An evening-length performance combining cinematic video, sung and spoken voice, abstract sound, and performative actions. Drawing from Bruegel's 1560 painting of the same name and Truffaut's 1970 film The Wild Child: a meditation on the associative, fragmentary, and irrational aspects of play, and the traumatic colonization of wild space.

A chorus dressed in medieval garb conducts vocal games and patterns onstage. Video projections shot in the Columbia River Gorge — developed through a collaborative rehearsal process with performers — mingle with live voices before giving way to an enigmatic noise band. A group of teenagers live in the forest, occupying themselves with age-old and newly invented games, songs, and gestures, joined by an observant Wild Child and the cultural anthropologist Snow White. The feral child is captured, brought to a lab, trained in washing, dressing, and speaking through extended acts of performed mimicry. Later, a scientist visits a medium. A conversation with the wild child is recorded through the ether.

Videography: Dicky Dahl. The mOuth Studio, Portland OR — October–November 2011