About
Chinese restaurant deliveryman Kuang gets trapped in an elevator.
Working
at Happy Dragon Restaurant, he pays off his $60,000 debt to smugglers
for his passage from China to the United States; from a country touted
as the next global economic superpower to a country founded on the
ideals of democracy and freedom.
After three days, he emerges dehydrated and terrified into a New York media blitz.
Stuck
Elevator is an operatic solo performance prompted by this real-life
experience of an undocumented immigrant/indentured slave in 21st
century America.
Up Next
April 2010
NYU A/P/A Institute Events, New York
June 2010
Music Workshop Residency, New Haven
October 2010
Migration Symposium, New York
In Development
Stuck
Elevator is currently being developed by composer Byron Au Yong and
hip-hop playwright Aaron Jafferis as part of a 2009-2010 NYU A/P/A Intitute Artists-in-Residence Program.
Stuck Elevator is a project of Creative Capital with additional support from API/2, Artist Trust, and 4Culture.