COLLAPSE
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.
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.
Punk-operatic spectacle
Post-kitsch underworld glamour
A brilliant architect of tension
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