Quarryography in Stonington Maine

Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission. Commissioned by Opera House Arts at the Stonington Opera House, Stonington, ME. Produced by Opera House Arts in collaboration with Island Heritage Trust.

Renowned choreographer Alison Chase brings professional dancers, university students and her beloved community together to show us what goes on at the local quarry when no one is watching...

Shenandoah University Television Filmmakers:
David Norman, Paulette Moore, Raul Hasbun

CAST
Excavator driver: Rick Weed

Cableman puppeteers: Matt Kent (Anima of Cableman)
Piari Weiss, Sarah O'Malley, Andrea deFrancesco, Scott Springer

Hot Pink Granite: Breanna Gribble, Emily Kent, Rebecca Anderson Darling, Wendee Rogerson, Tawanda Chabikwa, Jessica Bendig

Pink Granite Sprite: Stephanie Fungsang

Spruce Trees: Adam Groves, Erlynne Kitagawa, Brendan Murphy

Milkweed: Whitney Davis, Alice Wilkinson, Sarah Paget, Jennifer Trowbridge, Jennifer Wilson, Amy Friedell, Tracy Van Buskirk,
Larry Estey, Kim Drasler, Sam Stahnke, Perry Chase, Asia Eaton

Bad Seeds: Mary Barnes, Jason Weed

ROCK 'n STEEL BAND
Nigel Chase - band leader
Francis Chase, Samantha Haskell, Oliver Chase, Alex Pfister, Duncan Hardy, JaimieAllen, Morgan Springer, Ben Fox, Martin Lonty,
Sam Guilford, Matt Meaney, Charlie Sichterman, Rachel MacArthur

CREATIVE TEAM
Alison Chase - Director and Choreographer
Mia Kanazawa - Puppet design, Costume design and Choreography
Nigel Chase - Composer and Musical Director

STAGE MANAGEMENT TEAM
Katt Lissard (Stage Manager), Hannah Gotwals (asst. stage manager), Sara Gotwals (stage management team)

TECH TEAM
Mark Kindschi - Puppet construction and rigger
Wayne Merritt - Technical director

Quarryography © Opera House Arts 2007
www.operahousearts.org

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[cookingupastory]

Great art piece! Love the music and contrast of colorful costumes against dusty quarry. Bravo!!

[paulettefilms]

oh thank you!!

[lolapalooza12]

@anyone who was mean about this: it's called modern dance, it's actually quite good if you saw the ENTIRE show you can't judge it by the clip you see here. And it was great because it got the community involved. Like i said, it's not crap it's MODERN DANCE you morons

[armymarinemom]

Waste of taxpayer dollars.

[rpeek]

Wow! I loved this video. How awesome. I was just coming in on the ferry yesterday lookin' over at the quarry... What a neat video to find.. Thanks.

[thoeckel]

Awesome!!! Loved it - having just made the trip from Stonington to Isle au Haut, passing the quarry.

[ophelia11972]

awesome... perfect... la vie est belle, n'est pas?

[mjsnd80]

Frankly, as a Taxpayer, I find if revolting that this piece of useless, mindless CRAP was produced with $10,000 of federal grant money and another $5,000 from the Maine "Arts" Council.

If these morons like parading around in silly costumes and videotaping the afternoon's session... what if THEY raised their own $15,000 to do it?

Hmmmmmmm?

[beachmom561]

There a lot of OSHA violations in this video.

That is, after all a construction site.

[uppereastlarry]

ROFL...what a joke...the huge cable marionette is kinda interesting...but otherwise...I feel like I'm watching a nursery school dance recital.

[kdechant04]

Do you have contact info for anyone that was in this film? I think an old high school friend who I have not seen in 20 years was involved (as well as with the Cabin Fever Theater Company in Maine). If you do have contact info, please contact me so I may reach out to this old friend.