FlipFest Program for Web

with
GOH Productions
presents
A Celebration of the 15th Anniversary of ArtsLink Awards
Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 7:00pm
The Angel Orensanz Foundation, 172 Norfolk Street, New York, NY
FLIPFEST! PRODUCTION TEAM
Executive Producer…..… ...Bonni e Sue Stein/GOH Productions
P r o d u c t i o n S t a g e M a n a g e r ……………………… . . . J a y W e i s s m a n
H o u s e M a n a g e r …………………… L y n n K a b l e / G O H P r o d u c t i o n s
T e c h n i c a l D i r e c t o r ……… . . ……………………………… . W i l l K n a p p
L i g h t i n g D e s i g n e r …………………………………… . . … . J a n e S h a w
S o u n d D e s i g n e r a n d E n g i n e e r ……………………… . . M a t t Y o h n
E m c e e s …………………… . . … . . . . S a s h a S u v o r k o v a n d V í t H o ř e j š
D o c u m e n t a t i o n ………………………… M e l a n i e E i n z i g , M i l d a K u l l a
W r a n g l e r C a p t a i n ………………………………………… J u l i a B r o w n
S t a g e H a n d s ……………………… . . S e r g e i D i y a n o v , K a m i l H o r e j š
Special Attachés…………………..….Ananda Grant, Maura Sheldon
Ed Woodham, Jenneth Webster
CEC ARTSLINK STAFF
E x e c u t i v e D i r e c t o r ………………………………… . . . . F r i t z i e B r o w n
C o m m u n i c a t i o n s a n d E v e n t s M a n a g e r …… . … . . . Z h e n i a S t a d n i k
O f f i c e M a n a g e r ………………………………… . … . S a s h a S u v o r k o v
P r o g r a m D i r e c t o r , O p e n W o r l d …………… . … . . M a s h a P y s h k i n a
P r o g r a m D i r e c t o r , A r t s L i n k Aw a r d s …… . . ……… T a m a l y n M i l l e r
P r o g r a m M a n a g e r , O p e n W o r l d ………………… . . L e n a R y a b o v a
P r o j e c t C o o r d i n a t o r , O p e n W o r l d ……… . . . C a s s a n d r a H a r t b l a y
P r o j e c t C o o r d i n a to r , A r ts L i n k A w a r d s …… . .. . . … C h e l s e y M o r e l l
P r o g r a m D i r e c t o r ( S a i n t P e t e r s b u r g ) …………… . … . S u s a n K a t z
P r o g r a m M a n a g e r ( S a i n t P e t e r s b u r g ) ………… . … . A n n a B i t k i n a
P r o g r a m M a n a g e r ( S a i n t P e t e r s b u r g ) ……… . . . N a s t y a T o l s t a y a
I n t e r n ………………………………………………… . . … D a H y u n L e e
Letter from the Executive Director
Welcome to FlipFest!:
Tonight’s festival celebrates the 15th year of ArtsLink Awards – a unique
program of two-way exchange between the U.S. and the 30 countries that,
under Soviet influence, were not accessible. Whether you call it
international exchange, cultural diplomacy or a network for fostering
friendship and creative collaboration, during the span of these 15 years
the ArtsLink Programs have brought together and helped support over
1000 creative individuals - including the extraordinarily diverse,
innovative, entertaining, and thought-provoking international artists
performing tonight.
Following the momentous political changes of the late 1980’s, CEC
International Partners, as the organization was then called, with public and
private funders who shared the goal of putting mistrust behind, created a
mechanism for creative people to exchange ideas, work together and
thereby to profoundly understand one another’s cultures. Like success in artmaking, intercultural understanding is not easy and impossible to
guarantee, but like good art, comes unexpectedly and is as golden as a
perfect performance. Fifteen years of hard work and 4 million dollars have
been channeled to that end through ArtsLink Awards, and we regularly see
that it has worked. Artists now routinely partner with their peers from
Eastern and Central Europe and Russia, dialogue is free and unrestricted,
and the creative climate in the U.S. is better, livelier for it.
In 2004, CEC ArtsLink mounted the visual exhibition FlipSide, tonight’s
FlipFest! mini-festival realizes our aspiration to present exciting performing
work as well. The wide-ranging group of over 40 artists was curated with
the help of co-producer Bonnie Sue Stein and GOH Productions who
deserve loud public thanks, as does the generous and exceptionally
adaptable Jay Weissman and his crew. Without the resources provide by
the industry, humor and genius of the staff at CEC ArtsLink, without the
vision of our funders, without the dedication of our Board of Directors, and
finally, without the talent and sacrifice of the artists involved, this evening
could not have been actualized. Holding tonight’s event at the stunning
Angel Orensanz Foundation on the Lower East side - a home to émigrés
from East and Central Europe and Russia for generations - is a special
pleasure.
In celebration of the past; in anticipation of a utopian future, enjoy the
show!
Fritzie Brown
Executive Director
CEC ArtsLink
The use of flash photography and cell phones is strictly prohibited.
