Artist / Director Laine Rettmer
Composer John Aylward

This new operetta is about a surreal meeting between Leda (from the myth Leda and the Swan) and Kurt Cobain. As they interact in a fantastical liminal state, they come to terms with issues surrounding how cultural mythologies propagate negative stereotypes around sexual assault and normalize it.

White Rush (2018) 30′
Concept by Laine Rettmer
Book by Laine Rettmer and John Aylward
Score by John Aylward
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Premiere: AREA Gallery, Boston
David Guerra, Gallerist

Leda, Aliana de la Guardia
Kurt Cobain, Laine Rettmer
Live Electronics, Tyler Adamthwaite

Photography: Jonathan Dana