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2008 Past Grantees | |
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Events: August 2008 July, 2008
September, 2008
January 19 - November 22 Urban Bush Women Les écailles de la mémoire (The scales of memory) (MAP 2005 and 2006), a new dance work created in collaboration between American choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny and their respective companies, the all-female Urban Bush Women and the all-male Compagnie JANT-BI. July 31 - August 2 American Composers Forum of Los Angeles Sucktion (MAP 2007), a theatrical song cycle created by composer Anne LeBaron in collaboration with writer Douglas Kearney, that follows a woman's cyber-erotic transformation from abject housewife into a self-sufficient cyborg via the subversive use of a vacuum cleaner. NOW Festival at REDCAT August 4 - August 28 Jack Straw Foundation Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas (MAP 2007) is a musical work for voices, Chinese percussion, water, handmade instruments and found objects by composer Byron Au Yong. Performed by four opera singer/water drummer duos, these intimate works will be performed in fountains, reservoirs, pools, lakes, and other waterways in Auburn, Bellevue, Bothell, Des Moines, Issaquah, Lake Forest Park, Redmond, Renton, Sammamish, Seattle, Shoreline, Snoqualmie, and more in Washington state. August 9 Working Classroom Preview performance of The Converso Project (MAP 2005), the second in a projected cycle of plays exploring New Mexican history and its legacy of complex and conflicting identity in a state that lives equally in the past and the present. Working Classroom
August 13 Montalvo Arts Center DIVIDE LIGHT (MAP 2007), an avant-garde opera created through collaboration between composer Thomas Edward Morgan and visual artist Lesley Dill, working in conjunction with the Del Sol Quartet and the Arts Nova Singers, which contemporizes the complete works of poet Emily Dickinson to link the ground-breaking ideas of the mid-19th century American Transcendental movement to innovations and global concerns in today's rapidly changing world. Montalvo Arts Center August 15 - August 17 Working Classroom The Converso Project (MAP 2005), the second in a projected cycle of plays exploring New Mexican history and its legacy of complex and conflicting identity in a state that lives equally in the past and the present. National Hispanic Culture Center August 27 Portland Taiko Preview of IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR ANCESTORS (MAP 2007), a new taiko performance work of music, theater and choreography created by Michelle Fujii in collaboration with Japanese choreographer Shohei Kikuchi, and Portland Taiko artists working in ensemble. Echo Theatre August 29 - September 14 Curtain Call Creations Premiere of Car (MAP 2007), a movement installation that takes place in and around a car, created by choreographer Kate Watson Wallace with video installation artist Ricardo Rivera and an ensemble of six Philadelphia dancers.
Philadelphia Live Arts & Philly Fringe
Philadelphia, PA August 29 - August 31 Jack Straw Foundation Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas (MAP 2007) is a musical work for voices, Chinese percussion, water, handmade instruments and found objects by composer Byron Au Yong. Performed by four opera singer/water drummer duos, these intimate works will be performed in fountains, reservoirs, pools, lakes, and other waterways in Auburn, Bellevue, Bothell, Des Moines, Issaquah, Lake Forest Park, Redmond, Renton, Sammamish, Seattle, Shoreline, Snoqualmie, and more in Washington state. Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts |
Tracy Lang, Jeffrey Page, and Craig Harris. Photo by Jack Vartoogian [more] |
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