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Here it is, the whole line up: Symposia, Performances, Conversations, and even a Summit. Come for the whole day, and see the best in theatre and downtown performance in action and in dialogue.
6:30-7:30pm | Segal Theatre
The Prelude 6x6. What do you get when you take 6 visionaries, giving them 20 slides and 6 minutes? Find out at this fast and furious Pecha-Kucha style kick-off to Prelude 09. Participants include Yehuda Duenyas (NTUSA), Jeff Jarvis (Author "What Would Google Do?"), Bonnie Marranca (Author and Editor, PAJ), Wayne Ashley (FuturePerfect), + 2 special guests.
8:30-11:30pm | Secret Location TBA
3:00-4:30pm | Segal Theatre
What does it mean to be an artist and a citizen? How have artists been engaging the state, various legislative bodies and as well as their neighbors up to this point? How do new technologies change the ways in which artists can be citizens, how they can organize, how they can affect change beyond the making of art?
4:45-5:15pm | Segal Theatre
Selective Memory is a real time video performance about nostalgia for relationships that never took place, events which never happened; the soundtrack to a film which was never made, but which everyone remembers; exploiting the misappropriation of "real" sounds and images to confound, distort, remake and ultimately erase the truth. Inspired by William Eggleston's video pieces, especially Stranded in Canton, and the processed ambient music of Christian Fennesz and Stars of the Lid - in which the source material and instrumentation used to create the music is processed and recontextualized to the point of near impenetrability - music which feels as if it comes from nothing and is about nothing but around which a certain undeniable poignancy settles like fog.
4:00-4:30pm | 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.
5:30-6pm | Segal Theatre
In Liz One, 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.
6-6:30pm | Elebash Hall
Work-In-Progress showing of test footage excerpts the film adaptation of Welcome to Nowhere by Temporary Distortion. The stage production was originally written and directed by Kenneth Collins and the video designed, shot, and edited by William Cusick. The film version of Welcome To Nowhere is adapted for the screen, directed, and shot by William Cusick, with production design by Jon Weiss, and costume design by TaraFawn Marek. The film stars the stage performers from the Temporary Distortion acting company, including Ben Beckley, Stacey Collins, Brian Greer, and Lorraine Mattox. The stage production originally premiered in 2007 at The Chocolate Factory Theater in Long Island City, NY.
6:15-7pm | Segal Theatre
*Digital Effects* [performed with the fingers] is an evening of sleight of hand magic with playing cards. A "recital of magic" using only two hands and a deck of cards. The stories told are abstract, the patterns are unique, the forms are seductive. Legerdemain and prestidigitation. The performance is a show of skill in performing conjuring tricks with the hands; a demonstration of deceitful cleverness. The hypnotic state of sleight of hand as dance sometimes combined with music and words where the full potential of a simple act of magic is realized. i.e Difficult and strange things wrought with cards.
6:45-7:15pm | Elebash Hall
AdrienneTruscott has been investigating the process and effects of ‘disappearing’ in her recent choreography and set installation. In her new work, Bermuda ($$), to be presented for three weeks at PS122 in Spring 2010, Truscott further pursues the effects of 'disappearing' .
Phil Soltanoff / Mad Dog Experimental
7:15-7:45pm | Segal Theatre
Lately, Phil Soltanoff has been very interested in how people and technology interact. His latest work, i/o — a live art piece in collaboration with Joe Diebes—fuses sound installation, physical theatre, and opera to explore how people and machines co-exist today. His excerpt for Prelude09 is purely the result of an interest—David Barlow’s writing and a simple video technology---fueled by a curiosity; What will happen if we smash these two things together? It is an experiment and a fragment rather than an episode for a larger work.
7:3-8pm | Elebash Hall
Screenings of previous work + the artist in conversation with dancer Jodi Melnick.
Artists in Conversation: Digital
8-9:30pm | Segal Theatre
From prestidigitation to wall-sized projections, from sleight-of-hand to mediated environments, artists have used the digital arts - in both senses of the word - to amaze audiences, heighten and transform our perception. Whether the illusion is created by video, computer, or by hand the notion of "the digital" remains central to many artists' presentational aesthetics. Join us in a conversation on the uses of the digital in building imaginative space and informing performance practice.
