| HERE Announces Additional Online Programming | Zoom Opera Debut | |
| Last Edit: Official_Press_Release 12:42 pm EDT 04/09/20 | |
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| HERE ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL ONLINE PROGRAMMING Debut of a Zoom Opera Joins Weekly Series of Artist Livestreams, Watch Parties, and Community-Built Video Art In response to the current pandemic, the OBIE-winning HERE (Kristin Marting, Founding Artistic Director) is proud to announce additional free online programming designed to uplift audiences during these challenging times. These programs include #stillHERE, a weekly Livestream featuring a HERE artist who invites viewers to share in the creation of new work; and HERE@HOME, a weekly watch party that streams full-length productions previously presented at HERE; and #COVIDEO, a sequential, community-built work of video art that is led by HERE artists and staff, and that the public is invited to participate in. #stillHERE Livestreams take place on Fridays at 1pm and will include New York City-based theater artist Aaron Landsman on April 10 and choreographer Alexandra Beller on April 17. On April 24, HERE will debut All Decisions Will Be Made By Consensus: A Zoom Opera by librettist Rob Handel, composer Kamala Sankaram, and director Kristin Marting. HERE cracks open their vault of archived videos with HERE@HOME. Airing Wednesdays at 7pm on Facebook, HERE@HOME feature recordings of full-length productions previously presented at HERE and will include Arias with a Twist, the New York Times critic's pick collaboration between Joey Arias and Basil Twist; Wooden from choreographer Laura Peterson; Nick Lehane's puppet playChimpanzee; The Reception from Donovan & Calderón; and The Scarlet Ibis by composer Stefan Weisman and librettist David Cote. Following the online premiere, these full-length videos will be available for viewing on Facebook until HERE reopens for live public performances. Additionally, #COVIDEO, a sequential community-built work of video art, continues. Ten artists each contribute ten seconds of video art released individually over 10 days. On the 10th day, their contributions are crafted together into one video and released on social media. Beginning on April 13th, HERE will launch the third theme, Kindness Contagion featuring Mallory Catlett, Yiru Chen, Misha Chowdhury, Gamin, Soomi Kim, Laura Peterson, and Sachiyo Takahashi with the full video release on Monday April 27 on social media. The first edition focused on Social Distancing and included Christina Campanella, Hai-Ting Chinn & Matt Schickele, Suli Holum, Eleanor Kipping, Nick Lehane, Minor Theater, Mariana Newhard, Richard Stauffacher, Amanda Szeglowski, and Basil Twist. The theme of the second video was Flatten the Curve featured contributions from Lisa D'Amour, Maiko Kikuchi, Alex Lee, LEIMAY, Julia Levine, Spencer Lott, Ruth Margraff, Mary Prescott, Melissa Tien, and Nicole Wolcott. It will be released on April 12. Community participation for future editions of #COVIDEO is encouraged and interested individuals can email covideo@here.org to secure a slot. Additional programming details follow. Please visit HERE.org for more information. Arias With a Twist Featuring Joey Arias & Basil Twist April 15 at 7pm Two national treasures unleash their epic imaginations to conjure a modern and intimate fantasy. Twist's signature magic envelopes Arias' legendary voice, transporting us to unpredictable worlds, channeling ecstatic desires, lavish nightmares and bizarre premonitions in a bejeweled cabinet of curiosities that could only be found in one of downtown's last enclaves for bohemian New York style. Arias with a Twist ran for six months at HERE for the 10th Anniversary of HERE's Dream Music Puppetry Program after a triumphant six-year run in Las Vegas with Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity. Wooden Choreographed by Laura Peterson Performed by Laura Peterson, Kate Martel, Edward Rice, Janna Diamond April 22 at 7pm Wooden is a dance about time and nature's geometry. This evening-length quartet occupies different environments installed in one performance space. Follow the dance through a lush, growing lawn and a dry, desiccated landscape of hanging trees. Wooden is filled with mathematical precision, velocity and liquid improvisation. All Decisions Will Be Made By Consensus: A Zoom Opera Libretto by Rob Handel, composed by Kamala Sankaram, directed by Kristin Marting Cast includes Paul An, Hai-Ting Chinn, Zachary James, Joan LaBarbara, Adrian Rosas, and Kamala Sankaram April 24 at 1pm The people are behind