MULTIMEDIA
and
PERFORMANCE
ART
Conductor - Victor Huls
Directors – Grey Grant and Karl Ronneburg
Choreography – Grey in collaboration with Dancers
Mise en Scene (making cardboard trains) – Levin Kim and Andrew Zick
Lighting - Karl Ronneburg and Sam Burck
Person 1 – Karl Ronneburg
Person 2 - Grey Grant
Train Conductor/Judge /Bus Driver – Phoebe Wu
Crazy Eddie – Thomas Kratofil
Kid Judge- Jacob Rogers
Stenographers – Kayla Mathes, Melanie Holt
Dancers – Melanie Holt, Daz Ziaja, Kayla Mathes, Grey Grant
Einstein -- Teagan Faran
Soprano Soloist – Hayley Boggs
Alto Soloist - Madeline Gotschlich
Soloist for “Building” - Rebecca Rosen
Chorus: Soprano – Christina Swanson, Maya Ballester, Hayley Boggs Alto – Madeleine Gotschlich, Rebecca Rosen, Marty Gray
Tenor – Grant Rossi, Walker Durell
Bass – Walker Durell, Dayton Hare, Thomas Kratofil
Flute 1/picc- Nina Shekar
Flute 2/sop sax- Lisa Keeney
Bass Clarinet/ Bb clarinet - Jordan Kauffman
Organ 1 - Karalyn Schubrig
Organ 2 – Annie Jeng
Einstein in the HOUSE
It's so incredibly beautiful to be part of a community of people who, when you have an idea as insane as "Let's put on a full, free, student production of Einstein on the Beach--in my house", have no qualms about diving in and hopping right on the crazy train/bus/spaceship ride that is this show.
A lot of you (both audience and cast members) asked me at one time or another what I thought the show was about, and I never really found a good way to describe it. But here's one more shot: I think Einstein on the Beach(/in the House) is about how the littlest things (counting numbers, basic human emotions, solfege, musical cells that repeat over and over, the atom) can grow to become complex and twisted systems (nuclear technology, the justice system, commercialism, gender roles)--and about how understanding that duality can lead us to appreciate the things that make life worth living--namely, love and each other.
So enjoy our adaption of Phillip Glass and Robert Wilsons' masterpiece!
The Story of Daniel
-Weak Staff Performance Art
Performers: Phoebe Wu, Zach Kolo,
Karl Ronneburg, and Thomas Kratofil
Living Arts Lounge, Winter 2015
Destined for Dirt
Karl Ronneburg, Snaxophone
Spencer Haney, 3-D Printed Wrist-Daxophone
Bursley Hall Control Room, 2016
electroacoustic improvisation for snaxophone (electronic pringles can w/Max patch), and daxophone (bowed resonant object)
Washing Machine Explodes
in Super Slow Motion
severely edited video
Video/Audio Edit by Karl
Shown at the THREADS All Arts Festival, March 2018
Something Actually Bad
by Julia Dooley, Melanie Holt, Thomas Kratofil,
Mac Porter, Cailin Ferguson, and Karl Ronneburg
December 2016, Ann Arbor
A mixed cast of inanimate and human actors ask the question: can performance be dangerous? Are humans onstage real people? Are boxes and stools? What’s the difference between something bad that happens onstage--and Something Actually Bad? The answer may be a ghost story, a campfire song, an honest conversation--or something worse
Is Daniel more than just a name on a brick?
The Dictator's Song and Dance
From Meredith Monk's Quarry at the University of Michigan
Dictator: Karl Ronneburg
Henchman: Johnny Matthews
2 February 2017, Power Center for the Performing Arts