Information, Knowledge, Wisdom, Truth, Beauty, Love, Music

Charles Gran and Szu-Hsien Lee, music and sound design
Carmen Carnes and Anjali Tata, choreography and direction

Performance of Prolog section
“Action shot” of Prolog. L–R: Christine, Charles, Norah (obscured), Anjali, Carmen.
photographs ©2003 Charles Gran

Listen to a remix from several of the pre-recorded electronic
sections of the show:

i. Prologue: Is not . . .
ii. Information, Knowledge (singing)
iii. Freedom
iv. Truth is not Beauty (movement as time)
v. A Witty Saying Proves Nothing (movement as ideas)
vi. Epilogue

First performance featuring: Carmen Carnes, Charles Gran, Christine Gran,
Norah Haldeman, Szu-Hsien Lee, Anjali Tata

yellow dancing Christine

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
—Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
—Carl Sagan

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
—Frank Zappa

Information . . . began as a final project for World Arts and Cultures 200 “Music for Dance” in the Fall of 2000 at UCLA. For this revised version we have added two performers, and generally fleshed out and expanded the piece.

What we are attempting is theater in which movement, music, and speech all have equal structural priority. Information . . . creates it's own world, it's own language. We have uses quotations as a source for narrative invention and structural organization. But the quotes are recontextualized and given their own meaning: meaning itself becomes elastic. Whatever Information . . . tries to say, it ultimately means to be humane.

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