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Julie Rada

Contemporary Performance Director

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gave it to

May 2020

Calliope in January

January = Calliope.Epic poetry.Writing tablet.

Calliope-Olokun. Androgynous Orisha (of the bottom two-thirds of the ocean, the one who knows all the secrets, and holds all the bones of those who are lost in crossings, Olokun is epic).

Created for the 9 Muses/9 Musas Project, curated by Chris Danowski.

Arizona
January 2012

*Music is a mash-up of Social EXperiment - Protocol 7, Archetype Drone sounds, and Iva Bittova & Vladimir Vaclavek from Bile Inferno.


Eratos

March = muse of erotic poetry.

Created for the 9 Muses/9 Musas Project, curated by Chris Danowski.

Colorado and Arizona
March 2012

*Bodies, mouths, and hands featured belong to Miriam Suzanne, Julie Rada, Kenny Storms, and Megan Sumner. Piano by Kenny Storms. Music borrowed and manipulated from Radiohead.


SWAN**

Created for Intermedia Class with Professor Angela Ellsworth.

ASU's AMPA Building, Tempe, Arizona

December 2013
*inspired and with words by:
Claude Debussy's "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian," translated by Rebecca Franks
Hans Christen Anderson's "The Wild Swans," translated by Joan Hersholt

*sound design music stolen from:
Rodriquez Jr. "Siempre Siempre"
Lindsey Sterling "Crystallize"
Debussy's "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" (performed live for Robert Wilson)
Debussy's "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" (performed and introduced by Leonard Bernstein)

**Due to sensitive content, I have made this video private. If you would like the unlisted link to view this video, please use the contact form and I will send it to you.


MANIFESTO TO THE BARBARIANS OF SPIRIT AND THOUGHT ON ALL CONTINENTS

Director:  Sasa Peric

Cinematographer:  Sasa Peric

Editor:  Mina Nenadovic

Cast:  Julie Rada

Multiple sites in Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia

Summer 2015

Performer and creative contributor in a short experimental film based on a manifesto written by Ljubomir Micic, the founder of Yugoslavian avant-garde movement from the 1920’s called Zenitism. Filmed throughout the Balkan peninsula as part of the grant activities the Global Connections–ON the ROAD program, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group (TCG). Currently submitted in film festivals, thus not yet available to the public. Screened at the Athens Action AltCine Film Festival.