Category: Performance

Song
Ranters Theatre (Australia)

A truly international collaboration between Australian based Ranters Theatre, acclaimed Brazilian visual artist Laura Lima, and UK musician James Tyson, SONG is an exploration of place, wanderings and the nature of purposeful existence.

This immersive sound installation reinvents the song cycle form by combining the sounds of weather, the scent of earth and the colors of day’s end, transforming the space into a multi-sensory constructed “nature”.

Creator: Laura Lima
Creator: Adriano Cortese
Composer & Performer: James Tyson
Sound Design: David Franzke
Lighting Designer: Stephen Hennessy
Production Coordinator: Govin Ruben
Perfumer: George Kara
Performer: Patrick Moffatt

“The soundscapes were often breathtaking and the subtle lighting really made you feel like you had been transported to somewhere new.” – Wales Arts Review

60 minutes running time

Co-presented by the New Ohio Theatre and Performance Space 122

Jan 5 – 8pm
Jan 6 – 7:30pm
Jan 7 – 5pm
Jan 8 – 4pm & 9pm

New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street in Manhattan

$20 / $15 Students & Seniors

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Ranters Theatre is a performance group based in Melbourne, Australia. Formed in 1994, they make original work that responds to the social and psychological contexts of everyday life. We are interested in the ordinary rituals of day-to-day living and the strange personal details that lie beneath the skin of social convention.

New Ohio Theatre is a two-time OBIE Award-winning performance venue that serves the vast independent theatre community of New York and the adventurous audiences who love them. As a small, downtown, artist-run organization (with a 20+ year history as a beacon for bold and inventive work), we know the challenges and rewards of producing and presenting alternative, non-commercial theatre. In any given year, there are over 500 independent theatre companies working for opportunities to develop and present their work. We believe the best of this community operates at the core of the contemporary aesthetic conversation (in terms of both content and form) and acts collectively to expand the boundaries of the public imagination. From our new home on Christopher Street, we aim to establish a professional, high-profile platform that reestablishes the West Village as a destination for mature, ridiculous, engaged, irreverent, gut-wrenching, frivolous, sophisticated, foolish, and profound theatrical endeavors. Follow us online at newohiotheatre.org and on Twitter at @NewOhioTheatre.

 

The New Ohio Theatre is located in Greenwich Village, Manhattan and is accessible by the 1, A, C, E, B, D, F, M subways. This famous region on the west side of Manhattan is home to Washington Square Park, New York University, Cooper Union, St. Marks Place and a host of independent film houses and Off-Broadway theaters. The New Ohio Theater sits one block from Hudson River Park, close to Hudson Street where audiences can pick from a plethora of restaurants scattered between the New Ohio and Bleecker Street. Christopher Park is three blocks from the theater, surrounded by a variety of bars hosting live music every evening.

 

Aside from untold numbers of shopping and dining options, there are plenty of neighborly activities…for recreation-seekers without memberships to the area’s multiple gyms, the Hudson River and its well-traveled waterside trails are a short walk away. – The New York Times

 

 

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Featured image by Jorge Lizalde
 
SONG was developed in part by Arts House (Australia) with support by Arts Council Wales, the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, the Australian Government through the Australia Council and its arts funding and advisory body.

Intimacy
Ranters Theatre (Australia)

Based on a series of real, intimate and diverse conversations with strangers, Intimacy gives a candid and sometimes disquieting portrait of everyday life where personal anxieties are never far from the surface.

How much of ourselves are we prepared to show? Why is it sometimes easier to be honest with a total stranger than with someone we know? Is this really honesty or just another performance?

