RAMP 2016: Dane Terry
music, theater
RAMP Residency Dates: June 16 – 29
Public Showing: June 29 at 8pm at House of YES!, 2 Wyckoff Avenue in Brooklyn
Residency at BananAppeal Studio at Brooklyn Fire Proof, 119 Ingraham St in Brooklyn
Composer, Performer and Writer Dane Terry is is the 2016 recipient of PS122’s Ethyl Eichelberger Award. During RAMP Dane will be writing music and world-conjuring for his Sci-Fi stage-work currently titled Mister Pictures In Boomtown. The piece is centered around an art-deco skyscraper in downtown Columbus Ohio and takes place in two different time periods 600 years apart.
Tickets on sale June 1!
Dane Terry is an American composer, performer and writer. He has released several albums of original music, including the song-cycle Color Movies, which he developed into a theater piece called Bird In The House which premiered at La MaMa in April 2015 and subsequently presented at the Public Theater as part of the Under The Radar festival’s INCOMING! series. He is the most recent recipient of the Ethyl Eichelberger award from PS122 and will also be a part of PS122’s RAMP residency in spring 2016. He continues to perform all over NYC and internationally.
House of YES! is a performance space, night club, and art collective. Operating for many years as an underground space specializing in spectacular circus based performance and night life, 2016 saw them open the doors of their new space in Bushwick. With brand-new and state-of-the-art facilities, House of YES! is excited to provide space for the most innovative of Brooklyn’s nightlife, theater, circus, burlesque performers and producers.
Dane Terry is commissioned by Performance Space 122 as part of a RAMP 2016 residency with support from the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional support provided by Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance and Jerome Robbins Foundation.