Project by Los Angeles Ballet
Role: Content Creator 2d & 3d animations
Directed and Choreograph: Melissa Barak
Music: Max Richter
Set Design: Hagey Belzberg
 
 

Leveraging the expressive power of ballet, immersive visuals, and emotive music, our production innovatively illuminated the Holocaust’s narrative in a poetic and atmospheric manner. Utilizing a series of vignettes and a non-linear storytelling approach, we crafted a unique ballet experience. Presented by the Los Angeles Ballet. My contribution to this endeavor was the creation of 40 minutes of custom animations, meticulously synchronized with the accompanying musical score. These animations were projected onto a vast scrim that enveloped the entire stage, serving as a dynamic backdrop. Behind this translucent screen, ballet dancers moved in perfect harmony with the unfolding visuals and music, creating a seamless and evocative integration of art forms. This project not only showcased my technical and creative capabilities in animation but also my ability to contribute meaningfully to a multidisciplinary team aiming to convey profound historical narratives through art.

From Forbes.com
Memoryhouse is compelling and innovative in its mix of traditional, modern, and abstract modes of dance as well as in its use of scrims and projections created by Sebastian Peschiera, and a flexible stage-set created with architect Hagy Belzberg (who is also the architect of Holocaust Museum LA).

The projections are integral to Memoryhouse, at times looking like musical notes or Hebrew letters that fall and become rain-like slashes; and, at other times, morphing into birds that take flight; and significantly, at one moment of intensity, the rain of slashes convey the rain of ash in the sky from the incineration of the bodies of the murdered.