FULL MANNEQUIN (Maria Vatenina) London 2015 Héloïse Werner

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: MANNEQUIN   
• Composer: Vatenina Maria   
• Libretto: De Montage Art Collective, Tamsin Collison and an extract from the epigraph to AnnaAkhmatova’s Prologue Or a Dream within a Dream, 1942  
• Venue & Opera Company: George Bernard Shaw Theatre, London, UK  
• Recorded: July 28 & 29, 2015
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Héloïse Werner
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer: Eiko Yoshizumi, Margot Waggoner­‐Prabhu  
• Lighting Designer: Miena Mizusaki  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: tete a tete  
• Date Published: 2015  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Genesis

  De Montage Art Collective is an interdisciplinary group of artists seeking to explore the most relevant contemporary issues by collaborating with specialists from the fields of Science, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology.

  About

  MANNEQUIN tells the story of Ania, clone of Anna, a deceased famous singer. Raised to be a perfect copy – declaring her disregard for originality by simulating her genetic predecessor, yet all the while grasping at an unattainable sense of uniqueness that she so desperately craves – Ania recounts Anna’s life, of which she has learnt through the distorted lens of popular culture. Forced to come to terms with her inability to match Anna, Ania must confront her own lack of individuality. No longer able to copy Anna, yet bereft of an identity of her own, she reaches an impasse. Inspired by the ideas of Baudrillard, MANNEQUIN explores the nature and importance of originality in the context of a culture that continually finds new in the old and increasingly blurs the line between copy and creation.

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