tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21285786714146896272024-03-18T05:53:26.869-04:00 La MaMa BlogsLa MaMa, ETChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617614845839244322noreply@blogger.comBlogger946125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-28737645032153545662023-03-30T15:16:00.005-04:002023-03-30T15:17:00.829-04:006 Questions with Nela H. Kornetová <p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_fSiNS01QW_ziwYZnX5J_xDuEIwD6kx8A0CsQCiobK3L9vEWcDWKAv5H4fr_dN2PFAucy99yB_vWtFS7iZ6aF8_9jszcEClZ7tqdkH9T7w2_-HmVB6rGw_11wPYDF7yFD63PkyXyxhsJ2tc-el_CS-wogz58T1V8BLwmtPkJbLvycSpYcLJX0O63I/s5184/IMG_0210edit%20from%20forced%20beauty%20photo%20by%20Orsi%20Varga.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="5184" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_fSiNS01QW_ziwYZnX5J_xDuEIwD6kx8A0CsQCiobK3L9vEWcDWKAv5H4fr_dN2PFAucy99yB_vWtFS7iZ6aF8_9jszcEClZ7tqdkH9T7w2_-HmVB6rGw_11wPYDF7yFD63PkyXyxhsJ2tc-el_CS-wogz58T1V8BLwmtPkJbLvycSpYcLJX0O63I/s320/IMG_0210edit%20from%20forced%20beauty%20photo%20by%20Orsi%20Varga.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Orsi Varga</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Nela H. Kornetová</strong><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> is an independent performance maker and performer based in Norway. She works with themes that the audience can relate to instinctively, aiming to create atmospheric performances that explore the borderlines of live art forms using the body, visuals, and sound. As a member and artistic leader of the independent group <a href="https://titsperformancegroup.com/">T.I.T.S.</a>, Kornetová initiated, created, performed, and produced <i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/forced-beauty-2023">Forced Beauty</a></i>,<i> </i>an audiovisual dance performance about power structures and our fascination with violence. <br /></span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">There are three performances of <a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/forced-beauty-2023" style="font-style: italic;">Forced Beauty</a> from April 7–9 in The Downstairs. Tickets can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1152430">here</a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><br /></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>1. How would you describe your work as a choreographer? </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Sensuous. Visual. Visceral. Human.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>2. Who or what has inspired you? </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything and everybody I meet and live. The world and my not understanding of it.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>3. What can audiences expect or take away from the performance? </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I hope you get touched. That you get to feel and think for yourself, yet with us. That you'll remember some of the images and sensations we have created for you.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>4. What are your upcoming plans for the rest of the year? </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I plan to survive, live well and take care of my little daughter while touring around and creating new experiences for our audience.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>5. How would you Remake a World? </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">OH. Oh, oh. So hard. Perhaps I would rebuild it with softness, caring for and embracing our differences. And take the violent lust out of our nature.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you? </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">La MaMa is our U.S. mum. They are giving us the opportunity and freedom to play on a very new and exciting playground. So let's see if we make new friends or new scars. :-)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlyDvaC7U97oWnvCeHRaYPsUpMhEr2nkxeydaunHCGTIXIxZSxFJsHZZY6sKlgwuM9-W--sdQ-LR4t5orlz3fDtE9YzJcZd3FdRxgbLRXfpWfymZ-EUiUixsIrFY8M1KnYeIckJVIUeAGTqyKPvXBdfo46CyY2Wtpgw1OXW75NHc9wE28n4tUqTgOU/s1080/Forced%20Beauty%2012,%20Nela%20Kornetova%CC%81%20facing%20back,%20L%C3%A6rke%20Gr%C3%B8ntved%20facing%20front,%20photo%20by%20Jan%20Husta%CC%81k.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlyDvaC7U97oWnvCeHRaYPsUpMhEr2nkxeydaunHCGTIXIxZSxFJsHZZY6sKlgwuM9-W--sdQ-LR4t5orlz3fDtE9YzJcZd3FdRxgbLRXfpWfymZ-EUiUixsIrFY8M1KnYeIckJVIUeAGTqyKPvXBdfo46CyY2Wtpgw1OXW75NHc9wE28n4tUqTgOU/s320/Forced%20Beauty%2012,%20Nela%20Kornetova%CC%81%20facing%20back,%20L%C3%A6rke%20Gr%C3%B8ntved%20facing%20front,%20photo%20by%20Jan%20Husta%CC%81k.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Jan Husták</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>La MaMa presents</b></span></span><p style="background-color: white;"></p><p style="background-color: white;"></p><h1 style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/forced-beauty-2023"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2288bb;">T.I.T.S:</span><span style="color: #2288bb;"> </span><i style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Forced Beauty</i></span></a></h1><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">April 7 – 9, 2023</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><b>The Downstairs</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">66 East 4th Street, basement level</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">New York, NY 10003</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Friday and Saturday at 8:30PM</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sunday at 4PM</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tickets:</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Adults: $30<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Students/Seniors: $25<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />First 10 tickets are $10 (limit 2 per person)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/42/pk/133821" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline; transition: opacity 200ms ease 0s;">Two</a> and <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/42/pk/133822" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline; transition: opacity 200ms ease 0s;">three</a>-show packages are available.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">*Please note this production contains nudity.</span></em></p></div></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-33777002716822093552023-03-22T17:27:00.000-04:002023-03-22T17:27:11.381-04:00O-Lan Jones and Emmitt Tinley talk ICELAND on WBAI<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmnayHNOXi1e50tyuDAuU3FIfPLy2GfAk0BPF2-xNT0eKzfsHTjXa4FtzwaQwpP70z8JiZqZU1pmPCOU-leMLUmTzLCBh4AXh2vEKnGTrAMKkEB6okNn4PYImNyPW_l3pTClnhVYMq4xaklUb1luDdlcv4g4kPr5k1FaW8-ljXwRuWuAI1_ZFOUiNfg/s1269/o-lan-jones-emmitt-tinleyjpg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="1269" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmnayHNOXi1e50tyuDAuU3FIfPLy2GfAk0BPF2-xNT0eKzfsHTjXa4FtzwaQwpP70z8JiZqZU1pmPCOU-leMLUmTzLCBh4AXh2vEKnGTrAMKkEB6okNn4PYImNyPW_l3pTClnhVYMq4xaklUb1luDdlcv4g4kPr5k1FaW8-ljXwRuWuAI1_ZFOUiNfg/w577-h179/o-lan-jones-emmitt-tinleyjpg.jpg" width="577" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>From: WBAI/Cat Radio Cafe: O-Lan Jones and Emmitt Tinley </i></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">TWO LAMAMA MUSICAL ARTISTS' WORLD PREMIERE OF THEATER/OPERA <i>ICELAND: A RE-CREATION MYTH</i></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Actress/composer/sound designer/director <b>O'Lan Jones</b> and Irish singer/songwriter <b>Emmett Tinley</b> discuss the upcoming premiere of their collaboration on the score and libretto of the theater opera <b><i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/iceland-2023" target="_blank">Iceland: A Re-Creation Myth</a></i></b> a contemporary love story about a disillutioned architect and a traumarized mountain guide enmeshed in the mythic world of Iceland's Dark Night. With original musical selections from the work, opening at LaMaMa on March 24.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Originally broadcast on Tuesday, Mar 14, 2023</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://www.wbai.org/archive/program/episode/?id=38893" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>CLICK HERE TO LISTEN</b></span></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Get ticket to <b><i>I</i></b><i style="font-weight: bold;">celand: A Re-Creation Myth </i>- performances begin Friday, March 24, 2023 at The Ellen Stewart Theatre @ La MaMa</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/iceland-2023" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/iceland-2023" target="_blank"><b>CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS AND INFO</b></a></span></div>La MaMa, ETChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617614845839244322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-11966592593257715142023-03-08T14:28:00.006-05:002023-03-08T14:30:48.412-05:006 Questions with Thomas Richards of HAN!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcr1lIWpvgjLSZmX8o6byOlStlcW3PwpcHCRzydWGdGJzQRqYnD-rPVn1tVVxlhSK7kOmRLYsgYQ2nkcDC4GMcNjcZGe9iYO6HpJ_4yZ6tW-NjAqq9IEOmdePYqXyWSysuzQ1ZxvPOsyZmdZ1vdZ3KWPPnv1VpYet3d2-kZn7zCanzDp_4g47fDEc/s800/Thomas-Richards-photo-by-Piotr-Nykowski--800x534.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcr1lIWpvgjLSZmX8o6byOlStlcW3PwpcHCRzydWGdGJzQRqYnD-rPVn1tVVxlhSK7kOmRLYsgYQ2nkcDC4GMcNjcZGe9iYO6HpJ_4yZ6tW-NjAqq9IEOmdePYqXyWSysuzQ1ZxvPOsyZmdZ1vdZ3KWPPnv1VpYet3d2-kZn7zCanzDp_4g47fDEc/s320/Thomas-Richards-photo-by-Piotr-Nykowski--800x534.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Photo by Piotr Nykowski</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For 23 years, Thomas Richards was Artistic Director of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, an outstanding and unique performing arts research centre, a place of constant experimentation and innovation. In February of 2022, several ex-colleagues of the Workcenter opened the cultural association, <a href="https://www.theatrenotheatre.com/">Theatre No Theatre</a>, dedicated to supporting the new theatre research of Thomas Richards. The Theatre No Theatre performances of <i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/han-2023">Han!</a></i>, performed by Hyun Ju Baek and directed by Thomas Richards, have been extended until March 12. Tickets can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1148169">here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1. How would you describe your work as a director?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I don't really have one specific approach as director. Fundamentally, I find it important to try as hard as possible to look at the actor in front of me as a human being, to see that person as an individual, a person who is also a potential creator. In some moments, as a director, I don't have set ideas before the start of the creative process. I don't think, for example: I want to do <i>Miss Julie</i>, I want to do <i>Titus Andronicus</i>. Rather, I want to uncover the deepest "burning point" for a given individual, for that specific actor as a creator. To find the theme, the series of memories, the topic, the creative impulses, that are so deeply linked to that individual that they engender a kind of undeniable "burning point" within the person. Thus, the actor might have an incredible pull, a temptation to confront that given theme. "Confront" is the right word, since coming in contact with, and creating around, such a "burning point" may be neither simple, nor easy. It can also take years. We may need to write, to enter a deeply collaborative effort, to create the story from scratch, the dramaturgy, the lines of actions, the sets, everything...starting from the individual. By creating from such a "burning point," we have the chance that the results will be founded on the most profound creative impulses of the actor. During that kind of creative process, as well, we make sure that the actors' gifts as a performer are interwoven into the acting structure, so that the final performance is truly unique. This, for example, is how we worked on <i>Han!</i>, which we are now presenting at La MaMa.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>2. What are the most important lessons you learned from working with Jerzy Grotowski?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I worked with Grotowski for 13 years. Our relation did not unfold inside of an institutional setting. I was his apprentice and he was my teacher. He was kind of like a grandfather trying to pass on a knowledge and a craft to a grandson. Inside that working situation, I needed to learn to never take anything for granted. It was not like : "Oh, my parents have paid a tuition, and my teacher is obliged to teach me." No. The continuation of my work with him was based on the quality of my efforts to improve, daily, and upon growing competence. One day, in the second year of work, I began to take him for granted. I did not like the way that he had criticized my work, and I started to not work fully as a kind of revenge. I started to make it kind of emotional blackmail: "If you don't speak to me in a tone that I find nice, I will not work 100%." He immediately shifted his attention and started to work with someone else. I understood that I was about to lose my place as his apprentice. I woke up. "The work is not about good feelings, it is about good work," I thought. I learned to not expect that the truth would be nice. Without hearing the truth, you cannot grow. I would ever grow as an actor without hearing uncomfortable truths about myself. He used to say: "The work is working the work." All of this took place inside of an ambience of extreme care and attention. I had never received such high quality attention before. He was very sick. His doctors had given him 2 years to live. He needed that I learn to lead the work as quickly as possible. I would lead the daily work, and he would come to see the work when needed. I would work with the team a full day, and after, I would go meet with him, and relay all that had taken place. He would analyze my errors and successes. Then I would go back to resolve the problems with the team the next day. He stretched the 2 years the doctors had given him to live into 13 years by just going from his apartment to the workspace and back. He almost never met anyone outside the work. He gave all for the work, and this inspired me to do so in kind. In the end, I discovered that the more I would give, the more I learned.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>3. What can audiences expect or take away from the performance, <i>Han!</i>?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I always hesitate to tell an audience what they can take away. I feel it might limit their experience, turning an unknown into a known. An audience member is an individual; a person who has a life which I know nothing about. I like to leave the audience members free in front of our art. What does that mean? It means that we must accomplish our work to the highest possible level, and this effort will potentially free the audience to take away what they can. The art work needs to be like a tree that has born fruit. The tree is there, the fruit can be picked if so wished. What does it mean then to accomplish our work? Our dramaturgy should be worked out, completely thought-out; the dramaturgy should also be as deeply meaningful as we can muster (which means, as we create, we need to challenge ourselves, our own understanding, or lack of understanding, about our own lives); the dramaturgy needs to be understandable—we should not escape readability with claims of poetic license or with vague intellectualizations; the actors' lines of actions should be fully elaborated, with details, believable, and be readable as well; the actors' lines should be accomplished and be fully alive, each performance...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>4. Can you elaborate on the concept of "han" and how it informs the work?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Han is a difficult concept to understand. The concept—coming from Korea—appeared as a creative "burning point" for the actress Hyun Ju Baek in our initial creative moments together. She had come from South Korea to do a workshop with us in Italy, and we were hunting for a "creative territory" that might work for her. Through deep and long discussions with her we discovered that the theme of "han" was key. We created the performance to try to understand that concept, and to understand how it might be related to her life experiences, and potentially to our own lives as well. I have come to understand "han" as a kind of sadness, weight, joy, burden, sacrifice, hope, the suffering caused by sacrifice, emptiness, all that which in life can create an "inner fire," a desire for change, a desire for transformation...I suppose one important point that we arrived at was a kind of discovery: it's not only the nature of one's "han" that's important, it is what one does with it. Does "han" pull you down, or does it become a fire that helps you in a process of "inner" transformation, "inner" evolution?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>5. How would you Remake a World?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">From my experience and observation, what I seem to discover is that one cannot remake the world without remaking oneself.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I grew up in Manhattan. My mother, Barbara Davenport Richards, was a dancer, actress, dramaturg, and writer. She danced on Broadway in <i>The King and I </i>with Yul Brynner. My father, Lloyd Richards, was the head of actors training at NYU, then at Hunter College before he became Dean of the Yale School of Drama. He was the first Black American to direct on Broadway. I grew up inside Manhattan's theatre world. Before transferring to Italy to work with Grotowski in my early 20s, I performed at La Mama in <i>Goat Man</i>, directed by John Vaccaro. In all honesty, I think my performance was not so great. I remember going to Phebe's, the pub on the corner, after each performance and sitting there, bathed in a kind of negativity, consumed by self-criticism, since I knew that I had not been so good. It was around that time that my father—seeing my state—said to me: you only have the right to beat yourself up for 5 minutes after a performance; after 5 minutes, you must simply move on. Great advice! I have a vague memory of Ellen Stewart coming to see the performance. I remember her telling me afterwards (she knew that I had done workshops with Grotowski) that I should find a way to work with Grotowski full time. That's exactly what I did. I needed craft and I knew I would get that with him if he accepted to work with me full time. Coming back to La MaMa after all these years is simply wonderful. I left the city in my early 20s; I have spent the entirety of my professional life abroad; I have directed and acted all over the world; we have just now founded our new theatre, <a href="https://www.theatrenotheatre.com/">Theatre No Theatre</a> in January of 2022; what a great moment for a homecoming with the presentations of <i>Han!</i>. These presentations mark the first time a performance I have directed is presented in NYC, my hometown! We are also happy for the glowing reviews to date and for the extension of the run!</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfqXODxglAOY8iKsyxevZol7M2QXPggHIZowAcfLKnoVvnKAnuTj4yKivzoif5ouAmyZa1MaK1QJH0ximm9pRJcceid52C2okaJiGsQnHc6t7ESJWgza1aPecoCne1bdu5rGKxB0HV8LWxLMz2rjq_7socaYF8EzAwJYbRGJnCIzV9cGJGTtFqXsc/s1080/HAN%20-%2023%20AGO%202021%20-%20PH%20LEONARDO%20LINARES%20(35).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfqXODxglAOY8iKsyxevZol7M2QXPggHIZowAcfLKnoVvnKAnuTj4yKivzoif5ouAmyZa1MaK1QJH0ximm9pRJcceid52C2okaJiGsQnHc6t7ESJWgza1aPecoCne1bdu5rGKxB0HV8LWxLMz2rjq_7socaYF8EzAwJYbRGJnCIzV9cGJGTtFqXsc/s320/HAN%20-%2023%20AGO%202021%20-%20PH%20LEONARDO%20LINARES%20(35).jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Photo by Leonardo Linares</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La MaMa presents</span></b></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-large;"><i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/han-2023">Han!