Artists in Conversation: Hybrid
8:15-9:45pm | Elebash Hall
In our modernist imaginations everything has a place, everything fits into tidy categories with clearly defined rational lines, like the pictures in ikea catalogs of nicely organized closets. Sadly we have not only clearly never been so modern and rational or so neat, but we ourselves participate in hybrid, uncategorical, uncatergorizable events, things, and relationships everyday. And yet when it comes to our art, we still seem to cling to clearly delineated boundaries. What happens to art that is not quite theater, not quite dance, not quite performance art, and at the same time all of them rolled up into one?
12-7pm | C-Level, The Graduate Center
Prelude 09 + The Graduate Center, CUNY are thrilled to partner with the USC Anneberg School of Communication as they host their National Arts Journalism Summit. On Friday, October 2nd, The Graduate Center will live stream the event from its location at University of Southern California. The Summit will present five competitively-chosen projects on October 2, 2009 beginning at 9 AM PST. Presentations will be made in front of a live audience an streamed over the internet and archived. Several other projects will also be presented as part of the Summit, and will be followed by two roundtable discussions. The online audience will be invited to comment and ask questions during the Summit.
3-4:30pm | Segal Theatre
What does it mean to "produce"? What is the evolution of the collective of terms "commission", "present", "produce", and "co-produce"? What do they actually mean in terms of commitment to the artists both financially and professionally? What are new models in the works right now, that might re-define these terms as well as the relationship between "producer" and "artist"?
5-7pm | Various On-Site Locations
Appointment is a series of repeatable 12-15 minute performance works staged in small offices for one or two performers and two viewers at a time. Landsman will develop Appointment over the next two to three years in multiple locations, through collaborations with theater and dance companies, individual artists, and students at live art training programs; the next installment takes place all over Oslo, Norway in March 2010. Eventually, Landsman hopes to coordinate all these Appointments via a website, from which anyone with a bright idea can download instructions and create his or her own appointment.
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.
5:30-6pm | On-Site
Get Mad at Sin! is “one of the most hard hitting messages to the youth of America that you have ever heard. This message pulls no punches, it tells it just like it is, dealing with the problems of entertainment, rock and roll music, sex and a host of other problems that beset our youth today. Jimmy Swaggart, in this dynamic message, deals with these problems, and thousands of young people all over America have been touched by the Spirit of God and lives have changed under this sermon.”
6:15-7pm | Segal Theatre
Levine's presentation will focus on unsolicited actors’ headshots and cover letters. Specific topics to be covered: the history of the headshot, the economy of the headshot, the demonic & vengeful nature of those hopeful stares, the tragic and transcendent ontology of the unsolicited submission.
7:15-8pm | Elebash Hall
Prelude 09 is thrilled to host legendary performance artist Marina Abramović in a discussion regarding her monumental retrospective opening at The Museum of Modern Art in the spring of 2010.
Artists in Conversation: Political
8:15-9:30pm | Elebash Hall
Aristotle once wrote that the ”human being is by nature a political animal”. In its very politics, the artists in this group offer a critique and questioning of our relations as humans, while avoiding the clichés of “Political Art”. What is it about them that makes their work both operate fully entrenched in this “political” as human nature sort of way and at the same time transcends the word Political as it is so often understood in modern notions of nation-states and identity?
2-3:30pm | Segal Theatre
What does it mean to be an artists and a citizen? How have artists been engaging the state, various legislative bodies and as well as their neighbors up to this point? How do new technologies change the ways in which artists can be citizens, how they can organize, how they can affect change beyond the making of art? Has performance suffered from a continuing display and even celebration of their own provincial solipsism, and is thinking through citizenship a path out of that self-induced position of irrelevance to wider cultural debates?
