64 Libretti

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas
Sound/Light Installation now showing through November 21, 2008

Jack Straw New Media Gallery
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle WA 98105 USA
Phone 1 (206) 634-0919
Email jsp @ jackstraw.org

Creative Team

Sound Byron Au Yong
Light Randy Moss
Video Jean-Stephane

Audio Engineers Tom Stiles, CJ Lazenby

Librettists Eugenie Chan, Bret Fetzer, Aaron Jafferis, Archana Kumar, Carola Luther, Caroline Murphy, Vivian Umino, Edisa Weeks

Singers Josie Davis, Emily Greenleaf, Jeremiah Oliver, David Stutz

Percussionists Stuart McLeod, Dean Moore, Benjamin Morrow, James Whetzel

Project Manager Pike Pin
Costume Designer Emily Carlsen
Videographer Eric Rockey
Research Erica Howard
Logo Wing Fong

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas is thankful for support from Creative Capital's Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; 4Culture's King County Site-Specific Performance Network; Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts; and Jack Straw Productions

38 Aurora Borealis

睽 Kuí |¦|¦||

You warned me that the sun would set,
Aurora.

Your eyes were green as tropical vines.
Your skin as white as snow.
Fire and ice both leave burns.
This is why I glow.

Aurora, Aurora,
let me shimmer in your eyes.
Aurora, Aurora,
let me shimmy in your thighs.

I did not hear the arctic winds
blow across your perfect teeth.
I zippered up our sleeping bag
but icy floes ran underneath.

Aurora, Aurora,
let me shiver in surprise.
Miss Borealis,
why’d your passion die?

Please kiss me once again
under that sunroof.
Ev’ry star a scar upon my neck.


Libretto by Bret Fetzer