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FAMILY FUN - ART - THEATER GAMES - IMPROV!
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble will offer a hands-on visual art and theater-making workshop for families (kids ages 6-106 welcome!)
By asking participants to share their stories and memories of water, Strike Anywhere will lead the group in the creation of visual art and a live improvised piece based on those stories. Some folks will be actors, some dancers, some visual artists, and some who knows! But everyone will come together to construct a short spontaneous piece that reflects us all! All participants will receive discount passes to Strike Anywheres upcoming show at Irondale, SAME RIVER 2/23-3/3. Ways to take further action to protect Brooklyn's water will be on hand.
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| February 11, 2012: 2:00 PM |
| $10 Adults, $5 Kids |
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February 23 - March 3, 2012:
SAME RIVER
- Brooklyn, NY
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SAME RIVER @ Irondale in Brooklyn
SAME RIVER is a multi-media, interview-based, improvised production. As hydro-fracking is poised to affect NYCs water supply, Same River brings the upstate war over this controversial method of drilling downstream.
Including live music, modern dance, physical theater, and video, this improvised show will be different every night. Following each show, there will be a tightly facilitated town hall discussion on the issues the piece presents. Experts from United For Action will be on hand to propel the conversation.
Audience members will experience a visual art installation upon entry to the theater. The artwork is the result of a seven-week residency at nearby Brooklyn High School for the Arts with the science, theater and technical theater classes. Art work will also be developed during a community art-making day for families on February 11 at 2:00 PM at Irondale Center (ages 6 and up).
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| February 23 - March 3, 2012: Wednesday-Saturday at 8PM, Friday March 2 student matinee at 1PM |
| $20-$40 WEEKENDS ($15 TIX WED/THURS) |
| Featuring: Donna Bouthiller (dance), Rob Henke (trumpet), Nolan Kennedy, Damen Scranton, Rolf Sturm (guitar) & Leese Walker.
Artistic Direction: Leese Walker, Production & Lighting Design: Joe Doran, Costume Design: Erin Schultz, Video Design: Johnathan Carr, Stage Manager: Amanda Hinkle, Art Installation: Jeanne Wilkinson, Haifa Bint-Kadi & students from Brooklyn HS for the Arts. |
SPRINGING BACK!
Poking its purple head out from under the snow !! FreEpLaY !! Strike Anywhere's monthly performance series is back. Happening EVERY FIRST FRIDAY AT THE BRECHT FORUM at 8:00PM, the evening will feature SA's interdisciplinary ensemble of world-class musicians, dancers, designers and actors spontaneously spinning performance pieces. Part performance, part creativity lab, the ensemble will step into the unknown, creating art in the moment, allowing intuition, the sounds of the room and audience suggestion to guide what they play. From special guests to Soundpainting, the evening will one of perpetual surprise.
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Brecht Forum |
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451 West St (between Bank and Bethune), New York, NY |
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(212) 242-4201 | | WEBSITE: | |
http://www.brechtforum.org |
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| April 6, 2012: 8 PM |
| $12-$25 (Sliding Scale) |
| "A totally unpredictable and sometimes telepathically linked mixture of gesture, dance and movement, set to music also improvised on the spot." -Rick Palley, Brooklyn Skyline |
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ART/NY Spaces at 520 |
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520 Eighth Avenue (between 36th and 37th) 3rd Floor, NY, NY |
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(212) 244-6667 ext. 221 | | EMAIL: | |
zhollwedel@art-newyork.org |
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| April 16, 2012: 6-8:30 PM |
| FREE! MUST R.S.V.P. to zhollwedel@art-newyork.org |
Creating Justice: Celebrating the Connections between Art and Activism
Strike Anywhere will be the featured keynote speakers at the 2012 Creating Justice Symposium. The company will share an excerpt from SAME RIVER and will share some of the history, philosophy, and methodology of Strike Anywhere. After the keynote there will be discussions/demonstrations from other artists who combine performance and activism. The underlying goal of the symposium is for artists/activists to share ideas about the methods, processes, and impact of their work.
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Oakton Community College |
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1600 East Golf Road , Des Plaines, IL |
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http://www.oakton.edu |
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| April 21, 2012: 10AM-10PM |
| The one-day symposium seeks to celebrate the connection between art and activism while also critically exploring what it means to create politically engaged art today. The symposium will provide a forum for artists and activists to present accounts of their experience of the ways in which activism and protest shape their art, and of how art is used to transform communities. We would like to explore the many ways that artists, using diverse artistic methods and materials, work for social transformation within our communities, and the ways that activists draw on the arts in their struggles for social justice. |
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Brecht Forum |
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451 West St (between Bank and Bethune), New York, NY |
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(212) 242-4201 | | WEBSITE: | |
http://www.brechtforum.org |
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| May 4, 2012: 8:00 PM |
| $12-$25 (Sliding Scale) |
| "Untidy gray areas exist in the way we experience art - between artist and composition, between audience and performance, between painting and music and poetry and dance, between structure and chaos. ...Smack in the middle of this in-between-ness lives the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble." - Carlton Wilkinson, Asbury Park Press |
GREEK GALA-PALOOZA!
The Manhattan International students are back! For the 4th consecutive year, students from SA's partnership school will perform alongside the professional ensemble in a night of Ancient Greek inspired improvisation! A perennial favorite, SA audiences always love this show.
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Brecht Forum |
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451 West St (between Bank and Bethune), New York, NY |
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(212) 242-4201 | | WEBSITE: | |
http://www.brechtforum.org |
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| June 1, 2012: 8:00 PM |
| $12-$25 (Sliding Scale) |
| Strike Anywhere's partner school, Manhattan International High School (M.I.H.S.), serves newly arrived immigrant students. Each year, SA collaborates with English teacher Celeste Micelotta to serve three 9th grade classes through a full-year residency that integrates theater into the English classroom. M.I.H.S. believes SA's hands-on, ensemble approach is an effective way of bolstering language skills for first-year students and orients them to the collaborative, performance-based philosophy of the school. Artistic Director/Teaching Artist Leese Walker has taught at M.I.H.S. as a visiting teaching artist since 2000 working with five teachers over the years. In 2006, Strike Anywhere officially created a partnership with the school to provide incoming freshman with experiential learning techniques during a full year residency in their English classroom. |
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ART/NY Spaces at 520 |
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520 Eighth Avenue (between 36th and 37th) 3rd Floor, NY, NY |
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(212) 244-6667 ext. 221 | | EMAIL: | |
zhollwedel@art-newyork.org |
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| June 4, 2012: 6-8:30 PM |
| FREE! MUST R.S.V.P. to zhollwedel@art-newyork.org |
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