</a></i></b></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Extended until March 12, 2023</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; font-family: helvetica;"><b>The Downstairs</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; font-family: helvetica;">66 East 4th Street, basement level</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; font-family: helvetica;">New York, NY 10003</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thursday at 8PM</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Friday at 8PM</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Saturday at 3PM<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">Sunday at 3PM</span></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tickets:</span></strong></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Adults: $30</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Students/Seniors: $25</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">First 10 tickets are $10 (limit 2 per person)</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Use the code HAN5 for $5 off tickets!</b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-31400373338924072352023-02-01T15:25:00.006-05:002023-03-20T11:09:43.627-04:006 Questions with Tarish "Jeghetto" Pipkins of THE HIP HOPERA OF 5P1N0K10<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_qNq638wJY952jftK0NB9lrN7EsNc6-nmEJweBoKElw8CpPfdVwJL9eOhLzzuU_9dpRqz5mmwLTL_UdJggshSTrW0aTiw-udQURyuxJgITJn6JmC9BfWQoznUfWv61Ysonh209NgaDQicTiLSO-x89UzXIjo3MuLYOOdtt12jQ_iWVUhC98ctejrh/s1490/Image.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="1490" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_qNq638wJY952jftK0NB9lrN7EsNc6-nmEJweBoKElw8CpPfdVwJL9eOhLzzuU_9dpRqz5mmwLTL_UdJggshSTrW0aTiw-udQURyuxJgITJn6JmC9BfWQoznUfWv61Ysonh209NgaDQicTiLSO-x89UzXIjo3MuLYOOdtt12jQ_iWVUhC98ctejrh/s320/Image.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tarish Pipkins a.k.a. Jeghetto is puppetry infused with Hip Hop culture. He has been building his puppets out of recycled and found materials for about 20 years. He has worked with Missy Elliott, Pharrell Williams, Alec Baldwin, and others. Jeghetto travels the country performing his unique style of puppet theater and facilitates puppet workshops and performances online. Learn all about him at <a href="http://jeghetto.com">jeghetto.com</a>. Jeghetto will be performing four performances of <i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/the-hip-hopera-of-5p1n0k10-2023">The Hip Hopera of 5P1N0K10</a> </i>from March 23–26, which will be the first full performance in the newly-renovated <a href="https://www.lamama.org/donate/remake-a-world">74 East 4th Street</a>. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tickets can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1149594">here</a>, and puppet packages (for those who'd like to see two or three upcoming puppet shows at a discounted rate) can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/42/packages">here</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jeghetto will also be performing in and facilitating <a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/la-mama-kids-puppet-self-portrait-2023">La MaMa Kids: Puppet Self Portrait</a> on Saturday, March 25 at 12PM. Watch him get lost in his imagination as he performs with his unique puppets made out of recycled materials. This production gives you a glimpse of his process with visual projections, spoken word, and hip hop beats.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1. How would you describe your work as a puppetry artist?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I would describe my work as “making something from nothing.” I use mostly found and recycled</span><span id="m_5249462907398988946ms-outlook-ios-cursor" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> materials to create my work. I like to call my puppets “moving sculptures”.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">2. </span></span>Who or what has inspired you?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Life itself inspires my work. It could be a past experience, watching a documentary, or a conversation with a stranger. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">3. </span></span>What should audiences expect from the performance?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I like for audience members to leave my show with questions about themselves and the world around them. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">4. </span></span>What are your upcoming plans for 2023?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My upcoming plans for 2023 is to stay on the current path of creativity and discovery that I’m on. I can’t imagine being in a better place in my life artistically. I foresee a great future in puppetry.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">5. </span></span>How would you Remake a World?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I believe the world has an over abundance of resources for everyone. I would make energy and resources available so that humans wouldn’t have to pay to live. Poverty and famine is intentional. A control mechanism to keep the evil that runs our world in power. I would establish a system of true justice where everyone is equally held accountable for their actions.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">6. </span></span>What does working at La MaMa mean to you?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Working at La Mama means everything. To be able to perform in such a historic venue is very motivating. I’m standing on the shoulders of giants. </span></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDpcK7ZFpLgoDoDPREDLbWIJFTIcjxzuPRBNB7aNKIY5qG9arQMm92UBA4AWaLVcPlmNO0wcyy0YF08rQzC92ETrcRSYlGjhiFOeDM0nTmPmq9CYv5-llIPOHPxhej_aFN0YYxlIckvzrTPG_fsNcbn_nHswhA3LgalsS2xIOAX6pW6mNZJ7LVuGCK/s800/Jeghetto.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="800" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDpcK7ZFpLgoDoDPREDLbWIJFTIcjxzuPRBNB7aNKIY5qG9arQMm92UBA4AWaLVcPlmNO0wcyy0YF08rQzC92ETrcRSYlGjhiFOeDM0nTmPmq9CYv5-llIPOHPxhej_aFN0YYxlIckvzrTPG_fsNcbn_nHswhA3LgalsS2xIOAX6pW6mNZJ7LVuGCK/s320/Jeghetto.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La MaMa presents</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/the-hip-hopera-of-5p1n0k10-2023"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><b>The Hip Hopera of 5P1N0K10</b></span></a></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">March 23 –26, 2023</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;">The Club<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">74 East 4th Street</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">New York, NY 10003</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thursday at 7:30PM</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Friday at 7:30PM</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Saturday at 7:30PM<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">Sunday at 12PM</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tickets:</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Adults: $30<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Students/Seniors: $25<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />First 10 tickets are $10 (limit 2 per person)<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees.</span></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-63047270676216881482023-01-24T16:39:00.000-05:002023-01-24T16:39:21.952-05:00Remembering Everett Quinton<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We at La MaMa are heartbroken to learn that award-winning actor, director, designer, playwright, and downtown legend Everett Quinton has sadly passed away at the age of 71. He was a member of The Ridiculous Theatrical Company and the romantic partner and collaborator of the group’s founder and artistic director Charles Ludlam. When Ludlam died of AIDS, Quinton took over as the company’s artistic director from 1987–1997. He continued to work in theatre and frequently appeared in La MaMa productions, such as </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2011) and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Etiquette of Death</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (2012). In the past decade, he directed many Ridiculous theater revivals, including </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at La MaMa in 2017. Quinton pushed the limits of camp performance and has undoubtedly left his mark on generations of queer theatre artists. </span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqMEKLe7tK6wCUyHvsHkjMwv-hfdU6YSle214zMtkOjNmy2dHb8B2WiN2EBKlB4KOyoTtnbNAt882WJr8EcCrcE-YYPwRJ2Vn2lZMUJxYX9TQKhYg55EvarRo5S-sFosl0B3p5hR5OWldhir3JEvAVneZClBTpNT8clLWxmfdGej6wZ7oTusq19_lT/s620/155323.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="620" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqMEKLe7tK6wCUyHvsHkjMwv-hfdU6YSle214zMtkOjNmy2dHb8B2WiN2EBKlB4KOyoTtnbNAt882WJr8EcCrcE-YYPwRJ2Vn2lZMUJxYX9TQKhYg55EvarRo5S-sFosl0B3p5hR5OWldhir3JEvAVneZClBTpNT8clLWxmfdGej6wZ7oTusq19_lT/s320/155323.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-15480748-7fff-7ac4-ea4a-dfc174454b73"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Photo by Theo Cote of Everett Quinton in the 2017 revival of Charles Ludlam’s </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at La MaMa</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOJG_FeWUQ7bdPzFwu7j9Vfl5H8Y0eXOtV_pAhl7PuxhUn4AcMnjT-AyZY1VuzKGPVgGHF6R2DXwQrdQ5x7_wn965LRjQGv1oVf7TwnmSzmjKulpXQrB4ykBL9T_PrAcNE-XwAJzYqNrFzxLc-5r604O4z28rZ7xjGEEtF6hhtc0S-98d3Z5vTRETr/s600/IMG_1831.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="600" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOJG_FeWUQ7bdPzFwu7j9Vfl5H8Y0eXOtV_pAhl7PuxhUn4AcMnjT-AyZY1VuzKGPVgGHF6R2DXwQrdQ5x7_wn965LRjQGv1oVf7TwnmSzmjKulpXQrB4ykBL9T_PrAcNE-XwAJzYqNrFzxLc-5r604O4z28rZ7xjGEEtF6hhtc0S-98d3Z5vTRETr/s320/IMG_1831.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea201762-7fff-5c69-178d-caabdaefe732"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Everett Quinton and Charles Ludlam attending the Obies in 1985</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk1n_oXburqK2X0nuhjlK6xyz4mBZv0X1GOoopoZKmyVYyGUJFt_13LjQ4ePposEmAB0DUAq1kJIulTZJQWdjt_qscytuvKRwPJ_fd2W5qPGhix9moVJdYD6uI1vfo5RcbULWi7wAXv9iE8d8sx5m3OgAs7D4OSD0RycJWZuma3f5X404sHtykEbE0/s1800/IMG_1830.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk1n_oXburqK2X0nuhjlK6xyz4mBZv0X1GOoopoZKmyVYyGUJFt_13LjQ4ePposEmAB0DUAq1kJIulTZJQWdjt_qscytuvKRwPJ_fd2W5qPGhix9moVJdYD6uI1vfo5RcbULWi7wAXv9iE8d8sx5m3OgAs7D4OSD0RycJWZuma3f5X404sHtykEbE0/s320/IMG_1830.JPG" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b40231d1-7fff-89dd-b37b-3e026ceaf689"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Photo by Ves Pitts of Chris Tanner and Everett Quinton in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Etiquette of Death </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2012) at La MaMa</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMvN2P8gmVTO_oWAWlb77OJnu6ZTRgwPP5v3ne5D_tQDQc_-mXjkosdGBCYjg2WFgm0KLAczXNSVmtSHosnte49xcBtpNR2fPqak6gvbMAje83B6cpEG0YgHkjShD7TpR6EExzqnFXafmCxxHEd2jWaDwtRHKBj9FUUpbJGkeuAV3Ovu59n2SZr-I/s600/IMG_1829.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="600" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiMvN2P8gmVTO_oWAWlb77OJnu6ZTRgwPP5v3ne5D_tQDQc_-mXjkosdGBCYjg2WFgm0KLAczXNSVmtSHosnte49xcBtpNR2fPqak6gvbMAje83B6cpEG0YgHkjShD7TpR6EExzqnFXafmCxxHEd2jWaDwtRHKBj9FUUpbJGkeuAV3Ovu59n2SZr-I/s320/IMG_1829.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ba47c77-7fff-8c04-8d1e-7b3cb22f85a6"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dan Fishback and Everett Quinton at La MaMa’s 51st Gala in 2013</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVI3l11OA48Yo4wTyYuX75gg1TD630KsALGbZs_Krd_cA9uWE5yh5T_sBmTaBdc6iB55Z13uAaWO68D3PXShucpZbX8aEFVUFaTrunXHjYabZm8P5uGodmj2S8BaA_gItEPv-lwx2EnDIAC4vGpXQiv3dTYBZT9hCzYMeKOXDnFjcUkJyZI5E3GvEZ/s1800/Philip%20Campanaro,%20Charles%20Ludlam,%20Black-Eyed%20Susan,%20Everett%20Quinton%20and%20Ethyl%20Eichelberger%20in%20-The%20Artificial%20Jungle-,%20The%20Ridiculous%20Theatrical%20Company,%20New%20York%20City,%201986.%20Photo%20by%20Anita%20and%20Steve%20Shev.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1191" data-original-width="1800" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVI3l11OA48Yo4wTyYuX75gg1TD630KsALGbZs_Krd_cA9uWE5yh5T_sBmTaBdc6iB55Z13uAaWO68D3PXShucpZbX8aEFVUFaTrunXHjYabZm8P5uGodmj2S8BaA_gItEPv-lwx2EnDIAC4vGpXQiv3dTYBZT9hCzYMeKOXDnFjcUkJyZI5E3GvEZ/s320/Philip%20Campanaro,%20Charles%20Ludlam,%20Black-Eyed%20Susan,%20Everett%20Quinton%20and%20Ethyl%20Eichelberger%20in%20-The%20Artificial%20Jungle-,%20The%20Ridiculous%20Theatrical%20Company,%20New%20York%20City,%201986.%20Photo%20by%20Anita%20and%20Steve%20Shev.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea0d3826-7fff-20fe-1c74-f4ed688f3b51"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Photo by Anita and Steve Shev of Philip Campanaro, Charles Ludlam, Black-Eyed Susan, Everett Quinton and Ethyl Eichelberger in </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Artificial Jungle</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (1986) by The Ridiculous Theatrical Company</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-51954897771066460302023-01-18T14:37:00.005-05:002023-01-18T14:38:29.493-05:006 Questions with Timothy White Eagle of THE INDIGO ROOM<div style="padding: 56.25% 0px 0px; position: relative;"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/788387343?h=b96b9e77bd&badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479" style="height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%;" title="Timothy White Eagle - 6 Questions"></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Interview with <b>Timothy White Eagle</b>, the co-creator, lead performer, and production designer of <i>The Indigo Room</i>, an immersive ritualistic theater and installation work that moves from a vibrant chaotic carnival into the belly of the whale.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Interview by Allison Hsu and Rachel McCauley</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Camera by Harsh Alurkar/Pundit<br />Edit by Theo Cote<br /><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><br /></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Timothy White Eagle</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> is a mixed race visual and performance artist trained in traditional ritual and embodiment practice. Mediums include photography, performance and installed space. Recipient of WAA/Advancing Indigenous Performance award in 2019, Seattle City Artist award in 2020 and 2022 Timothy toured as an artistic director with Taylor Mac on his Pulitzer Prize finalist “A 24 Decade History…”.</span></span></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>
Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-14396513115593533332023-01-05T17:10:00.001-05:002023-01-05T17:10:19.988-05:00Harvey Fierstein Donates $250K Matching Grant to La MaMa<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RNSWFU5kZHTo8TUBpL53xpP5npQ9k9KxnqYuWwT-Q3WePpBf4Z-l5Y7a3VcfV8YbgYAIBRWGUVll3t0sPss7e5iCJxnnMevJFskTuhFmS1ndUyAuAs_Qph04w7atAi_6ubNxG1YLN-0ADcp8I073yJxYR4KQj6bBM2bNaV68p_RltL6zyfuNKUxh/s1080/3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RNSWFU5kZHTo8TUBpL53xpP5npQ9k9KxnqYuWwT-Q3WePpBf4Z-l5Y7a3VcfV8YbgYAIBRWGUVll3t0sPss7e5iCJxnnMevJFskTuhFmS1ndUyAuAs_Qph04w7atAi_6ubNxG1YLN-0ADcp8I073yJxYR4KQj6bBM2bNaV68p_RltL6zyfuNKUxh/s320/3.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">Harvey Fierstein Donates $250K Matching Grant to La MaMa</strong><p></p><h5 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong>The donation will help complete the renovation and restoration of the historic theatre, where the four-time Tony winner got his start.</h5><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">BY LOGAN CULWELL-BLOCK<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />JANUARY 04, 2023</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://playbill.com/article/harvey-fierstein-donates-250k-matching-grant-to-la-mama" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 200ms ease 0s;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Read the article in Playbill.</strong></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Harvey Fierstein has donated a $250,000 matching grant to La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club's capital campaign, with funds going to help complete the renovation and restoration of the company's building in NYC's East Village.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">The four-time Tony-winning actor and writer, who got his start at the landmark Off-Off-Broadway institution, is encouraging the public to make their own donations so his matching grant can be used in full.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">"[La MaMa founder] Ellen Stewart, La MaMa, called us her babies and tended to us in the nurseries that were her theatres," says Fierstein in a statement. "Every artist needs a safe place to develop, to experiment, to engage other artists, to seek the feedback of audiences, and to grow. I, and thousands of other artists, found that place to be La MaMa ETC. Please join in this effort to modernize and strengthen the nursery for the generations of theatre artists and audiences to come. There’s no better way to support the arts than by supporting the arts."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Fierstein, currently represented on Broadway with <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Funny Girl</em> (for which he penned a new book), made his La MaMa acting debut in Andy Warhol's <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pork</em>, later appearing in Robert Patrick's <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Haunted Host</em>. He would go on to debut much of his early work as a playwright at the Off-Off-Broadway theatre, including the three one-act plays that would later collectively become <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Torch Song Trilogy</em>; the work earned Fierstein his first two Tony Awards (Best Actor in a Play and Best Play) when it transferred to Broadway in 1982.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">"Harvey is a revolutionary artist who breaks boundaries using his heart and his mind to speak truth through his work," shares La MaMa Artistic Director Mia Yoo. "He paved the way for so many other artists who came after him, helping to shape La MaMa's legacy. We are deeply grateful for his gift which will help ensure that artists of all identities can continue to pursue their creative dreams at La MaMa."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Among the improvements planned for the historic building are ADA accessibility on all floors, an enlarged lobby, dedicated community space, an outdoor terrace, and a building-wide data network.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">To donate to the campaign, visit <a href="http://lamama.org/?fbclid=IwAR0NfOPvhuZn6nJbBhHTJrvvPZB2o3gTHKE_lkgK_PWU2qfyN34ehLL_La0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 200ms ease 0s;" target="_blank">lamama.org.</a></p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-46385296571985772572022-12-05T16:47:00.001-05:002022-12-05T16:47:54.873-05:00Paint2Power at La MaMa Galleria<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">Thank you to the artists, activists, and everyone who joined us on Sunday, December 4 at <a href="https://www.lamama.org/programs/la-mama-galleria">La MaMa Galleria</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"> for <a href="https://www.paint2power.com/">Paint2Power</a>!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">Thank you to event organizers and partners Julia Haart, Kate Rigg, Heidi Sieck, Nicole Ansari, Shaunna Thomas, Marlene McCarty, Antoinette Cooper, Miriam Haart, BETTY, A'shanti F. Gholar, and Jen Aks, among others.