Tying together orthodoxies from performance artists and opera singers in Los Angeles, to actors from Chicago, to local theater productions and music ensembles, Sean Griffin's Cold Spring presents a multi-faceted musical theater experience. Beginning with a historical reinterpretation of tests and research from the 1920's American Eugenics Archive, the performance moves through dismantled traditional American plays and dances featured in the Hudson Valley; explores theatrical interpretations of Robert Schumann's Liederkreis, Op.39; and restages hypnosis recordings from the 1964 Betty and Barney Hill abduction case. With a special appearance by the RPI Cheer Squad, Cold Spring culminates in a choral rhapsody that weaves these often conflicting performance styles into a complex, sometimes humorous, sometimes frightening operatic spectacle.