Ballades Mechaniques (ver 1.0)

Made entirely of found and salvaged materials, Ballades Mechanique (ver 1.0) is a Rube Goldberg-inspired machine that fashions an individual sensory experience of 7 of 365 plays by Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365days/365plays collection. The user selects a story, thus activating the machine and the experience. The plays are performed with the assistance of digital video and image stills and are re-imagined with animations and puppets, creating an aural/visual accompaniment to Parks’ rhythmically distinct and intensely succinct writing.

Artistic Collaborators

Niell DuVal – Design & Fabrication
Carmen C. Wong – Director/Project & Video Concept
Cort Smith – Videography
Larissa Cyran – Puppet Craft & Scenic Painting
Levia Lew – Visual Assistance
Meera Narasimhan & Manoj Tiwari – Additional Voices

Special Thanks to…

Danielle Mages Amato & Phil Mages
Stu Davenport
Kevin Brennan
Lana Labermeier
Max Menna
Amber Parker