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I didn’t fall for you at the movies. I fell for you as a movie.
Now, let’s watch ourselves destroy ourselves, this preview for a film never shot.
Like our American mirage of billboard and desert and destinies manifest, we were always Cinemascope.
Let it end on the big screen, my love. We’re so much closer up there.

Pandaemonium collides self and cinema, a widescreen street fight between body and image.This performance concert explores the fear and enticement embedded in the American desert landscape, embracing themes of interconnectedness and isolation. Driven by a live sound score and interactive video, based in the history of cinema and the American West, Pandaemonium is a slow-dance at the drive-in, a riot in the shimmering distance.

Pandæmonium premiered at FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA, September 14 – 18, 2016, and was presented at New York Live Arts, New York, NY, September 28 – October 1, 2016. Next up: Pandæmonium will perform at LAX festival in Los Angeles October 18-21, 2018.

CO-CREATORS AND PERFORMERS: Nichole Canuso, Geoff Sobelle
DIRECTOR: Lars Jan
VIDEO AND INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE DESIGNER: Pablo N. Molina
LIVE MUSIC CREATED AND PERFORMED BY: Xander Duell
LIGHTING DESIGNER: Mike Inwood
COSTUME DESIGNER: Olivera Gajic
SET DESIGNER: Philipp Schaerer
PROPS: Alicia Crosby
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Carl Whipple
STAGE MANAGER: Elaina Di Monaco

The development of Pandæmonium is made possible in part by funding from the William Penn Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, commissioning partners The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at University of Maryland and FringeArts, and in kind donation by Color Reflections and SenovvA, Inc.

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“emotionally stunning atmospherics… beautifully crafted performances”

-Exploredance

“…practically impossible to embrace conceptually, let alone to respond to in words… The work traverses mind blowing scale in its one hour duration… hilarious scene of emotional destruction… kaleidoscopic patterns of beautiful movement”

-ThinkingDance

“…frequently cryptic, sometimes funny, often disturbing, and always intriguing.”

-DCMetroTheaterArts

“one of the most successful and witty blends of dance and technology I’ve seen in some time”

-Philadelphia Inquirer