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"ALRERAIVING"
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10 min
new work, 2026 
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Description
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This is still a work in progress and in its state as such reflects the liminality of how I experience life: fleeting, never settled, uncertain, miraculous, and not really graspable. A landing approach onto the ILM airport is the steady change that sets the scene for a dance and live music performance by Mike Biskup and Karola Luttringhaus that explores the in between states of consciousness, knowing, not knowing, guessing, and intuiting. Witnessing the routinization of wonder, the piece explores notions of trust in the unspeakable power of embodied expression and the power of art, following our instincts toward that which draws us in: clouds above concrete, grass adjacent to painted lines on the tarmac, announcements over the silence of perception.
I am imagining a semi translucent piece of fabric, similar to a scrim, hanging down mid stage. It is approximately 20' tall x 10' wide (possibly larger). Either a projector from the front edge of the stage (my own) or the house projector is used to project the film which shows a view through the right hand side window of a plane I was on recently while in the landing phase into the ILM airport. I am hoping to get a kind of doubling effect, where the image appears on the small scrim and on the larger upstage cyc. Possibly both projectors are used at the same time to create this effect. The film is "boring", uneventful, but beautiful in its minimally surreal ordinariness. We start above thick carpet of clouds, sun, then we descend through them into nothingness for a while, and gradually they think to reveal the land, we land, and finally we ride on the tarmac until we can take our seatbelts off. The film is beautiful in its simplicity and unsettles the viewer through it's unsatisfyingly narrow focus area. Two people are on stage the entire time, both are moving around, one is playing an electric guitar and the other is dancing, at one point they might switch. The emerging visual and audible performance art follows the interstitial spaces between air and perception, action and witnessing. Side lighting (source fours on booms) from stage right illuminates a corridor upstage of the small scrim. Side light from stage left illuminates the area downstage of the scrim. A couple of narrow down specials create personal spaces for the performers to inhabit at times. The movements cycle through an expansive gamet of textures, rhythms, and speeds, exploring a multitude of stories that emerge from within this translucent scene. |
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Work sample #1
REHEARSAL VIDEO SKETCH (without musician) Best watched on youtube |
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Work sample #2
start viewing at 18:00min This is my piece "Gestures of Love" that I applied with last year and that was accepted but couldn't perform due to a scheduling conflict. I think that this excerpt, from 18:00 to 21:00 minutes encompasses some of the sentiment of this new piece in regards to its tender relationship to the film and the precarity of existence. |
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The film
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Sketches
Stage layout and lighting |
I have a stage layout sketch but I don't know how to upload that to this application. Please go to karolaluettringhaus.com/AL.html to view it and other sketches and piece information.
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Bios
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Mike Biskup received a Bachelor in Music from NYU and a Master's in Music Education from Montclair State University. He performed in and around NYC from 2000-2016. He now lives in Wilmington, NC and plays with Petrichor and writes music under the name michaelbiskup and Names Mai.
https://on.soundcloud.com/sZ444UU0Ene3it1Sxo https://www.instagram.com/petrichorilm https://www.facebook.com/petrichorILM/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/0SNN0XUNavCe7VysqAzyOv Karola Lüttringhaus, Ph.D. studied Art History and Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin before transferring to Dance, earning a BFA in Modern Dance/Choreography from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Karola holds an MFA in Scenic/Exhibition Design from the Technische Universität Berlin and a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California Davis (2024). Karola ist the founder and Artistic Director of Alban Elved Dance Company and the SARUS Festival for Site-specific & Experimental Art. They create and facilitate interdisciplinary performance work and teach choreography and dance. Inspired by the Axis Syllabus©, they developed "BII – The Body’s Intrinsic Intelligence", a pedagogical philosophy and movement education framework, emphasizing individuated articular alignment parameters and the liberation of the body from injurious concert dance training practices. Their research, “Tracing Gesture: Choreographing Meaning”, theorizes choreography as embodied philosophy, investigating the interrelations between movement and thought. They are the Technical Manager for the Minnie Evans Arts Center, previously having served in a similar role at CFCC. They have taught BII at UC Davis and Salem College and offer workshops and events regularly. karolaluettringhaus.com |
