| I'll just get straight to it.... Shows to check out: Richard Foreman and John Zorn's opera ASTRONOME opens February 5th! discount code for Feb 26, Mar 1, 5 and 8 online or over the phone only Tuesday Talk-backs moderated by some super-stars from the next generation check out the reviews! NTUSA's Chautauqua @ Performance Space 122 now through March 15th. Benefit Month! These four companies are definitely deserving of your support and they are giving you a perfect excuse to support them with benefit parties this month! Object Collection: 1st Annual partybenefit, Friday March 6, 9pm-late @ Listen/Space Banana Bag & Bodice: The Beowulf Benefit, Saturday March 14th, 8pm-2am @ an undisclosed loft Space in TRIBECA - more info coming soon! NTUSA: Chautauqua Benefit Performance, Sunday March 8th, 530pm - 9pm @ PS122 Elevator Repair Service: Spring Benefit, Tuesday March 10th, 7pm-late @ Lucky Strike Lanes, Luxe Lounge - yep a bowling benefit! Training Opportunities: NY BUTOH-KAN TRAINING INITIATIVE PHASE 3 a joint effort of CAVE and Garnica LEIMAY (LEIMAY) check out details - sessions start April 3rd! Miranda Hardy is looking for two Lighting interns for the dates March 23 - April 1 to assist her on Red Fly Blue Bottle and on Banana Bag & Bodice's BEOWULF: A Thousand Years of Baggage. If you are interested or know anyone who might be please contact Miranda for more details! DCA:Free Training Sessions for Cultural Nonprofits The Mayor's Office of Contract Service's Capacity Building Oversight (CBO) unit hosts free classes on capacity building and oversight for nonprofit organizations. Courses offered include board governance, accounting, and auditing procedures. Registration is required. Read the Spring 2009 schedule. (Also if you don't know about this - the DCA has a cultural calendar and it is synched up with NYC&Co's tourism calendar. To list your events on the DCA's side just go here and enter your event. Note you have to plan ahead and enter your event at least 1 week before it happens.) Troika Ranch is holding another Live-I workshop: "Composition for Media and The Stage" Dates: June 9 - 12 and 15 - 20, 2009. Troika Ranch's Live-I Workshop is an intensive workshop for artists who wish to develop their ability to realize media intensive works for the stage. Application Deadline: April 10th, 2009 Calls for Submissions: PAPER THEATRE, publisher of PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS and DEVICE, announces an open submission period: January 23 - March 1, 2009. The Field's Emerging Artist Residency: Three months of rehearsal space in Chelsea, biweekly workshops, and a final performance showcase at Dance Theater Workshop!!! Deadline March 3rd - details (when you get to the page scroll down) Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) invites artists or curators (individuals or groups) of all levels of experience to submit exhibition proposals for realization in its gallery space in 2010. Deadline April 1 The Harpo Foundation gives grants to nonprofit institutions that support artists who are under-recognized by the field - get an organization to apply on your behalf. Deadline April 1 EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission 2009-2010: Open Call For Proporals Deadline MAY 1 Advocacy Made Easy: Last month I presented testimony to a City Council Cultural Affairs Hearing. Please check it out and shoot me feed-back or ideas you have or responses to the three solutions that I am suggesting be considered by the City and their partners in local cultural foundations and institutions. |
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ASTRONOME: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA a Richard Foreman/John Zorn music/theater collaboration. 
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February 5 - April 5, Tues & Thrs - Sun @ 8:00p@ the Ontological Theater Reviews:  New York Times - Ben Brantley Time Out New York - David Cote Village Voice - Tom Sellar Gothamist - John Del Signore Purchase Tickets DISCOUNT CODE: $15 artist tickets : ohtfriend online or over the phone only limited to the following dates: Thursday, Feb 26 Sunday, March 1 Thursday, March 5 Sunday, March 8 This is the historic first time collaboration for two MacArthur geniuses who have, individually, challenged, enlightened and entertained adventurous audiences for years. ASTRONOME: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA is a work dominated by ecstatic groans, grunts and babbling, and explores the initiation of a group of people into a world where ambiguous behavior alone leads to freedom--perhaps under the tutelage of the necessary "false messiah." NYC Cast: Karl Allen, Benjamin Forster, Fulya Peker, Eric Magnus, Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, Jamie Peterson, and Deborah Wallace View rehearsals (November 25 - February 4th) streamed by free103point9 Transmission Arts, every Wednesday, from 10a.m.--4:30p.m. TUESDAY TALK-BACKS After the show, Richard sits down with the cutting-edge artists of the next generation to talk about the show, art, and anything else that comes to mind. February 10: John Collins, Elevator Repair Service February 17: Sally Oswald, Paper Theater and Play a Journal of Plays February 24: David Herskovits, Target Margin March 3: Young Jean Lee, Young Jean Lee's Theater Company March 10: Scott Gillette, Radiohole March 31: Yehuda Duenyas, NTUSA |
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Object Collection 1st Annual partybenefit $10 CHEAP! for party. performances. music. films. party. booze. brooklyn. attractive people. booze. party. films. music. performances. party. WHEN: Friday March 6, 9pm-late WHERE: Williamsburg at the fabulous Listen/Space L train to Graham Ave/G Train to Metropolitan Ave Hosted by: Sarah Dahlen and Caitlin McDonough Thayer  Live performances by: Aaron Meicht, James Moore, Jennifer Walshe, Kevin Farrell, Peiyi Wong, Samara Naeymi/Brendan Regimbal, Miranda Hardy/Peter Ksander, Katie Porter Maxwell/Devin Maxwell, and others tbaRemote Skype-performances by: Eric km Clark (Los Angeles), Tim Parkinson (London, UK), John Lely (Bath, UK), James Orsher/Kerstin Fuchs (Berlin, Germany) Films by: Daniel Kötter, Aaron Schimberg, Francesco Gagliardi Kara Feely/Travis Just/Paula Matthusen collaboration from Art Basel Miami (P Diddy! Dinosaurs!) OC Gang of 13 Committee: Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, Caitlin McDonough Thayer, Sarah Dahlen, Francesco Gagliardi, Peter Ksander, Miranda Hardy, Vanessa McDonnell, Aaron Schimberg, Jessica Brater, Avi Glickstein, Peiyi Wong, Stacey Berman, Aaron Meicht www.objectcollection.us |
The National Theater of the United States of America WANTS YOU! shine your shoes and Save That Date! NTUSA BENEFIT! WHEN: SUNDAY MARCH 8, 2009, 5:30 - 9:00pm WHERE: Performance Space 122 for an important event benefitting the company and its new Educative Spectacular Chautauqua! Performances, Lectures, Very Special Guests, Delicious Food and Drink Dancing, Silent Auction, Raffles, Prizes, and More, More, More... |
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