Fortune Cookie 500 (2007)

video/performance, 2'59"

• Leo Daedalus: video, choreography, performance
• David Abel: text compilation, performance
• Anna Daedalus: choreography, performance
• Tony Christy: performance, title of piece
• mARKo: performance

Dressed in white, the five performers form a live video screen. In a darkened room they move, speak, and make noise in choreographed interaction with the moving text of the video.

The performance was part of the 5th Annual Richard Foreman Mini-Festival at Performance Works NorthWest on August 18, 2007. All participants in the festival had to incorporate selected texts from Richard Foreman's online notebooks, made available by organizer Linda Austin just ten days in advance.

The video above is a schematic of the piece. The textual elements are exactly what was projected during the performance. The video was screened at the Independent Publishing Resource Center's annual Text Ball in 2007.

video ©2007 Leo Daedalus