In July 2010, collision/theory and Highways Performance Space co-presented a workshop version of Blood Red Lost Head Dead Falcon: THE NIBELUNGEN, as part of the Los Angeles Ring Festival. A tale of magic, love, loyalty and revenge, the piece was inspired by Das Nibelungenlied, the 800 year-old epic poem that was the basis for Wagner’s four-opera drama The Ring of the Nibelung. Blood Red deconstructed the original source material in a richly layered modern theatrical experience laden with visual and aural imagery. Michael Manning’s illustrated graphic novel The Nibelungen (Sum Legio International, 2010) served as a primary visual inspiration for the piece, which was written and directed by Aaron Henne.
Lyn Gaza – Projection Designer, Producer
Aaron Henne - Writer, Director
Julie Lockhart - Choreographer
Michael Manning – Projection Designer, Art Director
Cast
Julie Lockhart - Brunhild
Paul Vroom - Hagen
Garth Whitten - Siegfried
Mark McClain Wilson - Gunter
Diana Wyenn - Kriemhild
Additional Cast
Sigemund (voice over) – Mark McClain Wilson
Siegfried’s Man (voice over) – Chet Grissom
Designers and Production
Sound Designer - Martín Carrillo
Lighting Designer - Dan Weingarten
Costume Designer - Nike Schroeder
Specialty Costume Designer & Fabricator – Molly McGee
Projection Programmer - Jason H. Thompson
Sound Engineer and Mixer – Dan Creech, Alex Gilliam – Revolving Blackbird Sound
Sound System – Heardrum Audio
Stage Manager – Nikki Hyde
Rehearsal Stage Manager – Kellen Law
Technical Director – Ron Bunney
Original Music
Martín Carrillo
Chris Greene
Laudanum
Robert Crouch and Yann Novak
Original Images
Lyn Gaza and Michael Manning
Highways Performance Space
Executive Director/Artistic Director - Leo Garcia
Co-Artistic Director - Patrick Kennelly