Show on Earth: Wallace Line, with Gamelan Turtle Bliss

Heart of the City Festival 2020

Vancouver’s exquisite Gamelan Turtle Bliss with master Putu Gede Sukaryana and shadow theatre. Live Streamed from KW Studio.

At the heart of Show on Earth: Wallace Line is the Balinese ‘gamelan gender wayang’ - a metallophone quartet which accompanies the shadowplay or ‘wayang’. Vancouver’s Gamelan Turtle Bliss will accompany the shadow journey backwards into ‘deep time’ to offer a new perspective on the challenging ‘present’. Music composed by member Michael O’Neill, shadow puppets by David Prentice, and puppeteer/dalang performed by Mark Parlett. Gamelan Turtle Bliss is Michael, Ann Hepper, I Putu Gede Sukaryana, Wendy Chen, Laura Crowe, Mark Parlett, and David Prentice. With special guests Meredith Bates, violin and viola, and Finn Manniche, cello.British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace is known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection. Wallace had his ‘eureka’ moment while in a malaria-induced delirium on Ternate, an Indonesian island near the ‘Wallace Line’ (a place where two of Earth’s tectonic plates meet). In our narrative, Wallace’s delirious state will open the door to raucous and rambling imagery and events of evolution (in reverse timeline) co-mingling with his own consciousness and memory.<ul><li>Online livestream on our website</li><li>Free / donation appreciated</li></ul>

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