- 8/31(Wed)12:00 to 9/7(Wed)12:00 25% off for Weiwuying member
- 9/7(Wed)12:00 to 9/14(Wed)12:00 25% off for sales
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 75 minutes without intermission.
- Age guidance 6+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
Kid Koala - The Storyville Mosquito
©YouTube（Place des Arts）
8 cameras, 75 puppets, 20 miniature sets, and live music create a hyper-surreal world that appeals to children and ignites hopes and dreams.
Canadian creative genius and DJ Kid Koala is the idol of scratch DJs all over the world. He uses an ultra-high degree of musicality to ingeniously piece musical phrase fragments and scratch sound effects together. He has toured with rock and hip-hop superstars, and has branched out into music production and film scoring. Kid Koala is also a skilled storyteller and graphic novelist. He adapted his original graphic novel Nufonia Must Fall into a multimedia musical theater production that received an enthusiastic response wherever it was performed and rave reviews from American newspaper "The New York Times" and British newspaper "The Guardian." Nufonia Must Fall was performed in Taiwan for the first time during the 2018 Taiwan International Festival of Arts. It gave audiences an unprecedented viewing experience.
This time, Kid Koala is bringing his newest masterpiece The Storyville Mosquito. It tells the amazing adventures of a young mosquito that leaves his small town for a big city to pursue his dream of playing in a legendary jazz band at the most prestigious music hall around, Sid Villa's Music Hall. His path, filled with trouble and misfortune, appears to be full of twists and turns, but he meets likeminded people on the bustling streets and forms treasured and sincere friendships.
The Storyville Mosquito is a multisensory feast that is simultaneously a play, a film, and a concert. The superb skills of the puppeteers are projected by cameras in real time and paired with live music performances of various styles, giving life to the puppets and transmitting their vitality to audiences. It's an endearing, Chaplin-esque silent humor theater experience that's fun for the entire family.
This original work offers a fresh take on "love, music, and dreams." A mosquito understands the solitude of wandering around urban jungles. Let's find out our dreams in the theatre!
Pre-talk
2022/12/24(Sat)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
2022/12/25(Sun)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
Post-talk
2022/12/25(Sun)15:50-16:10 Playhouse
Creative and Production Team
Creative Team
Creator, Director, Musical Score｜Eric SAN (Kid Koala)
Art Director｜Corinne MERRELL
Puppet Designer｜Patrick MARTEL
Director of Cinematography｜AJ KORKIDAKIS
Musical Director｜Vid COUSINS
Production & Technical Team
Producer｜Ryhna THOMPSON (ENVISION Management & Production)
Tour and Production Manager｜Brian NEUMAN
Stage Manager｜Alizee MILLOT, Margaret WINSTON
Video Editor｜Phil CREAMER
Sound Engineer｜Rena KOZAK
Tour Manager｜Cindy HWANG
Performers
Musician｜Eric SAN (Kid Koala)
Puppeteer｜Patrick MARTEL, Anne LALANCETTE, Colin ST CYR DUHAMEL, Sandra TURGEON
Violin｜Marcus TAKIZAWA
Viola｜Lana TOMLIN
Cello｜David CAMPBELL
Artists Introduction
Creator, Director, Musical Score｜Eric SAN (Kid Koala)
Eric SAN, a.k.a Kid Koala, is a world-renowned scratch DJ, music producer, and award winning graphic novelist. He has released 6 solo albums, 4 on Ninja Tune: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (2000), Some of My Best Friends Are DJs (2003), Your Mom’s Favorite DJ (2006) and 12 bit Blues (2012) and 2 on Arts & Crafts. He has published 2 graphic novels: Nufonia Must Fall (2003) and Space Cadet (2011). He has been involved in collaborations such as Gorillaz, Deltron 3030, and The Slew. Kid Koala has toured with Radiohead, the Beastie Boys, Mone Mark, A Tribe Called Quest, DJ Shadow, and Preservation Hall Jazz Band and performed on Late Night with David Letterman. He has contributed to scores for the films Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Looper, The Great Gatsby and Men, Women and Children. He has composed music for The National Film Board of Canada, the Cartoon Network, Sesame Street, and Adult Swim. He has been commissioned to create music for runway shows for fashion designer Dries VAN NOTEN. Kid Koala's unforgettable live shows range from silly touring turntable carnivals like Short Attention Span Theater and Vinyl Vaudeville, to quiet-time events like Music To Draw To and Space Cadet Headphone Experience, each of which express his unique form of storytelling with music, animation, film, and interactive entertainment. He has toured 6 continents.
