Portrait and a Dream

Written and Composed by Brian Petuch

Director: Ashley Tata

Video + Scenic Design: Magnus Pind

Lighting Design: Abigail Hoke-Brady

Costumes: Márion Talán de la Rosa

Associate Video Designer: Adam J. Thompson

Production Stage Manager: Dustin Z. West

Soprano — Kendra Berentsen

Tenor — Brian Giebler

Baritone — Ricardo Rivera

Brian Petuch’s Portrait and a Dream is a sequence of tone-poems inspired by works that span the breadth of Jackson Pollock’s life. The libretto - an assemblage of recordings of the voices of the people who knew Jackson - deconstructs the myth of Pollock by splintering narrative, intention and truth. The first-stroke-on-a-canvas production directed by Ashley Tata with designs by Magnus Pind, Abby Hoke-Brady and Márion Talán de la Rosa places the company in the present and considers whether it is possible to be an artist in the US anymore or whether the legacy of the mid-20th century art scene has led to a post-art society where the artist is a symbol and a successful artist is a commodity.