Program
Emcees Vít Hořejš and Sasha Suvorkov host the festivities and
introduce each act. The artists will perform in various parts of
the space, indicated below (for a map of the venue, please see
page 10 of this program). Artists whose names are listed in bold
below are included in the artist bios, (page 11).
Pre-Show: BLIND.NESS, a variation
(Balcony and center)
A play directed by Ivan Talijancic/WaxFactory
Co-written by Simona Semenic in collaboration with
performers Melody Bates, Gillian Chadsey, Erika Latta and
Breeda Wool.
Costumes by Haans Nicholas Mott.
A co-production of Performance Space 122 and Cankarjev
Dom (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Welcome from Fritzie Brown and Al Orensanz
(Stage)
Solos and Duets
(Stage)
Music and performance by Viktor Tóth (saxophone) and Jeff
Zielinski (drums)
JOHN, a solo dance performance
(Center)
Created and performed by Goran Bogdanovski
Directed by Tomi Janezic
With music and sound by Tomaz Grom.
JOHN is a coproduction of Fico Balet, Studio for Research on the Art
of Acting, and Theatre Glej, and was made possible by MOSKVA
Ballet Co., New Dance Alliance Inc., The Slovenian Ministry of
Culture, and the city of Ljubljana.
Gang of Seven, an excerpt from the new play by Jim Neu
(Stage)
A new comedy by that rips the lid off the dynamics,
delusions, and dangers of the focus group movement
sweeping across America.
Performers: Mary Shultz, Tony Nunziata, Chris Maresca,
John Costelloe, Byron Thomas, Kristine Lee, and Jim Neu.
The play will run from December 4-21 at La MaMa,
Thursday through Sunday at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 2:30.
(Balcony)
Vocalize
Music and performance by Sylwia Gorak
(Stage)
Contemporary Sakha Folk Songs
By Klavdia and German Khatylaev
CHABYRGHAKH, A Composition about a horse with
traditional instruments khomus, aiaan, and the dungur.
KYTALYK, a song about the white crane, a sacred bird in
Sakha culture, that uses the traditional nasal singing
technique “khongsuo”. Instruments – khomus, kyryympa.
Followed by vocal imitations of Sakha nature, birds and
animals, and a demonstration of khomus playing.
The Helen Keller Case, an excerpt from the play
(Balcony and stage)
Written and performed by Dah Theater
Directed by Dijana Milosevic, with Maja Mitic as Annie
Sullivan and Kathy Randels as Black Lady (a role she first
played during a 1998 ArtsLink Project).
Through the biography of Helen Keller, the famous deaf
and blind American writer and activist, a story is told about
the need for communication, the need for the touch of the
OTHER. From different levels of time, the imaginary and
real characters meet, and with a gaze of hope directed
towards the oncoming century, they dance with the
darkness to the song/cry of the Black Lady, the one that
brings and takes away. This piece was last performed in
March 1999, when NATO began its bombing campaign
against Serbia in an effort to halt hostilities in Kosovo.
(Stage)
POUCHA DASS
Music by François Rabbath, performed by Robert Black of
Bang on a Can (double bass)
(Stage)
MONOLOGUE
Performed by Yoshiko Chuma of The School of Hard Knocks
DUO [1992-present]
(Stage)
Featuring Yoshiko Chuma (dance) and Robert Black
This collaborative piece premiered at La MaMa in 1992, and
was performed in Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, Latvia,
Hungary, Czech Republic, USA and Japan on a tour
supported in part by ArtsLink.
My Fair Lady-Cassandra
(Balcony)
A soliloquy in Lithuanian and English based on the poem by
Wisława Szymborska (see text in back of program)
Performed by Dalia Michelevicuite with music by Evelina Sasenko
and costumes by Irina Kozutova
What Makes A Man A Man
(Stage)
A performance by John Kelly
Music and lyrics by Charles Aznavour
That's How I Dance
(Center)
Choreographed and performed by Ilya Belenkov
Music by Alva Noto
Lisa Karrer & David Simons perform original compositions
KUI MINA a national poem from Estonia by Josef Lev
(translation by Pille Katrin Seelmann), set to music by Lisa
Karrer, voice, with David Simons on Thai mouth organ.
GRANDMA text by Mark Leyner from the piece Leyner Suite,
music by David Simons, jaw harp, Lisa Karrer, voice.
(Stage)
The Very Sad Story of Ethel & Julius, Lovers and Spyes and about
Their Untymelie End while Sitting in a Small Room at the
Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y.
(Center and Stage)
Songs & excerpts from a new play written and directed by
Vít Horejš and performed by the Czechoslovak-American
Theatre.
Performers: Deborah Beshaw, Brian P. Glover, Vít Horejš,
Theresa Linnihan, Valois Mickens, Alan Barnes Netherton,
Steven Ryan, Ronny Wasserstrom, with Carmen Staaf on
the accordion.
The play will run from November 28-December 14 at
Theater for the New City, Thursday through Saturday at
8:00PM and Sundays at 3:00 PM.