Directed, Written and Performed by Adriano Cortese
Written and Performed by Beth Buchanan, Patrick Moffatt
Written by Raimondo Cortese, Paul Lum
Sound Design by David Franzke
Based on Set Design by Anna Tregloan
Based on Lighting Design by Niklas Pajanti
Video by Keri Light
Beth’s Dance Choreography by Alison Halit

“A presentation of such a high standard, both psychologically and theatrically. With depth and subtle manner of acting rarely seen…” – Noorderzon Theatre Blog

65 minutes running time

Co-presented with New Ohio Theatre

Jan 11 – 8pm
Jan 13 – 5pm
Jan 14 – 6pm
Jan 15 – 9pm
Jan 16 – 4pm

New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street, Manhattan

$20 / $15 Students & Seniors

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Ranters Theatre is a performance group based in Melbourne, Australia. Formed in 1994, we make original work that responds to the social and psychological contexts of everyday life. We are interested in the ordinary rituals of day-to-day living and the strange personal details that lie beneath the skin of social convention.

New Ohio Theatre is a two-time OBIE Award-winning performance venue that serves the vast independent theatre community of New York and the adventurous audiences who love them. As a small, downtown, artist-run organization (with a 20+ year history as a beacon for bold and inventive work), we know the challenges and rewards of producing and presenting alternative, non-commercial theatre. In any given year, there are over 500 independent theatre companies working for opportunities to develop and present their work. We believe the best of this community operates at the core of the contemporary aesthetic conversation (in terms of both content and form) and acts collectively to expand the boundaries of the public imagination. From our new home on Christopher Street, we aim to establish a professional, high-profile platform that reestablishes the West Village as a destination for mature, ridiculous, engaged, irreverent, gut-wrenching, frivolous, sophisticated, foolish, and profound theatrical endeavors. Follow us online at newohiotheatre.org and on Twitter at @NewOhioTheatre.

 

The New Ohio Theatre is located in Greenwich Village, Manhattan and is accessible by the 1, A, C, E, B, D, F, M subways. This famous region on the west side of Manhattan is home to Washington Square Park, New York University, Cooper Union, St. Marks Place and a host of independent film houses and Off-Broadway theaters. The New Ohio Theater sits one block from Hudson River Park, close to Hudson Street where audiences can pick from a plethora of restaurants scattered between the New Ohio and Bleecker Street. Christopher Park is three blocks from the theater, surrounded by a variety of bars hosting live music every evening.

 

Aside from untold numbers of shopping and dining options, there are plenty of neighborly activities…for recreation-seekers without memberships to the area’s multiple gyms, the Hudson River and its well-traveled waterside trails are a short walk away. – The New York Times

 

 

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Featured image by Jeff Busby
 
Intimacy is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

bewilderment and other queer lions
Samita Sinha (USA)

An intimate, immersive experience of voice, sound and image, bewilderment and other queer lions radically transmutes Indian classical, folk and ritual music traditions through the collaboration of composer Samita Sinha with musicians Sunny Jain (of Red Baarat) and Grey Mcmurray.

A world of acoustic and electronic sound created on traditional instruments and found objects accompanies Sinha’s voice, which synthesizes the raw and refined in a single breath. Along with director Ain Gordon, acclaimed visual artist Dani Leventhal and lighting designer Devin Cameron, Sinha digests a wide range of texts and imagery, from South Asian mythology to Freddie Mercury to French novelist Marguerite Duras, meditating on desire and diasporic experience to prophecy a mythic future.

Creator & Composer: Samita Sinha
Director: Ain Gordon
Lighting Designer: Devin Cameron
Visual Designer: Dani Leventhal
Drums and Percussion: Sunny Jain
Guitar and Sound Design: Grey Mcmurray

“Rather than mash-up, she minimalized, delicately teasing her voice and the elements of the raga form through a vast range of musical territories.” – Portland Monthly

80 minutes running time

Commissioned by Performance Space 122
Co-presented by The Invisible Dog Art Center and Performance Space 122

Jan 6 – 7pm
Jan 7 – 8pm
Jan 8 – 7pm
Jan 9 – 9pm
Jan 10 – 3pm

The Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street in Brooklyn

$20 / $15 Students & Seniors

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Samita Sinha is a composer and vocal artist who combines tradition with experiment to create bold new forms in music and performance. Her vocal art combines visceral energy with a deep grounding in North Indian classical music, embodied practices, and folk and ritual music in several languages. Her performance work combines voice and body, language and text, sound and music, light and visual design to create new experiences of listening, seeing, and meaning.

