NEW MUSIC / EXPERIMENTAL OPERA
Anna Luisa Petrisko (Los Angeles)
ALL TIME STOP NOW
[ALL TIME STOP NOW] experiments with the liminal space between the virtual, in person, and a third unknown and perhaps spiritual thing. There is hope in the smiling faces of the performers as they sing that all will be ok in the end… even if nothing is ok right now… even if we aren’t sure what we are looking at or what we are feeling about it all. The attempt to stop time won’t work but these spell casters know that. We can’t stop time but we can hold on to hope that we can authentically connect with the precious time that is given to us.” – Seattle Dances
ALL TIME STOP NOW is an experimental opera with multichannel video, dance, body-based sculpture, and original music. The project grew out of recorded conversations between Anna Luisa Petrisko and her best friend, who was living in a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar, during the height of the COVID-19 global pandemic. ALL TIME STOP NOW creates space to process the uncertainty, grief, and restlessness we will undoubtedly continue to need. It is a contemplation on stillness, listening, impermanence, kinship, and the spaciousness of time.
The project is interested in how we prepare for and withstand periods of trauma and isolation. The project asks, how do we slow down when everything is moving so rapidly around us and within us? How can we accept the energies of grief, while also experiencing joy and create long-term wellbeing? After experiencing so much collective devastation, where do we go from here?
Photos from On the Boards in Seattle, Washington, courtesy of On the Boards and Bruce Tom:
All Time Stop Now is supported by the LA County Department of Arts and Culture as part of the LA County Performing Arts Recovery Grant. All Time Stop Now is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by On the Boards, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) / California Institute of the Arts Theater, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org. Additional support provided by Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, Camera Obscura Art Lab, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
Thank you to the following individual donors:
Gregorio Ferrer, Zenaida Concepcion, Eleanor Tan, and Mary Ellen Petrisko
Latest News
ALL TIME STOP NOW performance at On the Boards featured in Seattle Dances
ALL TIME STOP NOW was an NPN Spring 2023 Development Fund Awardee!
Creative Team
Written and Directed by Anna Luisa Petrisko in collaboration with performers Mark Golamco, Peter Hernández, and Josephine Shetty.
Projection mapping by Ana Carolina Estarita Guerrero
Lighting design by Chu-hsuan Chang
About Anna Luisa Petrisko
Anna Luisa Petrisko is an interdisciplinary artist working in experimental opera, video art, performance, interactive theater, sound design, costume design, and immersive media. Her work explores future and ancient ideas at a non-linear tempo, creating built environments that are as much invested in the sacred as they are in technological speculation. Collaborating with many artists, she sees shared work as a way to form relationships and cultural communion.
Anna Luisa’s work expands on themes of diaspora, colonialism, and time, through an experimental multidisciplinary practice that reflects her intersectional identities. Built on creating collaborative and inclusive opportunities between people of color, women, gender non-conforming, trans, queer, and disabled individuals, her work redistributes the means of design and thought around cultures, futures, and bodies.
She has exhibited and performed at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Hammer Museum, REDCAT, LACMA, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and The Music Center. She is a MAP Fund recipient and has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Coaxial Arts Foundation, and Echo Park Film Center. As a faculty member in the Art, Media, and Design department at California State University San Marcos, she teaches courses in Video Art and Sound Design.
