Mat & Sebastian spent the month of March in residence at the Watermill Center, Robert Wilson’s art laboratory on the east end of Long Island, thanks to the generous support of the Dr. Kerry English International Arts Fund and Theatre Communications Group. Alongside Wilson’s collection and archives and a small cohort of international artists, they continued […]
We’ve adapted La Nuit Sombre, our staged concert meets immersive party, for the Kansas City Symphony. The piece was initially commisioned by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and will be reimagined for the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in September 2025. The concert will feature Aureliano Cattaneo‘s La Nuit Sombre, played alongside Mozart‘s Gran Partida, […]
Mat & Sebastian joined a panel of architects and choreographers to discuss their cross-disciplinary and site-specific practice on July 18th at SCI-Arc, a world-renowned center of innovation and one of the nation’s few independent architecture schools. The panel was moderated by Maristella Casciato, the senior curator and head of architectural collections at the Getty Research Institute. […]
Mat‘s paper Imagining Ancient Mystery Rites as Promenade Opera in Los Angeles, a reflection on his site-specific work for the Getty Villa, is published in PERFORMING SPACE 2. Mat & Sebastian discussed their work in an accompanying presentation at the PERFORMING SPACE conference in Nafplio, Greece. Performing Space is a research project that explores the relationship […]
We have been selected for NEFA’s 2024 National Theatre Project Creation and Touring Grant! We are creating a new multidisciplinary performance work adapted from queer pre-modern poetry and mythology. This multilingual performance will shine a light on the distant past to find new ways of conceiving gender and desire… We are looking for creative partnerships across […]
We’ve been invited to create a new work for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The concert will feature Aureliano Cattaneo‘s La Nuit Sombre, played alongside Mozart‘s Gran Partida, with Four Larks‘ immersive design and choreography. The performance takes inspiration from Jan Patacki‘s The Manuscript Found at Saragossa, and from the Venetian Gothic architecture of Cincinnati’s magnificent […]
ΠΑΜΕ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ! In February Mat will travel to Greece as a 2024 Fulbright Scholar. During his fellowship Mat & Sebastian will research and collaborate with artists and musicians in Athens, Nafplio, Epirus and Crete, developing two new projects set to premiere in the US in late 2025 and 2026. Photos taken at the Benaki Museum […]
Four Larks traveled to Chicago in early January to present Hymns to the Society for Classical Studies at their annual conference. Mat & Sebastian joined a group of selected artists and scholars to share videos, and talk about their process of adapting Homeric poetry into contemporary theatre and folk music. For information about the upcoming live […]
Mat was invited to spend the spring as a fellow in the gorgeous estate at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY. He spent April-June hollering out folk songs and stringing together some new melodies in a converted dairy barn, biking around nearby trails, chasing ghosts in the mansion, reading, researching, and basking in the brilliance of […]
Four Larks has received six nominations for the Los Angeles Theatre Awards from Stage Raw. We have been nominated for Best Musical, Best Original Score, Music Direction, Choreography, Lighting Design and Sound Design. Thank you Stage Raw for championing Los Angeles performance makers and congrats to all nominees.
Thanks to KCRW for including us in their top ten for the second year in a row! “Sticking downtown, Four Larks again makes my list. This young company melds installation art, theater, and opera in productions that are discovered little treasures. This year they gave in to The Temptation of St. Antony in a pop-up gem of a theater. […]
Four Larks has received the Ovation Awards for Best Ensemble and Best Music from the LA Stage Alliance. We were also nominated for our Lighting, Design, Choreography and for Best Production of the Year.
Four Larks are featured in L.A. WEEKLY’s “Best of LA” 2015 We’re so excited to be included in this list of treasures! Check it out! http://features.laweekly.com/bestof2015/