After Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles, what do you do next? You turn to another environmental issue. This time co-creators Michael Bodie and Paula Cizmar decided to take on wildfires–the increasing intensity and quantity of fires in the American West due to extreme weather caused by climate change, and the effects…
What an amazing experience! Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles is an example of combining new and traditional ways of telling stories–a hybrid of video, interactive media, and live performance. Co-created and co-produced by Michael Bodie and Paula Cizmar, the event is the product of four years to research, devising, prototyping, involving…
What a wonderful group. It’s not an exaggeration to say that over 100 people have come together over the three years we’ve been developing this project–designers, researchers, writers, video makers, interactive creators. Here are a few of them at our first rehearsal! Cast members Claudia Elmore, Xol Gonzalez, David Huynh,…
Announcing the launch of the brand new website for Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles! Now there’s a place to view all the research and info and work that has been going on since 2020. Plus news of the immersive installation & performance that opens January 13. Lots to check out, and…
Over a year’s work. From a team of over a hundred artists and community members. Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles (SZLA) is coming soon! SZLA is an immersive environmental justice experience that merges an art installation with live performance. Utilizing multimedia enriched, documentary theatre and film storytelling tools and techniques, SZLA highlights…
Our new short opera, FIRECRACKERS, premiered at White Snake Opera in Boston as part of their Let’s Celebrate festival on December 10–and what a fun show it was! Here are some early views of the production.
Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles (SZLA) is an Arts in Action project created and curated by Michael Bodie and Paula Cizmar to look at the many ways our environmental policies–or lack of them–fail the people of certain neighborhoods. Neighborhoods where industrial pollution is rampant. Neighborhoods where health risks are a matter…
FIRECRACKERS!, a new opera by composer Guang Yang and librettist Paula Cizmar, premieres in December 2022 in the Let’s Celebrate series, produced by White Snake Opera. The Boston-based company specializes in world premieres of brand new operas. Under the artistic leadership of Cerise Lim Jacobs, White Snake is devoted to…
How do we talk about what is beautiful and what we are in danger of losing? How do we look at places that are in crisis and people who are in danger of losing their homelands, their livelihoods, and all that they love? One way is through theatre. Monica Sanchez–director,…
Writers are alone with the blank page when they create. As a natural introvert, this is something I look forward to much of the time. But then there is a gnawing sensation that won’t go away: What is going on outside? What am I missing? How can I be a…