Past Performances include....
Wednesday, March 6th
Performances by:
Sarah M. Duncan
Kate Foster
Caiti Lattimer
Siobhan O'Loughlin
Anna Gothard
Teniece Divya Johnson
Ish Islam
And more...
The Music of Nate Weida, Emil McGloin, and Baby Copperhead
RescYou is a new evening-length duet by Eckert+SorensenJolink that centers on the relationship of two friends before and after a disaster that leaves them stranded on an emergency life raft. It is a dance heavy, non linear tale of people who have each other and nothing else.
In RescYou, Eckert+SorensenJolink transforms the historic sanctuary of Judson Memorial Church into a vast ocean in which time, memories, and daily life cease to exist as they once did.
Creighton Irons is a composer/lyricist and teaching artist from NC. His musicals include Soul Notes, Factory Girls, Homefront, and current projects "The Moon and the Sea" and "Beartooth Wilderness."
Sarah Goldfeather is a Minnesota-born, Brooklyn-based violinist and vocalist whose diverse activities range from solo, orchestral and chamber music to performing with indie, folk, and bluegrass groups.
An honors graduate of Vassar College, Sarah has performed as orchestral musician with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, The Handel Festival Orchestra, the Trinity Wall Street Novus Orchestra, the New York Repertory Orchestra, the Northern Dutchess County Orchestra, and the Vassar College Orchestra (where she was concertmaster for 3 years), among others. Sarah is also active as a chamber musician, and has performed throughout the US and Europe, featured at Culturefix, the IES Abroad Music Program in Vienna, at Killington Music Festival, at the Artaria Chamber Music School, and the Madeline Island Music Center. As a soloist, Sarah has put on recitals at South Oxford Space and Vassar College, been twice featured with the Vassar Orchestra, performing the Lalo Symphony Espagnole and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Sarah has received scholarships from Vassar College and the Eastern Music Festival.
In addition to classical music, Sarah is also an active bluegrass and folk musician. She composes songs, sings and fiddles in her band (Sarah Goldfeather), is the violinist and vocalist for the New York-based Great Dog Almighty, plays violin for the Mixtape Cover Band, and plays and sings in the Northfield, MN based Sideporch Trio. She has performed recently at Barbes, Judson Memorial Church, the Mercury Lounge, the Knitting Factory, Pete's Candy Store and others. In addition she has performed in the ensemble for the Atlantic Theater Company, and has worked at as a studio musician for singer/songwriter Meredith Fierke and the filmWelcome to Harlem.
In addition to her active performing life, Sarah has taught violin and music history at Vassar College, assisted research with the International Gustav Mahler Society in Vienna. She is currently on the strings faculty at the Brooklyn Waldorf School, Brooklyn Conservatory, and maintains an active private violin studio in her home in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
Sarah will play her original music, joined by Benjamin Lee banjo, Mary Beth Alexander voice and baritone ukelele, and Jonathan Harris voice and double bass.
Grace House
The band Grace House has been in the making for a while (though neither member will admit how old they really are). Andy Frantz (guitar, voice) and Tory Giardina (voice,maracas) met long ago and after a decade of encouragement, finally decided to form an official band. They are just tickled to be making their debut as a duo at Judson, the birthplace of their meeting and their music. They sincerely hope you will sing along.
Amazing Amy (Harlib) is 57 years young, and has spent a life time studying various forms of movement and physical theater.
She became attracted to Chinese martial arts, acrobatics and Yoga in the early 1980s, and parlayed that into a solo performance career that took her to Taiwan, and back to her native NYC environs to perform in a wide variety of venues.
In 1994, injuries forced her to retire with a disintegrated disc in her spine, torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders, and arthritis that necessitated a total left hip replacement in 1998.
All that time Amy never stopped her Yoga, and so hated not performing that she used her extreme flexibility and zany imagination to re-launch her career in March 2009.
Amazing Amy is the ONLY Contortionist in the world who has created Yoga Contortion Dance acts with special themes and characters, in any style for any occasion, and offers a large repertoire (all acts run approx. 6-8 minutes in length).