(Stage)
THE BOOK OF DANIEL
Directed by Tea Alagic, written by Daniel Alexander
Jones
Performers: Daniel Alexander Jones and Sonja
Perryman
This performance premiered at the University of Texas/
Austin in 2007.
Romanian-American Jazz Suite, excerpts
(Stage)
Excerpts composed and performed by Sam Newsome
(soprano saxophone) and Lucian Ban (piano).
This project is supported in part by the Romanian Cultural
Institute.
František Skála
(Stage)
Performance
ArtsLink 15th Birthday Mix
DJ Joro-Boro spins a mix of compositions and
performances supported by ArtsLink projects, 1996 to the
present,
featuring: Artur Avanesov, Charming Hostess, Duo Violon
Cellissimo (Olga Veselina and Vadim Larchikov), German
and Klavdia Khatylaev, Jasna Jovicevic, Lampo, Lucian
Ban, Ryan Ingebritsen, Sam Newsome and Viktor Toth.
END
DAH Theater (Serbia;
2003 ArtsLink Independent
Project awardee) performs
The Helen Keller Case.
Photo by Vincent Abbey.
Robert Black (US; 1996
ArtsLink Projects awardee)
and Yoshiko Chuma (US;
ArtsLink host and
four-time ArtsLink Projects
awardee) perform DUO.
Sylwia Gorak (Poland; 2008
ArtsLink Fellow), solo video
performance.
Victor Toth
(Hungary;
2007 ArtsLink
Fellow).
Goran
Bogdanovski
(Slovenia; 2001
ArtsLink Fellow)
performing
JOHN.
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
( In alphabetical order )
Tea Alagic (2004 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is a director, writer, and actor.
Her recent directing credits include St. Joan by George Bernard Shaw
(New York University), Zero Hour by Tea Alagic (Yale University Theater),
The Brothers Size by Tarrell Alvin McCraney (The Public Theater, NY, The
Studio Theater, Washington D.C, The Abbey Theater, Dublin), Book of
Daniel by Daniel Alexander Jones (University of Texas/Austin) and Chiang
Kai Chek by Charles Mee (Yale Cabaret). As associate artistic director of
the Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts, Alagic directed Woyzeck
by George Buchner and Self-Accusation by Peter Handke. She has acted
with Theatre du Soleil, Robert Lepage, Richard Foreman and Yoshiko
Chuma. Alagic received a BFA in acting from Charles University in
Prague, and an MFA in directing from Yale School of Drama, where she
received the Julian Milton Kaufman Prize for Best Director. She has
received awards from the Cairo International Festival and the Edinburgh
International Fringe Fest among others. She is currently at work writing
Zero Hour, commissioned by the Public Theater; its first reading will be at
The Abbey Theatre, December 2008.
Pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger Lucian Ban (2004 ArtsLink
Projects collaboration with Sam Newsome) is originally from Cluj,
Romania. He currently lives in New York City where he is at the forefront
of contemporary modern jazz. He performs and tours regularly with his
own projects and as a sideman, and was nominated in 2005 and 2006 for
the prestigious Hans Koller Best European Jazz Musician Preis in Austria.
Ban has written music for theater, film and ballet, including for the New
York City Symphony Orchestra. His compositions are frequently performed
and recorded, and include a commission for the Machito Orchestra,
performed at the 2002 Super Bowl, among others. New York-based
projects include original music for Philosopher Fox produced by East River
Comedia, nominated for the prestigious IT Award; and music for the Paul
Auster play Timbuktu directed by Richard Schechner. www.lucianban.com
Dancer and choreographer Ilya Belenkov (2007 ArtsLink Fellow) was
born in 1980 in Kazakhstan and currently lives in Moscow, where he works
with two dance companies, Ohne Zucker and Po.V.S.Tanze. After
discovering dance in 1999, he has immersed himself in numerous
workshops and art labs and participated in collaborative projects nationally
and internationally, focusing on release techniques. He was an ArtsLink
fellow with Maryland’s Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 2007, and has
worked in the US with TRYST Downtown (Paul Benney, Clarinda Mac Low
and Alejandra Martorell’s series of free outdoor performances in Lower
Manhattan, supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) and his
duo System of Units with Katerina Basalaeva.
