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Digest: News for the week of October 5-10, 2009

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Featured: John Jesurun (NYC, USA)

October 5th, 2009

JOHN JESURUN is a playwright, director, designer living in New York. His presentations integrate elements of language, film, architectural space and media. His exploded narratives cover a wide range of themes.

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In Performance: Creature Feature #3 (Berlin, Germany)

October 6th, 2009

We propose that performing otherness is a threshold towards repositioning our habitual understanding of queer ideals. Creature Feature will work to create an intimate space for performing dispossession, rapture, monstrosity, flamboyance, glitter, hysteria and general ecstatic irrationality.

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Announcement: Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974 at Exile Ausstellungsraum (Berlin, Germany)

October 7th, 2009

The exhibition Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974 brings together photographs by Gwenn Thomas and a film by Birgit Hein, both documenting a performance by Jack Smith in the Cologne Zoo as part of Projekt 74 organized by Kunsthalle Köln.

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Featured: Mia Makela (Finland)

October 8th, 2009

Mia Makela (SOLU) is a finnish media+live cinema artist, teacher, investigator, curator and cultural activist residing in Berlin.

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Books: Art of Projection (Stan Douglas & Christopher Eamons)

October 9th, 2009

[amazonify]3775723706[/amazonify] Ten essays, written by leading art historians and critics, including Stan Douglas, Mieke Bal and Beatriz Colomina, address precedents for the projection of images in space, including nineteenth-century magic lantern shows and the novel spatial/temporal representations pioneered by Surrealists and experimental filmmakers during the early and mid-twentieth century.

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Featured: Mia Makela (Finland)

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[singlepic id=194 w= h= float=left]Mia Makela (SOLU) is a finnish media+live cinema artist, teacher, investigator, curator and cultural activist residing in Berlin.

Her trajectory has led her from shamanistic studies to art. From art to media art and design. From media art to organization of events and workshops on contemporary digital culture. As part of fiftyfifty.org collective (until 2002), she organized Hacker Techniques workshops, Gameboy Sound Lab and Playtime event amongst other activities.

She started performing visuals in 2001 as SOLU at festivals around the world: SONIC ACTS (Amsterdam), SONAR (Barcelona), TRANSMEDIALE (Berlin), ZAGREB BIENNALE OF MUSIC, CIMATICS (Brussels), AVIT (Birmingham), MAPPING (Geneve), TRANSIT_MX (Mexico City), Live Cinema Nights (San Jose), Pixelache (Helsinki), ARS ELECTRONICA (Linz), BYTEME (Perth), MONKEY TOWN (NYC), ROXY BAR & SCREEN (London), STATE OF IMAGE (Arnhem), FESTIVAL POMLADI (Ljubljana), LARM (Stockholm)…. . She has collaborated with many experimental musicians including ARBOL, Heidi Mortenson, Dj Rupture and worked with theaters (Conservas, Dani Panullo Dance theater)

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Her work has been described as “A dark delirium of images, a disintegrated vision on a complex world – a digital version of William Blake’s poetry”. Her style ranges from minimal abstractions to multilayered compositions following a dreamlike narrative journey. She processes her visual material with MAX/MSP/JITTER, Isadora and Modul8.

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She has given lectures and written articles on various themes including live cinema, VJng, robots, audiovisual and digital culture and tactical sound. In 2006 she published her thesis on LIVE CINEMA language and elements, (Media laboratory, Helsinki) which gathers her experience on real-time visuals. The following year she edited widely distributed special issue on LIVE CINEMA for a:minima magazine/ book. Her latest workshop titled ”Audiovisual Real- time Creation” took place in Spain, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Finland and Mexico.

Announcement: Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974 at Exile Ausstellungsraum (Berlin, Germany)

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Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974
Exile Ausstellungsraum
Alexandrinenstr 4
October 10 – November 1, 2009

[singlepic id=193 w= h= float=left]The exhibition Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974 brings together photographs by Gwenn Thomas and a film by Birgit Hein, both documenting a performance by Jack Smith in the Cologne Zoo as part of Projekt 74 organized by Kunsthalle Köln.