</span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">In the wake of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe V. Wade and the women-led revolution in Iran, catalyzed by Mahsa Amini’s death, hundreds of women came together in community to spread messages of resistance and create a collage of Story Stars on a large-scale mural of Lady Justice by <a href="https://www.iamfinley.com/">C. Finley</a>. The mural can be viewed on the wall behind the theatre at 19 East 3rd Street, NY, NY.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #262626;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqXvwpGysBZr939LxYit717hTUtQ45V3FebwEvy4EWRW_Vl493p1Gy0FrJdDOzNVKwcabmGEI8b1nhBi_phjL0Vmg_qKtfVnrXx2TPKbY880E92YXGAh5tC1G5KFxMLt__xfVrX7RMOUei2w248UDmyzVVCzL4idh8glKkqZC3D3ONDnlhdN9YPCH/s4032/IMG_9067%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqXvwpGysBZr939LxYit717hTUtQ45V3FebwEvy4EWRW_Vl493p1Gy0FrJdDOzNVKwcabmGEI8b1nhBi_phjL0Vmg_qKtfVnrXx2TPKbY880E92YXGAh5tC1G5KFxMLt__xfVrX7RMOUei2w248UDmyzVVCzL4idh8glKkqZC3D3ONDnlhdN9YPCH/s320/IMG_9067%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Photos by Suvin Ahn</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVePuBaXfvzj0ftg2k606d41popZLtB8j58q-VTla_yOVOwdRMpzozYCG4pcfnUClnDRyvixS41aMKZ2bHW0rjZzH1_yVmiGJx_No-M3Zz8IEBH7wLAu7wlWx8aIZjDbLbGm2MOi65nOyvSLtULlggqSOaLhPUp1E1PmkrJHMHHbQ5b9GuR__9_dvv/s4032/IMG_9208.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVePuBaXfvzj0ftg2k606d41popZLtB8j58q-VTla_yOVOwdRMpzozYCG4pcfnUClnDRyvixS41aMKZ2bHW0rjZzH1_yVmiGJx_No-M3Zz8IEBH7wLAu7wlWx8aIZjDbLbGm2MOi65nOyvSLtULlggqSOaLhPUp1E1PmkrJHMHHbQ5b9GuR__9_dvv/s320/IMG_9208.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Photos by Suvin Ahn</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo0thy5AivlB1inGLUl5_1MeHfQqpMS0M3FuldTns-z1JNZ69O4qEYCNL7KAwbVpdDtJgeFTvTOaMW1gf1I9EuqQfzVUNK17XMlvGOgB1crUmzwanDgRJuPNqBsTLwbbUyAH2qM4Fudmac3JlTMUoQ1VZAqTfgjXj2z3x0TYymhzUJOXMT-hoVANr0/s4032/IMG_9141.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo0thy5AivlB1inGLUl5_1MeHfQqpMS0M3FuldTns-z1JNZ69O4qEYCNL7KAwbVpdDtJgeFTvTOaMW1gf1I9EuqQfzVUNK17XMlvGOgB1crUmzwanDgRJuPNqBsTLwbbUyAH2qM4Fudmac3JlTMUoQ1VZAqTfgjXj2z3x0TYymhzUJOXMT-hoVANr0/s320/IMG_9141.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Photos by Suvin Ahn</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-49187796020518972532022-08-24T15:30:00.002-04:002022-08-24T16:07:48.747-04:00How to Remake A World?<div style="text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9SPR2pQWnCrJapVtE-hTpg5NOdisBkqD0l8sRmTF91tHUNQ/viewform?usp%3Dsf_link&source=gmail&ust=1661454662927000&usg=AOvVaw2dzIOwzsAWWUc_yNooExHQ" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9SPR2pQWnCrJapVtE-hTpg5NOdisBkqD0l8sRmTF91tHUNQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 30pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How would</span></a><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style="font-size: 30pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9SPR2pQWnCrJapVtE-hTpg5NOdisBkqD0l8sRmTF91tHUNQ/viewform?usp%3Dsf_link&source=gmail&ust=1661454662927000&usg=AOvVaw2dzIOwzsAWWUc_yNooExHQ" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9SPR2pQWnCrJapVtE-hTpg5NOdisBkqD0l8sRmTF91tHUNQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #8e2a8b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 30pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">YOU</span></a><span style="color: #8e2a8b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 30pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9SPR2pQWnCrJapVtE-hTpg5NOdisBkqD0l8sRmTF91tHUNQ/viewform?usp%3Dsf_link&source=gmail&ust=1661454662927000&usg=AOvVaw2dzIOwzsAWWUc_yNooExHQ" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9SPR2pQWnCrJapVtE-hTpg5NOdisBkqD0l8sRmTF91tHUNQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 30pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#RemakeAWorld?</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In this moment there is an urgent need to consider the many ways we can remake a world. We must come together, connect, and create a movement that unifies and propels all of us forward toward a more just world.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span id="m_-3187854803536773727m_-8857955605968434189m_-3453135525657064945m_4183986318896300537m_4962635105789423223gmail-m_8993229568991235215gmail-m_7906788382952375412m_-3670857760052373510m_-127952103471879092gmail-docs-internal-guid-5435fd69-7fff-6f58-128b-60b94e93e500"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please share your ideas through a quick video, an image, text, a sample of your work or all of the above to share with La MaMa's worldwide community on social media and/or our website.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You may submit <b>your</b> response <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9SPR2pQWnCrJapVtE-hTpg5NOdisBkqD0l8sRmTF91tHUNQ/viewform" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></p></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfN4U7nm8PEbnlNpujaAtl0zpZIAp3KJ8nh7S6neFeO7FoTAatEmAaeE0CV8Ucmf3I2phsmJAGyXCnJ2qhLIZ8ehKf5iiTbOnl467VFzOy21hJu_NRPHYX1dj90utwKcHFlg0xLdfgVWp8o0WAiwk8HMDQiOYAtLa4RKwOdt_G2mCjwgGkLJF0YpQ5Lw/s1920/There-are-no-new-answers-as-to-how-to-remake-the-world.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfN4U7nm8PEbnlNpujaAtl0zpZIAp3KJ8nh7S6neFeO7FoTAatEmAaeE0CV8Ucmf3I2phsmJAGyXCnJ2qhLIZ8ehKf5iiTbOnl467VFzOy21hJu_NRPHYX1dj90utwKcHFlg0xLdfgVWp8o0WAiwk8HMDQiOYAtLa4RKwOdt_G2mCjwgGkLJF0YpQ5Lw/w493-h277/There-are-no-new-answers-as-to-how-to-remake-the-world.jpeg" width="493" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">_____</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-ed8372fc-7fff-9ebc-0c40-9cfacba0fd35" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TEXT MESSAGE FROM: <b>ROBERT PATRICK</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-ed8372fc-7fff-9ebc-0c40-9cfacba0fd35" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most people are right- or left-handed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most people are right- or left-minded</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But for "right" or "left" to be "right" or "wrong" branded</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is like being right- or left-blinded.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People pretend to live up to</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The rules (right or left) of their preference,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But the opposite urge they eventually give up to.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Priests end up promiscuous, for reference,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And pot- poets wind up billionaire producers.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speaking of billionares, that one that followed his dream of Mars-reaching</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Got lots of Fed loot to do it, which is sociaism to you, sirs.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who's got my I Ching?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">_____</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Actor <b>John-Andrew Morrison </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">(La MaMa Alumnus and Tony Nominee, <i>A Strange Loop</i>)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><center><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="304" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/742791256?h=82f03cad22&badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479" title="John-Andrew Morrison - Remake a World" width="540"></iframe></center><div style="text-align: center;"><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">_____</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ping Chong, d<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: left;">irector, choreographer</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="300" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1330598860&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/la-mama" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="La MaMa">La MaMa</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/la-mama/how-to-remake-a-world-ping-chong" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="How to Remake A World: Ping Chong">How to Remake A World: Ping Chong</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">______</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-b78c0c37-7fff-98ad-34b4-d9e3add2c500" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La MaMa is dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre. La MaMa’s 61</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">st</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 15pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Remake A World” Season believes in the power of art to bring sustainable change over time and transform our cultural narrative. At La MaMa, new work is created from a multiplicity of perspectives, experiences, and disciplines, influencing how we think about and experience art. The flexibility of our spaces, specifically the newly reimagined building at 74 East 4th Street (La MaMa’s original permanent home), gives our local and remote communities access to expanded daytime programming. The digital tools embedded in the space allows artists to collaborate remotely, and audiences worldwide to participate in La MaMa’s programming. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span>La MaMa, ETChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00617614845839244322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-63806092225850971052022-07-12T13:15:00.002-04:002022-07-12T13:15:13.769-04:00Remembering Peter Brook<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFFA7vKjA3EXlrTBVqj80O0UlBtoVh3GwA_-8dLnhVOi1zko4NPLS_0ZNDAJ_Qv5L8lZcWI1pfvzWLeN0BCP9agCPvgwM5tMfecBk-ZkHcV6C43ZWz98p2miDJJ9SItMHRWZlFru_iJ8c2vlLYQzA8d73qWJniwtgcxu4prNMUxmtBSvGK1OLH3lk/s1009/Peter%20Brook.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="1009" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFFA7vKjA3EXlrTBVqj80O0UlBtoVh3GwA_-8dLnhVOi1zko4NPLS_0ZNDAJ_Qv5L8lZcWI1pfvzWLeN0BCP9agCPvgwM5tMfecBk-ZkHcV6C43ZWz98p2miDJJ9SItMHRWZlFru_iJ8c2vlLYQzA8d73qWJniwtgcxu4prNMUxmtBSvGK1OLH3lk/s320/Peter%20Brook.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #050505; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Ellen Stewart and Peter Brook</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>Peter Brook, the renowned award-winning British director whose non-traditional approaches to classic work reinvented theatre, passed away at the age of 97. For his innovative work, he has won Tony and Emmy awards, as well as a Special Citation from the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Le Centre International de Créations Théâtricales at La MaMa, which included performances of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ubu Roi</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">L’os</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Ik</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Conference of the Birds</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 1980. These works, performed in both French and English, also traveled through the Middle East and Africa.</span></span></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Throughout his career, Peter Brook’s influence has had a profound impact on artists and audiences across the globe. His contributions to art at La MaMa and his love for Ellen Stewart will never be forgotten.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsoo6fIaYSABqr-lYEOii_HyxHUApjjcHGGwr4Z3NlzuV3qZK-AmgC45adU0B7NDOqYczXyaYNbUk2wRiBN1WLkgxxepzYwCfAv1Bg5qCiAz0eOPlWIn3zXhY_bxDZdZ1fGwQy7p0jEOAKR7b-UzdYEQxqQ9qSzJFdbnCZPIobRU_Ty25CIxRLJCVq/s700/The%20Ik%20by%20Jean-Guy%20Lecat%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="700" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsoo6fIaYSABqr-lYEOii_HyxHUApjjcHGGwr4Z3NlzuV3qZK-AmgC45adU0B7NDOqYczXyaYNbUk2wRiBN1WLkgxxepzYwCfAv1Bg5qCiAz0eOPlWIn3zXhY_bxDZdZ1fGwQy7p0jEOAKR7b-UzdYEQxqQ9qSzJFdbnCZPIobRU_Ty25CIxRLJCVq/s320/The%20Ik%20by%20Jean-Guy%20Lecat%201.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #050505; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Photo by Jean-Guy Lecat of <i>The Ik</i> directed by Peter Brook, featuring Bruce Myers, Natasha Parry, Andreas Katsulas, Malik Bowers, and Miriam Goldschmidt</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCm65L6rDWFsPrGTtTfGPkvxKmyT7k89uh8HENJ6QURuHRFmKyqoG_v3nQVpE_pxsjQU5zxZ9A0WB3kdKEi7m53uQFkdk_JYB9BMyegaMY3SshLGscd2VOfyZiFVfyRRJsEKTPfB4YS_FXXecGm-nP7raklGMQPQ0lgiqe2MGJXLYhjYzSubmxLPqw/s965/The%20Ik%20by%20Nicolas%20Treatt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="965" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCm65L6rDWFsPrGTtTfGPkvxKmyT7k89uh8HENJ6QURuHRFmKyqoG_v3nQVpE_pxsjQU5zxZ9A0WB3kdKEi7m53uQFkdk_JYB9BMyegaMY3SshLGscd2VOfyZiFVfyRRJsEKTPfB4YS_FXXecGm-nP7raklGMQPQ0lgiqe2MGJXLYhjYzSubmxLPqw/s320/The%20Ik%20by%20Nicolas%20Treatt.jpg" width="232" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #050505; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Nicolas Treatt of <i>The Ik</i>, Michele Gollison on the left and Miriam Goldschmidt on the right</span><br /><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9-6p8wttLmgw8uwkdhFadDTVLMVgfZoNVWI8FeNlwCmco7wtxGknXT35vliusjrY8GUSqozfOIS7O8Ax0LjiuhCpOHp4qkK6CarqlatHaT5mh7iPXZZhL0NKfpqrLEMigfA6ltdd304v89f2oYcighMeRHBMR15arDRooUxAx7b3pQBttRftWG0Qb/s700/The%20Conference%20of%20the%20birds%20by%20David%20Simmonds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="700" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9-6p8wttLmgw8uwkdhFadDTVLMVgfZoNVWI8FeNlwCmco7wtxGknXT35vliusjrY8GUSqozfOIS7O8Ax0LjiuhCpOHp4qkK6CarqlatHaT5mh7iPXZZhL0NKfpqrLEMigfA6ltdd304v89f2oYcighMeRHBMR15arDRooUxAx7b3pQBttRftWG0Qb/s320/The%20Conference%20of%20the%20birds%20by%20David%20Simmonds.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #050505; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by David Simmonds of <i>The Conference of the Birds</i> directed by Peter Brook, Bob Lloyd on the left and Jean-Claude Perrin on the right</span><br /><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfuKC_xuFbiDGhZIVXMpAxpJrFTp6tpUrWVUclNqDUiJON-cQja-DpzqMlCHVy5_4XwsbVdWnkHKsKH3kOu9VM5iXhyjh4lL7FN7wuiPAx9M2c0Tqr8nbM0lJqn1AOrJfaKxyyDOABJn8_NRrs8ZO4v4u_r6DyQLLwdCBrs3bKwAmYtIo90dAhxRr/s700/The%20Ik%20by%20Jean-Guy%20Lecat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="700" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfuKC_xuFbiDGhZIVXMpAxpJrFTp6tpUrWVUclNqDUiJON-cQja-DpzqMlCHVy5_4XwsbVdWnkHKsKH3kOu9VM5iXhyjh4lL7FN7wuiPAx9M2c0Tqr8nbM0lJqn1AOrJfaKxyyDOABJn8_NRrs8ZO4v4u_r6DyQLLwdCBrs3bKwAmYtIo90dAhxRr/s320/The%20Ik%20by%20Jean-Guy%20Lecat.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #050505; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Photo by Jean-Guy Lecat of <i>The Ik</i>, featuring Andreas Katsulas, Malik Bowers, Natasha Parry, and Bruce Myers</span></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-90536589683356395482022-07-01T10:54:00.004-04:002022-07-01T10:55:19.418-04:006 Questions with Martha Clarke of GOD'S FOOL<p><br /></p>
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<div><br /></div><div><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Interview with <b>Martha Clarke</b>, the creator and director of <i>God's Fool </i>about the ancient story of St. Francis of Assisi by Allison Hsu and Cadence Rose</span></span></div><div><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Camera by Pearse Redmond<br />Edit by Theo Cote</span></span></div><div><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><b>Martha Clarke</b> is an American theater director and choreographer noted for her multidisciplinary approach to theater, dance, and opera. A graduate of Juilliard, she danced with the Anna Sokolow Company before becoming a founding member of Pilobolus Dance Theatre. She has choreographed for Nederlans Dans Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Rambert Dance Company, and The Martha Graham Company, among others. As a director, Ms. Clarke’s original productions include </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Garden of Earthly Delights</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Vienna: Lusthaus</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Miracolo d’Amore</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Endangered Species</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">An Uncertain Hour</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">The Hunger Artist</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Belle Epoque</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Vers La Flame</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">,</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> Kaos</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, and </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Chéri</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">. She directed </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Alice’s Adventures Underground</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, a collaboration with Christopher Hampton for the Royal National Theater UK, and </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">A Midsummer’s Night Dream</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> for A.R.T. Opera productions include Mozart’s </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">The Magic Flute</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> and </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Cosi Fan Tutti </em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">for Glimmerglass, and Tan Dun’s </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Marco Polo</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> and Gluck’s </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Orfeo and Eurydice </em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">for New York City Opera, among many others. She created </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">L’Altra Meta del Cielo</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> for La Scala Ballet (2012). She directed and choreographed </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Chéri </em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">(2013) for the Signature Theatre and </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">The Threepenny Opera</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (2014) at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City. Her most recent production, </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Angel Reapers</em><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, a collaboration with Alfred Uhry played at the Signature Theatre as her second production in her five-year residency (2016). Awards: Ms. Clarke is the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, two Joe A. Callaway awards, the Dance Magazine Award, the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, and two Lucille Lortel awards. In 2019, she received the Flora Roberts Award from the Dramatists Guild.</span></span></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-81108687024469759632022-06-29T11:41:00.004-04:002022-06-29T11:44:57.031-04:006 Questions for Boxcutter Collective<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoERA8VtZqylGdPDqeCLyB_yfXa6yxx64TxDgv87iFeJirRrzjHK80rQksw3cHtifY8gVAfLsPGuSPcTm4G73I3rDJnHPsMAn0WpSoZvwnTmEWPx5srw9aWI7n6pB6tfvWsJYVNflxokz5oxQPc3faHUUjB3JuTB6bGbYnSjlOg-xtZDfXh8Y2NZlP/s4032/image_6487327%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoERA8VtZqylGdPDqeCLyB_yfXa6yxx64TxDgv87iFeJirRrzjHK80rQksw3cHtifY8gVAfLsPGuSPcTm4G73I3rDJnHPsMAn0WpSoZvwnTmEWPx5srw9aWI7n6pB6tfvWsJYVNflxokz5oxQPc3faHUUjB3JuTB6bGbYnSjlOg-xtZDfXh8Y2NZlP/s320/image_6487327%20(2).JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Photo by Trudi Cohen</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Brooklyn-based Boxcutter Collective was formed by veterans of the world-famous Bread and Puppet Theater. They both make puppet shows to underthrow the rotten empire. Joe Therrien and Sam Wilson are two members of the collective, who will be performing four performances of </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/the-divinity-supply-company-2022">The Divinity Supply Company</a> </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;">this weekend in The Downstairs from June 30–July 2. Tickets can be purchased </span><a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1121794" style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-68a265b1-7fff-64d0-b86b-a45c858bbb4b"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. What inspired you to create and perform this specific show, here and now?