Robert Black (1996 ArtsLink Projects awardee and frequent CEC ArtsLink
VisArt participant) is equally at home on the double bass in classical,
contemporary and experimental musical genres and collaborations. He has
an active performing career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra
player. He has produced over 75 commissioned solo works and his solo
tours have taken him throughout the world. He is a founding member of the
Bang on a Can All-Stars and a member of School of Hard Knocks since
1988. Black’s recent collaborators include actor Kathryn Walker, Brazilian
artist Ige D'Aquino, choreographers Katie Nollet-Stevinson and Yoshiko
Chuma, and the Ciompi and Miami String Quartets. He maintains a full
teaching schedule at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford, the
Festival Eleazar de Carvalho in Brazil and the Manhattan School of Music
Contemporary Music Program. He has recorded for Sony Classical, Point/
Polygram, Koch, Mode, O.O. Discs, Cantaloupe and others. A recipient of
numerous grants, he received a 1998 Bessie Award for his collaborative
composition work on Unfinished Symphony with The School of Hard Knocks
in NYC. www.robertblack.org
Goran Bogdanovski (2001 ArtsLink Fellow) has performed with more than
70 choreographers and directors since 1989 in classical ballet, physical
theater, contemporary dance, film and video. Since 2000, when he founded
Fičo Balet, he has been developing his own choreography, as well as
performing and leading workshops from Moscow to New York. From 2002 to
2008 he ran Kino Šiška, a rehearsal space for contemporary dance and
theater in Ljubljana, and in 2003 he helped to launch Gibanica (Moving Cake),
the first biannual Slovene dance festival. He is also a co-founder of NOMAD
Dance Academy, an educational and artistic research project with partners
from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and
Bulgaria. www.ficoballet.org
Yoshiko Chuma (ArtsLink Host and 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2008 ArtsLink
Projects awardee) is a conceptual artist and choreographer and artistic
director of The School of Hard Knocks. She has created more than sixty
full-length performance works for theaters and site-specific venues with her
company and on commission throughout the world. Chuma first worked in
Eastern and Central Europe in 1985, and has led workshops, and initiated
residencies and collaborations with artists in the region. Her company has
performed throughout the world at sites including the Hong Kong harbor, the
Eiffel Tower, Newcastle Swing Bridge, Dublin’s Temple Bar district,
Tallinn’s Old Town, The Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, City
Center and the National Theaters of Sarajevo and Macedonia. Chuma has
received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim, the National
Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for Artists and the Japan
Foundation, among others. She is the recipient of a 1984 Bessie Award for
choreography, six Bessie Awards to company artists from 1987-1998, and a
2007 Bessie for Sustained Achievement. www.yoshikochuma.org
DJ Joro-Boro (Friend of ArtsLink) was born in Bulgaria. In New York City
he was former resident DJ at Mehanata Bulgarian Bar, and instrumental in
creating its underground cult following. His music is best described as
Ethnotech or EthnoMesh—a cosmopolitan textured knot-work of dance
styles including Gypsy speed brass, Arabic dancehall, Angolan kuduro,
Punjabi bhangra, Brazilian favela funk, digital cumbia, merengue de la calle,
plus sleazy Balkan incarnations of chalga, turbo folk, and manele. As
described by Other Music, it is a music of "movement, progressive voice,
and diversity. The fast-forward multifarious collective from the 'Eastern Bloc'
and beyond, spearheaded by Joro-Boro and Eugene Hutz of Gogol
Bordello, pluralistically exhale out of a trans-cultural osmosis of East meets
West, romantically fusing the abundant expressions of a relevant past into a
shifting matrix of the now-sound of today's wayward cultural bents. That is,
an unorthodox real deal identity stamp to destroy and forge through all
barriers that are political, social, and musical." He currently has a bi-weekly
residency with radio New York WNYE as a host of a show called MoGlo.
www.myspace.com/joroboro
Sylwia Gorak (2008 ArtsLink Fellow) is a vocal performer and painter, and
has participated in exhibitions, concerts, and vocal and video performances
worldwide, from New York and London to Poland and Japan. Integrating
landscape painting with environmental science, Gorak rearranges
man-made structures and landmarks that surround her from their utilitarian
contexts. As a performer, Gorak is also interested in acoustics and the
material properties of sound. In 2001 she was a soprano with The
Paderewski Festival Singers in a concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in
Poland, Gorak graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan and
studied Voice in Krakow.
Vít Hořejš (1994 ArtsLink Projects awardee) moved to New York from
Prague in 1979. He is the Artistic Director of the Czechoslovak-American
[Marionette] Theatre and has written, adapted and directed more than a
dozen plays for the company. The Theatre is dedicated to the preservation
and presentation of traditional and not-so-traditional puppetry. The company
has played to great acclaim in twenty-seven states in the US and at
international festivals in Poland, Turkey, Pakistan, and the Czech Republic.
As an author and solo performer, Hořejš has published stories and plays
and toured extensively in the US, Asia, and Europe. He was Krojak in
Woody Allen’s Don’t Drink the Water.
www.czechmarionettes.org
Daniel Alexander Jones (Friend of ArtsLink) is an award-winning
interdisciplinary artist and the actor/writer of Book of Daniel. American
Theatre Magazine named him one of fifteen artists whose work would
"change American stages for decades to come." He is the recipient of the
prestigious Alpert Award in the Arts in Theatre (2006) and the 2007 McKnight
National Theatre Artist Residency and Commission at the Playwrights' Center
in Minneapolis. His theater pieces include Phoenix Fabrik, Bel Canto,
Earthbirths, Blood:Shock:Boogie and Hera Bright. This year Jones joins the
faculty at Fordham University as an Assistant Professor of Theater and will
also launch his online theater initiative, Round House Arts. His current
projects include Qualities of Light, an interactive performance installation
created with acclaimed musician, Helga Davis. A native of Massachusetts,
Jones lives in New York City.
