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Soundings HERE video panel

Discussion after the Soundings performance 30-45minutes.
Focus will be on new approaches and trends in the field of video and media in live theatre. 


Participants:

Brian Rogers: artistic director of The Chocolate Factory, director who uses lots of video in theatrical & dance contexts. http://www.chocolatefactorytheater.org
Hal Eagar: media designer & programmer. Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre, Digital Performance Institute and more. http://www.digitalperformance.org/users/hal
Toni Dove: media artist working with interactive video and live-mix cinema. Resident at HERE http://www.tonidove.com/
Peter Flaherty: video artist & director working with multi-channel video. Resident at HERE. Worked with Buildiers Asociation, Big Dance etc. http://thefourthefive.org.
Kristin Marting: director of Soundings and artistic director of HERE Arts Center. http://kristinmarting.wordpress.com/
Kim Whitener: moderator
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SOUNDING - JENNIFER GIBBS & KRISTIN MARTING

PERFORMANCE: SOUNDING
February 17-March 13 2010  -  $18 8:30PM

HERE Arts Center at 145 6th Ave (entrance on Dominick Street).
http://www.here.org

I know this show has a lot more than the video design to offer, but so far the video aspect is all I've gotten to see.  It's a lush abstract immersive video that plays to the theatrical non cinematic.  In other words worth seeing.

It's nothing short of amazing the amount and variety of video surfaces and environments that can be packed into a small blackbox like HERE. 

Directed by Kristin Marting 
Written by Jennifer Gibbs
Video by Tal Yarden

Featuring Bessie Award-winning Okwui Okpokwasili* as Ledaand an ensemble cast featuringTodd d'Amour, Ana Kayne, Irene Longshore, Rudy Mungaray, Michael Pemberton*, Stephen Reyes*  
Music Kamala Sankaram Set Nick Vaughan Light Rie Ono Seo Costumes Elizabeth Bourgeois Sound Jane Shaw Technical Direction Nate Lemoine Stage Management Emily Rea Casting Judy BowmanAssistants Jane Jones, Jennifer Kraus, Elenna Mosoff, Zarrin Whyte, Taili Wu

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Getting Red Fly/Blue Bottle [ALL THE WAY!] home

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/37579286/stranded-abroad-help-us-get-back-home

" An epic journey is just a hair’s breadth from coming to a close! "

PRECIOUS CARGO…

Jim Findlay’s set is a
tour-de-force of moving parts. Together with Peter Norrman and Mirit
Tal’s video and Mallory Catlett’s staging, it is mesmerizing. But it is
big! It contains singing sculptures! And tube-driven oscillators! (All
part of Christina Campanella’s haunting score.) To get to Noorderzon,
it was packed into a 10’ x 20’ container and shipped from the port of
New York to Rotterdam. From there, it traveled north by truck, to the
Romeo Tent in the Noorderplantsoen park in Groningen, where the piece sang. Now we need to get it safely into storage, ready to go back out into the world again…

Times are tough, but it's time to help each other with cents and dollars because it's likely to be you asking next month.

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Ohio Theater, stay of execution

Though I bet down to see a show there much more rarely than I would like, I'm always glad to see a NY theatre surviving if only for a little longer.

I was going to school at Purchase College and working on various "traditional theatre" pieces up on theatre row in 1994 when I took an internship with Robert Lyons at the Ohio theatre. I learned a little something about how to manage a theatre, but mostly I saw what moving, shaking, dealing, and luck it takes to keep a small theatre going in NY, and more excitingly I got introduced to the NY theatre scene which really interested me artistically much more than what I was getting at school or in the uptown theatre scene.
And based on what Robert saw in me he sent me over 3 blocks to HERE arts center to meet the folks at Gertrude Stein Rep. which seemed like home, and morphed over the next 15 years into Digital Performance Institute, where you still find me. 

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ICE FACTORY '09 : Anonymous Ensemble: Wonderland

Anonymous Ensemble: Wonderland
PERFORMANCE: July 8-11 7PM $15
Ohio Theater
66 Wooster Street

Based on Alice's Adventures

Written and Directed by Eamonn Farrell,
Music by William Antoniou

Featuring: Jessica Weinstein, Meghan Williams, Janelle Lannan, Will Antoniou, Liz Davito, Josh Hoglund, Matt Mager, Elisa Pupko, Kelly Shaffer and Cory Antiel

From the creators of THE BEST,
Wonderland is conceived as an electronic music-infused, multimedia-fueled journey through the destruction of a songstress, Alice’s, self identity.

 

 

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