PRESENTED WITH The Lesser Lamps
Writer, Director, Performer, Projection Designer, Lighting Designer, Sound Designer, Scenic Designer, Producer
Artist’s Statement
In Chromera’s Peek, I wanted to explore the fundamentals of “being.” What are the essential ingredients for creating sentient life—the senses, the spirit, interaction? Exploring these questions through performance allowed me to incorporate emotional reactions into the research—something impossible within an actual laboratory. How do the senses and spirit intertwine to form the mosaic of our emotions? In what contexts do particular feelings arise? And what might be possible if we could consciously produce these reactions?
Once something is created, it can be sold—and the story investigates this second half of knowledge: its commercialization and ownership. Its entanglement with human desire creates a new context in which greed emerges. Perhaps progress, once known, carries within it the seed of its own undoing.
SHOW BLURB
Two scientists on a deep space alien research mission summon magical crystal power on the search to uncover the underlying mysteries of human re-animation. Accidents unfold, the machine takes over, and the scientists are torn between their honor and desire for power.
A physically based dark comedy that unfolds live like an action-packed super hero film.
PRESS
Chromera’s Peek is a original production by The Lesser Lamps (Dolo McComb, Søren Olsen). Told through stylized movement, technical wizardry, and abstracted language, this performance teeters on the less obvious edges of theatre performance in order to analyze some of the darker secrets behind capitalism, scientific discovery, and the price of progress.
“There is a new theater ensemble in town, and their first show is something to not be missed.” — Twin Cities Geek
Chromera’s Peek Is a Strange Sci-Fi Adventure at Minneapolis’s Red Eye Theater
TRAILER
About The Lesser Lamps:
Søren Olsen and Dolo McComb have been making original pieces of performance work for the last decade. Individually, they have been recognized locally and nationally for their multi-faceted creative work. Chromera’s Peek will be their first foray into creating/performing a work together that constellates their unique areas of expertise: dance, theatre, design, writing, and music. Committed to transportive aesthetics and expertly crafted movement, The Lesser Lamps utilize fresh storytelling vocabularies to offer a twisted tonic for the taboos of our time.
SØREN OLSEN 