Lisa Karrer (1995 and 1997 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is a composer,
vocalist, and performance artist who frequently collaborates with other artists.
Karrer has created multi-media projects in Estonia that co-produced by Eesti
Kontsert and Von Krahli Teater, and was featured at two NYYD International
Music Festivals in Tallinn. She has produced CDs for the groups Music For
Homemade Instruments and Gamelan Son of Lion, and, recorded a chamber
opera The Birth of George with co-composer David Simons (Tellus/
Harvestworks). Her new solo work Schismism pt 2: Natural Law premiered at
the Living Theatre in October 2008. Two of her compositions appear on
Gamelan Son of Lion’s new CD Sonogram on Innova Records. Lisa continues
to develop projects such as Mary’s SITE, a video with composition for
chamber ensemble, based on the animated sculpture of visual artist Mary
Ziegler. www.simonskarrer.com
John Kelly (1995 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is a performance and visual
artist. His original performances have been presented by The Kitchen, P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center, the Warhol Museum, the Whitney Biennial, PS 122,
BAM Next Wave Festival, and the Tate Modern. In 1998 he directed (and
sang a leading role in) Ime Na Koncu Jezika (The Name On The Tip Of
The Tongue), a chamber opera by Mitja Vhrovnik Smerkar for the Glej
Theatre of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has collaborated with David Del
Tredici, Laurie Anderson, and The Jazz Passengers; commissioned
scores by Richard Einhorn and Richard Peaslee; and performed with
Natalie Merchant and Antony and The Johnsons. Kelly is currently
writing songs for his recording, The Escape Artist. His acting credits
i n c l u d e J a m e s J o y c e ’ s T h e D e a d , J o h n C a g e ’s A n A l p h a b e t ,
Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Rinde Eckert’s
Orpheus X. He has received numerous awards and fellowships
i n c l u d i n g t w o B e s s i e Aw a r d s , t w o O b i e Aw a r d s , a n A m e r i c a n
Choreographer Award, the 2001 CalArts/ Alpert Award and the 2006-
2007 Rome Prize in Visual Art at The American Academy in Rome.
JOHN KELLY, an autobiography was published by the 2wice Arts
Foundation. www.johnkellyperformance.org
Husband and wife duo German and Klavdia Khatylaev (2008 ArtsLink
Independent Projects awardees) are members of the native Sakha-Yakut
tribe of Siberia. Their spiritual folk music expresses a deep connection to
the land. The practice and form of the music has ancient roots in nomadic
and pagan history. The couple is acclaimed throughout Russia and Europe
for their unique folk music, a mix of original and traditional Siberian songs,
featuring a specialized style of throat-singing and performance on native
instruments including the khomuz (mouth harp) and the kyrympa (a type of
string-bowed fiddle). Their music was included on a Smithsonian Folkways
CD, Tuva: Among the Spirits: Sound, Music and Nature in Sakha and Tuva.
www.khatylaev.sakhaopenworld.org
Dalia Michelevicuite (1995 ArtsLink Fellow) has been a company actress
with the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, formerly the Lithuanian State
Academic Theatre, since 1992. She is also an award-winning ballroom
dancer. Michelevicuite has appeared in numerous roles in theater and film,
and has toured worldwide. She received great acclaim for roles under
directors Eimuntas Nekrošius, Oskaras Koršunovas and others, and for a
cameo appearance in Yoshiko Chuma’s Three Stories and a solo
performance of an excerpt from Three Sisters at Dixon Place in New York
during her ArtsLink residency. Major theatre roles include Marquise de Sad
(1992), Rain Seller (1993), Persona (1994), The Stranger (1995), Public
(1997), Time and Room (1997), Three Sisters (1996); LIFE, Women's
Songs (1998), Roberto Zucco (1998), Carmen (1998), Richard III (1999),
Station in N City (2000), Dances of Lugnazade Feast (2001), Testament of
Barbora Radvilaite (2002). She has acted in the films Don't Know Who I
Am, Fish Day, Awakening, Thrush - Green Bird, Moon's Lithuania, and New
Adventures of Robin Hood. She appears in the new film Defiance, with
Daniel Craig, to be released in 2009.
Dijana Milošević (1997 ArtsLink Fellow and 2003 Independent Projects
awardee) is a theater director and co-founder of Belgrade’s DAH Theatre,
the first theatre laboratory in Serbia. In 1993, the group became DAH
Theatre Research Center. In 1992, she co-founded NATASHA Project, an
international theater network, and ANET – Association of Independent
Theatre Groups in Belgrade. She is also a contributor to The Magdalena
Project, an international network of women in contemporary theater.
