Animal Cracker Conspiracy, San Diego Symphony String Quartet, Day Of Music, San Diego, 9-29-2024

The San Diego Symphony welcomed artists and arts organizations from across the San Diego-Tijuana region to celebrate by performing at Day Of Music. They highlighted the opening of the Jacobs Music Center, which has undergone a 3-year, $125 million renovation.
ARTISTS
Animal Cracker Conspiracy
San Diego Symphony String Quartet
PROGRAM
W.A. MOZART: String Quartet No. 8 in F Major, K. 168, mvt. 2
ALEXANDRA GARDNER: Coyote Turns, mvt. 1
SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122: V. Hum. Allegro
TERRY RILEY: Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector
CAROLINE SHAW: Entr’Acte
PHILIP GLASS: String Quartet No. 2 “Company”
RAVEL: Quartet in F Major, mvt. II Assez Vif - Très Rythmé
DVORAK: String Quartet No. 12, Op. 96 “American”, mvt. 2
JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Strum
ROSTER
Animal Cracker Conspiracy
Bridget Rountree - Director, Co-puppet designer
Iain Gunn - Co-director, puppet designer, puppeteer
Lucy Forton - Actor
Gordon Gohstway - Actor
Eliana Payne - Actor
Frida Villeda - Actor
Molly Maslak - Shadow puppeteer
Haley Brousseau - Stilt walker
Abbey Youngs - Stilt walker, puppeteer
Chris Guzman - Giant puppeteer
Jason Johnson - Giant puppeteer
San Diego Symphony String Quartet
Evan Pasternak, violin
Xiaoxuan Shi, violin
Rebecca Matayoshi, viola
Nathan Walhout, cello
ABOUT
San Diego-based artists Iain Gunn and Bridget Rountree are Animal Cracker Conspiracy (ACC), a contemporary hybrid puppet company invested in peering under the surface of things and pushing the boundaries of kinetic performance. Joining forces in 2004, they create performances that decenter expectations, open new avenues of thought, and invoke the uncanny. Their ongoing practice is based on a shared interest and exploration of where fine art, puppetry, performance art, physical theater, film and mixed media intersect. Traversing abstractions of movement from the material to the immaterial, folk to contemporary, and intellectual to intuitive, ACC actively cultivates the suspension of disbelief by embracing the unknown and using the manipulation of puppets to create original stories. ACC has participated in numerous national and international artist residencies, conferences, exhibitions and workshops at such institutions as La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Symphony, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, ArtPower, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. They have received support from the Prebys Foundation, San Diego Foundation, Jim Henson Foundation, Guthman Foundation, the Heather Beth Henson Fund and The Puppet Slam Network.