Art Director｜Corinne MERRELL
Corinne creates work as a production designer for film, stop motion animation and theatre. Her handcrafted sets create environments and spaces for storytelling. She was head stop motion art director on the animated feature The Little Prince, directed by Mark OSBORNE. She was also production designer on the National Film Board's The Fruit Hunters by award winning director Yung CHANG. Her collaborations with director Kara BLAKE continue to explore the use of miniatures in film, and Illusions, a 2015 commission for the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal and Gryphon Trio brought their film work to the stage. She worked on WONG Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights and Mary Stewart MASTERSON's The Cake Eaters. Theatre credits include Broadway Design for Stage and Film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is a faculty member in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.
Puppet Designer｜Patrick MARTEL
Patrick has been working as a puppeteer as well as puppet and set designer for over 20 years now. His work was seen in many theatre plays, including À nous deux!, with Théâtre de l’Avant-Pays, for which he won a commendation from the Arylen Award Society, recognizing excellence in puppet design around the world. He collaborated with Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts, designing the sets, costumes and puppets for the production Don Quixote. He created puppets for a number of television programs (like 1, 2, 3... Géant!), as well as a variety of shows that have toured the world in 2000, he started teaching classes at Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2012 and 2013 he was head of the postgraduate diploma in Puppetry at UQAM. He recently designed and directed a puppet performance for a multimedia installation created by Victor PILON and Michel LEMIEUX, that opened in 2017 as part of Montreal's 375th anniversary. He is now designing the puppets for a large scale touring show for Cirque du Soleil.
Director of Cinematography｜AJ KORKIDAKIS
AJ is a Montreal based digital media artist who finds himself constantly jumping between filmmaking, photography, animation, design and any other medium a project might call for. This multi-tasking style keeps his work fresh and gives him access to a wide range of techniques to create rich visual worlds within other words, he prefers to dream up images first and figure out how to create them after. His films have played international festivals including TIFF and Just for Laughs, have won him awards at the Youngcuts Film festival, and have been broadcast across North America. He is an oft collaborator of many noted Montreal musicians on video and animation projects. His design work ranges from poster design to creating organizations' entire visual identities, and has led to him illustrating a cover for the New Internationalist. He has begun creating work with a focus on interaction, whether it be through physical installations or digital applications. He loves to explore the blurring lines between traditional and new media. He is truly in his element when working in multidisciplinary environments that challenge him to learn new skills to complete a project.
Musical Director｜Vid COUSINS
Vid COUSINS has had the privilege of composing, arranging, producing and recording for some astounding ensembles over the years, notably Afiara Quartet (Young Canadians Musicians Award winners), Kronos Quartet (Grammy Award winners), Bell Orchestre (Juno Award winners), and the ever evolving Sevens Project Ensemble including members of Arcade Fire, Stars, and The Patrick Watson Band. The acclaim has been broad for the works with which Vid has been involved. These include a GAMIQ award for Best Electronic Album with Kid Koala's 12 bit Blues; an IPPY Gold Medal for Space Cadet and; an Oscar- shortlisting for the film Requiem For Romance by Jonathan NG. Vid utilizes his Monkey Puzzle Studio facility for his various composition, recording and mix projects. This has also proven to be a great environment to produce cinematic remixes for a diverse range of artists, including Grammy nominated Beast, Trixie WHITLEY and Bell Orchestre.
Producer｜Ryhna THOMPSON (ENVISION Management & Production)
For 17 years, Envision Management & Production has remained dedicated to giving back to the global artistic community by disseminating artistically and culturally relevant projects to a wide range of receptive audiences worldwide. Our skilled team has proudly worked with over 40 internationally acclaimed artists and partners,and productions, and worked on various films, video games, graphic novels and soundtracks. More than just artist management, Envision works with artists to develop, fund and produce innovative, immersive, and genre-defying shows such as Amon TOBIN's 7.1 Surround Sound Tour, and several Kid Koala projects including: the Space Cadet Headphone Experience, Nufonia Must Fall Live, The Vinyl Vaudeville Show, and The Satellite Turntable Orchestra. We have toured these productions ton 5 continents, including stops at renowned venues like: Walt Disney Theatre, Biosphere Museum, Canada Space and Aviation Museum, Mass MoCA, The Banff Centre and in partnership with internationally acclaimed organizations and festivals such as: Luminato Festival (Toronto), Jiading Cultural Centre (China), NYUAD Arts Centre (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Santiago a Mil (Santiago, Chile), and Place des Arts (Montreal). Our productions encompass many moving parts and often involve new technologies, new methods of storytelling, and require new ways of looking at all aspects of a production. Over the last 17 years, Envision has gained invaluable experience overseeing these projects and carries that knowledge over to all future endeavours and partnerships.