Milošević is the director of DAH International School for Actors and
Directors, and frequently writes about theater, lectures, and leads
workshops, as well as touring internationally with her company. Currently
she is working on THE ILIAD PROJECT: DOGSBODY, a project with San
Francisco’s Theatre of Yugen in collaboration with Artistic Associate
playwright Erik Ehn, set to premiere at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in
2009. www.dahteatarcentar.com/index_eng.html
Maja Mitic (DAH Theater) has been a core member of DAH Theatre
Research Center in Belgrade since 1991 and currently teaches there. She
has taken part in several theater, television, radio, and film productions and
collaborated on the development of The Helen Case with Kathy Randels.
Jim Neu (2000 ArtsLink Projects awardee) has been pushing the envelope of
spoken theater since the late 1970s. Whether in plays or dance/text
collaborations with choreographers, his language achieves a lyrical, hilarious
balance of the familiar and the absurd. His new comedy GANG OF SEVEN
explores the world of focus groups, as some normally harmless citizens
discover an explosive collective identity. The show opens in December 2008
at La MaMa ETC with cast members Mary Shultz, Tony Nunziata, Chris
Maresca, John Costelloe, Byron Thomas, Kristine Lee, and Jim Neu.
www.jimneu.com
Sam Newsome (2004 ArtsLink Projects awardee) has been active in the New
York jazz scene since the 1990s, when he was a member of the Terence
Blanchard Quintet, with whom he toured worldwide and released several CDs
for Columbia/Sony, including the critically-acclaimed Malcolm X Jazz
Suite. Mr. Newsome has since then, emerged as one of the premiere
soprano saxophonists, recording and performing music from around he world,
incorporating various types of non-Western scales into his musical palette.
His group Global Unity released two CDs, Sam Newsome & Global Unity
(Columbia/Sony) and Global Unity (Palmetto). He later began exploring solo
saxophone works by Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Sonny Rollins, and Anthony
Braxton, culminating in the 2007 release of a solo saxophone CD,
Monk Abstractions, which was named as one of the 2007 Best Tribute
Recordings by Allaboutjazz-New York. Currently, Newsome teaches jazz
studies at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, tours with Lucian Ban,
among others, and is at work on his second solo saxophone CD, to be
released in 2008. www.samnewsome.com
Al Orensanz (Friend of ArtsLink) is a poet, historian, philosopher, and
scholar of Social Upheaval Studies with a PhD in Sociology from New York
University. Al can currently be found in various capacities as the public face
of the Angel Orensanz Foundation. www.orensanz.org
Sonja Perryman (Friend of ArtsLink) is an actress/singer who originally
hails from Atlanta, GA but now calls New York City home. She received her
BFA in drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2004 and since then
has worked as both an actress and teaching artist. She was last seen in
the cast of Celia! the musical, and as Electra in Theodora Skipitares' world
premiere of The Exiles at La MaMa.
Kathy Randels (1998 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is the founding artistic
director of New Orleans’ ArtSpot Productions. She has written, performed
in and directed numerous original solo and group works in Louisiana and
beyond. She received a 2008 V-Day Leadership Award, as well as a 2003
Obie Award and a 2007-2009 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for
Directors grant. Her recent collaborations include Flight, Lakeviews, and
Alternate Roots’ UPROOTED: The Katrina Project. She also collaborated
on three Dah Theatre performances from 1997 to 2003. In 1996, Randels
founded the Drama Club at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women
and has worked with the Students at the Center Program in New Orleans
Public Schools since 1998. www.artspotproductions.org
David Simons (1995 and 1997 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is a composer
and performer specializing in percussion, theremin, electronics, and world
music. Recordings of his works include the CDs Prismatic Hearing (Tzadik),
Kebyar Leyak, Cool it Wayang, and Naked We Stand for Gamelan Son of
Lion, and on albums by God is My Co-Pilot, Stockhausen, Shelley Hirsch,
Music For Homemade Instruments, and many others. Simons’ music for
theater and dance has brought him to Zagreb and Tallinn, Seoul and
Yogyakarta, Munich and Berlin, Guantanamo, Honolulu, and Bali. He has
received a Rockefeller Bellagio residency, NYFA fellowships, and
commissions from the American Composers Forum, Mary Flagler Cary
Trust and Meet the Composer. His composition Odentity for the Newband’s
Harry Partch instruments premiered in 2007. A graduate of California
Institute of the Arts, he has published writings on music and sound in
Radiotexte (Semiotexte#16), EAR magazine, and Soundings.
www.simonskarrer.com
František Skála (2003 ArtsLink Independent Projects awardee) is a
Prague-born sculptor, painter, children's book illustrator, musician and
dancer. He is a founding member of the music group Malý taneční orchestr
Universal (the Small Dance Band) which performs popular music from the
communist era of Czechoslovakia in a humorous fashion, as well as a
founding member of the music trio Tros Sketos. His exhibitions and
performances have been seen worldwide, including a notable 2004 solo show
of sweeping proportions at The Rudolfinium Gallery in Prague. In visual art,
he has created poignant works in wood, clay, plastic and seaweed, among
other mediums. Skala describes his own work as an attempt to make "visible
the invisible" or to "grasp the ungraspable." Using these abstract terms, he
apologizes for his inability to describe the fascinating world that surrounds us.