Jack Smith (1932-1989), while often under-recognized, is clearly one of the most influential artists of American postwar Art. He was arguably the inventor of an aesthetics which came to be known as ‘camp’ and ‘trash’, using no-budget means of production to create a visual cosmos heavily influenced by popular film and kitsch culture. Without Smith it is hard to imagine independent cinema, experimental theater and performance art in its current form. His highly political and critical views disregarded essentially all notions of artistic production while his affinity for popular culture and his ability to transform the every day into art lead the way to what was later labeled Pop Art. Smith’s artistic practice was a major influence on filmmakers and artists such as David Lynch, John Waters, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Anderson and Andy Warhol who describes Smith as “the only person I would ever copy.”

In 1974, Birgit Hein produced a feature on Smith for the influential TV program Kino 74 on German TV Station WDR. Thomas went to Cologne to document Smith’s performance for the New York-based avant-garde magazine Avalanche.

Hein’s and Thomas’ works show a costumed Smith and reveal the artist in a comical yet serious project critical of the implications of national boundaries, landlords and the concept of rent. Thomas’ black and white photographs are organized as a cinematic sequence and give a intricate insight into Jack Smith’s work. Hein’s beautifully shot documentary feature introduced Smith to a larger audience well before he was recognized in the United States. Both their powerful documentations stand for themselves as artistic works as much as they offer a unique insight into the work and persona of Jack Smith.

Birgit Hein is a German film director, producer and screenwriter who has made experimental films since the 1960s. Hein has won many prestigious Awards and her films have been screened at festivals worldwide. She lives and works in Berlin.

Thomas’ artworks have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the US and abroad. Her work is included in many public and private collections, among them the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia as well as numerous private collections. She lives and works in New York.

The exhibition is produced in cooperation with LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World from October 28 – November 1, 2009 at Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art and Hebbel Am Ufer Theater in Berlin.

Related Books:

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In Performance: Creature Feature #3 (Berlin, Germany)

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Creature Feature #3
Tuesday October 6th @ 21:00
Basso Berlin

[singlepic id=192 w= h= float=left]Creature Feature; a queer performance series presenting works in progress, improvisations, videos, lectures and group actions in the intimate and informal setting of the Basso. We propose that performing otherness is a threshold towards repositioning our habitual understanding of queer ideals. Creature Feature will work to create an intimate space for performing dispossession, rapture, monstrosity, flamboyance, glitter, hysteria and general ecstatic irrationality.

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Performing:

Creature Feature Group Warm Up –

Jeremy Wade and Brendan Dougherty – Improvisation

Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot – excerpts from “What they are instead of”

Gavin Russom – Archive Video Presentation of Black Leotard Front

Todd McQuade – Solo

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Directions to Basso:

Basso – Directions – 187 Kopenicker Str. enter through courtyard
Metro – Schlesisches Tor

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Jeremy will hold an improvisation/exploration workshop titled “articulating disorientation” October 12 – 16, 12 to 18:00 every day@ The Hebbel am Ufer. For more info please contact him at info@jeremywade.de.

Featured: John Jesurun (NYC, USA)

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John Jesurun is writer, director and multi-media artist, based in a New York, USA. His work Chang in a Void Moon is a live serial running since 1983, originally at the Pyramid Club in the East Village, and now less frequently at venues worldwide. He was born 1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan.

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Jesurun received his B.F.A. from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1972 and his M.F.A. in Sculpture from Yale University in 1974.

From 1976 ro 1979 Jesurun was a television content analyst for CBS. From 1979 to 1982 he was assistant producer of the Dick Cavett Show. In 1982 he began his theatrical career at the Pyramid Club on the Lower East Side with his serial play Chang in a Void Moon. Since 1984 he has written, directed and designed over 25 pieces.

