Anna Luisa Petrisko: All Time Stop Now @ On the Boards (Seattle – Lower Queen Anne)

Framed by recorded conversations between Petrisko and her best friend, experimental opera All Time Stop Now is a contemplation on listening, impermanence, and kinship. A chosen family invokes a spell to stop time. In this suspended reality, they grapple with their existence in a time-based world as they search for ways to rest, heal, and feel joy.

The stage morphs into a “spacetime playground.” Hypersaturated video, projection mapping, sculpture, dance, and new original music from Anna Luisa Petrisko’s latest release on Practical Records transform the senses. Her signature prism of mutant pop yields spiritually-infused anthems that encompass beauty, sorrow, and discovery. Each movement is framed by recorded conversations between Petrisko and her best friend, a Buddhist nun, who was living in a monastery in Myanmar. The vulnerable exchanges run in parallel to the story, serving as a larger meditation on the need for human connection. All Time Stop Now asks, how can we reject the scarcity of time and just be present? How can we accept grief, while also experiencing joy? Can we stop time and just listen?

Written and Directed by Anna Luisa Petrisko, in collaboration with performers Peter Hernández, Mark Golamco, and Josephine Shetty.

Tickets ($33) here.