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Kid Koala - The Storyville Mosquito
©YouTube（Place des Arts）
8 cameras, 75 puppets, 20 miniature sets, and live music create a hyper-surreal world that appeals to children and ignites hopes and dreams.
Canadian creative genius and DJ Kid Koala is the idol of scratch DJs all over the world. He uses an ultra-high degree of musicality to ingeniously piece musical phrase fragments and scratch sound effects together. He has toured with rock and hip-hop superstars, and has branched out into music production and film scoring. Kid Koala is also a skilled storyteller and graphic novelist. He adapted his original graphic novel Nufonia Must Fall into a multimedia musical theater production that received an enthusiastic response wherever it was performed and rave reviews from American newspaper "The New York Times" and British newspaper "The Guardian." Nufonia Must Fall was performed in Taiwan for the first time during the 2018 Taiwan International Festival of Arts. It gave audiences an unprecedented viewing experience.
This time, Kid Koala is bringing his newest masterpiece The Storyville Mosquito. It tells the amazing adventures of a young mosquito that leaves his small town for a big city to pursue his dream of playing in a legendary jazz band at the most prestigious music hall around, Sid Villa's Music Hall. His path, filled with trouble and misfortune, appears to be full of twists and turns, but he meets likeminded people on the bustling streets and forms treasured and sincere friendships.
The Storyville Mosquito is a multisensory feast that is simultaneously a play, a film, and a concert. The superb skills of the puppeteers are projected by cameras in real time and paired with live music performances of various styles, giving life to the puppets and transmitting their vitality to audiences. It's an endearing, Chaplin-esque silent humor theater experience that's fun for the entire family.
This original work offers a fresh take on "love, music, and dreams." A mosquito understands the solitude of wandering around urban jungles. Let's find out our dreams in the theatre!
Pre-talk
2022/12/24(Sat)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
2022/12/25(Sun)13:50-14:10 Playhouse 2nd Floor
Post-talk
2022/12/25(Sun)15:50-16:10 Playhouse
Creative and Production Team
Creative Team
Creator, Director, Musical Score｜Eric SAN (Kid Koala)
Art Director｜Corinne MERRELL
Puppet Designer｜Patrick MARTEL
Director of Cinematography｜AJ KORKIDAKIS
Musical Director｜Vid COUSINS
Production & Technical Team
Producer｜Ryhna THOMPSON (ENVISION Management & Production)
Tour and Production Manager｜Brian NEUMAN
Stage Manager｜Alizee MILLOT, Margaret WINSTON
Video Editor｜Phil CREAMER
Sound Engineer｜Rena KOZAK
Tour Manager｜Cindy HWANG
Performers
Musician｜Eric SAN (Kid Koala)
Puppeteer｜Patrick MARTEL, Anne LALANCETTE, Colin ST CYR DUHAMEL, Sandra TURGEON
Violin｜Marcus TAKIZAWA
Viola｜Lana TOMLIN
Cello｜David CAMPBELL
Artists Introduction
Creator, Director, Musical Score｜Eric SAN (Kid Koala)
Eric SAN, a.k.a Kid Koala, is a world-renowned scratch DJ, music producer, and award winning graphic novelist. He has released 6 solo albums, 4 on Ninja Tune: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (2000), Some of My Best Friends Are DJs (2003), Your Mom’s Favorite DJ (2006) and 12 bit Blues (2012) and 2 on Arts & Crafts. He has published 2 graphic novels: Nufonia Must Fall (2003) and Space Cadet (2011). He has been involved in collaborations such as Gorillaz, Deltron 3030, and The Slew. Kid Koala has toured with Radiohead, the Beastie Boys, Mone Mark, A Tribe Called Quest, DJ Shadow, and Preservation Hall Jazz Band and performed on Late Night with David Letterman. He has contributed to scores for the films Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Looper, The Great Gatsby and Men, Women and Children. He has composed music for The National Film Board of Canada, the Cartoon Network, Sesame Street, and Adult Swim. He has been commissioned to create music for runway shows for fashion designer Dries VAN NOTEN. Kid Koala's unforgettable live shows range from silly touring turntable carnivals like Short Attention Span Theater and Vinyl Vaudeville, to quiet-time events like Music To Draw To and Space Cadet Headphone Experience, each of which express his unique form of storytelling with music, animation, film, and interactive entertainment. He has toured 6 continents.
