Music for Theater
When working with theater artists, dancers, and interdisciplinary collaborators, I always have a strong focus on the human voice and how we can use it not only for singing but producing sounds to heighten storytelling. I also have a fascination with abandoned instruments (i.e. a rescued melodica and balalaika) and using found objects and body percussion to create soundscapes.
THROUGH THE EYES OF MY FEET
Voices Carry INC @ Santa Monica Bay Women’s Club
October 2022
Devised remotely via zoom during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Live sound design and performance on loop pedal by Anaís Azul
Written and directed by Raúl Avila
Visuals by Jorge Bordello
DIRECTED BY A. NORA LONG
SCENIC DESIGN BY DAN DALY
COSTUME DESIGN BY EMILY WOODSHOGUE
SOUND DESIGN AND COMPOSITION BY ANAÍS AZUL
LIGHTING DESIGN BYFRANK MEISSNER
HAIR AND WIG DESIGN BY AMBER VONER
INTIMACY AND FIGHT DIRECTION BY ANGIE JEPSON
STAGE MANAGED BY BETHANY RACHEL
Metamorphoses
Boston Conservatory at Berklee
December 12-15th, 2018
Theresa Lang, Director
Karen Perlow, Lighting Designer
Rachel Padula Shufelt, Costume Designer
Crystal Tiala, Set Designer
Anaís Azul, Composer and Sound Designer
Erin Kearney, Stage Manager
Performed by Boston Conservatory Students
More info on the process under Educator. Sample below.
Rob Brooksher and I teching The Seagull on site in Serenbe.
Elizabeth Dinkova, Director
Bubba Carr, Choreographer
An-lin Dauber, Costume Designer
Maranda DeBusk, Lighting Designer
Joel Coady, Production Manager and co-set designer
Barrett Doyle, Co-set designer
DISPLACED: A RESPONSE TO QURBAN
Boston Conservatory at Berklee
December 8th and 9th, 2017
Winner of the Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award and of the Outstanding Sound Design and Composition Award
Devised at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee
“Displaced: a response to Qurban” Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Directed by Mauricio Salgado
Costume Design by An-lin Dauber
Dramaturgy: James Montano
Composer: Anais Azul
Choreographer: Alli Ross
Stage Manager: Erin Kearney
Performers: Luis Mendoza, Shamarke Yusuf, Suzanne McDonald, Atlee Jensen, Victor Ventricelli, Galiya Zhangbyrshy
The performers were sophomore's of the Contemporary Theatre Program.
More info on Mauricio Salgado’s website.
Sound samples below.
7 Gorges
DanSe Theatre SurrealiTY
(in progress)
Directed by Lauren Hlubny, 7 Gorges is a dance theater work exploring concepts of being comfortable in your own skin, particularly as a woman identifying individual, in today's current climate. In this work, my role is as a composer, vocalist, and mover narrating the story of birds on a journey to find their loves
Untitled Workshop (playing around kitchen tables)
DVZED
(In progress)
Directed by Mauricio Salgado, this devised work deals with trauma and the many ways we repress it, express it and how it is triggered. The whole work happens within the span of a meal preparation. Stay tuned for NYC performance in 2019.
Creative Team:
An-lin Dauber (Designer)
Anaís Azul (Composer
Seth Numrich
Mauricio Salgado (Director)
Josiah Davis
Jayne McClendon
Chad Goodridge
Chelsea Ainsworth
Photos by Kyle Netzeband
Mundane Delirium
A Collaborative Senior Recital
October 22nd 2016
This collection of ten songs (composed by me, Anaís Azul) shows an internal voyage. I believe a musician is a vessel and messenger for social change. In a time where many of us feel helpless and numbed by how much violence is happening on a global level towards specific religious groups, races, sexual orientations, and cultures, I want to show that the psychological trauma and turmoil a human being feels is reflected in our mundane world and that in order for us to rest our mundane delirium we must heal from the inside out. We are microcosms and mirrors of our big picture reality.
Performers: Anaís Azul // Voice, Piano, Melodica - Aubrey Dube // Voice -David Baylies // Trumpet - Grace Wingler // Voice, Piano - Jamal Fairbanks // Piano, Guitar - Laura Hairgrove Randall // Flute - Lauren Extrom // Voice - Luke Bergamini //Electric Bass - Marisa Giangregorio // Clarinet - Nicolette Mingles // Voice - Sasha Buettner // Viola - Tae’Shaona Matthews // Voice - Yui Kitamura // Voice