She also offers CONTORTION DANCE IMPROVISATIONAL JAMMING to any genre of music live or recorded! I fearlessly perform with music or musicians and on the spot, in the moment, flexibly freestyle improvise to ideally 7-8 minutes or more of music.
Already The Amazing Amy has appeared at the Downtown Clown Revue; The Bindlestiff Family Circus Open Variety Show at the Galapagos Arts Space; The Lava Dance Co. Night of Renegades Variety Show; Big Sky Works, Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Cirque Off! at Triskelion Arts Space, Brooklyn; The House of Yes, Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Dixon Place, NYC; and The Gong Show Live! at B. B. King's, NYC.
Amazing Amy lives to perform and performs to live and always seeks more performances. Please contact her at aharlib@earthlink.net and find her by Googling Amazing Amy Yoga.
Byuioo - By Nate Weida
Wednesday, November 7th ~ 7pm doors ~ 7:30 dinner ~ 8pm performance
Thursday, November 8th ~ 8pm performance
Saturday, November 10th ~ 9pm performance
Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Byuioo is a soulful funk-rock musical about finding the beauty in that which might first appear confusing, or frightening, or ugly. In this wild and inspiring allegory, a mute, green, mutant baby, Mogo, is rescued by a pack of open-minded street performers, who embrace him, and raise him as their own. Under their care and tutelage, Mogo learns to live and love and celebrate his individuality. As Mogo becomes a man and leaves the safety of the nest, he'll discover if his self-assertion is enough to protect him, or if the forces of intolerance will condemn him to a life of persecution. Byuioo is told entirely in a poetically-constructed, English-evocative gibberish langauge, which, via its own construction, will reveal to the audience the beauty in that which, at first, is hard to understand.
Directed By Isaac Klein
Choreographed by Jonathan Windham
Associate Directed by Harry Poster
Music Direction by Nate Weida
Starring - John Bennett, Dave Brown, Matthew Coyle, Dia Dearstyne, Chris French, Jessica Frey, Danielle Gaines, Larry Ray, Ravi Roth, Stacy Salvette, Arielle Siegel, Sarah VonFossen, Trevor Vaughn
Music Performed by Emil McGloin, Adam Miller, Sam Shaw, and Nate Weida
The Park Bench Prophet: Beggar with a Cause
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC presents Concrete Justice in
The Park Bench Prophet: Beggar with a Cause
The story of a homeless prophet, a modern-day Cassandra ignored by his fellow New Yorkers, told through interactive theatre, puppetry and poems. Created and performed by the Concrete Justice troupe, based on the real-life experiences of the ensemble.
For more info: email katy (at) theatreoftheoppressednyc.org.
Bay area experimental sampler Kelly Keliher takes a scenic route on her journey back to New York as she presents brand new songs with a new arrangement: piano and vocals. Putting aside the heavy rhythmic loops and sample bits, Keliher develops new songs instead from lyric driven melody and wandering piano interludes. The innovative harmonies and dissonances, and the purposeful play between noise and clarity (all characteristic of Keliher’s previous work as Native/naïve) here provide the support for a more pop influenced set.
Check out her website here. Listen to Kelly's unique approach to music:
The Garden
Choreography: Lane Gifford in collaboration with performers.
Performers: Billy Blanken, Laurena Santos, Dave Scarantino, Sarah Stanley, Nicole von Arx, Travis Waldschmidt
Lane Gifford is artistic director of LaneCoArts, a multi-arts company which examines the intriguing relationship between dance, theater and the visual arts. Performances include:
Baruch Performing Arts Center, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, the 92nd St. Y Fridays at Noon series, New York Theatre Workshop’s Mondays @ 3 works in process program, Le Poisson Rouge, The New York International Fringe Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Pine Lake Park, Downtown Dance Festival, DNA’s RAW Material Series, DanceNOW at DTW, The Puffin Foundation and the Queens Museum of Art. Recent engagements include residencies with Ballet Nouveau Colorado and RedLine Gallery/2011 and Southern Utah University/2012.
