![]() Moore holds an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he studied with and later toured with Pauline Oliveros. As a musician and sound engineer, he toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 2004 to 2010. He is a co-founder of the Chicago Laboratory for Electro-Acoustic Theater, which produces monthly concerts of multi-channel audio at Chicago’s Elastic Arts. These often-collaborative projects manifest as sound installations, sound designs and scores for dance and theater productions, solo and group performance works and improvisations, generative compositions, and recordings. His creative work is primarily concerned with the creation and perception of sonic environments, encompassing practices in field recording, physical programming, studio production, audio spatialization, loudspeaker construction and interactive software design. Stephan Moore is a sound artist working at the intersection of performance and interactive systems. As an active member and past president of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, and as a current board member of the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America, he works with an international community of artists, educators, and scholars to champion the cause of drama and theatre in the lives of young people. He is the co-author with Pamela Cooper of The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling, proclaiming that, “Storytelling is at the heart of everything I do.” In addition, Collins is head of the Theatre for Young Audiences program at Northwestern, and is an active professional stage director, specializing in the development of new work. At the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, he teaches business narrative in the Advanced Management Program, asserting that storytelling is a differentiating skill in the 21st century that strengthens leaders, brands, and organizations. He recently delivered the keynote address at the National Storytelling Conference, celebrating the role of storytelling in the 21st century, and was subsequently honored to reprise the presentation at The Cradle of Creativity conference in Cape Town, South Africa, as an American delegate to the international congress of ASSITEJ. ![]() An acclaimed professional storyteller (ORACLE AWARD, National Storytelling Network), he works with full faith that planting stories in the world is a bit like the work Johnny Appleseed once did. Rives Collins was honored with a Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, where he has taught in the Department of Theatre for the past thirty five years. Collins, Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University.Īn initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, with major support from the ALFRED P. Stunningly restored by the Munich Film Archive, OUR HEAVENLY BODIES remains an unforgettable feast for the eyes and the mind alike, almost 100 years after its production.įor this screening, Block Cinema will welcome sound artists Stephan Moore (RTVF) and Scott Smallwood to perform a live original score to the complete film English narration of the film’s intertitles will be performed by Rives B. ![]() Created as a “kulturfilm”-a didactic form of cinema that emerged in Weimar-era Germany to promote public education and uplift-OUR HEAVENLY BODIES makes dramatic use of animation, multiple exposures, miniatures, and other special effects more commonly seen in the Expressionist films of Kornblum’s contemporaries like F.W. Director Hanns Walter Kornbum’s silent 1925 masterpiece takes viewers on an interstellar tour from the distant corners of the earth to the far reaches of the known universe, offering as comprehensive and accurate representation of astronomical knowledge as cinema could produce. (Hanns Walter Kornblumm, 1925, 91 minutes, DCP, silent with live score)Īt once an astounding feat of visual imagination and a rigorous explication of celestial mechanics, OUR HEAVENLY BODIES represents an early and lasting pinnacle in the use of cinema as an educational medium. With live accompaniment by Stephan Moore, Scott Smallwood, and Rives Collins WUNDER DER SCHÖPFUNG (OUR HEAVENLY BODIES)
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