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Jesurun’s presentations integrate elements of language, film, architectural space and media. His exploded narratives cover a wide range of themes and explore the relation of form to content, challenging the experience of verbal, visual and intangible perceptions. His work features integrated creation of the text, direction, set and media design.

Jesurun’s company has toured extensively in Europe and the United States. His work has been produced and presented by numerous venues including La Mama, the Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, the Walker Arts Center, On the Boards, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Wexner Center, Kampnagel Theater, Prater Theater, National Theatre of Mexico, Mickery Theater, Theater am Turm, Granada Festival, Eurokaz Zagreb, Bogota International Festival,Vienna Festival,Kyoto Performing Arts Center and Spoleto USA. His short films have been shown at festivals and alternative spaces in Europe and the US.
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Works:

1982-83- Chang in a Void Moon episodes #1-36, Bird’s Eye View, Non Chang pieces
1984 – Dog’s Eye View, Number Minus One, Red House, Chang in a Void Moon, episodes #37-42
1985 – Shatterhand Massacree
1986 – Deep Sleep, White Water
1987 – Black Maria
1988 – Chang in a Void Moon, episodes #43-45
1989 – Sunspot
1990 – Everything that Rises Must Converge
1991 – Blue Heat
1992 – Iron Lung
1993 – Southern Cross, Point of Debarkation
1994 – Slight Return, Pearly Iridescent, Joan D’Ark
1995 – Chang in a Void Moon, episodes #46-50
1996 – Faust/How I Rose
1997 – After Image, Chang in a Void Moon, episodes #51-52
1999 – Land of the Living
2000 – Snow
2003 – Bardo, Chang in a Void Moon, episodes #53-55
2005 – Septet, part 1, Stoned Love, Chang in a Void Moon, episode #56
2006 – Septet, part 2, Firefall
2007 – PHILOKTETES

New Work:

LIZ ONE By John Jesurun
With Black-Eyed Susan and Ben Forster

October 14-31, 2009
The Chocolate Factory
5-49 49TH AVE.
Long Island City, NY

Black-Eyed Susan plays Elizabeth I of England as revealed through her private diaries. She struggles with a revolving set of presences to disentangle, un-write and finally rewrite her own biography.

Books:

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Digest: News for the week of September 28-October 4, 2009

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Digest: News for the week of September 28-October 4, 2009

Books: Digital Performance – A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation

October 3rd, 2009

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Featured: Reza Abdoh (1963-1995)

October 2nd, 2009

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Highlights: On The Boards (Seattle, Washington)

October 1st, 2009

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Featured: Lindy Annis (Berlin, Germany)

September 30th, 2009

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Play With Fire: Festival of Video Art, Performance and Design (NYC)

September 29th, 2009

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Featured: Ash Bulayev (Athens, Greece)

September 28th, 2009

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Highlights: On The Boards (Seattle, Washington)

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On The Boards (Seattle, Washington)

On the Boards is a non-profit contemporary performing arts organization located in the lower Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. Founded by artists in 1978, their programming supports the development of artists and companies who are creating ground-breaking new work that would otherwise not be seen in Seattle.

We were among the first organizations in the country to present and premiere breakthrough performances by visionary, internationally recognized artists such as Laurie Anderson, Bill T. Jones, Spalding Gray, The Wooster Group, dumb type, Needcompany, Sankai Juku, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and many others.

Similarly, we have supported some of the first performances by talented regional artists like 33 Fainting Spells, Sarah Rudinoff, Maureen Whiting Company, Seattle Chamber Players, Allen Johnson, locust, and “Awesome,” all of whom have gone on to build a significant national following. As the first organization to present these and other emerging artists in the Northwest, OtB plays a vital role in the regional and national cultural ecology.