Art Director｜Corinne MERRELL
Corinne creates work as a production designer for film, stop motion animation and theatre. Her handcrafted sets create environments and spaces for storytelling. She was head stop motion art director on the animated feature The Little Prince, directed by Mark OSBORNE. She was also production designer on the National Film Board's The Fruit Hunters by award winning director Yung CHANG. Her collaborations with director Kara BLAKE continue to explore the use of miniatures in film, and Illusions, a 2015 commission for the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal and Gryphon Trio brought their film work to the stage. She worked on WONG Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights and Mary Stewart MASTERSON's The Cake Eaters. Theatre credits include Broadway Design for Stage and Film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is a faculty member in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.
Puppet Designer｜Patrick MARTEL
Patrick has been working as a puppeteer as well as puppet and set designer for over 20 years now. His work was seen in many theatre plays, including À nous deux!, with Théâtre de l’Avant-Pays, for which he won a commendation from the Arylen Award Society, recognizing excellence in puppet design around the world. He collaborated with Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts, designing the sets, costumes and puppets for the production Don Quixote. He created puppets for a number of television programs (like 1, 2, 3... Géant!), as well as a variety of shows that have toured the world in 2000, he started teaching classes at Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2012 and 2013 he was head of the postgraduate diploma in Puppetry at UQAM. He recently designed and directed a puppet performance for a multimedia installation created by Victor PILON and Michel LEMIEUX, that opened in 2017 as part of Montreal's 375th anniversary. He is now designing the puppets for a large scale touring show for Cirque du Soleil.
Director of Cinematography｜AJ KORKIDAKIS
AJ is a Montreal based digital media artist who finds himself constantly jumping between filmmaking, photography, animation, design and any other medium a project might call for. This multi-tasking style keeps his work fresh and gives him access to a wide range of techniques to create rich visual worlds within other words, he prefers to dream up images first and figure out how to create them after. His films have played international festivals including TIFF and Just for Laughs, have won him awards at the Youngcuts Film festival, and have been broadcast across North America. He is an oft collaborator of many noted Montreal musicians on video and animation projects. His design work ranges from poster design to creating organizations' entire visual identities, and has led to him illustrating a cover for the New Internationalist. He has begun creating work with a focus on interaction, whether it be through physical installations or digital applications. He loves to explore the blurring lines between traditional and new media. He is truly in his element when working in multidisciplinary environments that challenge him to learn new skills to complete a project.
Musical Director｜Vid COUSINS
Vid COUSINS has had the privilege of composing, arranging, producing and recording for some astounding ensembles over the years, notably Afiara Quartet (Young Canadians Musicians Award winners), Kronos Quartet (Grammy Award winners), Bell Orchestre (Juno Award winners), and the ever evolving Sevens Project Ensemble including members of Arcade Fire, Stars, and The Patrick Watson Band. The acclaim has been broad for the works with which Vid has been involved. These include a GAMIQ award for Best Electronic Album with Kid Koala's 12 bit Blues; an IPPY Gold Medal for Space Cadet and; an Oscar- shortlisting for the film Requiem For Romance by Jonathan NG. Vid utilizes his Monkey Puzzle Studio facility for his various composition, recording and mix projects. This has also proven to be a great environment to produce cinematic remixes for a diverse range of artists, including Grammy nominated Beast, Trixie WHITLEY and Bell Orchestre.
Producer｜Ryhna THOMPSON (ENVISION Management & Production)
For 17 years, Envision Management & Production has remained dedicated to giving back to the global artistic community by disseminating artistically and culturally relevant projects to a wide range of receptive audiences worldwide. Our skilled team has proudly worked with over 40 internationally acclaimed artists and partners,and productions, and worked on various films, video games, graphic novels and soundtracks. More than just artist management, Envision works with artists to develop, fund and produce innovative, immersive, and genre-defying shows such as Amon TOBIN's 7.1 Surround Sound Tour, and several Kid Koala projects including: the Space Cadet Headphone Experience, Nufonia Must Fall Live, The Vinyl Vaudeville Show, and The Satellite Turntable Orchestra. We have toured these productions ton 5 continents, including stops at renowned venues like: Walt Disney Theatre, Biosphere Museum, Canada Space and Aviation Museum, Mass MoCA, The Banff Centre and in partnership with internationally acclaimed organizations and festivals such as: Luminato Festival (Toronto), Jiading Cultural Centre (China), NYUAD Arts Centre (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Santiago a Mil (Santiago, Chile), and Place des Arts (Montreal). Our productions encompass many moving parts and often involve new technologies, new methods of storytelling, and require new ways of looking at all aspects of a production. Over the last 17 years, Envision has gained invaluable experience overseeing these projects and carries that knowledge over to all future endeavours and partnerships.
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- 8/31(Wed)12:00 to 9/7(Wed)12:00 25% off for Weiwuying member
- 9/7(Wed)12:00 to 9/14(Wed)12:00 25% off for sales
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 75 minutes without intermission.
- Age guidance 6+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
