Multimedia Performance Quotes

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.

I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.

It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.

I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an uplifting style of art that combines visuals and music in very dreamlike ways.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

'Mandem On The Wall' is an online comedy series that I produce, write and act in along with three other people.

I just want my music to involve an audience in what's taking place onscreen.

Aleksey and I have gathered together a bunch of kindred spirits who are also versatile musicians. We have a violinist who eats fire, another who is an acrobat, and a flutist who beats boxes. We hope in years to come to tour the U.S. with our 'League of X-traordinary musicians.'

We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it.

I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.

I've always tried to do shows in a filmic way. I like it when forms smack up against each other.

Sometimes I get a little confused because with dancing I can express my emotions with my body. With acting you have to do it with your face and your expressions, and then with animated shows you have to use your voice and use your inflections. So it's definitely a challenge to transfer from each genre of entertainment.

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voice - so I do consider it an opera.

I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.

I like marrying the concept of music with new media art forms.