From 1978 to 1998, OtB presented programs in the historic Washington Hall in Seattle’s Central District. OtB moved into its current space in 1998 and now presents more than 40 shows over 100 performance nights each year in 2 theaters. Our 300-seat Merrill Wright Mainstage Theater and our intimate 84-seat Studio Theater are both equipped with state-of-the-art technology.

DIANA SZEINBLUM (Buenos Aires)
ALASKA

[singlepic id=177 w= h= float=]After 6 years at the top of OtB’s programming wish list, Argentinean choreographer Diana Szeinblum finally makes her Seattle debut with Alaska, a sensual portrayal of memory and loneliness featuring 4 gorgeous dancers. Szeinblum uses dark humor, extreme physicality, original music and a minimal set to create a beautiful spectacle that gravitates between uneasy stillness and violent frenzy. Her career began with the prestigious contemporary Ballet of the San Martin General Theater and continued at the Folkwang Tanz Schule, where she danced under the artistic direction of Pina Bausch. Her performances have toured across Europe, Asia and the US.

November 5-8, 2009 at 8pm

BRUNO BELTRÃO | GRUPO DE RUA (Rio de Janeiro)
H3

[singlepic id=178 w= h= float=]Stripped of the posturing and booming bass associated with hip hop, Bruno Beltrão’s H3 mines the movement vocabulary of the streets of Rio de Janeiro without the usual cultural baggage. The Brazilian choreographer’s company Grupa de Rua features 9 male dancers performing hypnotizing solos, duets and group work while incorporating elements of krumping, popping and floor-spins against a sparse electronic soundtrack ranging from classical music to sampled loops of the dancer’s screeching shoes. A hot ticket on the international festival circuit, H3 originally premiered at the Kunsten Festival des Arts (Belgium) and has been performed at such
venues as Festival TransAmériques (Montreal), Sadler Well’s (London), Singapore Arts Festival and Fest mit Pina (Berlin).

January 28-31, 2010

RIMINI PROTOKOLL (Berlin)
BEST BEFORE

[singlepic id=179 w= h= float=]Each spectator in Best Before is a single pixel or anonymous avatar in the creation of virtual city. Over the course of the performance, a simulated city begins to emerge as the audience controls the fate of the 200 people gathered in the theater. The game is introduced, framed and commented on by “experts from daily life” who make their living as renegade game developers and city workers who present danger signs in urban traffic. Those who play decide the outcome of this community and whether it will survive or collapse. Founded in 2000, Rimini Protokoll has created over 20 new works of theater, often using non-actors and non-theatrical spaces and is recognized as being among the leaders and creators of the theatre movement known as “Post Dramatic Theater” (Theater der Zeit).

May 6-9, 2010

View the full season here.

Featured: Lindy Annis (Berlin, Germany)

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Lindy Annis

Lindy AnnisLindy Annis was born in Boston, U.S.A. She studied acting and theater at New York University (Experimental Theatre Wing): Bachelor of Arts/Drama. She moved to Berlin, Germany where she works as performance artist, theater author and other related roles.

She has worked with such people as Tim Miller, The Wooster Group, Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks, Anne Bogart, Detektor, Xavier Le Roy, Antonia Baehr, Dr. Motte, Kurt Palm, Frieder Butzmann, Marie Goyette, Hans Peter Kuhn, Nicholas Bussmann, and others.

Since January 2009 she sits on the board of the Milchhof Artist’s Working Collective.

Performance Works:

Warburgs Memo – 2008
My Ulysses – 2007
Nom d’une Pipe – 2006/2007
Lady Hamiltons Attitudes – 2004
SHORTS – 2002
An American Tragedy – 2004
Salome 7 – 1998
The Paternoster Triology – 1990-1992
SEX – 2005
ARCADIA – 2006

Website:

www.lindyannis.net

Play With Fire: Festival of Video Art, Performance and Design (NYC)

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Play With Fire
Festival of Video Art, Performance and Design

This festival brings together video artists, performers and designers who progress their field by finding new applications for video!

