marc devine | portfolio

Dance The Orange  is an Adaptation on the myth of Orpheus, utilizing multi-media projections, original music, heightened text of Rainer Maria Rilke, and contemporary story-telling techniques.  Dance The Orange  premiered in Denver, CO in 2013, as a co-production between The Umbrella Collective and Control Group Productions.    

Orestes  is a solo show, written, directed, and designed by Marc Devine at Naropa University in 2011.   Orestes  deconstructs Aeschylus's Oresteia , exploring the relationship between digital projection as character/chorus and solo performance.

Opera del Espacio is a site-specific performance collective, creating site-specific movement performances. Although this work is created out of the postmodern aesthetics of Viewpoints and deconstructionism, the work is intended to be accessible, interesting, entertaining, and often interactive to the audience.    Below are a series of selections from Opera del Espacio's early work.

Permissible Union is an original opera, commissioned as part of the 2010 California on Location Awards (COLA) show, and was performed at Grand Performances in downtown Los Angeles.  Lyrics and book by Ken Roht, Music by Curtis Heard, and co-directed by Ken Roht and Marc Devine. Work with ARTEL - 2006-2007 Devising Theatre:  Inspirations from Russian Author, Mikhail Bulgakov, 2006-2007  -LA TACO - GOGOL MOGUL TEA ROOM - January 9, 2007 "The advertisement said ‘ARTEL’ would perform songs, poems, etudes and compositions ...But in the tradition of the Grotowski and Gardzienice theater groups from Poland, this Laboratory Ensemble didn’t want me to go anywhere…they wanted me to stay right there with them, using one unlikely trick to keep us cemented to our seats: They didn’t say a word...  A young man (Marc Devine) with a tape recorder hammers away at an old typewriter, then slowly extract from it its white sheet of paper, chews it down then leaves u...