JACK Quartet: Beautiful Trouble (NY Premiere) by Natacha Diels
$25 advance, $30 ad the door ($20 student/ages 65+ with ID)
- Christopher Otto, violin
- Austin Wulliman, violin
- John Pickford Richards, viola
- Jay Campbell, cello
Beautiful Trouble is a 5-act live performance by Natacha Diels and JACK Quartet about simplicity and beauty. Each act (or episode) describes a particular mini-plot in the style of television's The Twilight Zone or Robert Ashley's TV opera Perfect Lives.
The oversaturation of our current era is the driving force behind Beautiful Trouble's focus on simple human beauty. The work is representative of The New Discipline, a practice of contemporary art influenced by Fluxus, Dada, the Uncanny Valley, and the social impact of ubiquitous cameras. It incorporates narrative, video, staging, and choreography to craft social commentary.
Beautiful Trouble creates a tangible and understandable human moment through the power of performance, both heard and seen.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm Eastern on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6joCNFLqgI