 

Current projects include her solo staged work Cipher (produced by MAPP International, toured at The Kitchen, Wexner Center for the Arts, PICA, Virginia Tech and REDCAT), as well as Tongues in Trees, a ‘uniquely-aligned trio’ (NPR) with Sunny Jain and Grey Mcmurray, whose debut album Parallel will be released this fall.

 

Sinha has composed/performed scores for Fiona Templeton’s epic theater work The Medead and Preeti Vasudevan’s Veiled Moon and vocal directed E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E by Daria Fain and Robert Kocik. She toured internationally with Sekou Sundiata’s the 51st (dream) state, worked as a vocalist with Robert Ashley in his 2011 revival of That Morning Thing, and collaborated with jazz pianist Marc Cary (FOCUS Trio, Anatomy). Awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, National Performance Network, Queens Council on the Arts, Urban Arts Initiative and a Fulbright Scholarship; and residencies with Atlas Performing Arts Center (DC), BRICLab (NY), Coleman Center for the Arts (AL), Millay Colony for the Arts (NY), Ohio State University and The Watermill Center (NY).

 

Sinha works extensively as an educator as well as a curator (Movement Research Spring Festival 2015, WedaPeople’s Cabaret at Harlem Stage). Inspired by Sundiata’s call for artists to create new public rituals, Sinha creates forms that extend her practice into communities: she created a Community Coalition Choir bridging racial divisions in York, Alabama; brought social singing rituals (created in collaboration with Stephanie Loveless, Julia Ulehla, and Massimiliano Balduzzi) into various communities throughout NYC; and led Community Sings—events that bring diverse populations together for singing and dialogue—in her own Queens neighborhood as well as in Alabama. She teaches voice and embodiment extensively in New York City and as a visiting artist, with a focus on workshops for young women of color.

The Invisible Dog Art Center The Invisible Dog Art Center is housed in a three-story former factory building in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Built in 1863, our 30,000 square foot facility has been the site of various industrial endeavors – most notably a belt factory that created the famous Walt Disney invisible dog party trick, from which they take their name. The building remained dormant from the mid 1990’s to 2009 when founder, Lucien Zayan, opened The Invisible Dog.
 
The Invisible Dog is dedicated to the integration of forward-thinking innovation with respect for the past. In 2009 the building was restored for safety, and has been maintained over the years, but otherwise preserved in tact from its original 1863 form. The rawness of the space is vital to the space’s cultural identity.
 
The ground floor is used for exhibitions, performances and public events, featuring artists and curators from round the world. This floor also includes a new pop-up shop, designed by artist-in-residence Anne Mourier, conceived as a new home for independent, commercial designers in various fields. The second floor and part of the third floor are divided into over 30 artists’ studios.The third floor, luminous and spacious is used for private events, exhibitions, performances and festivals. Finally, the Glass House is a brand new, seasonal exhibition space dedicated to featuring the work of female-identified artists.

 

The Invisible Dog Art Center is located in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn and is accessible by the F and G subways. This cool and calm region on the northwest side of Brooklyn is home to roughly 20,000 residents. Invisible Dog Art Center sits one block from Dean Street and two blocks from Atlantic Avenue, both boasting a plethora of bars and restaurants.
 
Boerum Hill claims a trendy stretch of Smith Street as its own, and small cafes and stores are dotted throughout the neighborhood’s interior, like the restaurant Building on Bond and the Brooklyn Circus boutique. Some staff picks include: 61 Local, just next door at 61 Bergen Street! Hancos, 85 Bergen St & 134 Smith Street (2 locations); Van Leeuwen, 81 Bergen Street; Bien Cuit, 120 Smith Street; Van Horn Sandwich Shop, 231 Court Street; Ki Sushi, 122 Smith Street.

 

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Featured image by Dean Moss
 
bewilderment and other queer lions is commissioned by Performance Space 122 with support from the Jerome Foundation. Additional support provided by American Dance Institute and PICA’s Creative Exchange Lab.