TICKTOCKROBOT TEASER

The visual accompaniment to our story is a vivid melding of extraordinary animation together with  live action and archival film, all incorporating the vibrant colors and textures of Mexican life set against the gathering gloom of the Revolution.

Projected onstage like a magic lantern show in a macabre carnavál, the images shadow the lovers' first meeting in a candlelight procession.  Their promenade around the plaza becomes a beguiling reliquary of the rites of courtship.

But in the gathering darkness, the dancers are transformed into ghostly apparitions serenaded by a skeletal mariachi band.  Each act is accompanied by a sort of visual libretto.  The girl's death at the hands of Carranza's troops is transfigured in archival photos of the massacre at Celaya.  The Bruja's (witch's) cave is the stuff of nightmares.  And the couple's reunion in the moonlit night conjures the ritual celebrated in graveyards throughout the country.  This, after all, is a night of phantasms - the border between seen and unseen worlds.