Saturday, June 17, 2017

Salon Lounge at Dixon Place - June 17, 2017






Dixon Place presents...



"Salon Lounge at Dixon Place"



a monthly showcase of performance/literature/film-video by women

an International Women Artists’ Salon series



Saturday, 17 June 2017



Host: Heidi Russell Curator: Melinda Lauw



Tonight we honor how women artists are using their creative voices to open and expand the dialogue on the theme of ‘Isolation, breaking barriers’.



Dance – Shannon Stowe

New Dance Theatre and Access Theater present Asylum

New Dance Theatre, in a co-production with Access Theater, makes its world premiere with ASYLUM. In Asylum, New Dance Theatre explores the gestures of living in a world of stigma, and how we can find the compassion we need to feel -- if not healthy -- at least human.



New Dance Theatre was founded by Shannon Stowe with fellow New School for Drama alumni in 2014. Previous workshop productions: STRICKEN (Emerging Artists Theatre's New Works Series- BEST OF), and A DATE FOR THE EVENING at EAT and San Francisco Fringe. ASYLUM was first presented in conjunction with New Light Theater Project's Darkroom Series.



Upcoming performance of Asylum runs July 13 - 30 at Access Theater - Thurs - Sat. at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm. Tickets $18 online, $20 at the door



www.newdancetheatre.com
www.accesstheater.com



Contact Shannon at newdancetheatre@gmail.com





Performance Art – Ana Freeman

Odyssey Works
Ana Freeman will be speaking about her role in Odyssey Works. Since 2001, Odyssey Works has been creating immersive, durational experiences for and about an audience of one. Their team is made up of artists in dozens of disciplines who study the life of one individual and create intimate, meaningful performances that last days, weeks, or months.



Ana Freeman is a writer and performer in multiple disciplines, and has been working with Odyssey Works since January 2016. Since then, she has served as the editor of the artists’ interview series, a contributor to the Library of Experiences, and the production manager of Pilgrimage. She also writes for Theatre is Easy and performs with Fooju Dance Collaborative.

www.odysseyworks.org
To purchase a membership to the Library of Experiences or their book Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One, visithttp://www.odysseyworks.org/publications/.

Contact Ana at ana@odysseyworks.org


Literature/Music – Mia Capotorto Sommese

The Exhibit

Mia Capotorto Sommese presents the journey behind the creation of her new musical, The Exhibit, co-written with composer Jonathan Winton Brenner. The piece takes place in a world much like ours, where every zoo includes a Homo sapien exhibit. As seven humans exist in the monotony of a lifetime under captive observation, they rediscover their place in the animal kingdom and discover the primal truths that civilization allowed them to forget.



The Exhibit was developed through Baby Crow Productions under the working title Sapien Sapien Sapien. The first reading and workshop were both presented in 2015 and were directed by Baby Crow's Artistic Director, Margaret Grace Hee. The piece was also featured in the New York Theater Barn's New Work Series in February of 2016.



Mia Capotorto Somese is a director, writer, and teaching artist focused on the development of new musical theatre. She is an Associate Artist with Baby Crow Productions, a non-profit theatre company dedicated to developing work that is socially and environmentally conscious.



www.miacapotortosommese.com

www.jonathanwintonbrenner.com



Contact Mia at miasommese@gmail.com




Visual Art – Jennifer May Reiland

Jennifer May Reiland presents her work Encierros. The title literally translates to ‘enclosures’ in Spanish, but the term is also used to describe "the running of the bulls" in English. The piece she is presenting draws parallels between enclosures in the world of bullfighting and in society's roles for women.



Jennifer May Reiland is a Brooklyn-based artist from Texas. She makes watercolor paintings on paper and hand-drawn animations. She creates unique worlds peopled by princesses, bullfighters, soldiers, priests, and assassins. A religious childhood and long stays in France and Spain have influenced the development of the visual world she inhabits. She has shown her work in New York City, Paris, Miami, and Houston. Her next show will be at The Drawing Center in Soho in August.



Where Do We Stand? (Aug 3-Sep 17), The Drawing Center

Open Sessions 11 (Oct 12 – Nov 19), The Drawing Center

www.jennifermayreiland.com
www.instagram.com/jennifermayreiland/

Contact Jennifer at studio@jennifermayreiland.com



Curator – Melinda Lauw

Melinda Lauw is a Singaporean artist, curator and performance creator based in New York. She is the co-creator of Whisperlodge, an immersive live ASMR performance, which has been featured in TimeOut, The Atlantic, New York Magazine and The Scene. She holds a BA in Fine Art & History of Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art, New Nork. She is the recipient of The Christine Risley Award 2015 from the Goldsmiths Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery in London. Her work has been exhibited extensively in London and Singapore, and she actively performs live ASMR in New York. www.melindalauw.com



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Saturday, June 3, 2017

The Other Mozart








DRAMA DESK, Off-Broadway Alliance nominations
2 New York Innovative Theater Awards

“Strikingly beautiful” - New York Times
“This is a gem of a show.” - The Stage (London)
“fascinating...dreamlike...an arresting depiction”-- Londonist










OPENING TODAY in Los Angeles area: 


Rubicon Theatre, Ventura, CA - June 1 - 18









Other upcoming shows:

Chamber Music Northwest, Portland, OR
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Rhode Island College, RI
Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX




THE OTHER MOZART is the true, untold story of Nannerl Mozart, the sister of Amadeus - a prodigy, keyboard virtuoso and composer, who performed throughout Europe with her brother to equal acclaim, but her work and her story faded away, lost to history.

"Strikingly beautiful." -- New York Times

“A gem of a show.” - The Stage (London)

“fascinating...dreamlike...an arresting depiction”-- Londonist

"This show is the height of theatrical achievement." -- Theater is Easy
Created by Sylvia Milo, the monodrama is set in a stunning 18-foot dress (designed by Magdalena Dabrowska from the National Theater of Poland). Directed by Isaac Byrne, THE OTHER MOZART is based on facts, stories and lines pulled directly from the Mozart family's humorous and heartbreaking letters.

Along with music composed by her famous brother and Marianna Martines (a female composer who inspired Nannerl), original music was written for the play by Nathan Davis and Phyllis Chen (of Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, the International Contemporary Ensemble and BAM) for the instruments Nannerl knew intimately, such asclavichords, music boxes, and bells, as well as teacups, fans, and other ordinary objects that might have captured her imagination.

". . . fascinating and irresistibly intelligent." -- Theatermania
Period style movement directed by Janice Orlandi creates a world of opulence and elegance through articulate delicacy of expressive balletic gestures, reverent court bows, and fan language

"One of the most remarkable theatrical presentations ... an exalted plane of expression and elegance." -- New York Arts

THE OTHER MOZART had a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run in NYC in 2014. It has toured extensively in Europe (at the Mozart Wohnhaus and the Neue Residenz in Salzburg, at the Pasinger Fabrik in Munich, in Estonia and Tyrol), in Toronto, and in the US (Cherry Lane Theater and Lotos Club in NYC, RVCC in NJ, the Berkshires, Alabama, CT, TX, FL, Charleston, New Orleans, Kingston, San Diego).
In September 2015 the play was presented at St. James Theater in London to critical acclaim.
Last June The Other Mozart was performed at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego in front of an audience of 1000. 

"The big stars of experimental theater" - Wall Street Journal








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