Laurie Anderson meets Sir David Attenborough in this NEW 90 minute show featuring 3 walls of stunning video, 2 live musicians, and 1 family's migration story told through the portal of a moth's life cycle. This is a truly immersive experience from the pre-show environmental soundbath to the booty-shaking AfterParty. Blending science, myth, personal story, art, and a genre-defying set list that ranges from Bach to KISS to Joni to Berlin electro-funk, the show finds connection between our human world and the natural world, leaving audiences inspired and thoroughly entertained.
The multimedia show, created by Grammy-nominated and Emmy winning producer, Peter Kiesewalter, debuted in New York in 2022. Since then, it has been presented at a variety of prestigious venues - from concert halls (National Arts Centre, the Long Center) and museums (Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum) to botanical gardens (Santa Fe Botanical Garden). Appearing on NPR's Science Friday, The MOTH PROJECT has garnered interest from science and environmental communities as well as anyone who enjoys a great story and good music. It is suitable for ALL ages.
The MOTH PROJECT traces the parallel journeys of a moth's life cycle and one family's migration to North America, probing the many ways we relate and connect to the natural world. By collaborating with interpretive naturalists, entomologists, biologists, graphic and video designers, the show bridges the divide between empirical data and our imagination by exploring the common themes that connect all living creatures - migration, seduction, death, and transformation.
PETER KIESEWALTER studied clarinet and saxophone performance at Ottawa University. He moved to New York City in 1997 and has worked as a touring/recording musician, composer, arranger, Music Director, and producer ever since, most notably with his East Village Opera Company project which signed to Decca/Universal in 2005, garnered much acclaim (“highbrow and brilliant” – New York Magazine Approval Matrix) and a GRAMMY nomination for their modernist take on classic Opera repertoire. He splits his time between Brooklyn with his three children and an upstate NY 18th century farmhouse that he bought and renovated with his partner Whitney La Grange.
WHITNEY LA GRANGE is from McAllen, TX. She received her Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School and attended Yale University on full scholarship in the Artists Diploma Program. She received her Master of Music Degree from the University of Illinois where she was on full scholarship and a teaching assistant. In NYC, she has enjoyed the variety of playing in orchestras (New York City Ballet, New York City Opera, Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra), on Broadway (Matilda, Flying Over Sunset, Camelot), chamber music (Blue Door String Quartet, Lautreamont String Quartet), and rock/pop gigs (Billy Joel, Jon Batiste, Janelle Monae, Darlene Love, Brian Wilson, Graham Nash, Josh Groban, Rod Stewart, Smokey Robinson, and touring with Natalie Merchant). When she’s not in NYC working, she spends time with Peter at their farmhouse in Sullivan County.