<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boxcutter had been planning to make a specifically Bread and Puppet/Boxcutter Collective collaborative puppet show since before the pandemic. Peter was very adamant that we not pre-plan our project, but that we get together and see what we make. A lot of the initial work was compositional, just taking Boxcutter puppets and Peter’s puppets and creating short tableau vivants with sound—no text initially. Then, as our brains started organizing and reorganizing short pieces of puppetry, meaning and content began to trickle in and make connections with other pieces, which then inspired new puppet sequences in a continuing cycle of inspiration and evolution. Boxcutter loves to write together, so we did many writing sessions over the course of the project, pieces of which were used, thrown-out, reused and reworked as the process unfolded.<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sam: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have been working on this show for a while and the show has evolved with the issues. Making puppet shows is a way that we process the political events of the moment. It is a way that I feel I can engage in the dialogue around specific issues. This show is a table or a sort of envelope to hold the items that we are thinking hard about, are deeply upset and confused by, and are keeping us up at night. It is a show, in part, about how we face this moment.<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. How does your work as part of the Boxcutter Collective impact and inform your other creative endeavors?<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">At this point, 90% of my creative endeavors fall under the umbrella of The Boxcutter Collective. When I am lucky enough to work with other groups, I try to bring Boxcutter’s spirit of joy and freedom in the creative process. It is an exhilarating feeling when we are all connected and our group brain approaches flow state, and there is playfulness and confidence as we barrel forward making a new show. It comes from trust and inspiration in each other, and I try to foster those feelings in all the projects I’m a part of. Boxcutter has also developed some timed writing exercises to create scripts for shows, and I’ve brought these exercises and variations to other groups to help structure some of their creative work, and it has been really interesting to see what from that process is useful or not to other groups.<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sam: </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Being a member of a collective feels like a huge gift to myself as an artist. I have support in different ways for anything I might want to try to do and as a result I say yes to more things.<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. What goes into building a show like The Divinity Supply Company?<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">The biggest factor, in my opinion, was the scheduling of everyone to get together in Vermont for multiple development periods and the added logistics we had to figure out to contend with Covid. Once we all got into the same room—it was paradise! At the Bread and Puppet farm, the resident company let us take over a beautiful indoor rehearsal space for multiple month long residences. Most of the development was during winter times, so one of us would get there extra early and start a fire in the wood stove and make coffee. Then we’d get together and decide what to start with, whether it be puppet experimentation, building, writing, or rehearsing. Peter would usually start the day with us, and then come back in the afternoon—sometimes with new paintings or writing inspired by what we had shown and talked about in the morning. It was a very fun back-and-forth and we threw a lot of spaghetti at the wall and many things were created that did not end up in this version of the show—but having a lot of uninterrupted time together to try things out was very important!<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sam: </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This show was developed over two residencies which were a year apart. There was work on it in between and a shorter version was performed. We don’t start from one place. We start with texts and ideas we are interested in one hand, visuals and puppets that speak to us in another hand, performance and movement themes in one foot, sound in the other foot and then there is also the ongoing discourse of the moment. All those different inputs come in and out of the process until they start to select each other and adhere together into something we can shape.<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. What should audiences expect from the performance?<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hmm… puppets? And cut-up cardboard boxes? And bread. Primary colors. Foolish and serious dances. Lots of live music. Endearingly-misguided salesmen. Hucksterism of the finest quality. Surprises! Celebrations of the totally obvious. Bad jokes. And the feeling that you aren’t alone in the madness!<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sam: </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Expect to leave with more questions than answers and some understanding that we are not alone.<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. What are your upcoming plans and performances?<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe & Sam: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After this show closes, some of us are headed to Glover, VT to be a part of Bread and Puppet’s summer company of puppeteers. Jason Hicks has some new puppet shows he will be performing with his Detroit co-conspirator, Lindsay McCaw through their project, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flying Cardboard Theater.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="http://AliDineen.com">Ali Dineen</a> will be performing live music throughout the rest of the summer in the NYC area. She’s also continuing to work on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saint Joan,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> an evolving musical project about Joan of Arc, gender non-conforming patron saint of revolution. We will perform </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Divinity Supply Company </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">again on October 7 at the Puppeteers of America’s festival happening in Coney Island and hope to tour it next year (if you have a theater that wants it, let us know!) Then, after the festival, we shift our focus to another new show we are making that received a Henson Artist Grant called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Happyland! Now!!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It’s a subversive episodic puppet spectacle rock-operetta we are creating in collaboration with The Jalopy Theater and School of Music in Red Hook, Brooklyn. We’ll perform some of it at the Brooklyn Folk Festival, and then premiere it in November at Jalopy. We are also working on a movie that Tom is directing and has been writing (details are under wraps at the moment). We plan on continuing our work with various grassroots and activist organizations, especially the “No North Brooklyn Pipeline” fight and Sane Energy. We’re also curating puppets on the Jalopy stage including an evening of shows called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cafe des Cheape Artistes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in December. And, beyond that, there’s only a few dozen projects in various states of fermentation and fruition that we will be sharing throughout the year. Follow us on Instagram @boxcutter_collective or check out</span><a href="http://www.boxcuttercollective.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.boxcuttercollective.org</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to stay up to date on what we are doing next.<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe: I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"> am thrilled that this show gets to premiere at La MaMa! I’ve lived in NYC for 20 years and I have seen so many shows here. The history of this theater in fostering new work for so many years—including the early days of both Bread and Puppet (when it was just around the corner) and La MaMa—is so inspiring. I also appreciate La MaMa’s commitment to accessibility of theater to people who can not necessarily afford the crazy Broadway prices (the 10 tickets for $10 to every performance is amazing!) and the work that is being created and showcased here is coming from such a diverse group of people, many from populations that have historically been marginalized and kept out of the conversation. It’s an incredible and important institution and I’m honored to be a part of it.<br /></span> <br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sam: </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I am thrilled to be a La MaMa! When I was growing up in Buffalo New York my parents worked in theater there. We would take trips to NYC to see shows (this was the late '80s and early '90’s). I remember seeing shows at La MaMa and learning that it was an important and exciting place for rule-breaking theater.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg37uX_RR8dsPYNRVgRm7twzh4bMLhce-N_1XS0FqhqTtsMMjlpgsfyFW9AoPU2MVvDvD-pixqmBEKAppofqSYCmeJdqE513-qIFupqSsMRqYGIsxyNVx-7l9u4qwJU6A88SdNAX2knQmshoyB9XuGEtnoL5SIV9WB-Rbf4kBqHf-HWKn3XDL487iis/s1080/TheDivinitySupplyCo_Amelia_Castillo_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="1080" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg37uX_RR8dsPYNRVgRm7twzh4bMLhce-N_1XS0FqhqTtsMMjlpgsfyFW9AoPU2MVvDvD-pixqmBEKAppofqSYCmeJdqE513-qIFupqSsMRqYGIsxyNVx-7l9u4qwJU6A88SdNAX2knQmshoyB9XuGEtnoL5SIV9WB-Rbf4kBqHf-HWKn3XDL487iis/s320/TheDivinitySupplyCo_Amelia_Castillo_01.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Amelia Castillo</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-family: "Allerta Stencil"; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>La MaMa presents</b></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><p></p><p></p><div style="margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/the-divinity-supply-company-2022"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>The Divinity Supply Company</i></b></span></a></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;">June 30 – July 2, 2022</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><b>The Downstairs</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">66 East 4th Street, basement</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">New York, NY 10003</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;">Thursday at 8PM</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;">Friday at 8PM</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;">Saturday at 3PM</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;">Saturday at 8PM</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;"><b>Tickets:</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Adults: $25 in advance; $30 day of show<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Students/Seniors: $20 in advance; $25 day of show</p></div></div></span></span></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-15222891139466931582022-06-27T17:26:00.001-04:002022-06-27T17:26:18.297-04:00Remembering Ernest Abuba<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIiG7WHj1Fubu_yaW-CYxy1yMHRl_8TvdrXUl7ONJKyFiCv-TJ9gI2LizYZkwFfyahzHET4c_lgdwh9zjRRaKz0_XU7_WirIXfQ4z5jxiLQ9WenOCBVtQBnxmsYveRm8oRlz_ywkLpmMyKOhQlv8y1QNjpU2x1eYaaRsSU-NLKcNa7Q10VlRILwdn6/s1874/Ernest%20Abuba%202022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1874" data-original-width="1441" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIiG7WHj1Fubu_yaW-CYxy1yMHRl_8TvdrXUl7ONJKyFiCv-TJ9gI2LizYZkwFfyahzHET4c_lgdwh9zjRRaKz0_XU7_WirIXfQ4z5jxiLQ9WenOCBVtQBnxmsYveRm8oRlz_ywkLpmMyKOhQlv8y1QNjpU2x1eYaaRsSU-NLKcNa7Q10VlRILwdn6/s320/Ernest%20Abuba%202022.jpg" width="246" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We are devastated by the passing of Ernest Abuba, an award-winning actor, director, playwright, performance artist, and teacher whose career spanned over 50 years and who appeared in 100 productions of stage, film, and television.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ernest Abuba had a deep history here at La MaMa. He and Tisa Chang co-founded Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in 1977 at La MaMa after performing a bilingual adaptation of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Midsummers Night’s Dream</em> for Ellen Stewart. Abuba was also involved with the Third World Institute of Theatre Art Studies (TWITAS) and Native American Theatre Ensemble (NATE), as well as on the board of directors of resident company H.T. Chen & Dancers. The first Asian American to play Sakini in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Teahouse of the August Moon</em> and the first Asian American as Macbeth in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shogun Macbeth</em>, he paved the way for Asian Americans in theatre and the arts. His work with Pan Asian Rep, the first and largest professional Asian American theatre company in the U.S., has nurtured thousands of artists and contributed greatly to Asian American and theatre history.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtVqo6kxsT-lmzgNB5i7zUHNsAMf9sLUm5LY-h0RKOJjzcPOWZPkSP0j3Sdj77Pr9HUEs15uXDRymwHbiXRoZa8xucd4ytteHCsdm9Tm0G1FWIVUxFGkTj6V8NTdx_X4nvEfWf3FokA4M47E8mS0PhVA-orHLfYO5jjBUclZiem-CISRjAYjTsMP4q/s4032/A%20MIDSUMMER%20NIGHTS%20DREAM%201974%20%20AT%20LA%20MAMA%20THE%20CHINESE%20THEATRE%20GROUP%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2919" data-original-width="4032" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtVqo6kxsT-lmzgNB5i7zUHNsAMf9sLUm5LY-h0RKOJjzcPOWZPkSP0j3Sdj77Pr9HUEs15uXDRymwHbiXRoZa8xucd4ytteHCsdm9Tm0G1FWIVUxFGkTj6V8NTdx_X4nvEfWf3FokA4M47E8mS0PhVA-orHLfYO5jjBUclZiem-CISRjAYjTsMP4q/s320/A%20MIDSUMMER%20NIGHTS%20DREAM%201974%20%20AT%20LA%20MAMA%20THE%20CHINESE%20THEATRE%20GROUP%20(1).jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;">Production photo from </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;">A Midsummer Night's Dream</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;"> directed by Tisa Chang and produced at La MaMa in 1974</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLSIHoiuDDonxTahtR_yOYgVfsXNIzzV0_FD0k5Fp-T-Zl-Xgw_xBBn0-mnVFyl_JgsM7cVgPKUBtwQj-pdXvVCI7Y3AssM83XjH332k6T7m6QF35xjIXp4HXfigryCyA3G9EBeKaZLKii3QY9XYLM-vOUyWwRMEoM0wx8ycPU64ynyGT40le8lUg6/s3436/AN%20AMERICAN%20STORY%201980%20PAN%20ASIAN%20REP%20AT%20LA%20MAMA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2743" data-original-width="3436" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLSIHoiuDDonxTahtR_yOYgVfsXNIzzV0_FD0k5Fp-T-Zl-Xgw_xBBn0-mnVFyl_JgsM7cVgPKUBtwQj-pdXvVCI7Y3AssM83XjH332k6T7m6QF35xjIXp4HXfigryCyA3G9EBeKaZLKii3QY9XYLM-vOUyWwRMEoM0wx8ycPU64ynyGT40le8lUg6/s320/AN%20AMERICAN%20STORY%201980%20PAN%20ASIAN%20REP%20AT%20LA%20MAMA.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;">Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;">An American Story</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;"> at La MaMa in 1980</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh972_dMY2KjIJK44erQilJwfxIlPu9XpqNq-FH2es8CFhjptJnZrZp2CNqHJLa5DZEnEQosP7KkAr8jITBboVM5XCDm-nqe_v4fjG_kCixXpi5PTTCzI8rQWbYOcpsd-NxrX9AZJtfyHbRI9YY-tCkziYYYo_EELokFGKoJUbqGNoQBVS0CkscSAYI/s3456/ARTAUD%20PORTRAIT%20by%20ERNEST%20ABUBA%20at%20entrance%20to%20Ellen%20Stewart%20Home.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="3456" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh972_dMY2KjIJK44erQilJwfxIlPu9XpqNq-FH2es8CFhjptJnZrZp2CNqHJLa5DZEnEQosP7KkAr8jITBboVM5XCDm-nqe_v4fjG_kCixXpi5PTTCzI8rQWbYOcpsd-NxrX9AZJtfyHbRI9YY-tCkziYYYo_EELokFGKoJUbqGNoQBVS0CkscSAYI/s320/ARTAUD%20PORTRAIT%20by%20ERNEST%20ABUBA%20at%20entrance%20to%20Ellen%20Stewart%20Home.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A portrait of Artaud by Ernest Abuba hanging at the entrance to Ellen Stewart's home</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfxjFArSR29yefDeeEQ_bH_u5cL36JzMewJDXN-y3bysODqSGfpzMjaXR52_ejooFr9401yYFY9vxTIDy2q2dYqanB-hlt1VsSyJVvK88YoOqfiPsgr7FdcZCNkzQuDb-SQ4-pqjXiG6aKteHCBSJjJ9BpB43anGmmhtRvVJIG57oulbLRX_XMFn0c/s640/LEAR%20REX%20at%20LA%20MAMA%201998.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="442" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfxjFArSR29yefDeeEQ_bH_u5cL36JzMewJDXN-y3bysODqSGfpzMjaXR52_ejooFr9401yYFY9vxTIDy2q2dYqanB-hlt1VsSyJVvK88YoOqfiPsgr7FdcZCNkzQuDb-SQ4-pqjXiG6aKteHCBSJjJ9BpB43anGmmhtRvVJIG57oulbLRX_XMFn0c/s320/LEAR%20REX%20at%20LA%20MAMA%201998.jpg" width="221" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;">Production photo from </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;">Lear Rex</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;"> at La MaMa in 1998</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH10f9QH3R3oymfvdkTzILvdcc5rHdGn-1AK1wObdJlXIQMCRi5nXuyJ1CyYbx6TfuB1R_gK_W8JadRPXgx_yGEU9nw9qWlVQ-46R6FpTr2AgfQa_wfcFVSeWcn8WVlv2SPmRty3d-O0Uetesuiv0RPt4yL_3jfmqAk1_EwW3oPh9CvEVDmLecPkzg/s640/ACCADDE%20DOMANI%20at%20LA%20MAMA%202003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="640" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH10f9QH3R3oymfvdkTzILvdcc5rHdGn-1AK1wObdJlXIQMCRi5nXuyJ1CyYbx6TfuB1R_gK_W8JadRPXgx_yGEU9nw9qWlVQ-46R6FpTr2AgfQa_wfcFVSeWcn8WVlv2SPmRty3d-O0Uetesuiv0RPt4yL_3jfmqAk1_EwW3oPh9CvEVDmLecPkzg/s320/ACCADDE%20DOMANI%20at%20LA%20MAMA%202003.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;">Photo of Shigeko Suga and Ernest Abuba in </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;">Accade Domani</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;"> at La MaMa in 2003</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-rWRTcGNMuCk2q9Vv-zoLRm14FJNbT6IG_UZwnBsSh1-n5Aj6Zi5iGnLtUwX-3RyCiIstexpWedsl5tFoFkMsBxhPQZ6ef0CrQkZHXPswKBoznNEd3Yc7Rqpe0O9HcjMZ5WYfw1zcEbPyQqbfiCFjS2qH2-y-g_it4jbljeqB3ReeyV-mUDZ03tH_/s2048/Ernest%20Abuba%20Pacific%20Overture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1601" data-original-width="2048" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-rWRTcGNMuCk2q9Vv-zoLRm14FJNbT6IG_UZwnBsSh1-n5Aj6Zi5iGnLtUwX-3RyCiIstexpWedsl5tFoFkMsBxhPQZ6ef0CrQkZHXPswKBoznNEd3Yc7Rqpe0O9HcjMZ5WYfw1zcEbPyQqbfiCFjS2qH2-y-g_it4jbljeqB3ReeyV-mUDZ03tH_/s320/Ernest%20Abuba%20Pacific%20Overture.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;">Photo of Ernest Abuba in </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;">Pacific Overtures</em></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-49277375705687903162022-06-22T12:41:00.004-04:002022-06-22T12:41:18.540-04:00Remembering H.T. Chen<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QiDd-N4RbjdsrpvdmtAfrxiXHju1oh5NbEGv3XGIw3qpU8J4aD_xMRHdihvUrFKc5KTiCMdZBDfyT1f8n2rnLloOEjNVvktS-bqUtuloMb4vTFeA2NWuk6I8-4wCtFGODZRDGKAJiCCbcTR6auNLHZ5eS9SqRMEZOisHhIM3DSK2pACE3S4aDxKy/s5968/HTChen_a006%20Photo%20by%20David%20Drebin.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5968" data-original-width="4808" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QiDd-N4RbjdsrpvdmtAfrxiXHju1oh5NbEGv3XGIw3qpU8J4aD_xMRHdihvUrFKc5KTiCMdZBDfyT1f8n2rnLloOEjNVvktS-bqUtuloMb4vTFeA2NWuk6I8-4wCtFGODZRDGKAJiCCbcTR6auNLHZ5eS9SqRMEZOisHhIM3DSK2pACE3S4aDxKy/s320/HTChen_a006%20Photo%20by%20David%20Drebin.jpeg" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Photo by David Drebin</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We are mourning the loss of H.T. Chen, a beloved La MaMa artist who formed the innovative modern dance company H.T. Chen & Dancers in 1978 and established Chen Dance Center in 1979.