Ivan Talijancic (2002 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is a director,
choreographer, visual and graphic designer and video- and film-maker. He is
a co-founder and artistic co-director of the international theater group
WaxFactory, for which he has d irected LULU, QUARTET V2 .0,
LADYFROMTHESEA, Sarah Kane's CLEANSED, …SHE SAID and 39
FRAMES. His site-specific performance, WILD ANIMUS, commissioned by
Too Far (San Francisco) in 2006, was performed in over fifty cities in North
America, Europe and Australia. Following its premiere at PS 122 in October
2008, BLIND.NESS will also be presented in Slovenia in co-production with
Cankarjev dom. Talijancic is a Usual Suspect at the NY Theatre Workshop, a
recent fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany) and the
current recipient of TCG/New Generations grant. He has taught and been
artist-in-residence at several institutions in the United States and abroad
including the City University ofNew York and Brown University.
www.waxfactory.org
Viktor Tóth’s (2007 ArtsLink Fellow) Climbing with Mountains album won
best jazz album of 2007 in his native Hungary. He has played saxophone with
internationally renowned musicians including Hamid Drake, Henry Franklyn,
William Parker, and Mihaly Dresch. He leads the Toth Viktor Tercett,
composes, produces music for dance, collects folk music and is always
looking to forge ahead in new directions.
Jeff Zielinski (2007 ArtsLink Host) has been involved in the arts since 1986.
He began gigging as a drummer in central Massachusetts and played and
toured with bands in North Carolina. In 1999, he moved to New Orleans to
explore different musical genres, broaden his musical vocabulary, and
continue to create friendships with people from all over the world.
Bonnie Sue Stein (Executive Producer) is the director and founder of GOH
Productions, an arts services organization based in New York focusing on the
creation and development of global arts projects. Since 1988, she has produced
projects in New York City, Eastern and Central Europe, the former Soviet Union and
Asia. Her current projects include The Absolute Ensemble, The School of Hard
Knocks, East Village Dance Project, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre
and Art In Odd Places. As a writer, she has contributed articles on the performing
arts to Dance Magazine, The Village Voice, BAM Next Wave Journal. For GOH she
produced three documentary films, Faust on a String about Czech marionettes;
Moon Pulse directed by Estonian choreographer Marika Blossfeldt (with Estonian
TV), and The Ivye Project directed by Tamar Rogoff (Belarus/Lithuania/US
Production). Bonnie was born in Detroit, Michigan. Her grandparents were from
Belarus and came to live in the US in early 20th century. www.gohproductions.org.
Jay Weissman, production stage manager, is a partner in The Usual Suspects, a
New York based production company responsible for many outdoor concerts,
festival, and events here in the city including Evening Stars, Culturefest, Fourth of
July in Battery Park, and Music at Castle Clinton. Jay has had the pleasure to work
with such artists as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings,
Sonic Youth, and Tony Bennett among many others as well as Pope Benedict XVI
at the Papal Youth Rally in Yonkers this past year. Jay is very happy to be working
with CEC ArtsLink!
Jane Shaw, Lighting Designer, and Will Knapp, Technical Director, have worked
together on a variety of projects including several seasons as production managers
at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. They have also shared duties as the lighting
director of Evening Stars in Battery Park, various touring positions for the
Baryshinikov Arts Center, the Merce Cunningham Company, and Rebecca Stenn/
The Perks. Ms. Shaw's lighting designs include works by Donna Uchizono,
Koosil-ja Huang, and Trazana Beverly. Mr. Knapp has worked as a production
manager for Meredith Monk, Big Dance Theater, and Elizabeth Streb.
Matthew Yohn (Sound Design/Audio Engineer) Matt enjoys a motley career in the
performing arts, both backstage and onstage. A lifelong classical singer, he has
performed throughout North America and Europe and currently nurtures a growing
operatic career. His technical activities began at the University of Rochester where
he focused on audio as a natural extension of his penchant for making noise. His
audio experience includes credits with groups such as Korn, The Orchestra of Saint
Luke’s, George Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars, Absolute Ensemble, and Run-DMC
in venues such as Madison Square Garden, Red Rocks, Kennedy Center, The
Sporting Club in Monte Carlo and Battery Park, NYC. As sound designer for the
Evening Stars Festival he worked with choreographers such as David Parsons,
Mark Morris, and Trisha Brown and is a sound designer for the Rebecca Stenn
Company.
In addition to the ArtsLink Awards
program,
which provides grants to artists and arts organizations in the United States,
Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus by a
process of application and panel review, CEC ArtsLink conducts two other
major mission-driven programs.
The Open World Cultural Leaders Program brings young artists and arts
managers to the U.S. for professional residencies. The program is supported
by the Open World Leadership at the Library of Congress and the National
Endowment for the Arts. CEC ArtsLink provides administrative support and
hosts groups in partnership with leading arts organizations around the
country, presenting exciting public events featuring the visiting artists,
including poetry readings, film screenings and concerts. Partner hosts
include The American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), The PEN American
Center (New York), and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (Hamilton, NY).