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Choreography: Jordan Morley
Performers: Mistral Hay and Jordan Morley
Jordan Morley is a skinny man with a wide imagination. He works in the field of the body. Creating works through dance, video, or text. His work has been seen at REDCAT (Los Angeles,CA), Baryshnikov Art Center (New York, NY), and Vaudeville Park (New York, NY).
FOUR ARRANGEMENTS
Choreography: BRIAN CAREY CHUNG / COLLECTIVE BODY | DANCELAB
Performers: CLIFTON BROWN, GIORGIA BOVO, CHRISTIAN LAVERDE KOENIG, MICAH SAVIN, SHANNON SPICER, AMY MILLER, ADAM GAUZA
Brian Carey Chung, artistic director of COLLECTIVE BODY | DANCELAB, a think tank for the creation and performance of new ballet, danced for over twenty years with LINES, Complexions, and Armitage Gone! Dance, where he also served as rehearsal director and assistant choreographer (HAIR). His work has been seen at Skirball, Ailey Theatre, Purchase College, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, 92 nd Street Y’s Harkness Center for Dance, NYU Tisch, Athenaeum, Stage 773, and Arhaus as a finalist in Denmark’s Aarhus International Choreographic Competition. Brian holds the MFA (Creative Writing: Poetry) from NYU, and is assistant professor of dance at NIU.
The Salad of the Bad Cafe
Choreography: CJ Holm and Tiana Hemlock
Performers: Tiana Hemlock and CJ Holm
CJ Holm has been dancing and making dances under the name Creature Theater since 2009. Creature Theater is interested in work that speaks to the embodied experience of human animals. We have performed our work at BAX Upstart Festival, Chez Bushwick, Figment, Irondale Theater, Movement Research at the Judson Church, the Queens Fringe Festival, Spoke the Hub, The Tank, and are thrilled to be back at Judson for STUFFED. In harmony with dancemaking, CJ also makes music, works in the garden, and rides a bike everywhere.
Tiana Hemlock-Yensen hails from the merry olde land of Aus where she grew up and started her love affair with movement. Now based in NY Tiana has enjoyed working with Scott Lyons, Alexandra Beller, Lindsey Deitz Marchant, BLISS dance theater company and is currently dancing with SilCo Dance and Creature Theater. Tiana’s own work has been shown at The Tank, (2009), Movement Research at Judson Church, (2010), Triskelion Arts, (2011), CRS, (2011) and toured in Spain with Intertourdansa. She has had the absolute pleasure of working with Palissimo and Understudying the cast of Part III: Strange Cargo. Tiana is currently doing the Klein Technique Teacher Certification progragm. Along with making dances Tiana also creates outdoor installations, stories and wearable art costumes (out of recycled materials).
Goodness Management: Domestication
Choreography: Brittany Bailey
Performers: Brittany Bailey
Brittany Bailey Born in December 1989 in Hickory, North Carolina, USA. Began dancing at the age of 2. Later received a high school diploma from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2008.
Extreme learning experiences include performing with Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (Spring 2010), dancing in Michael Clark's Company at the Tate Modern in London (Spring 2011), and Whirling with the Dervishes in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and in Konya, Turkey.
International solo performances have taken place at the Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique in Brussels, Belgium (2011) and the Musée d’Art Moderne, Luxembourg (2011). Most recent NYC performance was the creation of an evening length work titled "Goodness Management" at the Irondale Center (January, 2012).
Ed Askew Band
Following 'Little Eyes' on Destilj and several self-released recordings from his past twenty years in New York City, Drag City has recently pressed 'Imperfiction,' a collection of songs Askew recorded on tiple and harpsichord in the 80's. This year, he toured three times, including a stint with Bill Callahan.
Additionally, Askew has been working on new recordings to be released next year which was produced by Jerry DeCicca (The Black Swans) and features contributions from Marc Ribot, Sharon Van Etten, and Mary Lattimore.
