Arts on the Edge Wolfeboro August 11, 2009

Laurie Olinder "Projecting and Painting Patterns"

Laurie Olinder, projection designer and painter talks about her work as a painter and as a projection designer for Ridge Theater, one of America’s premiere creators of avant-garde theater, opera, and new music performance. Ridge productions are epic visual and aural works that typically position performers within film and video projections, redefining traditional theatrical boundaries.Their productions have been presented at venues such as the American Repertory Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Royal Festival Hall, and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The work has been described as “hallucinatory, oddly beautiful, and disturbing”, by the Chicago Tribune, “They conjure up a dreamlike world, in which the actors seem to float.” Ridge Theater and its collaborators have received numerous awards including multiple Village Voice OBIE, and NY Dance & Performance BESSIE awards, an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design in the Theater, as well as fellowships from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Five films from Ridge productions are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

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