explores the effects of
America’s late 19th-Century industrialization and railroad expansion with an
innovative shadow theater production reminiscent of silent-era cinema. Working
behind the screen and on-stage, Christine Marie and her ensemble of actors,
musicians and dancers construct live shadow theater that is enhanced by hand-
built lighting technologies. The production artfully blends puppetry, lighting, live
music and dance to tell the story of a young couple witnessing the expansion of
the railroads as the nation forges full-steam ahead into an unknown future filled
with destruction, expansion, hope and uncertainty.
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4TRAINS asks the question: How does one live with dignity in a changing
technological society in which we seem to have so little control? Relevant to
today’s ever-changing technological landscape, 4TRAINS explores the effects of
America’s late 19th-Century industrialization and railroad expansion with an
innovative shadow theater production reminiscent of silent-era cinema. Working
behind the screen and on-stage, Christine Marie and her ensemble of actors,
musicians and dancers construct live shadow theater that is enhanced by hand-
built lighting technologies. The production artfully blends puppetry, lighting, live
music and dance to tell the story of a young couple witnessing the expansion of
the railroads as the nation forges full-steam ahead into an unknown future filled
with destruction, expansion, hope and uncertainty.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is delighted to present the world premiere of 4TRAINS, a spectacularly innovative, shadow theater production by renowned TED Fellow, director and inventor Christine Marie and her ensemble of performers. A totally unique and mesmerizing form of poetic and visual storytelling, 4TRAINS will debut at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for three performances: Thursday, December 4; Friday, December 5 and Saturday, December 6 at 8:00pm.
4TRAINS asks the question: How does one live with dignity in a changing
technological society in which we seem to have so little control? Relevant to
today’s ever-changing technological landscape, 4TRAINS explores the effects of
America’s late 19th-Century industrialization and railroad expansion with an
innovative shadow theater production reminiscent of silent-era cinema. Working
behind the screen and on-stage, Christine Marie and her ensemble of actors,
musicians and dancers construct live shadow theater that is enhanced by hand-
built lighting technologies. The production artfully blends puppetry, lighting, live
music and dance to tell the story of a young couple witnessing the expansion of
the railroads as the nation forges full-steam ahead into an unknown future filled
with destruction, expansion, hope and uncertainty.
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4TRAINS asks the question: How does one live with dignity in a changing
technological society in which we seem to have so little control? Relevant to
today’s ever-changing technological landscape, 4TRAINS explores the effects of
America’s late 19th-Century industrialization and railroad expansion with an
innovative shadow theater production reminiscent of silent-era cinema. Working
behind the screen and on-stage, Christine Marie and her ensemble of actors,
musicians and dancers construct live shadow theater that is enhanced by hand-
built lighting technologies. The production artfully blends puppetry, lighting, live
music and dance to tell the story of a young couple witnessing the expansion of
the railroads as the nation forges full-steam ahead into an unknown future filled
with destruction, expansion, hope and uncertainty.
show less
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