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Born in Shanghai and raised in Taiwan, Chen worked for several years at La MaMa as an actor, dancer, and choreographer with the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre before turning to presenting his own work. A leading choreographer and performer, Chen was also an arts advocate who served the Asian-American community and the New York City dance community. His work has made a lasting impact on La MaMa’s history and the field of dance, and our thoughts go out to his family, friends, and community of artists. H.T. Chen was a dear friend to La MaMa. His loss is deeply felt.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5vddI9uuDT5IC66RK9KWzC0AFOfP4zNZfUPDpaMsdkuc592leHBuZVISx17dFDP-bhY4XVUkx2ww-KV7KYwqmNG-UClCbRXvqkWbrAbI7FUvEEkK3w63sKkkW8V6X7cmcpC4puAR-udfKqh_Zb9Pb5XsjF-pLFIAJJ38Zn1wBCafkxCLr-Ff_Tf_8/s5968/HTChen_a001%20Photo%20by%20Carol%20Rosegg.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5968" data-original-width="4776" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5vddI9uuDT5IC66RK9KWzC0AFOfP4zNZfUPDpaMsdkuc592leHBuZVISx17dFDP-bhY4XVUkx2ww-KV7KYwqmNG-UClCbRXvqkWbrAbI7FUvEEkK3w63sKkkW8V6X7cmcpC4puAR-udfKqh_Zb9Pb5XsjF-pLFIAJJ38Zn1wBCafkxCLr-Ff_Tf_8/s320/HTChen_a001%20Photo%20by%20Carol%20Rosegg.jpeg" width="256" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Photo by Carol Rosegg of dancers (L-R) Hsin-Ya Hou, H.T. Chen (seated), Dian Dong, Fumiko Rose, Dagmar Spain, Rome Quezada, and Jennifer Bishop</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-42527984836132204442022-04-25T14:28:00.002-04:002022-04-27T14:43:12.610-04:006 Questions for Valeria Solomonoff<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGL8ejLrpPGwve4ykc9yB2kkGH-o2CzCsWIEg1fGGDQbgcyucuUItfc0I6_zKusG8ULYLy3lKkGZT3A9XzMpIJC4AhoE3v_1sSHhFrxMpEmgWWn03zLlNJPCpynKmYLuL5WPQlAftTjIKGPhviD44Zu2lcj5wsNxDuVoxMM1TaPRtsiiJYYMV-hwKb/s1107/VSolomonoff_by%20John%20Abbott.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1107" data-original-width="908" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGL8ejLrpPGwve4ykc9yB2kkGH-o2CzCsWIEg1fGGDQbgcyucuUItfc0I6_zKusG8ULYLy3lKkGZT3A9XzMpIJC4AhoE3v_1sSHhFrxMpEmgWWn03zLlNJPCpynKmYLuL5WPQlAftTjIKGPhviD44Zu2lcj5wsNxDuVoxMM1TaPRtsiiJYYMV-hwKb/s320/VSolomonoff_by%20John%20Abbott.jpg" width="262" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Photo by John Abbott</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #262626;">Valeria Solomonoff is a wide-ranging innovator who uses her tango roots to reimagine new possibilities of partnering. She is an awarded choreographer born in Argentina and based in New York who conceived and created <i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/confianza-trust-2022">Confianza</a></i> collaboratively with performers Rodney Hamilton and Orlando Reyes Ibarra.</span><br style="color: #262626;" /><br style="color: #262626;" /><span style="color: #262626;">There are three performances of <i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/confianza-trust-2022">Confianza</a></i> this weekend in the Ellen Stewart Theatre from April 30 to May 2. Tickets can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1112143">here</a>.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Allerta Stencil"; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1. How would you describe your work as a choreographer?</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For this work I started with a question and gathered a group of artists that were interested in it. I see myself kind of like a host who both incites and holds together. I host the space for collaboration as collaboration is for me the most rewarding way of working. Everyone is invested and things stay surprising all the time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>2. Who or what has inspired you?</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I’m inspired by our director Orlando Pabotoy, who is a person with the most integrity, humor, and care that one can come across. He has created an atmosphere of love for the process and acceptance of who we are and what we bring to each moment while maintaining a standard of continual growth. I’m also inspired by the differences among us, the dancers, and how we appreciate and respect each other. I’m inspired by the endless possibilities of tango and challenged by the aspiration to one day feel like my body and my mind can find complete expression. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>3. What have you learned from creating and performing new work during a pandemic?</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The pandemic made it very clear to me that my motivation to create, be with people I love working with and sharing a common goal, is a need as important as the food on my table. There have been times when everything seemed against us and on those moments, it was clear that it wasn’t mere stubbornness what kept me going; it was an internal joy, like a beautiful secret that runs through the core of my being and makes me get up and sing (much to the annoyance of anyone hearing me, as I’m no singer).</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>4. What should audiences expect from the performance?</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I think the audience will be aware of the theme and will go with us in a little trip. At least that is what I hope because the best part of rehearsal is getting lost in the journey and then come back home to my life.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>5. What are your upcoming plans for the rest of the year?</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I look forward creating a piece and working with Mark Morris Dance Group Dance for Parkinson Disease Program. I was awarded the inaugural Lucy Bowen Award for Inclusive Choreography which will give me an opportunity to develop a work based on partnering. I know I have a lot to learn from this wonderful organization and I can’t wait to get started.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Working at La MaMa means I can reach a broad audience and let them experience how tango is much more than what is shown on TV. It means that I can make a statement about how improvisation based on tango dynamic of lead and follow is a technique as solid as ballet and as malleable as theater. I want tango to be understood in a modern context. I want modern dance to include not just tango “moves”, but most importantly, the root of co-creation that is at the core of lead-follow interdependency of tango and that has been the source of our work.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_hX0O12oypt2oRtvCSARLPOWnslLIucSxCiNUhrSp9C6gfJcPm19yAPjk8F_oPNtgPUx5c28bcLYFkx65ghMMoUib0jzUKKmOis_XkXbUrI_PPOgD4OlukqmkVyO4aIdJ8IMQiAmUVZlN_ZxMpvmGGL8NZaQ03G4iHwRDGrZhgYk7tPnI7ttCVy8/s2000/ValeriaSolomonoffandRodneyHamilton%20(David%20WattsJr)%20.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1331" data-original-width="2000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_hX0O12oypt2oRtvCSARLPOWnslLIucSxCiNUhrSp9C6gfJcPm19yAPjk8F_oPNtgPUx5c28bcLYFkx65ghMMoUib0jzUKKmOis_XkXbUrI_PPOgD4OlukqmkVyO4aIdJ8IMQiAmUVZlN_ZxMpvmGGL8NZaQ03G4iHwRDGrZhgYk7tPnI7ttCVy8/s320/ValeriaSolomonoffandRodneyHamilton%20(David%20WattsJr)%20.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Photo of Valeria Solomonoff and Rodney Hamilton by David Watts Jr.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La MaMa presents</span></b></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"></p><h1 style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/confianza-trust-2022">Valetango Company: <i>Confianza (Trust)</i></a></span></h1><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">April 30 – May 1, 2022</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><b>Ellen Stewart Theatre</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">66 East 4th Street, 2nd floor</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">New York, NY 10003</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Saturday at 7PM</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sunday at 2PM</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tickets:</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Adults: $25 in advance; $30 day of show<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Students/Seniors: $20 in advance; $25 day of show</span></p></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><br /><p></p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-27559855692280178722022-04-18T15:29:00.003-04:002022-04-18T15:29:57.394-04:006 Questions for Pele Bauch<div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg26Gn4LW-V9rF7BoQ_WOqX3HzRYfdjVyyDuui5Iwo4ELA5StxmMHhnB-wE08GU_xZ-O0ez9e2aiR2o82qLY-U2lMde-5NsqZVEUrpHL6iqt-4dG1z-v7KxXuVUwDKgHykqRJ0ea1-R_gJheyqVKjLKyrkmqurr5KFGbiyRs_cy9GAsbaG0Z2Uz7REs/s4000/200320%20Yang_NYP%20Features%20-%20Westbeth%20-%20Pele%20Bauch-35.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="4000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg26Gn4LW-V9rF7BoQ_WOqX3HzRYfdjVyyDuui5Iwo4ELA5StxmMHhnB-wE08GU_xZ-O0ez9e2aiR2o82qLY-U2lMde-5NsqZVEUrpHL6iqt-4dG1z-v7KxXuVUwDKgHykqRJ0ea1-R_gJheyqVKjLKyrkmqurr5KFGbiyRs_cy9GAsbaG0Z2Uz7REs/s320/200320%20Yang_NYP%20Features%20-%20Westbeth%20-%20Pele%20Bauch-35.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by Stephen Yang</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Pele Bauch is an interdisciplinary choreographer who combines dance with theater and weaves mixed media and set design into unique performances. Her recent work focuses on her journey as a "Hapa Haole" Kanaka Maoli (multiracial Native Hawaiian) navigating her lack of knowledge from her birthright culture. In <a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/pele-bauch-marina-celander-2022">a shared evening with Marina Celander</a>, Pele Bauch presents <i>A.K.A. Ka Inoa </i>(also known as the name), which weaves supple movement, vivid characters, and personal story together with rope and name tags. <i>A.K.A. Ka Inoa </i>unpacks our expectations about racial identity and pushes them against the realities of personal identity, asking: What does it mean to "represent" one's race?</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are three performances of <a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/pele-bauch-marina-celander-2022">Shared Evening: Pele Bauch + Marina Celander</a> in The Downstairs from April 22–24. Tickets can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1112167">here</a>.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1. How would you describe your work as a choreographer?</b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dance with stuff. I always choreograph with everyday objects.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This time, a few thousand name tags litter the floor, encircled by about 60 paper bags that fill the<br />rest of the space. It’s visceral - with a moving expressive body. Then the objects bring a whole<br />story with them, and create context. So choreographing the interaction between body and<br />objects allows me to mold a visual experience. What does it mean to be named something? To<br />be labeled something? By working with name tags and paper bags, etc. I can move through<br />these questions and explore different experiences.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>2. Who and what has inspired you?</b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Art is communion. Dance is my connection to fellow human beings and to my innermost self.<br />That’s what drives me.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><b>3. What have you learned from creating and performing new work during a pandemic?</b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Creativity in all its forms is so vital. For one person it may be cooking a new meal, for me it’s<br />choreography. We need creativity, fun, love, imagination, connection to survive. When I wasn’t<br />choreographing (when shows were canceled), my experience of the pandemic slowly got darker<br />and darker until it was suffocating. And when I got back into the studio, everything started to<br />become more tolerable again. The first time I returned to the theater to see a live performance<br />after the lockdown, I cried with joy.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><b>4. What should audiences expect from the performance?</b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />Dance, story, paper bags, name tags... Did I mention the 300 feet of rope?</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />OK, but also. <i>A.K.A. Ka Inoa</i> addresses three audiences. To fellow Indigenous and diasporic<br />multiracial people who do not have the privilege of an education in their own culture: Many of us<br />feel lost, ignorant and isolated; we are not alone. To the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) who<br />are educated in Hawaiian cultural practices: I seek to be</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> seen. To everyone else: I want to</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">expose this experience so that it is no longer invisible.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br />5. What are your upcoming plans for the rest of the year?</b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I am making a new work, commissioned by Women in Motion, called <i>The Distance Process /<br />Dear Kanaloa</i>. It explores distance and diaspora using what everyone is using to bridge gaps:<br />Zoom and Google Translate. I am working with Kealoha Ferreira, a Minnesota-based fellow<br />Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) dancer. The performance will be for in-person audiences in our<br />two cities simultaneously connected via live stream projection. Clearly, this is a piece conceived<br />during the pandemic, but we’re not just zooming because it’s there. It’s a continuation of this<br />work on diaspora and distance from one’s heritage.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><b>6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?</b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b>It’s a real honor. It means being a part of a contemporary tradition of exploration and<br />experimentation.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I remember going to a show at La MaMa when I was a teenager (meaning a long time ago) that<br />centered on Hawai’i. I remember seeing the word “hula'' in the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival<br />program description. La MaMa is the perfect venue for <i>A.K.A. Ka Inoa</i>.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipMSDS5iHzm4YtUSARxBRNVCckGCDZv29lw9VxK19-T6_S3FKa5ahJqu69ymB5BTVJ31jfcyMTU20xqv01tnDYEtTIwqUi7ZhuOcAa4Byx9_CU1ecpGwLyMdRGpDjtZcBq5zMuTcgSKedW1lyydztqeaRRUO89is65ThgBigYP002AroEKcuOV5RGH/s2000/Pele%20Bauch%20+%20Marina%20Celander.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="2000" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipMSDS5iHzm4YtUSARxBRNVCckGCDZv29lw9VxK19-T6_S3FKa5ahJqu69ymB5BTVJ31jfcyMTU20xqv01tnDYEtTIwqUi7ZhuOcAa4Byx9_CU1ecpGwLyMdRGpDjtZcBq5zMuTcgSKedW1lyydztqeaRRUO89is65ThgBigYP002AroEKcuOV5RGH/s320/Pele%20Bauch%20+%20Marina%20Celander.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px; text-align: start;">Photo of Pele Bauch by Danny Boyd</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px; text-align: start;">Photo of Marina Celander courtesy of the artist</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>La MaMa presents</b></span><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Allerta Stencil"; font-size: 13.2px;"></p><h1 style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/pele-bauch-marina-celander-2022">Shared Evening: Pele Bauch + Marina Celander</a></span></h1><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Allerta Stencil"; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Allerta Stencil"; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">April 22 – 24, 2022</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Allerta Stencil"; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Allerta Stencil"; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><b>The Downstairs</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">66 East 4th Street, basement level</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">New York, NY 10003</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Allerta Stencil"; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Allerta Stencil"; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13.2px;">Friday – Saturday at 8:30PM</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Allerta Stencil"; font-size: 13.2px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sunday at 4PM</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tickets:</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Adults: $25 in advance; $30 day of show<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Students/Seniors: $20 in advance; $25 day of show</span></p></div></span></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-51672211732126843442022-04-16T18:17:00.005-04:002022-04-16T18:19:23.395-04:006 Questions for Tiffany Mills<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFDxO_KXL39kk0cM-EkXgppHviIvwBDlQps0gpLyQvM_8AN74yoK64wjVoenojYOWt18d8JxDPL8imMM6kIvqpUOAU6ly57_mrr_aWRdqNC1px-KpQhz2GiPDbF-1YXtQCloh2wiTvRE1HCMpYslSPZaSnLI7kB0b97RuxbhpvkFRQr0ar9rwVAC2/s2037/TiffanySpeakingPhotoHighRes%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2037" data-original-width="1358" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFDxO_KXL39kk0cM-EkXgppHviIvwBDlQps0gpLyQvM_8AN74yoK64wjVoenojYOWt18d8JxDPL8imMM6kIvqpUOAU6ly57_mrr_aWRdqNC1px-KpQhz2GiPDbF-1YXtQCloh2wiTvRE1HCMpYslSPZaSnLI7kB0b97RuxbhpvkFRQr0ar9rwVAC2/s320/TiffanySpeakingPhotoHighRes%20copy.jpg" width="213" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Photo by Julie Lemberger</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><a href="https://tiffanymillscompany.org/">Tiffany Mills</a> </strong><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">is choreographer and artistic director of the New York City-based Tiffany Mills Company, which she founded in 2</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">000. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Homing</i>, a dance-theater work inspired by the wealth of experiences that shape and bind us in our homes, is presented as part of Tiffany Mills Company’s 20th anniversary season celebration. Tickets can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1112139">here</a>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">1. </span><span style="background-color: white;">How would you describe your work as a choreographer?</span></b></span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My work is collaborative. I enjoy working with the dancers as collaborators; as well as invited artists from various mediums (theater, music, video, etc.) as collaborators.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>2. Who or what has inspired you?</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Judson Church artists always inspire me. Now, my kids also inspire me!</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>3. What have you learned from creating and performing new work during a pandemic?</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is a silver lining of the pandemic. Rehearsing for over a year from our apartments created deep personal work. When we returned to the studio there was a renewed energy and excitement to all be together.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>4. What should audiences expect from the performance?</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is a dance/theater/video work that asks: What happens when personal stories and media fantasies collide? It has moments of lightness and also darker truths.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>5. What are your upcoming plans for the rest of the year?