PROGRAM Nufonia Must Fall Co-commissioned by Luminato Festival, Adelaide Festival, the Banff Centre, Internationales Sommerfestival Hamburg, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen, Roundhouse UK, and BAM. Music by Kid Koala K. K. Barrett, director Ryhna Thompson, producer Benjamin Gerlis, set designer Clea Minaker, Patrick Martel, Félix Boisvert, Karina Bleau, puppet designers PROGRAM: AJ Korkidakis, director of photography KID KOALA’S Vid Cousins, string arrangements and musical director NUFONIA MUST FALL The performance will last approximately one hour with no FEBRUARY 4 / 7:30 PM intermission. BING CONCERT HALL winter Malorie at work elevator next to you Malorie’s commute ARTISTS hexabot theme DJ Kid Koala the diner Afiara Quartet the sandwich montage Valerie Li, violin squares Timothy Kantor, violin show me a sign(s) Eric Wong, viola robot love song v. 1 Adrian Fung, cello nightfall Malorie’s apartment Karina Bleau, Félix Boisvert, Clea Minaker, clumsy turkey puppeteers corridor AJ Korkidakis, camera operator downward spiral Vid Cousins, sound engineer struttin’ Ben Knight, video editor race to the airport Olivier Gaudet-Savard, technical director epilogue and stage manager Patrick Hamou, tour manager This production is adapted for the stage from Kid Koala’s book and soundtrack Nufonia Must Fall and is produced by Envision Management & Production and Kid Koala Productions. TECHNICAL CREW Corinne Merrell, additional set designer Jeremy Gordoneer, Marie-Pier Fortier, assistant set designers Maude-Emelie Bourque, Dan Buller, Seagate is the official sponsor of Stanford Live’s family series. Clara Gonzalez, Kyle Purves, model makers Patrick Martel, puppet technical designer Isabelle Chrétien, Jesse Orr, Christine Plouffe, Veronique Poirier, assistant puppet builders Patricia Boushel, Colin Mackenzie, PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms, and unwrap all lozenges prior to the Alexandre Gagnon, additional production performance. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you. 32 STANFORD LIVE MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016 PROGRAM: KID KOALA’S NUFONIA MUST FALL FROM THE ARTIST the International Institute of Puppetry Arts One of my fondest memories from childhood (2002–2005) in Charleville-Mézières, France. was watching Charlie Chaplin films. I remember my whole family—kids, parents, FÉLIX BOISVERT AND grandparents—huddled around the Félix Boisvert collaborates with many screen smiling and laughing along as the artists and companies hailing from the story unfolded. Since those days, something varied disciplines of circus arts, puppet about the silent-film format has always struck theater, film, and dance, namely Kid Koala a chord with me. When I was writing Nufonia (Nufonia Must Fall Live), Anthony Venisse Must Fall, I always imagined the book being (Le concierge), Les minutes complètement Nufonia Must Fall a kind of paperback silent movie. I am so cirque (Babel), Les sept doigts de la main thrilled to be working with director K. K. (Patinoire), Nicolas Cantin, Sandy Silva (the Barrett, who has had a hand in creating some percussive dance pieces Do I Know You? He loves to use his work to explore the of my favorite movies and many of the most and App #21), Mathieu Roy (the Territories blurring lines between traditional and new captivating cinematic visuals in the past 15 exhibition at the Musée de la Civilisation media, and he is most in his element when years. It has been an amazing experience to de Québec), Antonin Monmart (Un ange working in multidisciplinary environments that see the story literally come to life through this passe), Karina Bleau (Sacré sucre and Haïku challenge him to learn new skills in order to amazing team of set designers, puppeteers, du dernier souffle), and Guillaume Saladin complete a project. As such, Nufonia Must Fall and performers. Don’t be fooled by its heavy- (Artcirq). He also codirects a newly built is a perfect home for him. sounding title; Nufonia Must Fall is just a good creation and experimentation space for the old-fashioned love story, and I hope that in-depth study of multidisciplinary practices. BENJAMIN GERLIS audiences will have as much fun watching the Benjamin Gerlis is a set designer for stage and KARINA BLEAU show as we have had putting it together! screen. He has worked at many of the major Since 2001, Karina Bleau has been developing —Kid Koala UK producing houses, including the National an art practice that melds sculpture, film, Theatre, English National Opera, Royal and the puppeteering arts, resulting in AJ KORKIDAKIS Opera, Young Vic, and Royal Court. Projects AJ Korkidakis is a Montreal-based digital visual theater through which matter, light, have taken him to New York (Metropolitan media artist who finds himself constantly and the body in motion are explored. In Opera, American Ballet Theatre, Broadway), jumping between filmmaking, photography, conjunction with her practice, she codirects Montreal (Cirque du Soleil, Centaur Theatre, animation, design, and