Ed will be playing 5 shows in Tokyo during the summer. Most recently, he has been playing as a trio - Ed Askew Band - with his pianist, Jay Pluck (Koning's Blauw), now joined by Tyler Evans (The Black Swans) on banjo and the legendary tiple.
Links:
http://www.dragcity.com/artists/ed-askew www.edaskew.bandcamp.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nugX1PL9GE8 http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/07/bill_callahan_e.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqSuPuWmEDc
The Music of Sarah Goldfeather and Baby Copperhead
Baby Copperhead bio
Baby Copperhead is a New York City-based banjo player, guitarist, and composer. While honoring the traditional North African roots of the banjo and its influence on Appalachian Mountain music, Baby Copperhead’s music is often described as “otherworldly” or “sci-fi”. He uses an array of banjo techniques from clawhammer, fingerpicking, tremolo picking (similar to that of surf music and Moroccan Berber music), to percussive tapping and textural harmonic flourishes. [Read more and listen.]
Sarah Goldfeather bio
Sarah Goldfeather is a Minnesota-born, Brooklyn-based violinist and vocalist whose diverse activities range from solo, orchestral and chamber music to performing with indie, folk, and bluegrass groups.
As a bluegrass and folk musician, Sarah is the violinist and vocalist for the New York-based Great Dog Almighty, and the Northfield, MN based Sideporch Trio. She has performed with the Atlantic Theater Company as has recorded music for Meredith Fierke and the upcoming film Welcome to Harlem. [Read more and listen.]
The concert will be Compositions and Jazz Piano Solos by Paul Knopf
with Byron Singleton, tenor
Heather Petruzelli, soprano
Patty Nohara, flute and saxophone
Jennifer Axelson, violinist
The concert will feature 2 compositions: Picture the Homeless and Occupy Wall Street.
Bio:
A prolific composer, Paul Knopf draws from diverse movements in classical music and jazz. After serving in World War II, he undertook classical studies in composition with Bohuslav Martinu and Josef Schmid, a pupil of Alben Berf, and earned a bachelor's degree for studies at the Juilliard School and New York University.
Beginning from his roots in the bebop era and the jazz revival surrounding the beatnik scene in the '50s, he expanded his interests into Latin American, ragtime, New Orleans, swing, and blues styles. In addition to his performance experience in jazz clubs and concert situations, he has accompanied dance ensembles, led a music ministry at Greenhaven State Prison, and given workshops for church musicians.
An innovator in Christian jazz worship since the early '60s, whose original compositions and piano improvisations are featured regularly at New York area churches (including Saint Peter's Church and The Church of the Village), Paul continues to connect his creative vision with his commitment to social justice.
Recent recording projects "Cabaret With Cabernet" and "Collage", feature his chamber music and jazz compositions, respectively.
This month's team:
Paul Singh
Moriah Evans/Sarah Beth Percival
Celia Rowlson-Hall
Annika Sheaff
THE SONG IS ENDED: A Tale of the Jazz Age
by Malcolm Cooke
The Flapper--Elizabeth Miller
Composer & Pianist--Paul Knopf
The Roaring 20s...the Jazz Age. It's an endless party and on Long Island's Gold Coast one man of mystery throws the best. Suddenly everything comes to a end when he's found floating face down shot dead in his swimming pool. Years later, a Flapper remembers.
STUFFED: Dinner and Dance with Bailout Theater
Curated by: Carlye Eckert + John Sorensen-Jolink
Featuring original work by:
Chelsea Ainsworth and Julia Stiefel
(Favorite Food: Jalapeno Cilantro Hummus)
Lucie Baker
(Favorite Food: Figs and Cheese with Honey)
Donnell Oakley
(Favorite Food: Cheese)
Operation:CMYK [Adam Scher and Chris Langer]
(Favorite Food: EVERYTHING)
Paul Singh
(Favorite Food: Mashed Potatoes)
After a smashing debut last season, co-curators Carlye Eckert (carlyeeckert.com) and John Sorensen-Jolink (johns-j.com) return to Bailout Theater with an evening of delicious original work from some of the most delectable names in the current world of dance.
