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Thursday, May 14, 2009 

Current mood:  fabulous
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

We've been nominated for Best New York City Theatre for Kids in Nickelodeon's Parents' Picks Awards! Thanks to all our great families for nominating us for such a great distinction.

We need your help to win! You can vote for us once a day (every day, if you want!) from now until July 15 at http://gocitykids.parentsconnect.com/parents-picks.



Thank you so much for your support!

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Monday, September 22, 2008 
Lynn Thomson - America in Play
Theater

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A lingering rumor in standard theatre history is that a true American drama did not exist before Eugene O'Neill. Not so. We have an enormous but neglected wealth of texts, especially comedies, from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, plays that comprise our folk drama. These comedies of and for the people contributed to shaping an American identity, and their codes still live in popular culture. The current group of artists, which includes composers as well as playwrights, will now engage in creating two new theatre pieces. They will select an early American comedy and merge it with new play text and songs. These as-yet-untitled pieces will be prefaced by exhibits, live and video, exploring the world of American popular theatre.
AMERICA-IN-PLAY (AIP) aims to immerse playwrights in this legacy and strengthen their connection to this past as a source for contemporary American writing. The aim of their design is to initiate conversations between current writers and those of the past in order to enrich present writing through the grounding and inspiration from long-forgotten plays. America In Play is entering its third year of life. Last year, they experimented with a devised piece titled No Song, No Supper.

www.AmericaInPlay.org
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Friday, August 29, 2008 
Edisa Weeks
Dance

Common Sense (working title) is based on the writing of Thomas Paine, and will be an evening-length work by choreographer Edisa Weeks in collaboration with composer Joseph Phillips and his orchestra Numininous.

Common Sense will be divided into four sections, with each section exploring a central tenet of Paine's writing. His words will be integrated musically into the score and visually through video projections onto the dancers' bodies. The dancing will integrate Edisa's movement vocabulary, which is rooted in contemporary modern dance, with patterning of Contra dancing. Contra dancing was the popular social dance form during Paine's lifetime and reflects Paine's egalitarian beliefs, as the emphasis in Contra dancing is on cooperation and being a part of a team.
Edisa Weeks is the director and choreographer for DELIRIOUS Dances. Her work has been performed in a variety of venues including Alfred University, Dance Theater Workshop, Jacob's Pillow, Summerstages Dance Festival, and many more. She has also performed in swimming pools, storefront windows and various living rooms, including living rooms in Berlin, Germany, as part of Haus der Kulturen der Welts 50th anniversary celebration. Raised in Uganda, Papua New Guinea and Brooklyn, NY, Weeks holds an MFA in choreography from NYU and a BA from Brown University. She currently teaches at Princeton University.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 

Category: Blogging
Ellis Wood
Dance

Bricoleur means someone who invents his or her own strategies for using existing materials in a creative, resourceful, and original way. In a kind of meditative state, this new work will explore all avenues of creating a dance work with what is at hand. The dancers will use chosen materials placed on the stage to create a world that suits their own personal needs and desires for living, discovering something about themselves along the way. The work will be highly technical, physical, with an intense dramatic edge. Movement will prevail, with a strong theatrical expression of each performers own journey. Costumes will be by Naoko Nagata, live and recorded music by Yael Acher, and set design by Ed Rawlings.
Ellis Wood is the Founding and Artistic Director of Ellis Wood Dance. She choreographs and teaches at universities both nationally and abroad. Wood was nominated for a 2006 United States Artists Fellowship and was awarded a 2006 Joyce SoHo Residency. She received a 2002 NYFA Fellowship in choreography, and was one of ten choreographers in NYC nominated for the Emerging Choreographer Award given by the Downtown Arts Festival in collaboration with the Colbert Foundation.
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Monday, August 11, 2008 

Category: Blogging
Todd McQuade
Dance

working title, untitled
To know that a thing is in motion, and know the quality and degree of this action, a language and a series of investigative acts, foreign to the natural body but closer to the domains of science and philosophy, must be recruited. From a tool as simple as a measuring-tape to a more complex technology such as an MRI, the ways in which we know ourselves and our categorical place amongst others is dependent upon the superimposition of quantitative instruments. Told through expressive physical performance, the challenge of the work is to describe not only the empirical knowledge of the body in motion, but also the qualitative content physiometry fails to detect. The genesis of this works theme clings to a curiosity about the reasoning for the prevalence and prerogative in dance traditions to delineate movement to a language, practice and consciousness of geometry. Why, in dance, does one speak more of line and shape instead of red and water? This performance offers answers by exorcism. In action, it is a wringing out of the agendas, rewards and punishments that inform exactly what things we choose to use to construct how we know what we believe.