Play with Fire is a platform for discussing the common set-backs and advantages of working with video while celebrating its forms by hosting a series of performances and a competition of live video editing. Also, learn a new tool for live video manipulation during a demonstration and workshop in Modul8, a software used across disciplines.

Date:

November 14-21, 2009

Location:

Panel Discussions, Workshops and Artist Demonstrations
Harvestworks
596 Broadway #602
NY NY 10012
phone 212.431.1130

Live Video Performance:
TBD

Call for Submissions:

All Submissions: playwithfirefestival@gmail.com

Deadline: October 15, 2009

If you are an artist or designer who uses video outside “the box” we want you to participate at Play With Fire!
We are seeking submissions for AV performances, installations, panel discussions, VJs, workshops or other video based projects to present or discuss.

Please send us a proposal and a description of your history and relationship to video. Weblinks, video or images of your work are also welcome and help us get a better sense of your background.

Featured: Ash Bulayev (Athens, Greece)

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Ash Bulayev

[singlepic id=176 w= h= float=]Ash Bulayev is an independent director/choreographer and media artist, and is a co-Artistic Director of amorphy.org (www.amorphy.org) in collaboration with choreographer Tzeni Argyriou. He has lived in New York City from 1991-2003, where he has created multiple original productions ranging from site-specific/multi-location work, interactive installations to dance/theater projects which where presented in U.S.A., Spain, Germany, Egypt, Portugal, Bulgaria, Holland, and Greece.

From 2003 until 2009 he worked and lived in Greece, where with amorphy.org he has presented: ʻAlphaOmegaʼ (2008) – Athens (Greece); ʻSee You in Walhalla” (2006/7) – Athens, Amsterdam, Sofia and Athens Festival; ʻInvisible Cities 1.0ʼ (2005) – 12th Naples Biennale (Italy), Theater of Neos Kosmos (Greece); ʻBut Secretly We Thirstʼ (2005) – MAD Festival (Athens); ʻPsycho/Cycleʼ (2004) – Dock 11 (Berlin), Theater Semio (Greece); ʻSheddingʼ (2004) – InteraktionsLabor (Germany); ʻ1,170,694ʼ (2004) – Site-Specific Work (Greece);

He has been awarded and participated in several Artist-in-Residency programs and fellowships: PACT Zollverien (2005) – Essen, Germany; InteraktionsLabor Media Lab (2004, 2006) – Germany; HERE Arts Center (2002 – 2003) – New York City.

In 2006/7, he was the Project Initiator and Research Director for the EU Culture 2000 funded project i-MAP (Integration of Media and Performance).

Since 2005 he began a collaboration with designer Christopher Brellis (www.antidot.gr) on various projects.

Since 2006 amorphy.org is funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture

Selected Performance Works:

Alpha/Omega – 2007/2008

See you in Walhalla – 2006/2007

Invisible Cities – 2005

1,170,694 – 2005

Psycho/Cycle – 2004

Website:

www.ashbulayev.com

In Performance: Saburo Teshigawara’s Glass Tooth (Tokyo, Japan)

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Saburo Teshigawara’s Glass Tooth

Pieces of glass reflect the fragment of time. Bodies confront, waver in unquantifiable contradictions amplify and explore the unknown aesthetics. Accompanied by prominent KARAS dancers, Saburo Teshigawara performs on a massive square made of countless broken glass pieces.
Premiered in Tokyo, on 15th, 16th, 17th December 2006.

Currently on tour.

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Credits:

Duration: 70 min. (with intermission)
Production: KARAS (Tokyo)
Co-production: The New National Theatre (Tokyo)
Choreography, Set design, Lighting Design, Costume: Saburo Teshigawara
Artistic collaboration: Kei Miyata
Choreography assistant: Rihoko Sato

On Tour

Romaeuropa Festival
Auditorium Conciliazione / Rome, Italy
2nd October, 2009
www.romaeuropa.net

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Saburo Teshigawara

Saburo Teshigawara began his unique creative career in 1981 in his native Tokyo after studying plastic arts and classic ballet. In 1985, he formed KARAS with Kei Miyata and started group choreography and their own activities. Since then, he and KARAS have been invited every year to perform in major international cities around the world.

