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Between the Seas Festival of Mediterranean Performing arts in NYC July 22-28

The most cutting-edge Mediterranean artists are back in NYC!

 

Between the Seas Festival is back in the city for its third edition. From July 22nd- 28th at The Wild Project Between the Seas will be presenting cutting edge, political performances from Europe and the Middle East, interdisciplinary works and original productions of contemporary Mediterranean theater.

Some of this year’s highlights include:

  • City State by the Greek theater company Kanigunda, an original performance “transforming history into living matter” (North American premiere)
  • Suite Camus by Brooklyn based Andreas Arnold, a multimedia music performance on A. Camus (USA premiere)
  • Amongst Millions, by Pedro Goucha Gomes, an intense dance piece responding to the crisis experienced in Southern Europe
  • Eyes, by the Arab-Hebrew theater of Jaffa, a musical-theatrical journey based on the poetry of Mahmood Darwish
  • Redshift by Y. Mavritsakis, one of Europe’s most original theater voices, “a major contemporary poet” (World premiere produced by Between the Seas)

And as always, BTS brings a diverse program of contemporary dance from Spain, Italy and the US by new and returning choreographers such as Vanessa Tamburi, Rebeca Tomas, Korhan Basaran, Amos Pinhasi and more! Tickets are $20 (general) and $15 for students/seniors. Tickets and schedule available here (https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/621/1372723200000)

For more information visit: www.betweentheseas.org

For inquiries email: [email protected]

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Caden Manson is a director, media artist, and teacher. He is co-founder of the media ensemble bigartgroup.com and network, blog, and publisher, contemporaryperformance.com. He has co-created, directed, video- and set designed 18 Big Art Group productions. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, NYC, and Portland; performed PAIN KILLER in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; Taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; the ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS122, and Wexner Center for The Arts. Caden is a 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. Writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit. Caden is currently an associate professor and graduate directing option coordinator of The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

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