whatever other an interdisciplinary research space which Segal Centre), and the Bregenz Opera medium a project might call for. This promotes the in-depth study of marginal Festival in Austria. He works extensively in multitasking style keeps his work fresh and artistic practices and is dedicated to teaching animation, regularly collaborating with director gives him access to a wide range of techniques her art to young people. Her work has been Mikey Please on award-winning short films, to create rich visual worlds—in other words, shown at home and abroad: Petit nid (2009), music videos, and commercials. This year he he prefers to dream up images first and then Atlantis (2010), Haïku du dernier souffle (2011), cofounded Stripeland, a design collective figure out how to create them. His films have Jean-Claude est un homme-Maison (2012), working across stage, screen, and live events. played at festivals internationally (including Haïku en trois temps (2012), and Grain dans’ www.stripeland.co.uk TIFF and Just for Laughs), have won him tête (2014). She has been working on her most two awards at the YoungCuts Film Festival, recent show, Sacré sucre, for the past two years CLEA MINAKER and have also been broadcast across North A performer, designer, and director, Clea and will be premiering it in 2016 at the Théâtre America. He is a frequent collaborator with Minaker explores contemporary puppetry Aux Écuries in Montreal. many noted Montreal musicians on various art. She has created with musicians Feist (The KID KOALA video and animation projects. His design work Reminder Tour, 2007–2008), So-Called, Kid Kid Koala is a world-renowned scratch DJ, has ranged from traditional poster design to Koala, and Esmerine. In 2013, she collaborated music producer, and award-winning graphic creating organizations’ entire visual identities with Atom Egoyan at the Canadian Opera novelist. He has released four solo albums on and led to him illustrating the December 2012 Company and presented a solo, The Book Ninja Tune, the most recent being 12 bit Blues. cover of New Internationalist magazine. More of Thel, at Festival Artdanthé in Montreal. He has released two graphic novels: Nufonia recently, he has begun to create work with a In 2009, Clea Minaker was awarded the Must Fall and Space Cadet. He has also been focus on interaction, whether through physical Siminovitch Protégé Prize for Theatre involved in collaborations such as Gorillaz, installations or digital applications. Design by Ronnie Burkett. She trained at 34 STANFORD LIVE MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016 $22 General / $18 Senior / $10 Student Orchestra Concert III @ Mt. View Center for the Performing Arts Deltron 3030, and the Slew. Kid Koala has Karen O to create Stop the Virgens, a theater Actor Piano Concerto, Dvořák Symphony No. 7 toured with the likes of Radiohead, the piece, or psycho opera as they prefer it known, 8pm Saturday, Feb 20, 2016 Beastie Boys, Arcade Fire, Money Mark, A which combined dance, live music, projection, Spring Chamber Concert @ 1st Baptist Church, Palo Alto 8pm Saturday, March 5, 2016 Tribe Called Quest, Mike Patton, DJ Shadow, sets, and sound design. It played two sold-out Orchestra Concert IV @ Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He has runs at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York City Beethoven Leonore Overture, contributed to scores for the films Shaun of and at the Sydney Opera House in 2012. This Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances 8pm Saturday, Apr 9, 2016 the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Looper, experience led to hooking up with likeminded and The Great Gatsby. He has composed musician/visualist Kid Koala and interpreting More details at: www. paphil.org music for the National Film Board of Canada, Nufonia Must Fall, Koala’s graphic novel, as a the Cartoon Network, Sesame Street, and live theater experience. Adult Swim. He has also been commissioned to create music for runway shows for Belgian PATRICK MARTEL Proud to fashion designer Dries Van Noten. Kid Koala’s Patrick Martel has been working as a unforgettable live shows range from silly puppeteer as well as a puppet and set designer Support touring turntable carnivals like Short Attention for over 20 years. His work has been seen in Span Theater (featuring turntable bingo) many theater plays, including À nous deux! the Arts at and Vinyl Vaudeville (including puppets and with Théâtre de l’Avant-Pays, for which he dancers) to quiet-time events like Music was awarded a commendation recognizing Stanford To D r a w To , his Space Cadet Headphone excellence in puppet design around the world Experience, and, most recently, Nufonia Must by the Arlyn Award Society. He collaborated Fall Live. He lives in Montreal with his wife with Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts, and two daughters. designing the sets, costumes, and puppets for Personal attention the production Don Quixote. He has created thoughtful litigation K.