Creative Team

Creator

TIMUR AND THE DIME MUSEUM

Composer & Librettist

DANIEL CORRAL

Video design & Engineering

JESSE GILBERT

Costume design

VICTOR WILDE & BOHEMIAN SOCIETY

Lighting design

TONY SHAYNE

Audio design & Engineering

JAY EIGENMANN

Live film creation

SANDRA POWERS

with

TIMUR, vocals | DANIEL CORRAL, composition, piano, and accordion
 | ANDREW LESSMAN, Drums | MATTHEW SETZER, Electric Guitar
 | DAVID TRANCHINA, Electric Bass

TIMUR AND THE DIME MUSEUM

DANIEL CORRAL

About

Los Angeles-based band Timur and the Dime Museum performs a glam-rock requiem for the natural world. Mixing trenchant commentary with arch theatrical flair, Collapse features music by Dime Museum member and composer Daniel Corral—by turns grungy, poppy, and apocalyptic—alongside interactive projections from video artist Jesse Gilbert to consider the fate of a world shuttling from one man-made ecological disaster to the next. Kazakh-American tenor and protean frontman Timur Bekbosunov—whose shape-shifting personalities are lavishly costumed by fashion designer Victor Wilde—is the magnetically transgressive officiant of this perverse postmodern mass for a planet in crisis.

Support

Premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival 2015 (NY Premiere). West Coast premiere at REDCAT. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Press

“Punk-operatic spectacle”

The Los Angeles Times

“Post-kitsch underworld glamour”

Flavorpill

“A brilliant architect of tension”

LA Weekly

01 / 03

Video Trailer

COLLAPSE

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