2-4pm | Elebash Hall
PRELUDE 09 continues to look beyond New York with its international SPOTLIGHT series. SPOTLIGHT: KOREA will showcase the work of contemporary Korean theater artists, in collaboration with New York directors. Prelude welcomes Seoul-based company Wuturi Players and Marion Schoevaert, and will present excerpts of HongDonggi by playwright Kim Kwang Lim (dir. Steven Rattazzi), The Material Man by celebrated Korean poet Hwang Ji Woo (dir. Allison Troupe-Jensen), and The Birthday Party by Kim Myung Hwa (dir. Esther Chae). Plus, a special Workshop on Korean Mask and Dance Theatre.
3:45-4:30pm | Segal Theatre
Thirty-five hundred feet directly below the world's only known micro-nation, two young lovers are holding themselves hostage while someone falls off a high wire and someone else has their head stuck in the mouth of a bear. This From Cloudland is a tender onslaught of text-for-speaking featuring Elizabeth Kenny, Kristen Kosmas, and Christopher Petite as the Spooler of Thread, the Innocent Bystander, the Assembler of Envelopes, and Everybody Else in this benevolent labyrinth where everyone stands before the Origin of the World, eating Cuban sandwiches, drinking sparkling lemonade, and looking for the words for everything.
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.
4:45-5:30pm | Segal Theatre
At the heart of Vision Disturbance is Mondo, a Greek exile who loses vision in one eye along with her husband. The stress of her impending divorce triggers an eye disorder that robs her of the ability to perceive depth. The resulting flatness of her two-dimensional world compounds the alienation of her freshly failed marriage. The small Pennsylvania town where she has been living for the past 13 years, offers only one specialist with a practice on the brink of dissolve, and an inspired, if unconventional, approach to healing.
5-5:30pm | Elebash Hall
Red Noir is a detective thriller in genre, based on the film noir techniques and themes. It is also to serve as an anthem for non-violent anarchy. The play’s intention is to outdate and displace violence from the theatre to serve as an example of a general need for non-violence.
5:45-6:15pm | Elebash Hall
The Theater of a Two-headed Calf explores the quiet but transgressive unfolding of Trifles, the 1916 proto-feminist one-act by Provincetown Player co-founder, Susan Glaspell.
5:45-6:30pm | Segal Theatre
The Change: A “new” “play” about a “man” and his “coffee shop” and his “Negro” “employee.”
6:30-7pm | Elebash Hall
Gun Sale is a tabletop theater/music performance piece for objects, army figures, homemade experiments, electronic music and vocal processing. Originally conceived as a duo performance for whatever could fit in a suitcase, it was presented in galleries and art spaces in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Fukuoka during Object Collection's June 2009 tour to Japan. The piece works with Object Collection's concerns of simultaneity, densely layered material, and the manipulation of objects and processes, but on a very small scale in contrast to their larger operas and projects. Gun Sale been expanded for this performance to include veteran OC collaborators.
6:45-7:30pm | Segal Theatre
A Map of Virtue is a symmetrical play in which a bird statue guides us through a story of coincidence, tragedy and friendship. Part interview, part comedy, part strange middle of the night horror, a group of friends encounter evil and dissect their own responses to it.
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.
Artists in Conversation: Poetics
7:45-9:15pm | Segal Theatre
Conversation around the blogosphere heated up this summer when The Lark Play Development Center drafted playwright Theresa Rebeck to respond to the question of whether craft and creativity can live together on stage and she responded with a question of her own: "In the current environment, when young writers are being encouraged to stay away from anything “conventional” are we perhaps falling in love with a kind of playwriting that frankly just doesn’t work?” Are we judging too harshly plays that do work? And how does the audience fit into this discussion? Does it?
Artists in Conversation: Bricolage
8-9:30pm | Elebash Hall
Schizophrenia and anarchy. According to much of contemporary philosophy, this moment in history is defined, critiqued, and reproduced by them. And their mode of production is so often bricolage: the practice of being skilled at a large number of diverse tasks, working with a limited set of materials, and continually rearranging those materials into new and different, in this case, performance machines. How do these particular artists both epitomize and frustrate our own everyday encounters with schizophrenia and anarchy? And how do their practices stand as models of bricolage for contemporary performance?
9:45pm-LATE | Secret Location TBA
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