From our Saint Petersburg office, CEC ArtsLink facilitates the VisArt
program, investigating contemporary art issues through collaboration and
exchange. VisArt creates opportunities for the exchange of ideas on
contemporary issues in the arts by supporting U.S. artists, musicians and arts
professionals and their colleagues in Russia and Central Asia to collaborate
on exhibitions, seminars, workshops and performances. Program participants
from overseas— Arts Leadership Fellows— visit the U.S. for short
professional residencies. U.S. arts professionals including Charles
Amirkanian, Bang on a Can, Rhys Chatham, Jason Eppink, Kendall Henry
and Nancy Zendora, offer workshops and perform in Russia and Central Asia.
And a new initiative in Central Asia, Global ArtLab, expands global cultural
dialogue by engaging with local communities beyond capital cities. Together,
U.S., Tajik and Kygyz art professionals will activate their individual art
practices to develop a structure for the circulation of ideas.
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GOH Productions
works primarily with experimental and
interdisciplinary artists to clarify their artistic vision and to make possible the
production of new works in a variety of genres and in a variety of global
landscapes. In the mid-1970s the organization was founded as 7 Loaves,
Inc. a non-profit arts organization in the Lower East Side of New York City.
In 1988 the organization’s name was changed to GOH Productions, and
Bonnie Sue Stein became its Artistic and Executive Director, a position
she still holds. GOH creates and develops collaborative projects in the U.S.
and with international partners, and has had a long and wonderful
relationship with CEC since the ArtsLink program began in 1993.
GOH Board of Directors: Donald Trammel (president), Marika Blossfeldt,
Sherry Erskine, Bonnie Sue Stein.
Advisory Board: Steve Boss, Barbara Cox, David Eden, Sean Carroll Galvin,
Joseph V. Melillo, Eleanor Michniewicz, Nancy Staub.
www.gohproductions.org
Soliloquy for Cassandra, a poem by Wisława Szymborska, the 1996 Nobel
Prize Winner for Literature. The poem was written in Polish; this evening
Dalia Michelevicuite performs her interpretation in English and Lithuanian.
The standard Enslish text, below, is translated by Stanisław Barańczak and
Clare Cavanagh.
Here I am, Cassandra.
And this is my city under ashes.
And these are my prophet's staff and ribbons.
And this is my head full of doubts.
It's true, I am triumphant.
My prophetic words burn like fire in the sky.
Only unacknowledged prophets
are privy to such prospects.
Only those who got off on the wrong foot,
whose predictions turned to fact so quickly—
it's as if they'd never lived.
I remember it so clearly—
how people, seeing me, would break off in mid-word.
Laughter died.
Lovers' hands unclasped.
Children ran to their mothers.
I didn't even know their short-lived names.
And that song about a little green leaf—
no one ever finished it near me.
I loved them.
But I loved them haughtily.
From heights beyond life.
From the future. Where it's always empty
and nothing is easier than seeing death.
I'm sorry that my voice was hard.
Look down on yourselves from the stars, I cried,
look down on yourselves from the stars.
They heard me and lowered their eyes.
They lived within life.
Pierced by that great wind.
Condemned.
Trapped from birth in departing bodies.
But in them they bore a moist hope,
a flame fuelled by its own flickering.
They really knew what a moment means,
oh any moment, any one at all
before—
It turns out I was right.
But nothing has come of it.
And this is my robe, slightly singed.
And this is my prophet's junk.
And this is my twisted face.
A face that didn't know it could be beautiful.
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...and the generous board of directors of CEC ArtsLink.
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Showing first run independent cinema @ 143 E Houston
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Finally, special thanks to Jane Lombard, Phil Hartman, Sarazina Stein,
Ally Aldegasser, Nikola Horejs, Lucia, and the many others whose
generosity has made this event possible.
CEC ARTSLINK is an international arts organization. Our
programs encourage and support exchange of artists and
cultural managers between the United States and Eastern and
Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. We
believe that the arts are a society’s most deliberate and
complex means of communication, and that artists and arts
administrators can help nations overcome long histories of
reciprocal distrust, insularity and conflict.
With solid expertise and lasting partnerships in 30 countries,
CEC ArtsLink promotes communication and understanding
through collaborative, innovative projects for mutual benefit.
CEC was founded in 1962 to enable citizens of the United
States and the Soviet Union to accomplish what their
governments could not – opening doors, sharing ideas and
building mutual trust. In today’s transformed and complex
world, citizen diplomacy is still urgently needed.
Over the past 15 years, the ArtsLink Awards Program (one
of several of CEC ArtsLink’s distinctive programs promoting
cultural exchange through the arts) has made over three million
dollars in funding available to U.S. artists and arts
organizations working with colleagues in Eastern and Central
Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Funding is
provided through ArtsLink Projects, ArtsLink Residencies
and Independent Projects.
FlipFest “little man” art by Dan Perjovschi, a 1992 ArtsLink Fellow
FlipFest logo by Tamalyn Miller
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