In addition to solo performances and his work with KARAS, Teshigawara has also been receiving international attention as a choreographer/director. In 1994/95 he choreographed for the Ballet Frankfurt at the invitation of William Forsythe, “Le Sacre du Printemps” for the Bayern National Ballet in 1999, Netherland Dance Theater I in 2000. In February 2003, Teshigawara was invited to choreograph a new piece “AIR” for the Paris Opera. Also for the Ballet du Grand,Théâtre de Genève, choreographed“Para-Dice” in 2002, recently “VACANT” in May 2006.

Teshigawara has likewise received increasing international attention in the visual arts field, with art exhibitions, films / videos as well as designing scenography, lighting and costume for all his performances.

Teshigawara’s keenly honed sculptural sensibilities and powerful sense of composition, command of space and his decisive dance movements all fuse to create a unique world that is his alone. Keen interests in music and space have led him to create site-specific works, and collaboration with various types of musicians.

Besides the continuous workshops at the KARAS studio in Tokyo, Saburo Teshigawara has been involved in many education projects. S.T.E.P. (Saburo Teshigawara Education Project) has been initiated since 1995 with partners in the UK, bringing out performances as a culmination of year-long projects. In 2004, he was selected as the mentor of dance for The Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, to work for one year with a chosen protégé. Since 2006, he has begun a professorship at the Department of Expression Studies, the College of Contemporary Psychology, St. Paul’s (Rikkyo) University in Japan, where he teaches movement theory and conduct workshops. Through these various projects, Saburo Teshigawara continues to encourage and inspire young dancers, together with his creative work.

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Highlights: Prelude09 (NYC)

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Prelude 09
Presented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY, the sixth-annual Prelude Festival celebrates the explorers and visionaries of NYC’s theatre and performance scene. Below are some highlights of the 3 day festival.

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Dan Safer / Witness Relocation
The Panic Show
Thursday, October 1
4-4.30pm | Elebash Hall

The Panic Show dives into Panic. Panic attacks, mass hysteria, the stress of being late to the airport, trying to “get a hold of yourself”, fight or flight, and self help and relaxations techniques, as well as material inspired by “Panic Room”, that mess of a film starring Jodie Foster. It is a wild ride with dances, dark confessions, confetti blown through a fan, people getting shoved inside boxes, and real time performance tasks that both refer to panic and actually cause it in the performers.

Witness Relocation combines dance & theater with the energy of a rock show, exploding contemporary culture into intensely physical, outrageous, poetic, and sometimes brutal performances in order to question the assumptions of the modern day experience. The company formed in 2000 and is led by director/choreographer Dan Safer. They’ve created over ten original productions, engaged in a two year residency at the renowned Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, and performed in theaters, nightclubs, rock videos, and on a Thai TV Soap Opera. They are based in New York City, and work internationally.

John Jesurun + Black-Eyed Susan
Liz One
Thursday, October 1
5.30-6pm | Segal Theatre

Black-Eyed Susan plays Elizabeth I of England as revealed through her private diaries. She struggles with a revolving set of presences to disentangle, un-write and finally rewrite her own biography. These intensely reflected histories include her perceptions regarding her five estranged children, their fathers, her own father, her hidden relationship with Buddhism and finally her disastrous attempt to invade North Africa. She inter-reacts with the kaleidoscopic array of ideas and characters through Jesurun’s multi-dimensional use of language and video. Jesurun and Black-Eyed Susan are long time collaborators having first worked together in Jesurun’s 1984 production of Red House.