</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We have a new commission to create two works for 7 violas from Ensemble Ipse (June 5th 7p). We will be on the road in the fall touring HOMING.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La MaMa is HOME!! We are so grateful for your support.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiag0jI0xoJf0gjKcv9e5bgzR_D36PtZLb1O8rTBzn3U7SoQDDFVUYQcrDqHea3pT5tGkt-wZ-gn61cvQbkBTfiK4-neAD9gT2hRD5j3RXO1qAZs0mG7AOqM3HIeKH8EgtTF-edxSRhR4wpfczu23aHqQ9IMfN5r0hBPBiZuiOWGs3FL-EbHddN18ik/s2000/Tiffany%20Mills%20Company%20The%20Home%20Project%20(Robert%20Altman).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1358" data-original-width="2000" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiag0jI0xoJf0gjKcv9e5bgzR_D36PtZLb1O8rTBzn3U7SoQDDFVUYQcrDqHea3pT5tGkt-wZ-gn61cvQbkBTfiK4-neAD9gT2hRD5j3RXO1qAZs0mG7AOqM3HIeKH8EgtTF-edxSRhR4wpfczu23aHqQ9IMfN5r0hBPBiZuiOWGs3FL-EbHddN18ik/s320/Tiffany%20Mills%20Company%20The%20Home%20Project%20(Robert%20Altman).jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Photo by Robert Altman</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1469430453672566079" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 614px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>La MaMa presents</b></span><p></p><h1 style="margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a class="external" href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/the-home-project-2022" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Opens new window"><span style="font-size: large;">Homing</span></a></span></h1><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Conceived and choreographed by </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Tiffany Mills </strong><span style="color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">with artistic contributions from the Company</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;" /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Performed by </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Tiffany Mills</strong><span style="color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Jordan Morley</strong><span style="color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Nikolas Owens</strong><span style="color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Emily Pope</strong><span style="color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, and </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Mei Yamanaka</strong></span></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">April 14 –16, 2022</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><b>Ellen Stewart Theatre</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">66 East 4th Street, 2nd floor</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">New York, NY 10003</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thursday – Saturday at 7PM</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tickets:</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Adults: $25 in advance; $30 day of show<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Students/Seniors: $20 in advance; $25 day of show</span></p></div></div></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-14694304536725660792022-04-04T20:54:00.004-04:002022-04-04T20:54:48.434-04:006 Questions for Matt Nasser of BALKAN BORDELLO<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP36jGu1mEy_SIFJXBl8P0_nO8MEyk42NxUZ8emCzgHxUVNsTSLumiZoT5BvABH-9avY2FspbKhS-GE6zmE6aniYx8j7cMzGfOjfp3IDdScM-xEVv6oKylPJxqRuVqWAqE29Di33LW8avV66hhl_6Fpu0bdsNpmNm83EgUV6aS4EyEPve16iXmO8wQ/s779/image0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="661" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP36jGu1mEy_SIFJXBl8P0_nO8MEyk42NxUZ8emCzgHxUVNsTSLumiZoT5BvABH-9avY2FspbKhS-GE6zmE6aniYx8j7cMzGfOjfp3IDdScM-xEVv6oKylPJxqRuVqWAqE29Di33LW8avV66hhl_6Fpu0bdsNpmNm83EgUV6aS4EyEPve16iXmO8wQ/s320/image0.jpeg" width="272" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>Matt Nasser</b> has been a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Jones_Repertory_Company">Great Jones Repertory Company</a> at La MaMa for the past 15 years. Primarily an actor and singer in New York's downtown theatre scene, his other credits include productions by The Deconstructive Theatre Project, Yara Arts, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, The Inconvenience Store, and the Big Art Group. He plays Bartender/Lawyer in <i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/balkan-bordello-2022">Balkan Bordello</a></i>, which has 4 more performances in the Ellen Stewart Theatre until April 10. Tickets can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1106347">here</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold;">1. Who or what has inspired you?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: 400;">Looking back on my theatre life, many passionate directors, teachers and colleagues have inspired me. From my high school musical director, Patricia Murray, to the legendary Ellen Stewart. These individuals have been strong, quick witted, loving leaders who expertly balance mentorship, their own personal relationships and great achievement in their artistic careers. Some off the top of my head: Justin Vivian Bond, Tina Landau, Kristin Linklater, Claudia Baez, Adriana Farmiga, John Kelly, Caden Manson, Andre De Shields, Alan Cumming, Mia Yoo, The Great Jones Rep, the La MaMa office, and of course, our fearless leader of Balkan Bordello, Blerta Neziraj. Also, even though fictional, Captain Janeway from Star Trek Voyager, Huge Trekkie here.</div><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-weight: bold;"><p><span style="color: #222222;">2. What can American audiences expect from these performances?</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #222222;">They can expect to see performances from a company that truly cares for one another. Performers who give generously to each other and put it all out there for the audience. They can also expect to get a taste of The Balkans. Although abstracted, much of the movement, music and customs in the play are grounded in the region.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;">3. Can you elaborate on the international collaboration that took place in developing <i>Balkan Bordello</i>?</span></p></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: 400;">It has really been quite extraordinary and I am immensely grateful to be a part of this collaboration. It was a true cultural exchange. Being able to travel to the Balkans and dive into their history and culture has deeply enriched my life. And then, to have that knowledge and be in a rehearsal room with both Serbian actors and actors from Kosovo, seeing them share with one another, eat and laugh, have each other's backs on stage and do all that for us as well, it has filled me with pride for what we have achieved and hope for our future.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold;">4. How have the current conditions of the world influenced your creative process?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: 400;">I am just continually reminded how blessed I am that I can be a part of a creative process. How sacred it is to create and how urgent it is to create understanding and tell stories that can bring people together.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold;">5. What have you learned from working with Great Jones Repertory?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">So many things! But a story comes to mind of one of my first rehearsals with Ellen and the GJR. I think I had just turned 21 and was thrown into this company of extremely talented and well seasoned performers from around the world. You can imagine how nervous and self conscious I was in that room. Ellen had literally created a song right before our eyes, which I would come to learn was commonplace for her and she asked me to get up and sing it. Not just sing it, but perform it! Nothing in my life had prepared me for this. As far as I knew, you learned a song by getting sheet music and practicing it for a while, maybe going over it with a voice coach a few times, before you would dare perform it in front of people, let alone a theatre legend. So in my mind, what she was asking was impossible. Well guess what? it's not! Especially, with what might be considered the most intense peer pressure imaginable, that leap of faith, which seems impossible, is as easy as the thought, "Yes." You can, in fact, perform a song you just heard on the spot and that muscle gets stronger and the leap gets easier the more you do it. That leap is where great performance lives. I have learned from Ellen and the rest of the company what a miracle our minds and bodies are and the infinite potential of the human spirit. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold;">6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: 400;">It means having a family, not just here in New York, but all around the world. I can travel almost anywhere on this planet and meet someone that has been touched by La MaMa. It means being nurtured by that family, not just artistically, but in many aspects of life and then taking that gift and sharing it with others.</div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2HG3ShlPj1ihaVtPkL9Iw-ziXB3fMxxUc3GQUpQGcO45mwtXzgnvoeqhHRH1ViqHiJznt12Y3pUU3H64DIiXsXrcgLjzzT_kNo1BGB7GameELeRdpsyRYXgnChwwcwRdaC_ocPpdNTRTAjPVdAFT4jkR3I0CpW32kP0Ci6ondE18tHjczWvk-NH1/s3000/2%20Ferdi%20Limani.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="3000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2HG3ShlPj1ihaVtPkL9Iw-ziXB3fMxxUc3GQUpQGcO45mwtXzgnvoeqhHRH1ViqHiJznt12Y3pUU3H64DIiXsXrcgLjzzT_kNo1BGB7GameELeRdpsyRYXgnChwwcwRdaC_ocPpdNTRTAjPVdAFT4jkR3I0CpW32kP0Ci6ondE18tHjczWvk-NH1/s320/2%20Ferdi%20Limani.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by Ferdi Limani</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><b><span>La MaMa presents</span></b></span><p></p><h1 style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/balkan-bordello-2022">Balkan Bordello</a></span></h1><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Written by Jeton Neziraj</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;">Directed by Blerta Neziraj</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">March 31 – April 10, 2022</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><b>Ellen Stewart Theatre</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">66 East 4th Street, 2nd floor</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">New York, NY 10003</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thursday – Saturday at 7PM<br />Sunday, April 10 at 2PM</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tickets:</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Adults: $25 in advance; $30 day of show<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Students/Seniors: $20 in advance; $25 day of show</span></p></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-67365435831194960952022-03-29T16:10:00.004-04:002022-03-29T16:13:50.999-04:006 Questions for David Cerda of THE DRAG SEED<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_kjdNvRdSLkuDefKkF6rHPMZmDcsG0xDRAxhUNQDP3EVSDw3Dl2_m7yJiYFFPpWF19Mu_YzFvZ1e9-EV2sHwn9nzFLP38uRfmfwALCAgLNaHUJGMAEmamjJTtma6Aad_S7KZhZRNNjUL5t4Ny-lJ7zuq3gZus-i9IZTfjik_UNgfep8_IEmvzwXOH/s1280/Cerda%20joe-mazza-brave-lux-chicago-7204.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1280" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_kjdNvRdSLkuDefKkF6rHPMZmDcsG0xDRAxhUNQDP3EVSDw3Dl2_m7yJiYFFPpWF19Mu_YzFvZ1e9-EV2sHwn9nzFLP38uRfmfwALCAgLNaHUJGMAEmamjJTtma6Aad_S7KZhZRNNjUL5t4Ny-lJ7zuq3gZus-i9IZTfjik_UNgfep8_IEmvzwXOH/s320/Cerda%20joe-mazza-brave-lux-chicago-7204.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Photo by Joe Mazza - Brave Lux</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David Cerda is the co-founder and Artistic Director of <a href="http://www.handbagproductions.org/">Hell in a Handbag Productions</a> in Chicago. He’s also the resident playwright. Cerda has written <i>SuperPussy Vixens</i>, <i>Go Faster! Kill!</i>, <i>SCARRIE-The Musical</i> (1998, 2003, 2015), <i>Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer</i> (1997–2018), <i>Joan Crawford Goes to Hell</i>, <i>Touched by Jayne Mansfield</i>, <i>The Birds</i> (2001, 2014, 2015), <i>Poseidon! An Upside Down Musical</i> (2001, 2010, 2019), <i>How ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’ Happened</i>, <i>Caged Dames</i>, <i>The Rip Nelson Halloween Spooktacular</i>, <i>Lady X</i>, and <i>TROGG! A Musical</i>, <i>Sexy Baby</i>, <i>Scream</i>, <i>Queen</i>, <i>SCREAM!</i>, <i>Christmas Dearest</i>, <i>Lady X-The Musical</i>, <i>The Rip Nelson Holiday Spectacular</i>, <i>The Golden Girls-The Lost Episodes, Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4</i>, <i>The Golden Girls Holiday Special 1 and 2</i>, <i>The Golden Girls Valentine Edition</i>, <i>The Golden Girls-BEA AFRAID</i>, T<i>he Facts of Life-Satan’s School for Girls</i>, and <i>The Drag Seed</i>.</span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are 8 performances of <i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/the-drag-seed-2022">The Drag Seed</a></i>, directed by Cheryl Snodgrass, in the Downstairs Theatre from March 31–April 10. Tickets can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1094663">here</a>.</span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1. How would you describe your work?</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ridiculous and truthful. Smart and stupid, and camp—lots of it.</span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>2. What inspired you to write <i>The Drag Seed</i>?</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Being told I couldn't use cross gender casting by the staff who knew about the drag casting out there but could care less at Dramatist Guild when I looked into doing <i>The Bad Seed</i>.</span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>3. What can audiences expect from these performances?</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">EXPECT TO SEE THE WAY THE SHOW <i>SHOULD</i> BE PERFORMED IN THIS MODERN AGE.</span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">They should expect <u><i>unflattering drool and snot out of the nose laughs</i></u>.</span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To laugh so hard they <b>might fart next to their date</b>. They should expect to forget about a lot of the nonsense going on in the world.<br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>4. How has the production developed since its premiere in 2019?</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">While the production is pretty much the same, the acceptance of Drag has skyrocketed because people have ways to monetize it, Drag has turned into a product for middle America which is why they look like OVER-SEXUALIZED Disney characters now. The world has caught up with the play, but fear not, we shall find new ways to assault their senses with a bucket of EXTRA CRISPY CAMP THAT NOT EVEN THE MOST Avant Garde Variety Types can resist!</span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>5. It's Hell in a Handbag's 20th anniversary season! What are your upcoming plans for the rest of the season?</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After New York, we're queering up Agatha Christie with A Fine Feathered Murdered-A Miss Marbled Mystery. The Fowler estate seems idyllic what with enormous cocks strutting about the place servicing all of the high society Mother Cluckers until biggest is found dead.</span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After, we plan going far away into outer space with <i>I PROMISED MYSELF TO LIVE FASTER</i>, a wild sci action space opera and love story by Gregory Moss and The Pig Iron Theatre Company.</span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can also see Dorothy, Rose, Sophia, and Blanche performing as Miami's favorite seniors in the only critically acclaimed <i>Golden Girls</i> parody with original scripts. The world's first worldwide <i>Golden Girls</i> Convention—Thank you for Being a Fan at Navy Pier in Chicago.</span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It still feels like a dream. Like I'm going to wake up from a coma, tell the nurse that I have to go—I'm doing a show at La MaMa—and they all laugh at me and say, "You got a light bulb stuck in your butt!" Then they keep laughing and laughing until I make them stop—don't ask.</span></span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It also feels like the culmination of 20 years of hard work, and it makes me proud fo be sharing the stage with the people who believed in me when I had trouble believing in myself.</span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">ALL the feels, My character, Miss Charles is dedicated to the holy trinity of Charles Ludlum, Pierce, and Busch, who all performed in this sacred space. I'm grateful as hell.</span></div><div style="color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa76qIGZau2Er-qF24K9Mvbhq-CDG0uhTskeWaMkkYD5TdNRag64N4aeXcWyc3RDc50GxgSZCgQaWTe8OPsjO3DQ47o9k0iRHBFPwBhWNdzbdHFz1GdIac_czHEehQvJsMAs8BsKEHcNbUNgLU_-9TX2zRXQqG7SfS1GfFfuxzW-9LZoc4nzRxlYz/s1500/DragSeed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoa76qIGZau2Er-qF24K9Mvbhq-CDG0uhTskeWaMkkYD5TdNRag64N4aeXcWyc3RDc50GxgSZCgQaWTe8OPsjO3DQ47o9k0iRHBFPwBhWNdzbdHFz1GdIac_czHEehQvJsMAs8BsKEHcNbUNgLU_-9TX2zRXQqG7SfS1GfFfuxzW-9LZoc4nzRxlYz/s320/DragSeed.jpg" width="213" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Photo by Rick Aguilar Studios</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La MaMa presents</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></b></div><h1 style="background-color: white; color: black; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/the-drag-seed-2022"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">The Drag Seed</span></a></h1><div style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Written by David Cerda</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;">Directed by Cheryl Snodgrass</span><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.handbagproductions.org/"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hell in a Handbag Productions, Chicago</span></a></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">March 31 – April 10, 2022</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><b>The Downstairs </b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">66 East 4th Street, basement level</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">New York, NY 10003</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: black;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thursdays – Saturdays at 8PM<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sundays at 4PM</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tickets:</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Adults: $25 in advance; $30 day of show<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Students/Seniors: $20 in advance; $25 day of show</span></p></div></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-78987072099472682362022-03-23T12:49:00.004-04:002022-03-23T12:50:21.958-04:006 Questions for Sean Donovan of LEMON GIRLS OR ART FOR THE ARTLESS<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_dVj85F3_Fi8xjRGvDC-QXpoJsF1EbJI6WlSQ0u22xFU7j94gfUKpOl-hA2Z6thHRw8GzEYfov--aq3nybr-_1kpiZeeq0ig_oOKKPla0ARHC-82O0zJi0YclFP-9t5yZUkKPnSOHH5Hx2dOMZqqpGwHv3OxY0TxOOxkpqTLmIl7WRhYyg6mzon9C/s1033/IMG_6112.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="828" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_dVj85F3_Fi8xjRGvDC-QXpoJsF1EbJI6WlSQ0u22xFU7j94gfUKpOl-hA2Z6thHRw8GzEYfov--aq3nybr-_1kpiZeeq0ig_oOKKPla0ARHC-82O0zJi0YclFP-9t5yZUkKPnSOHH5Hx2dOMZqqpGwHv3OxY0TxOOxkpqTLmIl7WRhYyg6mzon9C/s320/IMG_6112.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by Nicolas Calcott</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Sean Donovan</b> is an actor, dancer, writer,
choreographer and director. His recent plays include Cabin
(Bushwick Starr), and The Reception (HERE Arts). Sean has been
nominated twice for BESSIE Awards for Outstanding Performer.
