SPRING 2007 progams
U.S. theatre series
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SPRING 2007 progams U.S. theatre series |
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John Jesurun / philoktetes / SoHo Rep (USA) Join us for an evening with New York director and playwright John Jesurun discussing his upcoming production of Philoktetes at New York’s SoHo Rep Theatre Oct. 11-28. A reading of excerpts will be followed by a discussion with James Leverett and Bonnie Marranca. Philoktetes, originally commissioned by actor Ron Vawter in 1993, finally makes its appearance in NY. John Jesurun's version—a jagged, multimedia update of the classic play by Sophocles—tells the story of a Greek general who is abandoned by his army on the way to Troy when he suffers a debilitating snake bite. 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 and explore the relation of form to content. Since 1984 he has written, directed and designed over 25 pieces including: the media trilogy of Deep Sleep (1986 Obie Award, Best Play), White Water, Black Maria, Number Minus One, Dog’s Eye View, Red House, Shatterhand Massacre, Philoktetes, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Slight Returns, Iron Lung, Bardo, Septets and Snow. His grants including the Rockefeller Foundation Playwrights Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Playwrights Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship. James Leverett began as an actor on Broadway and beyond. He created the Literary Services department at Theatre Communications Group, where he initiated many publications. His writings have appeared in numerous national and international publications and he has worked as dramaturg throughout this country. He is Associate Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama and Visiting Professor of Dramaturgy at Columbia University. 6:30 p.m., Thursday, October 4, 2007 Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free! jesurun films & videos John Jesurun will screen excerpts from his fim and video archive Where Are My Legs (1976) 16mm—Excerpts Last Days Of Pompeii—16mm (1976) (8 minutes) with Frank Maya, Henry Stram Music by Fred Frith Stella Maris(1977) Super8—Excerpts Chang in a Void Mood (1979) Super8 (20 minutes)—Excerpts Shatterhand Massacree (1985) Performance Video with Steve Buscemi Deep Sleep (1986) Video—Excerpts Black Maria (1987) Video—Excerpts with Black-Eyed Susan Everything That Rises Must Converge (1990) Video—Excerpts Chang (episodes from the 1990s) Video—Excerpts Snow (2000) Video—Excerpts Septets (2005) Video—Excerpts Philoktetes (Japan 2005) Video—Excerpts 2:00 p.m. - 5 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007, Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free! |
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Saturday Night Concert: A Klezmer Hootenany with Yale Strom and Guests Join Yale Strom and guests for a once in a lifetime performance of klezmer musicians from around the world who rarely, if ever, have shared the same stage. Musicians from Hungary, Germany, Ukraine, Israel, Canada and from throughout the United States have come to NYC to celebrate the revival of klezmer music, a renaissance that began thirty years ago in California. A real Klezmer Hootenany of Yiddish sing along, hasidic melodies, stage music of the Yiddish theatre and stories from the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. The musicians have all played a significant role in the klezmer revival since it began thirty years ago. Bring your voice. Lyrics will be provided. Moderated by Ellen Kushner, Sound and Spirit, National Public Radio. Yale Strom (violinist, composer, filmmaker, writer, photographer, and playwright) is a pioneer among revivalists in conducting extensive field research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans among the Jewish and Rom communities. Initially, his work focused primarily on the use and performance of klezmer music among these two groups. Gradually, his focus increased to examining all aspects of their culture, from post-World War Two to the present. From more than 2 decades and 70 research expeditions, Strom has become the world's leading ethnographer-artist of klezmer music and history. Ellen Kushner hosts and writes the National Public Radio series Sound and Spirit, hailed by Bill Moyers as "the best show on public radio, bar none." She is also a novelist and performer whose spoken word performances include Esther: the Feast of Masks (2004 Gracie Allen Award) and The Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer 'Nutcracker' for Chanukah (with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, on Rykodisc CD). The evening is connected to The Great Day in Eldridge Street Project. The Eldridge Street Project, a non-profit, non-sectarian cultural organization, is preserving the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue as a center for historical reflection, aesthetic inspiration and spiritual renewal. Concerts, tours, literary events, art installations, workshops for school children, and other cultural and educational programs at the site serve audiences of all backgrounds. The Great Day Tour is funded in part by the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the Gess Foundation and the Forward Foundation, among other funders. The concert at the Graduate Center was made possible by generous support of the co-presenter, The Center for Jewish Studies, The Graduate Center CUNY, Frances Degen Horowitz (Jack H. Skirball Interim Director ). 8:00 p.m., Saturday, October 13, 2007, Proshansky Auditorium. Free! |