Black-Eyed Susan was an original member of Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Has appeared in work by Ethyl Eichelberger, Stuart Sherman, Mabou Mines, Roslyn Drexler, Jim Neu, Charles Allcroft, Stephanie Fleischmann, John Jahnke.

John Jesurun: Writer,Director,Designer. Chang in a Void Moon, Deep Sleep,Faust/How I Rose. Guggenheim, MacArthur, Rockefeller fellowships. Recent work: Philoktetes /Soho Rep,Harry Partch’s Opera Delusion of the Fury/Japan Society. Firefall/Dance Theater Workshop. Two new collections of texts on PAJ and NoPassport Press.

Bruce High Quality Foundation
Art History with Benefits
Friday, October 2
4.45-5.15pm | Segal Theatre

Art History with Benefits continues a series of educational works produced by the Bruce High Quality Foundation. These works aim to invest educational materials with the creative metaphors of art, to further the agenda of a regenerative pedagogy, and liberate arts education from the ballistics of professionalism. They were conceived within the bigger set of educational concerns that contextualize the opening of the BHQFU, a tuition-free, unaccredited art school starting this fall in NYC.

The Bruce High Quality Foundation, the official arbiter of the estate of Bruce High Quality, is dedicated to the preservation of the legacy of the late social sculptor, Bruce High Quality. In the spirit of the life and work of Bruce High Quality, we aspire to invest the experience of public space with wonder, to resurrect art history from the bowels of despair, and to impregnate the institutions of art with the joy of man’s desiring. Professional Challenges. Amateur Solutions.

Jay Scheib
Bellona, Destroyer of Cities
Saturday, October 3
4.15-4.45pm | Elebash Hall

Following Untitled Mars, the first installment of his trilogy: Simulated Cities/Simulated Systems, Jay Scheib directs Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, based on Samuel Delany’s epic science-fiction masterpiece Dhalgren. A second moon has appeared in the sky, the sun swells, and somehow this once mediocre city is now filled with burning buildings, sexual outlaws, and streets that rearrange themselves— and about to be forgotten forever.

Featuring:
Jay Scheib, Director; Tanya Selvaratnam, Producer; Peter Ksander, Scenic Design; Miranda k Hardy, Light; Oana Botez Ban, Clothes; Catherine McCurry, Sound; Performed by Sarita Choudhury, Caleb Hammond, Mikéah Ernest Jennings, Jon Morris, April Sweeney, Natalie Thomas, and Greg Zuccolo

Jay Scheib’s upcoming productions include Evan Ziporyn’s new opera A House in Bali at Cal Performances in Berkeley, Puntila und sein Knecht Matti at Theater Augsburg, Germany and Bellona, Destroyer of Cities at The Kitchen in New York. Recent productions in New York include the Obie Award-winning Untitled Mars (This Title May Change), This Place is a Desert, and Addicted to Bad Ideas. Scheib is Associate Professor of Theater at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Radiohole
WHA!? Whatever, Heaven Allows
Saturday, October 3
7.15-7.45pm | Elebash Hall

WHA!? Whatever, Heaven Allows bends the theatrical melodrama taking as it’s point of reference Douglas Sirk’s 1955 film All that Heaven Allows and exploring the language and themes of Paradise Lost.

Featuring: Eric Dyer, Erin Douglass, Maggie Hoffman, Joseph Silovsky, Mark Jaynes, Aaron Harrow.

Radiohole is a collaborative founded in 1998 by Maggie Hoffman, Scott Halvorsen Gillette, Erin Douglass and Eric Dyer. The company is based in Brooklyn. Radiohole has performed at PS122, the Collapsable Hole and around Europe. It’s most recent work, ANGER/ NATION, was performed at the Kitchen in September 2008. WHA!? Whatever, Heaven Allows is the companies 10th work. Radiohole’s work is situated in the liminal space between theater, art and party. The company is know for making elaborate use of high technology in the lowest manner.

View Prelude09’s full schedule here.

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