Todd McQuade is a moving artist whose thematic projection dwells in the meeting places of movement and visual art practices. McQuade earned a degree in Art History from the University of California at Los Angeles and integrates this knowledge towards his investigation of matter and movement. He has worked in the companies of Lucinda Childs, Alonzo King, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Aszure Barton, the Moving Theater and Mikhail Baryshnikov's Hells Kitchen Dance. He currently enjoys dancing as a company member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company. He has taught dance at the Lou Conte Dance Center Chicago, University of California at Los Angeles, Tanzquartier Vienna, La Escola Superior de Danca and The National Conservatory of Dance Lisbon and Marameo Studio Berlin. His work has been performed at the Trisha Brown Studios NYC, Dixon Place NYC, Judson Church NYC, DTW NYC and Tanz Im August Berlin. Excerpts of his ideas can be seen on his website, Feat on the Floor.
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 

Current mood:  excited
Category: Writing and Poetry
Tribeca Performing Arts Center
is seeking a diverse community
of male & female
Poets and Performers for
Writers in Performance!


BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center is conducting a ten week poetry/writing and performance workshop culminating in performances to be held on November 22nd and 23rd. We are looking for ethnically diverse men and women of all ages.

The workshop will explore writing exercises, theater games, improvisation, movement and ensemble work – all done in a safe, creative environment leading to an ensemble theater piece performed by all participants. The opportunity to participate in the workshop and perform is offered without charge.

The workshop facilitator and director is professional actor, director and teacher Mario Giacalone. Mr. Giacalone, the Program Director at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, has taught acting in New York City for over ten years and has directed both stage and film.

Auditions held at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center -

Monday September 8th & Tuesday September 9th from 5:30 to 8:30 PM.

AUDITIONS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Call for auditions only during the week of September 2nd through the 5th.

Call 212.220.1459 to schedule an appointment. Ask for Mario Giacalone.

For Audition bring an original, memorized poem, no more than one minute in length, a photo and resume or bio reflecting your background as a writer/performer, and be prepared to move.

The auditions, workshop, and performance all take place at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers Street, between Greenwich and West Streets.
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Monday, July 28, 2008 

Category: Blogging
dre.dance
Andrew Palermo and Taye Diggs, Artistic Directors
Dance

beyond.words dives into the world of autism with both wonder and sympathy. With movement that combines dre.dance's propulsive choreography and interpretive actions gleaned from 'typical spectrum behavior,' artistic directors Palermo and Diggs passionately attempt to give voice to these 'multi-sensory' individuals. Inspired by first-person accounts of people on 'the spectrum,' beyond.words challenges common misconceptions that the 'afflicted' want and need to be cured, and hopes to shed light on the beauty and spirit of these 'inherently gentle, exquisitely sensitive' (Stillman) beings.
dre.dance is a New York City-based contemporary dance company that fuses the extraordinary with the everyday. Emotion and power drive the company's aesthetic, while simultaneously maintaining the directors' most important quality, authenticity.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 