us, but is now the time to strike? A Zoom meeting of activists with radically conflicting styles, or a zoom meeting of radicals with actively conflicting styles. Don't disclose your location. Remember our community agreements. One diva one mic. But wait, is it even possible to sing a brand new 15-minute opera over Zoom? THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT. Chimpanzee Created by Nick Lehane April 29 at 7pm Chimpanzee was inspired by the stranger-than-fiction stories of chimpanzees raised in as children in human homes. These cross-fostering experiments tested the effects of raising chimpanzees as human children, specifically language acquisition. When the chimpanzees matured, or when funding dried up, some cross-fostered chimps went on to live as test subjects in a very different area of scientific research: pathogen studies performed in biomedical facilities. The Reception Created by Sean Donovan and Sebastián Calderón Bentin in collaboration with Jane Comfort, Leslie Cuyjet, Hannah Heller, and Ishmael Houston-Jones May 6 at 7pm In Donovan & Calderón's latest work, The Reception, the audience is a voyeur at a lively social gathering. Popular music, fizzy drinks, and friendly chatter hit the marks of a playful party, but something's not quite right. Bit by bit, The Reception depicts an uncanny cracking at the seams, as the revelers contend with an increasingly unanchored world. Created and performed with a guest list of New York dance-world luminaries that spans the decades, The Reception delves into the dark underbelly of how we socialize and entertain. The Scarlet Ibis Composed by Stefan Weisman, Libretto by David Cote, Directed by Mallory Catlett Featuring Eric Avery, Eric S. Brenner, Hai-Ting Chinn, Abigail Fischer, Nicole Mitchell, Keith Phares, Josh Rice and Meghan Williams May 13 at 7pm Inspired by the short story by James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis is an opera about brotherhood, illness, and the power of the imagination to soar above physical limitations. This world premiere by composer Stefan Weisman (Darkling) and librettist David Cote fuses singers, puppetry, and multimedia stagecraft to tell the story of a remarkable disabled boy whose older brother pushes him to be "normal." Set in rural North Carolina a century ago, The Scarlet Ibis contrasts notions of physical wholeness with mystical otherness. Episodic and expressionistic, the narrative draws on elements of Southern Gothic, boy's adventure, and domestic tragedy. OBIE Award-winning director Mallory Catlett stages the premiere, and Steven Osgood conducts the American Modern Ensemble. For audiences 10 and up. About HERE The OBIE-winning HERE (Kristin Marting, Founding Artistic Director) was named a Top Ten Off-Off Broadway Theatre by Time Out New York and is a leader in the field of producing and presenting new, hybrid performances viewed as a seamless integration of artistic disciplines-theatre, dance, music and opera, puppetry, media, visual and installation, spoken word and performance art. HERE's standout productions include Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge, Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle's all wear bowlers, Young Jean Lee's Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, James Scruggs' Disposable Men, Corey Dargel's Removable Parts, Robin Frohardt's The Pigeoning, and Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique and, this season Looking at You by Rob Handel, Kristin Marting and Kamala Sankaram. Since its founding in 1993, HERE and the artists it has supported have received 18 Obies, 2 Bessies, 5 Drama Desk Nominations, 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 4 Doris Duke Awards, and 2 MacArthur Fellowships. Funding Credits The HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) is made possible with public funds from: the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional support provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation; Howard Gilman Foundation; the Mental Insight Foundation; the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; the Mertz Gilmore Foundation; The Shubert Foundation; Jerome Foundation; the Fund for the City of New York; The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; The Scherman Foundation; the Jim Henson Foundation; the Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts; Select Equity Group; Edison Properties; Jane Henson Foundation; Royal Little Family Foundation; the Leon Levy Foundation; and HERE's generous community of individual donors. |
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