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Journal Article
The American Dream of TAKEABITE: Migrating from Video to Opera
2020
Overview
The costumes were influenced by 1950s couture, Victorian clothing, black and white television shows like Leave It to Beaver, and the stretched bodies in Salvador Dali's The Enigma of William Tell (1933) and Soft Boiled Construction (1936), which I saw on my first trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a child. The video contains film and audio samples from Snow White, Rebecca, West Side Story, Misery, Tarzan, Cinderella, A Streetcar Named Desire, Paris Is Burning, Toni Braxton's Breathe Again, Leave It to Beaver, and 1950s commercials.1 A year after finishing the video, I decided to adapt TAKEABITE into an opera, which premiered in 2013. \"theOpera\" was my first large commission by El Museo del Barrio. Snow White (Disney, USA, 1937), Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1940), West Side Story (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, 1961), Misery (Rob Reiner, USA, 1990), Tarzan (W. S. Van Dyke, USA, 1932), Cinderella (Disney, USA, 1950), A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, USA, 1951), Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, USA, 1990), Toni Braxton's Breathe Again (1993), and Leave It to Beaver (USA, 1957–63).
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Wayne State University Press
