Premiere New York Premiere
Production Language English
Country of Origin United States
Description In 1994 The New York Times Magazine anointed Carl Hancock Rux "One of Thirty Artists Under The Age of Thirty Most Likely To Influence Culture Over The Next Thirty Years." It was a weighty prediction. Yet a dozen years into the forecast, it's clear that Rux is indeed holding considerable cultural sway. An award-winning artist equally fluent in poetry, theater, music, and fiction, Rux moves among his various mediums with exceptional ease—tuned into the moment, hyperaware of the past.
BAM audiences know Rux from his leading role in Robert Wilson/Bernice Johnson Reagon's The Temptation of St. Anthony and his many BAMcafé Live performances. Mixing poetry, film, movement, music, and more, Mycenaean (based on his recent novel, Asphalt, and his epic poem, Mycenae), draws its dramatic frame from Jean Racine's retelling of the myth of Hippolytus on the road of Mycenae, as well as from 20th-century dream theory. Ritualized choreography and dynamic streams of images set to Rux's hypnotic rhythms come together as a disparate crew of characters engages the cyclical nature of history with questions that resonate across epochs and eras. As with all things Rux, boundaries are blurred, old butts up against new, and conscious and the unconscious collide.
Identifier 2006f.00846