He’s worked with Heather Christian, Faye Driscoll, Miguel
Gutierrez, Jane Comfort, The Builders Association, Witness
Relocation, John Jesurun, and many others.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sean Donovan is the choreographer for Talking Band's <i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/lemon-girls-2022">Lemon Girls or Art for the Artless</a></i>, written <span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">by OBIE and Drama Desk Award winning playwright and composer Ellen Maddow and directed by Paul Zimet. There are four more performances in the Downstairs Theatre this weekend from March 24–27. Tickets can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1094658">here</a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">1. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Who and what has inspired you?</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;">I take inspiration from so many different places. I’m inspired by boundary pushing artists whose work defies easy categorization. I love choreographers like Miguel Gutierrez and Jack Ferver to name a few. I love music artists like Anohni and Justin Vivian Bond. People who make me laugh but can also open a wound in your heart.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2. </span>How would you describe your work as a choreographer?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;">I make choreography out of everyday social behavior, elevating the gestural language to a heightened state to call attention to its rhythm, timing, and emotion. And I use dance as a means of storytelling but break from traditions of musical theater or narrative dance, drawing on forms of postmodernism and contemporary performance.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3. </span>How did you come to collaborate with Talking Band?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had seen the Talking Band’s work for a number of years and has always been a huge fan. We came to work together when old friends and longtime collaborators Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone (Co-Artistic Directors of 600 Highwaymen) recommended me to Paul and Ellen of the Talking Band. We were both familiar with each other’s work and after just one meeting I think we could tell it would be a great fit. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">4. </span>What can audiences expect from these performances?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;">They can expect smart, profound, hilarious writing and direction from longtime experimental theater creators. They can expect to see older bodies invigorated with life and vitality and a story that tries to ask questions of personal value and how we process grief. And they can expect choreography that charts a journey of self-discovery and embodiment through both humor and earnestness. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">5. </span>What are your upcoming plans for 2022?/What are you looking forward to?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m currently performing in Heather Christian’s incredible new music work entitled </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oratorio For Living Things </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">premiering at Ars Nova which I’m thrilled about. I’m also collaborating with Taylor Mac on Taylor’s newest work, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bark of Millions.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And I’m writing a new play!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">6. </span>What does working at La MaMa mean to you?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;">It means so much to me. I’ve worked at La MaMa more than almost any other theater in New York going back 20 years from my days with the downtown dance theater company Witness Relocation. It’s very much an artistic home for me. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip8-nSVhstkudE4Y6w6I6GCyjOptMGHLpG9LHXDh7PSf2i9equfPbLzufERFetEQXcG4rJhPXrvj2miWuJmSL54uKdCddqZUVYJB4sVE2lIDezWxdLj7qEaSXRHlRfS-quUaq7dHRBimfIRkW8cWC0WCUE-PyAgMzGy79f11oaZ8qHigjapH22X1av/s2100/LemonGirls.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2100" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip8-nSVhstkudE4Y6w6I6GCyjOptMGHLpG9LHXDh7PSf2i9equfPbLzufERFetEQXcG4rJhPXrvj2miWuJmSL54uKdCddqZUVYJB4sVE2lIDezWxdLj7qEaSXRHlRfS-quUaq7dHRBimfIRkW8cWC0WCUE-PyAgMzGy79f11oaZ8qHigjapH22X1av/s320/LemonGirls.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Photo by Craig Lowy</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>La MaMa presents</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><h2 style="background-color: white; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/lemon-girls-2022">Lemon Girls or Art for the Artless</a></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;">By Talking Band</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;">Written by Ellen Maddow</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;">Directed by Paul Zimet</span><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">March 11 – 27, 2022</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><b>The Downstairs </b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">66 East 4th Street, basement level</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">New York, NY 10003</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thursdays – Saturday at 8PM<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sunday at 4PM</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tickets:</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Adults: $25 in advance; $30 day of show<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Students/Seniors: $20 in advance; $25 day of show<br /></span></p></div></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-22948242677007790322022-03-22T15:31:00.005-04:002022-03-22T15:33:04.624-04:00Remake a World Gala — May 5, 2022<p> </p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-weight: 400; line-height: 38px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Every human is the other human. We are one world."<br /></span></strong><span style="font-family: helvetica;">—Ellen Stewart, La MaMa Founder</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit5Ni6_2bN-pL2wCmWbLmnxbXYuSgUBBE9SUKCNi_pscz9JqtDJHuOYPGSlwPRqjeW95YSJziLzcdKh0QITONEJsWYAZ49O5YeRLKBMgKB5h14Qz6xaTMa24pHck_I8V3ZhP-UioP-5hfqt4JDqMt-I06uzyAejytGJBGVVmo_m-1JDgViGJ4nrgTh/s480/ezgif-4-15b3201e67.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit5Ni6_2bN-pL2wCmWbLmnxbXYuSgUBBE9SUKCNi_pscz9JqtDJHuOYPGSlwPRqjeW95YSJziLzcdKh0QITONEJsWYAZ49O5YeRLKBMgKB5h14Qz6xaTMa24pHck_I8V3ZhP-UioP-5hfqt4JDqMt-I06uzyAejytGJBGVVmo_m-1JDgViGJ4nrgTh/s320/ezgif-4-15b3201e67.gif" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thursday, May 5, 2022</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: right;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">66 East 4th Street, 2nd Floor (between Bowery & 2nd Ave)</span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cocktails at 6PM, Dinner at 7PM</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Attire: Festive</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Honorary Chair</strong>: Ping Chong</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Honoring Cecile Guidote-Alvarez (Philippines), Richard Lanier (United States), Álvaro Restrepo (Colombia), Beka Vučo (The Balkans/United States), & Duk Hyung Yoo (South Korea)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Remake a World Gala celebrates La MaMa's artists and audiences who have long been part of our One World Vision.</span></p><ul role="list" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 40px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Come celebrate La MaMa’s 60 years as a creative home for artists!</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Toast the newly renovated 74A reimagined for future generations of artists!</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">See performances sharing new perspectives, practices, and rituals from artists around the world.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dine in the legendary Ellen Stewart Theatre as we pay tribute to five outstanding individuals whose work as global citizens embodies La MaMa’s One World Vision</span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/42/alldonations/45952" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline; transition: opacity 200ms ease 0s;" target="_blank">Support this global event today</a> - <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Remake A World!</em></strong></span></p><h5 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/42/alldonations/45952" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline; transition: opacity 200ms ease 0s;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Sponsorships and Tables</span></strong></a></h5><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">$60,000 Gala Title Sponsor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />$30,000 Gala Co-Sponsor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />$10,000 Table Sponsor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />$5,000 Sponsor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />$2,500 Committee Member</span></p><h5 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/42/alldonations/46523" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline; transition: opacity 200ms ease 0s;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Onsite Tickets</span></strong></a></h5><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">$750<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />$500</span></p><h5 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/42/alldonations/46705" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline; transition: opacity 200ms ease 0s;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Donations</span></strong></a></h5><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"></em></span></strong></p><h5 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"><a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/store/42/alldonations/46524" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline; transition: opacity 200ms ease 0s;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Journal Ads</span></strong></a></h5></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-17173958124438057542022-02-20T10:40:00.005-05:002022-02-20T10:40:47.317-05:006 Questions for Mazz Swift of GRAND PANORAMA<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvr05PKFm8cE5HlnCaHNu4iACYVpFVkDklr6s7Qlh_AZTkK2wZaMAYyoz8w_Djdu3nBPt8cjkWi8OU0mHeuxorA5yZ0gX7qdOKCxG_zfrh5UPrSppIVxy2Tlrk_4g8sDhDgz4R_kiZ3HdPB1ELn4hNNAzJBO-DpxsnQHaOTFaueVFKFHOUK5pFnRVm=s1280" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvr05PKFm8cE5HlnCaHNu4iACYVpFVkDklr6s7Qlh_AZTkK2wZaMAYyoz8w_Djdu3nBPt8cjkWi8OU0mHeuxorA5yZ0gX7qdOKCxG_zfrh5UPrSppIVxy2Tlrk_4g8sDhDgz4R_kiZ3HdPB1ELn4hNNAzJBO-DpxsnQHaOTFaueVFKFHOUK5pFnRVm=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by nisha sondhe photography</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Critically acclaimed as one of America’s most talented and versatile performers today, violin/vox/freestyle composition artist <a href="http://mazzmusic.com/sandbox/">Mazz Swift</a> has engaged audiences all over the world with the signature weaving of song, melody and improvisation Swift calls MazzMuse.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mazz Swift composed and performs the score for <i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/grand-panorama-2022">Grand Panorama</a></i>—created, designed, and directed by Theodora Skipitares—which tells the story of Frederick Douglass's obsession with photography. There are 12 performances in the Ellen Stewart Theatre from February 17–March 6. The opening night performance is Pay What You Can starting at $10. Tickets can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1094189">here</a>.</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>1. What role does the score play in <i>Grand Panorama</i>?</b></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This feels like a better question for Theodora Skipitares (the creator and director of <i>Grand Panorama</i>), but to me it seems that the music is in conversation with the subject matter. I'm trying to create soundscapes and musical ideas that not only support the visual material that is presented, but also allude to or represent some of the unspoken underpinnings of what might have been going on emotionally for the culture during the time period of this new technology, and what it meant to Frederick Douglass as a visionary for the liberation of Black people and Americans in general from the tyranny of slavery.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span class="im"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>2. How would you describe your work as an artist?</b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="im"><br /></span>I am first and foremost an improviser. So when it comes to composition, I am always thinking about organic ways to allow my music to flow. I set up frameworks within which I build textures, hang ideas, sculpt sound, bounce vocalizations off of, etc...I see my work as a sort of practice for mindfulness and presence, a place to learn how to match my actions with my highest self. I don't always hit the mark, which is what makes it a practice; art-making is a place of forever-education. How to set my life up to create more optimal circumstances within which to create and collaborate. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span class="im"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>3. How did you begin composing music?</b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="im"><br /></span>I simply just started making stuff up. :) First I recorded myself into a little tape recorder I had as a kid. Then I started writing jigs and reels based on the Irish music I was learning when I got older. Then I started collaboration with a theater-maker—the fascinating Tigyst Harmon—where we began experimenting with the creation of works based on our own personal stories. Then I just started telling people I was a composer which forced me to start doing it with more intention. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span class="im"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>4. Who and what has inspired you?</b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="im"><br /></span>This is incredibly complex and too difficult to answer in this one sitting. I'm gonna decline to name any one person because unless I can name every person who inspires me, you won't get the full picture. So instead I'll list a random selection of energies—in no particular order, and not even close to being comprehensive—that inspire me: ambition; melancholy; improvisation/meditation (two sides of the same coin as far as I can see); things and people I don't understand; newly dead friends; friends who are still here and fighting for their dreams; complex rhythms; drones; purely electronic beeps and boops; the suspicion that greatness is possible even though the odds seem to be against that being true... </span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br style="background-color: white;" /></span><div style="background-color: white;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span class="im"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>5. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?</b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span class="im"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As a native New Yorker, I've known of La MaMa for many years, but have only recently found myself in the theater world. So getting to work within this legendary space, alongside the force that Theodora is, feels like a real honor and privilege. It feels like I'm stepping into a world that I have unconsciously been working very hard towards being a part of; it is an affirmation of my belief in experimental and cooperative creativity.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9jaTUYSnfi4FFYGRgGINeo84WCormaAbGWrtfQmhFNaYtlbmzcMixs9jY4YZkhoiJqQ2qiUUGjdTHbLdUKN0R6bY-W6uXQe045yrwTYfVwZUuYdY9ctfzJbL7VhKU6FHTPQtxNYEc3IrTkLnh8U1uEzWOcN7X9wsF6BdXp3vzja5GHqAzlu0x3vYL=s4000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9jaTUYSnfi4FFYGRgGINeo84WCormaAbGWrtfQmhFNaYtlbmzcMixs9jY4YZkhoiJqQ2qiUUGjdTHbLdUKN0R6bY-W6uXQe045yrwTYfVwZUuYdY9ctfzJbL7VhKU6FHTPQtxNYEc3IrTkLnh8U1uEzWOcN7X9wsF6BdXp3vzja5GHqAzlu0x3vYL=s320" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Photo by Jane Catherine Shaw</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><b>La MaMa presents</b></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/grand-panorama-2022">Grand Panorama</a></span></h2><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;">Created, Designed, & Directed by Theodora Skipitares</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;">Score Composed & Performed by Mazz Swift</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;">Set Co-design by Donald Eastman</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;">Narrator/Singer: Jayson Kerr</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">February 17–March 6, 2022</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><b>Ellen Stewart Theatre</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">66 East 4th Street, 2nd floor</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f;" /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">New York, NY 10003</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thursdays – Saturdays at 7PM<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sundays at 2PM</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tickets:</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Adults: $25 in advance; $30 day of show<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Students/Seniors: $20 in advance; $25 day of show<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />First 10 tickets to every performance $10 each (limit 2 per person)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* Thursday, Feb. 17th performance is Pay What You Can starting at $10</span></em></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Suitable for ages 10+</span></p></div></div></div></div></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-54296228879520012162022-01-20T14:09:00.001-05:002022-01-20T14:09:38.579-05:00Photographer Jim R. Moore's book "Don't Miss This! A Decade of Eccentric Performing Arts" is out February 1, 2022!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPNNXazSFn_X8Gd16ru6OOiDZd3c0DQ8T5rSJqsKp3zqvAJoBE263DxqpXFbVjEph296gCquFrRNyKsWJ8kZuA6BiQ83xvRHNTtDLYnjH-lVHi71yc1FeHjEiClMSwikfn0AuYiOQNXww7TAODqWyiTFEAGCJbpphZXfBFDFaNECSfNcwtviqemdu2=s864" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Book cover of "Don't Miss This! A Decade of Eccentric Performing Arts"" border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="864" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPNNXazSFn_X8Gd16ru6OOiDZd3c0DQ8T5rSJqsKp3zqvAJoBE263DxqpXFbVjEph296gCquFrRNyKsWJ8kZuA6BiQ83xvRHNTtDLYnjH-lVHi71yc1FeHjEiClMSwikfn0AuYiOQNXww7TAODqWyiTFEAGCJbpphZXfBFDFaNECSfNcwtviqemdu2=w320-h320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Don't Miss This! A Decade of Eccentric Performing Arts</i> by photographer Jim R. Moore is out February 1! The book is Moore's pictorial paean to the stars of today's circus, sideshow, burlesque, and new vaudeville scenes. It includes over 200 photographs, with accompanying essays, chronicling the last decade of eccentric performing arts.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Performers featured in the book's photographs include La MaMa artists such as Kevin Augustine, Yoshiko Chuma, Lisa Kron, Tom Murrin, Nicky Paraiso, Peggy Shaw, and Lois Weaver, among others.