Works

Mercy is gone missing but the cameras never stop rolling. Dramas cannot therefore stop unfolding. Satellite is producing King Lear as a short film, and bringing it to the stage.

Our King Lear is about loyalty. A world where mercy is gone missing. Don’t trust your sister - because she will convince your other sister to commit treason against you. And stupid is as stupid does.

Echo & Narcissus will engage original music, live chamber performance, visual art, ballet, digital multimedia, opera, and lighting design. The ambition of the project’s scope is matched by the deftness of its team.

Had its debut at Brooklyn Academy of Music September, 2018. Satellite Collective received a Citation for achievement in the arts from the Borough of Brooklyn. Kevin Draper, Artistic Director, also received a Citation for achievement in the arts from the Borough of Brooklyn.

Echo & Narcissus will be the 17th interdisciplinary performance work by Satellite Collective since its founding eight years ago.

Illuminate the unrest and discord of our contemporary political moment.

Echo and Narcissus (full performance synopsis): Narcissus, the forceful one, enters, making calls like a hunter. Then she, Echo, the graceful, refined one enters. He is primal, almost feral; she is charming. He is smitten and calls her to him; a heated flirtation begins. Her friends seem skeptical; they enter a vibrant tableau. She wants to go to him; her protective friend tries to deter her, but is unsuccessful. Narcissus interacts with her peers but tangles with her protective friend. In a filmed interlude, we witness Narcissus’ violence. The conflict escalates further between Narcissus and Echo’s protective friend. Echo discovers them fighting and gets between them. She is pulled by their conflicting forces, wanting both. For now, she goes with Narcissus. We see the conflict playing out inside her friends. Then, a horrible incident, the death of Echo’s friend; Narcissus seems responsible. As the others mourn, Narcissus is no longer welcome. Echo is engulfed in a chaos of grief. Narcissus pleads with her to speak to the police on his behalf, “it was an accident.” She knows it was not; Narcissus’ violence ended her friend, and she is now unable to walk. She has been disillusioned. Echo finds healing through the support of her friends.

Kevin Draper, with Satellite Collective, would like to propose the installation of a 40 foot long aerostat hovering thirty feet above the ground acting as a cinema screen during the night, and a silent observer during the day. We intend to premiere a series of film and visual work on this canvas. The aerostat is nicknamed SAD BLIMP.

It is Satellite’s intention for this world premiere to be the first point on a long journey, as the aerostat has been engineered to be an aerospace grade installation, with the assistance of military engineers and input from Macy’s balloon makers. We intend this idea to grow, and maybe one day, be hanging out in space for tourists.

Satellite Blimp will bring the silent witness of ancient observation blimps to the waterways of New York, bearing witness in ground projections and real time performances on these giant canvases.