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An Evening with Teresa Eyring / Theatre Communications Group (USA) Join us for an evening with Teresa Eyring, the new Executive Director of the Theatre Communications Group, TCG. Teresa Eyring will share her vision for the future of TCG and discuss with special guests the American theatre and the work of the International Theatre Institute, ITI. Teresa Eyring joined TCG as executive director in March 2007. She has been an executive in theatres around the U.S. for over twenty years. Prior to joining TCG, Eyring served as managing director of the Children's Theatre Company (CTC) in Minneapolis since 1999. Eyring began her theatre career as director of development for the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington, D.C. in 1983. She completed an MFA in theatre administration at the Yale School of Drama between 1986 and 1989. From 1989-1993, she was assistant executive director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where she handled artist contracts, play commissions, and oversaw a $5 million theatre renovation project. From 1994-99, she was managing director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. She was named a 'Woman to Watch" by the Twin Cities Business Journal in July 2005. Eyring's past affiliations include service as chairwoman of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, board member of WYBE-TV, executive committee member of the League of Resident Theatres; board member and Treasurer of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts; and board member of Intermedia Arts. Eyring holds a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Yale School of Drama. Theatre Communications Group (TCG), mission is to strengthen, nurture and promote the professional, not-for-profit American theatre. The organization was founded in 1961 at the outset of the regional theatre movement to develop and stabilize this emerging field. Over the last 45 years, the constituency has grown from a tiny network of groundbreaking theatres to over 469 member theatres in 47 states and the District of Columbia, as well as over 17,000 individuals nationwide. In addition to providing networking and information sharing opportunities for its members, TCG is the leading not-for-profit publisher of dramatic literature in the US, with over 250 books in print, publishes American Theatre magazine and the ArtSEARCH employment bulletin. TCG also awards over $3 million in grants annually, and is the US Center for UNESCO’s International Theatre Institute, a world-wide network. 6:30 p.m., Monday, October 29, 2007. Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free. |
Josh Fox / International WOW Company (USA) Join us for an evening with New York director and writer Josh Fox. He will present excerpts from a new work and show excerpts from his first feature film Memorial Day and discuss the state of the American theatre. Josh Fox founded International WOW Company, a theatre group with membership of over 100 actors, dancers, musicians, technical, and visual artists spanning 30 countries on 4 continents. With International WOW Company he has conceived, written, directed, and/or produced over 30 productions in Thailand, Indonesia, The Philippines, Japan and New York City, which have included You Belong To Me, Death of Nations Part V, Heimwehen, Limitless Joy, The Expense of Spirit; Death of Nations, parts 1-4 and The Trailer; Orphan On God's Highway; The BOMB; HyperReal America (Top Ten Shows of 2001, Time Out NY); Soon My Work; This is Not the Ramakian; The Sleeping and the Dead; Stairway to the Stars; and American Interference (Best in the Fringe Festival, Village Voice). The New York Times has hailed him as "one of the most adventurous impresarios of the New York avant-garde" and Time Out NY called him "one of downtown's most audacious auteurs," citing his "brilliantly resourceful mastery of stagecraft." In 2006, Josh Fox created Death of Nations Part V, Heimwehen with Frank Raddatz, long time dramaturg and collaborator to Heiner Müller, at the Forum Freies Theater where the International WOW Company was in residence. He has worked extensivly in Asia, especially in Japan, Thailand and the Philippines. Josh Fox is currently working on his first feature film, Memorial Day, which is being Produced by Jim McKay and Michael Stipe's CHundred Film Corp and Journeyman Pictures. It is a film version of the company's 2004 shocker, The Comfort and Safety of Your Own Home, and features Fox and members of International WOW Company. He was a steering committee member and part of the original group that organized THAW (Theaters Against War), an organization that has since grown to over 350 member theatres in the US and abroad. He has conducted guest lectures at the Yale School of Drama, New York University, SUNY Purchase. 6:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 3, 2007. Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free! |
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Site-specific Theatre: Performance and the City Join us for an evening investigating the performing arts and the geography of New York City. The evening will feature the work of three artists whose sitespecific work utilizes cityspace in surprisingly new and challenging ways. Panel discussion with Aviva Davidson, Melanie Joseph, Noémie Lafrance, Aaron Landsman and Neil Smith, URBAN GEOGRAPHER. In collaboration with The Center for Place, Politics, and Culture, Neil Smith. Initiated by The Center for Research in Theatre and Urbanism founded by Bertie Ferdman. The focus of the Center is to open an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre artists using the city (or alternative venues) and social thinkers, urban planners, and real estate developers to develop new urban strategies for the future. The Center is inspired by the work of French site-specific artist Maud Le Floc’h and her publication Mission Répérages: un élu, un artiste. Aviva Davidson is the artistic Director of Dancing in the Streets, an organization that strives to illuminate the urban experience with groundbreaking public performances and site-specific installations that explore the kinetic life and history of natural and architectural public spaces. Melanie Joseph is the producing artistic director of The Foundry Theatre, a company she founded in 1994 with board member Cornel West. Joseph has conceived, dramaturged and/or directed 12 shows for the Foundry which have been awarded eight Obies and three Drama Desk nominations for Unique Theatrical Experience. Noémie Lafrance is a site-specific choreographer and founder of Sens Production. Since 2000, working as Sens Production's Artistic Director, Noémie Lafrance has collaborated with numerous arts presenters and artists, including dancers, designers and musicians to create and produce performances for a variety of audiences in New York City. Aaron Landsman is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer. His solo and collaborative works have been presented in New York, Houston, Minneapolis, Philadelphia. Since 2001, Aaron has created three site-specific productions. Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography and the Director, Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. 6:30 p.m., Thursday, December 13, 2007, Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free! |
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