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Check out <a href="https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/BWW-Interview-Dont-Miss-This-Photographer-Jim-R-Moore-Chronicles-A-Decade-of-Eccentric-Performing-Arts-20220110">this Broadway World interview</a> with Jim R. Moore about turning his love of the eccentric performing arts into a photographic collection!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Visit Jim R. Moore's <a href="https://vaudevisuals.com/">website</a> and follow him on Instagram at @jimrmoore_eccentric and on Twitter at @vaudevisuals.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Quotes</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Jim is a wonderful portraitist...the Nadar of the Eccentric Performing Arts!"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-DOMINIQUE JANDO, founder, Ciropedia; author, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Big Apple Circus: 25 Years</i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In these pages, you will find the world's most eccentric extended family: clowns, acrobats, thespeians, musicians, contortionists, juggles, puppeteers, ventriloquists, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">daredevils, aerialists, opera singers, drags stars, monologiss, impressarios, magicians, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">impressionists, fire-eaters, nuts, and acts of the sort we still don’t have a polite name </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">for. The best of these performers are several of those things at once. Some have </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">international followings, some are the well-kept secrets of underground connoisseurs. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One thing’s for certain: perusing these pages is like a trip to a circus with 300 rings. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Prepare to be delighted.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-TRAV S.D., founder, American Vaudeville Theatre; author, <i>No Applause - </i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous</i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“I salute my friend Jim Moore for always being present where the action is and for his </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">talent at extracting the essence of a performing scene. Bravo, well done!”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-PHILIPPE PETIT, high wire artist</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Through his lens, Jim Moore has documented several decades of wonderful </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">performers...who have always made me laugh!”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-PAUL BINDER, founder, Big Apple Circus; author, <i>Never Quote the Weather </i></span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">to a Sea Lion and Other Uncommon Tales</i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“The minute I opened Jim Moore’s new book, Don’t Miss This!, I couldn’t stop. I had </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">to turn every page. This isn’t Jim’s book. It’s my book. And, it’s your book too. Buy </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">it now!”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-MICHAEL BONGAR, CEO, Bongarbiz</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Jim Moore has photo-documented at least an entire generation of my kind of </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">performers, within the confines of a single decade. Included are a dozen of my former </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">students (they know who they are), and a mentor of mine going back 65 years. (His </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">initials are the late, great Ward Hall.) This book is a treasury of memories!”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-HOVEY BURGESS, circus performer and educator</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-31454318659579516502021-11-29T16:33:00.002-05:002021-11-29T16:33:19.575-05:006 Questions for Justin Elizabeth Sayre of TO BUILD A SOUL<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIPhgE2FxwEEezeWQgIlQNoMO0O1Znx9u7Q1PTuWYb1f_7YtTiSyoULKN7RBd85LtI2jExZWSuWoJvtZhgKEZ8hR65xXXIO7b6BTg_CNr02qHs3DthNctH05-cSD9XOMJ1r5i2TlmCmFAiZYr0zPF2bqpDPB6ZimnpnitUJ_kWAK44_lthuv6EZBdp=s1336" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1336" data-original-width="892" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIPhgE2FxwEEezeWQgIlQNoMO0O1Znx9u7Q1PTuWYb1f_7YtTiSyoULKN7RBd85LtI2jExZWSuWoJvtZhgKEZ8hR65xXXIO7b6BTg_CNr02qHs3DthNctH05-cSD9XOMJ1r5i2TlmCmFAiZYr0zPF2bqpDPB6ZimnpnitUJ_kWAK44_lthuv6EZBdp=w214-h320" title="Photo by Matthew Dean Stewart" width="214" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Matthew Dean Stewart </span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Justin Elizabeth Sayre is a fixture of the Downtown Cabaret Scene in New York, first with their long-running monthly show</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, The Meeting of The International Order of Sodomites</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> (Bistro Award-winning & 2 MAC nominations), and now with new shows at Joe’s Pub/The Public Theatre like </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Peaches, Eggplants, and Tears </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">and</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> The gAyBC’s</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">, a five-part series. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">In their new solo work, <i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/to-build-a-soul-2021">To Build a Soul</a></i>, </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Justin Elizabeth Sayre</span><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">takes on the artist’s mind. Using memory from their own life and the lives of artists, Sayre explores the compulsion to create, and the inherent hope that keeps them and so many others showing up to create. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">There are 8 performances in the Downstairs Theatre from December 2–12. Tickets can be purchased </span><a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1082230">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">1. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Who or what has inspired you to create?</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">That is a very long list! I've been inspired by so many great artists. I've taken inspiration from James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, Charles Ludlam, Jackie Curtis, and Ethyl Eichelberger for sure. In the show, we actually talk about my greatest influence, Eva Le Gallienne. But the list goes on and on. I take so much inspiration from fellow artists, but I also draw on my own life, my own experience of the world, with this show especially. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>2. How did you come to collaborate with director Dusty Childers?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Dusty is one of my dearest friends in the entire world. His eye for aesthetics and his natural storytelling abilities made him the obvious choice for this very personal show. It's been a dream of a process, with so much support and love flowing between us, we both see the performances as merely widening the circle of the joy we've already created. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">3. What have you learned from writing new work during a pandemic?</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Now is the time for innovation and patience. We have to continue to understand what the theatre is and can be in this new era and realize that perhaps not all the old forms will manifest in this new paradigm. And that's coming from a raging traditionalist! But I see this shift as a time for new dreams. The theatre is a place for collective belief and imagination, those are its strengths. By making work that plays upon those natural attributes, and for goodness, to invest in the power of delight, I think new work can spring forth from this rather dire period. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>4. Can you elaborate on the process of creating semi-autobiographical work?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Well this show, <i>To Build a Soul</i> is a collection of autobiographical stories that talk about my relationship to the Theatre. So in that way, you're weeding out the things that don't serve that narrative. My life, everyone's life, in fact, is layered with a multitude of influences and events, but when we're establishing one view, we must stick to it, and hue out anything that doesn't serve the story you're telling. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>5. You’re publishing a new book next year! What are your upcoming plans for 2022?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Oh so much! In January alone, I debut another solo work, <i><a href="https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2122/utr-2022/incoming-my-beatnik-youth/">My Beatnik Youth</a></i>, for the <a href="https://publictheater.org/programs/under-the-radar/under-the-radar-2022/">Under The Radar Festival at The Public</a>. I return to Joe's Pub for a new monthly variety show, <i>Assorted Fruit</i>, that will run for all of 2022. I have a play, <i>Lottie Platchett Took A Hatchet</i>, debuting at SF Sketchfest and then going to the Edinburgh Fringe in August. And at least three readings of new plays this year, and the final reworking of an older play of mine, <i>The Click of the Lock</i>. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Well, this is my second show here at La MaMa, so in a way, it feels like a homecoming. I'm so honored to be here as an artist creating work in this illustrious place with such a rich and formidable history. But it's also a place of new work, of new voices, creating new work that will continue the brave spirit of Ellen Stewart. You still feel her presence in the building. And yet it's not a place of intimidation, everyone here makes you feel so welcome and free. It is a spirit of YES! Telling each artist who comes through these doors, to go farther, do better, and make something new. It's invigorating and thrilling, and as the naturally greedy person I am, I only wish for more. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizA8S7b0tEbd30z6V7WgTSanuKIngtTmbCGE8Qveuqh_PL8U6TeRnl9m9MfA2gdZvIWAjS7PW0K5yvMVx0BP9zB6HFx68ghkdHULOHp1Q_Ncrpw1_Zq5vE-82LC5DDhn0qfS0CkpQQQG5fsZ--gJxeAKhsBS9jKD56kaendzEaB1Ehmc2REBkmirmI=s1207" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1207" data-original-width="966" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizA8S7b0tEbd30z6V7WgTSanuKIngtTmbCGE8Qveuqh_PL8U6TeRnl9m9MfA2gdZvIWAjS7PW0K5yvMVx0BP9zB6HFx68ghkdHULOHp1Q_Ncrpw1_Zq5vE-82LC5DDhn0qfS0CkpQQQG5fsZ--gJxeAKhsBS9jKD56kaendzEaB1Ehmc2REBkmirmI=s320" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both;"><b>La MaMa presents</b></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/to-build-a-soul-2021">To Build a Soul</a></span></h1><div style="margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;">Written and performed by Justin Elizabeth Sayre<br />Directed by Dusty Childers</div><div style="margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">December 2–12, 2021</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><b>The Downstairs</b></div>66 East 4th Street, basement level<br />New York, NY 10003</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Thursdays – Saturdays at 8pm<br />Sundays at 4pm</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ticket Prices</strong><br /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">Adults: $25 in advance; $30 day of show</span><br /><span style="color: #1a1b1f;">Students/Seniors: $20 in advance; $25 day of show</span></div></div><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2128578671414689627.post-29069486046309287152021-11-16T14:34:00.004-05:002021-11-29T16:33:27.786-05:006 Questions for Stephen Petronio<div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPjfPTDcmp6iIW1ese8B2bEY-araZjG5KIFkdcCzSVPG1SGCKYl11NoX9vRHbBmkDlyagkHa3vESikOr0j5V9S46nily2ls-EAWvKHepOjhDRfBNFojiYG2e7SDdh0HcT0SsLsUjBeZ6LjwhNxeZDlwKsFULwAI6YH0Yz0x4iZ45qRI9jeAQDkW4gT=s960" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="642" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPjfPTDcmp6iIW1ese8B2bEY-araZjG5KIFkdcCzSVPG1SGCKYl11NoX9vRHbBmkDlyagkHa3vESikOr0j5V9S46nily2ls-EAWvKHepOjhDRfBNFojiYG2e7SDdh0HcT0SsLsUjBeZ6LjwhNxeZDlwKsFULwAI6YH0Yz0x4iZ45qRI9jeAQDkW4gT=s320" width="214" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><a href="http://petron.io/staff-board/stephen-petronio/">Stephen Petronio</a></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> is a choreographer, dancer, and the Artistic Director of the Stephen Petronio Company. For over 35 years, Stephen Petronio has honed a unique language of movement that speaks to the intuitive and complex possibilities of the body informed by its shifting cultural context. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists in many disciplines over his career and holds the integration of multiple forms as fundamental to his creative drive and vision. He continues to create a haven for dancers with a keen interest in the history of contemporary movement and an appetite for the unknown.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">In <i><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/petronio-punk-picks-2021">Petronio Punk Picks and Other Delights</a></i>, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Stephen Petronio Company revives a series of iconic solos and duets from Petronio's formative days coming up in the East Village, featuring collaborations from the ’90s and early 2000s. There are 4 performances in the Ellen Stewart Theatre from November 18–21. Tickets can be purchased <a href="https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1082227">here</a>. Follow @stephenpetroniocompany on Facebook and Instagram!</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. What inspired you to select these specific pieces for these performances?</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These are quite simply songs that I have adored throughout my life. Most of these were preludes to longer, more abstract works, employed as vectors or lenses through which to look at the works that they were attached to.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2. </span></span>How does it feel to bring these revivals, reconstructions, and reimaginings to La MaMa?</span></b></div><p></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">These songs were the soundtrack to my life in the East Village, where I lived for many years. It seemed like a perfect way to come into La MaMa for the first time!</span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wh</span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at can audiences expect from these performances, specifically the world premiere of Johnnie Cruise Mercer's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>and then we hit the boundary where the sun’s wind ceased...</i>?</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Johnnie is one of my favorite young artists. I met him several years back and when I saw his work it was love at first sight. He’s passionate about many things, but particularly MOVEMENT! He’s Vibratory— makes movement and dances with depth and passion that makes me happy to be a choreographer! Only Johnnie can speak to what he’s making, but whatever he makes, I eagerly watch.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2022 will be the Company’s 38th Anniversary Season! What</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1b1f; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are some of the important lessons you've learned from working with your dancers and the Company as a whole?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1b1f; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The only reason to do it is because you LOVE it. If it’s just a job, step off. The other lesson is that in a company where you’ve worked together over years, there can be a delicious depth of discovery that continues to offer the unknown surprise.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1b1f; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1b1f; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are your hopes and future plans for the Company?</span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1b1f; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make Art, Make Art, MAKE ART! We have some big plates in the air: my next dances, our <i>Bloodlines</i> reconstructions from postmodern heroes and commissions from the next generation innovators, trying to reckon with inequity in the field and growing the <a href="http://petron.io/prc/">Petronio Residency Center</a>, a research and development facility to support future creation. The canvas of SPC is in place with plenty of room to develop these ideas. Our future is here.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. What does working at La MaMa mean to you?</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fear of loss of our practice in this last period was REAL. La MaMa offers us a precious door back into what we do, in the neighborhood that I grew up in as an artist. It has made me look at some of the things I love best. The drive of these songs and the brilliance of the bodies that have made them with me means everything.</span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi83TavZ83CRfI50q_kIO2LFrgMqbSAe7ivRIXGYVNeqnzPQtOYQCayrvFfGH7eMjSmzlPRpycV85KLb7OrPcEyEDA0JN0FKRkzGQjCb63yNMHWTrRD38c_14u-G3wXMvMJ7ilVUJijlrKKmd9FrDxeap1dFuDKcgMrZUtmsKa3Atwz_SMt-Req4lzD=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi83TavZ83CRfI50q_kIO2LFrgMqbSAe7ivRIXGYVNeqnzPQtOYQCayrvFfGH7eMjSmzlPRpycV85KLb7OrPcEyEDA0JN0FKRkzGQjCb63yNMHWTrRD38c_14u-G3wXMvMJ7ilVUJijlrKKmd9FrDxeap1dFuDKcgMrZUtmsKa3Atwz_SMt-Req4lzD=w240-h320" title="Tess Montoya in Full Half Wrong (1993) by Stephen Petronio. Photo by Sarah Silver." width="240" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.3px; text-align: start;">Tess Montoya in </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.3px; text-align: start;">Full Half Wrong</em><span style="color: #1a1b1f; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.3px; text-align: start;"> (1993) by Stephen Petronio. Photo by Sarah Silver.<br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;">La MaMa presents</span></b></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.lamama.org/shows/petronio-punk-picks-2021">Petronio Punk Picks and Other Delights</a></span></h1><span style="color: #1a1b1f; font-family: helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Stephen Petronio Company</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Ellen Stewart Theatre</b><br />66 East 4th Street, 2nd floor<br />New York, NY 10003<br /></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">November 18 – 21, 2021</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nov 18, Thursday at 7pm<br />Nov 19, Friday at 7pm<br />Nov 20, Saturday at 7pm<br />Nov 21, Sunday at 2pm<br /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></strong></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ticket Prices</strong><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f;">Adults: $25 in advance; $30 day of show</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1b1f;">Students/Seniors: $20 in advance; $25 day of show</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: "Allerta Stencil"; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13.2px; white-space: normal;"></span></span></p>Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04981933792072506022noreply@blogger.com0