Helter Shelter
A story of corruption, discrimination and dehumanization in the NYC shelter system, told through original documentary footage, interactive theatre, break-dancing and laughter. Created and performed by Concrete Justice, a collective of homeless and formerly homeless artists, based on the real-life experiences of the ensemble. Produced by Theatre of the Oppressed NYC.
About the Director
Katy Rubin is Founding Artistic Director of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC (TONYC), and facilitator of the Concrete Justice troupe, a project of TONYC. TONYC also creates theatre with undocumented immigrants, people living with HIV/AIDS, youth, teachers, and many other New Yorkers. Katy trained with Augusto Boal, the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, in Brazil, and has directed theatre and collaborated in India, Israel, and Nicaragua. She has also worked as an actor and circus performer in New York and internationally.
Other Work: It Could Happen to You
Links:
www.theatreoftheoppressednyc.org
http://www.theatreoftheoppressednyc.org/concrete-justice-homeless-collective.html
Previous Performances
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
This month will feature a play reading of WET, or ISABELLA THE PIRATE QUEEN ENTERS THE HORSE LATITUDES written by Liz Duffy Adams and produced by the Flux Theatre Ensemble.
About the Play
Four survivors of a storm-sunken pirate ship — the legendary Isabella, Neptune’s bastard daughter; pirates Jenny (a runaway whore) and Sally (an electrified girl); and the Viscountess Marlene, a drag queen — seize a half-wrecked ship manned only by Captain Joppa and two sailors, young Jack and ex-slave Horatio. Joppa is determined to get back to the war. Isabella has other plans. Amidst time lurches, shifting loyalties, story-telling and sudden violence, hearts lost and secrets revealed, the seven souls find themselves without wind or current on a slowly sinking ship—until an unexpected event offers either hope or doom.
Liz Duffy Adams
Plays include: OR, (Off B'way at Women's Project; Magic Theater; numerous other productions); DOG ACT (Flux Theater in NYC; Shotgun Players; Moxie Theater); NEON MIRAGE (Humana Festival 2006 anthology play); THE LISTENER (Crowded Fire; Moxie Theater; workshopped at JAW/West); WET, OR ISABELLA THE PIRATE QUEEN ENTERS THE HORSE LATITUDES (Humana Festival finalist; MOXIE Theater; workshopped at Summer Play Festival); ONE BIG LIE (alt musical co-commissioned/produced by Crowded Fire and Playwrights Foundation); THE RECKLESS RUTHLESS BRUTAL CHARGE OF IT OR, THE TRAIN PLAY, (Crowded Fire; Clubbed Thumb NYC); A WRINKLE IN TIME (commissioned and produced by Syracuse Stage). Publications include OR, in Smith & Kraus' "Best Plays 2009" and by DPS, POODLE WITH GUITAR AND DARK GLASSES in Applause Book's "Best American Short Plays 2000-2001," numerous short plays and monologues in anthologies by Smith & Kraus, Applause, and Heinemann, and several plays with Playscripts, Inc. Profiled: American Theatre magazine December 2004. Graduate: NYU's Experimental Theater Lab and Yale School of Drama.
Honors include: Lillian Hellman Award for Playwriting (for OR, and DOG ACT). New Dramatists alumna (2001-2008). 2008 Weston Playhouse Music Theater Award; 2006 New York Fellowship for the Arts Award; 2006 Frederick Loewe Award; 2004 Will Glickman Award (DOG ACT).
Contact Bailout Theater
For more information about Bailout Theater, or to get involved, please call 212.477.0351 ext 28 or e-mail us at info@judson.org with BAILOUT THEATER in the subject line.
Directions
Judson Memorial Church is located at 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012.
Public Transportation:
ABCDEFM to West 4th Street station - at Avenue of the Americas
NR to 8th Street station - at Broadway
1 to Christopher Street station - at 7th Avenue
PATH train to 9th Street statio