Category: Blogging
Christal Brown's INSPIRIT
Dance

Dreams and Visions will test the states of sleep and wakefulness by creating moving tapestries teetering on the precipice of fantasy and reality. To infuse this movement-scape with an intangible sense of foundation, Brown will employ the use of projection and an original sound score created by Zimbabwean composer Fahari Malianga.
Christal Brown toured nationally with Chuck Davis' African-American Dance Ensemble and internationally with Andrea E. Woods/Souloworks. She performed with Gesel Mason Performance in Takoma Park, MD, and spent three seasons as a principal performer for the Urban Bush Women. Brown is the Founding Artistic Director of INSPIRIT, a performance ensemble and educational conglomerate dedicated to bringing female choreographers together to collaborate and show new work, expanding the views of women of all ages, and being a constant source of inspiration to its audience and members. INSPIRIT has shown work at Aaron Davis Hall, St. Marks Church, Joyce Soho, The Lincoln Theater of Washington, DC, and other venues across the country.
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Monday, July 21, 2008 

Category: Blogging
David Michael Friend and Daniel José Older
Music Theater and Puppetry

City of Love & Disaster
Using live music, puppetry, and drawing, City of Love & Disaster charts the conflict between humanity and industry during the rise and fall of an American city. The melody of a lone trumpet becomes a hand-drawn city street. Song and city grow together as the music builds and the intricacies of urban life sprawl across a white screen. A toady character that evolves from the mesh signals the entrance of commercialization, and the two elements converse and clash throughout natural disasters, carnivals, blackout and finally, an apocalyptic riot. City of Love and Disaster is a parable about the troubled, changing heart of urban America. As the city grows and collapses in rhythm to the interactions of these patron saints of culture and industry, a portrait of this harmonious and, at times, violently combative relationship becomes clear.
David Michael Friend has been a part of the puppet community since the mid-90s, helping to bring forth Drama of Works' Doctor Faustus, The Ballad of Phineas P. Gage, Curiouser and Curiouser and the Carnival of Samhain. He has also worked with Kevin Augustine, building and performing for Animal and the Czech-American Marionette Theater in their piece The Life and Times of Lee Harvey Oswald. Besides City of Love & Disaster, he is in the middle of creating EGO, a story of the rise and fall of an egotistical puppeteer. Beyond theater, Friend is an art director and illustrator for television and film. He is currently finishing up his latest film, Moonfishing, which is part of Heather Henson's Hand Made Puppet Dreams series.
Daniel José Older has been combining his passion for social justice work with his gift for music and storytelling to create emotionally moving, artistically cutting-edge multimedia performance projects for the past 10 years. Daniel has collaborated with numerous dancers (including The Urban Bush Women and Inspirit Dance Company), filmmakers (most recently scoring an animated short titled Moonfishing, produced by Cheryl Henson) and puppeteers. Besides working nights as a New York City paramedic and days as a teaching artist, Daniel currently co-coordinates Reflect Connect Move, an anti-racist organizing team that uses movement building, creative arts and community dialogue workshops to end gender violence in Brooklyn.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 

Category: Blogging
Michael Yates Crowley and Michael Rau
Theater


The Animals Present: The Epic of Gilgamesh
A retelling of the Gilgamesh myth featuring former police commissioner Bernard Kerik as the Bull of Heaven.
Michael Yates Crowley is a 2008 fellow in playwriting from the New York Foundation of the Arts. His one-man play, The Ted Haggard Monologues, has been published in Germany and will be performed at the Voices From Undergroundzero Festival in Bielefeld this fall. Michael is a two-time recipient of the Seymour Brick Memorial Prize in Playwriting from Columbia University, where he studied English and Astrophysics. He is the founder and curator of Hearth Gods [www.hearthgods.com], a reading series in the East Village.
Michael Rau is a New York-based director and adapter, specializing in new plays and re-imagined classics. His New York credits include The Ted Haggard Monologues (New Magazine Critics Pick and Winner of the Undergroundzero Festival Award for Artistic Excellence), The Great God Brown (Columbia Stages), and Gypsy Moth (the Kraine). Rau is a recipient of the Willard Fellowship, the 2006 Kennedy Center Directing Fellowship, 2007 New Play Network Directing Fellowship, and the 2008 TCG National Conference Grant. He has served as an assistant for John Turturro at Classic Stage Company, Les Waters at ART, Anne Bogart at Glimmerglass Opera, and Robert Woodruff at San Francisco Opera. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University, with honors in American Studies and Theater, and has recently completed his MFA in theater directing at Columbia University.
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