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Richard Foreman and John Zorn's opera ASTRONOME opens February 5th!
ON-LINE Auction of Foremanized Art Objects (aka props)!
Donor Reception Feb 7th
Tuesday Talk-backs moderated by some super-stars from the next generation
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
Check out reviews!: NYTimes, Time Out NY, Village Voice, Gothamist
the National Theater of the United States of America's CHAUTAUQUA!
March @ Performance Space 122
Read the testimony I gave January 29th
for the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations
Urge Congress to Include the Arts in the National Economic Recovery Plan: This is really easy and takes two minutes. Here's the content of letter I sent (.rtf), if you want to just copy and paste
APAP/ISPA - holy moly: everyone and their sister is performing something. Go look have a see:
PS122's roster includes the following MUST SEEs:
Joseph Silovsky
Temporary Distortion (code: NAKED for $10 tickets!)
Reid Farrington (@ 3LD Art & Technology Center - 3-FER includes 3-Legged Dog and Troika Ranch),
and the TEAM (@ the Public)
But other things are also happening worth checking out like:
Jan 7 - 12: Moving Theater's Last Dance
Jan 9th: Addicted To Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century
Co-Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib
Jan 9 & 10: The Japan Society's Contemporary Dance Showcase
which has a piece by Ko & Edge Co (a company founded by butoh Master Ko Murobushi along with 3 dancers) as well as a few other cool looking pieces by other Japanese and East Asian artists.
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2008
Thrs Oct 9 830PM @ Chez Bushwick: The Field hosts their third and final intervention session in their new program, Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists (ERPA). This panel is titled Artist or Cultural Entrepreneur? and includes Ryan Fix the pure project, Lara Galinsky Echoing Green, and Jmy/JM/Jm/Jbird/Jamm Leary, with Morgan von Prelle Pecelli as Moderator
October 10 - 19 10PM Woof Nova opens Tongues & Hearts @ LaMAMA: In their latest theatrical exploration Tongues and Hearts, Woof Nova explores humanity’s sublime, contentious and ever-evolving relationship with the natural world through a series of unfolding images. Woof Nova is made up of Temple Crocker, Annie Kunjappy, Daniel Allen Nelson and Morgan von Prelle Pecelli. They function as co-creators, co-directors, designers and performers.
First three weekends in October: EMPAC go check it out if you can - up at RPI.
Sept 28 730PM Nowhere...wind filled, noise: a solo performance piece at the CAVE 58 Grand Street in Williamsburg, as part of their FERMENT SERIES.
Sept 24 - 27 PRELUDE 08!: www.preludenyc.org A FREE mini-festival and symposium of the very best theatre and performance by NYC-based artists and companies at the MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER, THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER: Read the Dramaturgical Essay here. Check out the Panels, see the art and join us in conversations about the role and value of theater and performance within the context of New York City's various arts institutions.
*LNB related artists to check out: The Paper Industry (Fri 545PM) and Banana Bag & Bodice (Sat 530PM)
And of course the maestro himself Richard Foreman (Fri 2-6pm and 9PM), in his collaboration with Sophie Haviland in their Bridge Project
** And also the panel discussion on Saturday at 3PM:
realist (little r) Theater: Constructing & Reconstructing Time in Contemporary Performance Practice
Segal Theatre, Moderator: Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, Panelists: Eric Dyer, Founding Member of Radiohole, Richard Foreman, Director/Designer/Playwright, Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director of Performance Space 122, Nello McDaniel, Principal Director, ARTS Action Research, and Jay Scheib, Director
Beginning of September: Things happened, many many things. Many many things but I will have to get back to these later. Many many things.
August 9th: My Heart Being Now Stilled written-directed by Stephen Mosblech FREE at 8 pm at Hell Gate Social in Alternative Arts Association's "In and Out of Days", a multi-media performance event.
July 11th & 13th: Object Collection's sneak preview of "Problem Radical(s)" at Abrons Art Center/Henry Street Settlement @ 7PM. "Problem Radical(s) is an experimental opera and live installation about everyday radical acts. It is slotted to premier at Performance Space 122 in the Spring of 09.
March 28- July 6: NYBK (New York-Butoh Kan) Training at Cave Artspace studying with Mari Osanai, Minako Seki, Katsura Kan, Tadashi Endo and Ko Murobushi.
June 13 & 14: Andrew Dinwiddie's The Accursed Items Artist in Residence work in progress
at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Friday's performance features a reading by author J. Robert Lennon and post-show talkback with Andrew Dinwiddie.
May: The Paper Industry's Sine Wave Goodbye in the Short Form festival at the Ontological Theater
Spring 08 : Object Collection in association with the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator presents a new Experimental Music series
3/16 - 30: Kevin Augustine's Lone Wolf Tribe presents BRIDE at Performance Space 122
Jan 24, 31, Feb 1, 3, 5, 15 2/15: Donor and Columbia University Faculty Talk-Backs with Richard Foreman
1/18 - 4/13 Richard Foreman's DEEP TRANCE BEHAVIOR IN POTATOLAND
1/26: The Paper Industry just launched their website and they have a work-in-progress showing happening in the Parish Hall at St Mark's Church on January 26th as part of the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator's Short Form Series.
1/18: Richard Foreman's Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland opens!
1/11: Object Collection launched their new blog with video and up to date info!
1/9: Banana Bag & Bodice is at PS122 RIGHT NOW! with a retooling of The Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen
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2007
9/15: Banana Bag & Bodice open The Sewers at the San Francisco Fringe Festival
8/22: Jamie Peterson's The Paper Industry presents Building A House Out of Feathers at the Ontological Theater
7/25: Title Point:Productions opens JourneyPath: An Experiment in Rightness at the Ontological Theater
5/22: Linné Performance Project with SU-EN Butoh Company in Uppsala Sweden
4/26: Banana Bag & Bodice opens The Fall and Rise of the Rising Fallen at PS122
4/21: Three Shorts About Death and Loss by Daniel Allen Nelson, Theresa Buchheister and Brendan Regimbal