The Blue Rider: Kandinsky and Music
Scenic & Lighting Design
Cullen Theatre, Wortham Theatre Center, January 2011
Miller Theatre at Columbia University, September 2009;
Conceived of and directed by Sarah Rothenberg
Projection and video design by Sven Ortel
The Blue Rider evokes a pivotal moment when artists and composers broke free from old ways of seeing and hearing, inventing new worlds in music and art. Lighting, projections and video to create stunning visual partners for ground-breaking music by Berg, de Hartmann, Lourié, Schoenberg, Scriabin and Webern that changed the century.
A fascinating multimedia project…exposed the live-wire connection between [Schoenberg and Kandinsky], both cutting loose from representational and tonal practices that had anchored the visual and musical arts.”
— The New York Times