Bring the daring and ingenuity of HERE’s resident artists to your space through our touring initiative.  Click below for more info on the following artists' work, presented at the 2008 Hybrid Performance Brunch:

Oh What War- Juggernaut Theatre Company

(RUS)H - James Scruggs & Kristin Marting 

us - Alexandra Beller or www.alexandrabellerdances.org 

Removable Parts - Corey Dargel or www.removableparts.com 

Red Fly/Blue Bottle - Christina Campanella & Stephanie Fleischmann 

The Lily's Revenge - Taylor Mac 

Email Artistic Director Kristin Marting for more information about growing or touring innovative work.

 

 

above photo: Carl Skutsch

Discover our touring initiative, HERE THERE, at the 7th annual Hybrid Performance Brunch on Sunday, January 13, 2008, from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm. 

How to find HERE:  TICKETS/DIRECTIONS 

Discover HERE’s touring initiative, HERE THERE, at the 7th annual Hybrid Performance Brunch on Sunday, January 13, 2008.  Brunch begins at 11:30am, and performances are from 12 - 1:30 pm at HERE Arts Center (145 6th Avenue, between Spring & Broome, NYC).  

The showcase presentation will include excerpts of both ready-to-tour and co-commissioning works by HERE’s Resident Artists:  Alexandra Beller,  director Mallory Catlett and the Juggernaut Theatre Company, Corey Dargel, and Taylor Mac.

Feel free to stay for the whole event, or sample two or three offerings:

OH WHAT WAR – Mallory Catlett  / Juggernaut Theatre Company – 15 min.

US – Alexandra Beller – 15 min.

REMOVABLE PARTS – Corey Dargel – 15 min.

THE LILY’S REVENGE – Taylor Mac – 15 min.

Additionally, you’ll hear updates on HERE’s upcoming productions of RUS  - Kristin Marting & James Scruggs and RED FLY / BLUE BOTTLE - Christina Campanella & Stephanie Fleischmann.

To RSVP, contact Kim Whitener, kim@here.org or call her at 212/647-0202 x309.  We look forward to seeing you on January 13 and discussing how HERE’s artists can be part of your organization's future.  

READY-TO-TOUR PROJECTS

us - Alexandra Beller

US is created and performed by Alexandra Beller, who first garnered international attention for her work with Bill T. Jones and her photographs with Irving Penn, and is the Artistic Director of the NY-based Dance Theater company, Alexandra Beller/Dances.  US is an evening-length solo piece that offers a scathing and poignant narrative of her relationship with America.  Directed by Kristin Marting.  www.alexandrabellerdances.org

Originally ran at HERE June 21-24, 2007

 

Removable Parts - Corey Dargel 

Removable Parts is a theatrical series of love songs about voluntary amputation.  In an updated version of the lover's plaint, the unrequited lover – whose heart is broken – begins to question the usefulness of his other body parts.   Loosely based on medical journals, psychiatric case studies, and actors' monologue collections, the songs and banter in Removable Parts take a sideways look at amputees, devotees, and wannabes, with a balance of empathy and irreverence.  www.removableparts.com

Originally ran at HERE Sept. 6 - 15, 2007 

 

DISPOSABLE MEN
created & performed by James Scruggs, directed by Kristin Marting
Originally ran February 2005, and was brought back by popular demand in June 2005

L Magazine lauded this solo performance with 8-channels of video as "media-saturated storytelling that makes critical links between Hollywood monsters, African American personal histories, and searing emotional landscapes from which we can examine how we categorize and segment societies." Scruggs received a 2005 NY Innovative Theatre Award for his solo performance.

Touring to 

• Wheaton College Norton, MA, April 3-4, 2008
• 7 Stages Atlanta, GA, March 22 -25, 2007
• Perishable Theatre,  Providence RI, March 26-April 1, 2007
• New World Theater, Amherst, MA, April 23- 29, 2007

CO-COMMISSIONING OPPORTUNIIES:

The Lily's Revenge - Taylor Mac

Oh What War- Juggernaut Theatre Company

Red Fly/Blue Bottle - Christina Campanella & Stephanie Fleischmann

PAST TOURING PROJECTS

The Fortune Teller - Erik Sanko*
with original music composed by Danny Elfman and Erik Sanko, recorded narration by Gavin Friday
Fully produced as part of the HERE season, Oct. 19 - 30, 2006, and brought back by popular demand Nov. 28-Dec 22, 2006

*suitable for kids ages 9 and up 

The twisted tales of THE FORTUNE TELLER are brought to life in this handcrafted marionette play.  On a dark night, seven strangers are invited to a late millionaire’s estate for the reading of his will; one by one, each is delivered what they have coming to them – but perhaps not what they were expecting.  THE FORTUNE TELLER is an eerily comic story of fate and fortune that The New York Times called  "A morality fable for grown-ups, evoking the familiar idioms of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton in a style you might term Victorian ghastly... macabre and engaging."   Read more from the press!

 

Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven - Young Jean Lee
Fully produced as part of the HERE season, Sept. 21 - Oct 14, 2006, extended by popular demand through Oct 22.

In the spirit of Andy Kaufman, Monty Python, and South Park, Lee takes a warped, humorous look at her cultural heritage. Far from a predictable finger-wagging play, this irreverent new work follows a Korean-American's journey as she explores her romanticized, half-informed understanding of the world.  Time Out NY called SONGS "A sweet-and-sour parade of Asian minstrelsy and race-baiting that culminates in a soul-baring love scene between two Caucasians."  

Touring to

• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, January 18-20, 2007
• Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH, January 26-28, 2007
• Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA, February 8-10, 2007
• Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, VT, Dates TBD

THE ADVENTURES OF CHARCOAL BOY*

found object and original puppets by Eric Novak, direction by Sarah Provost, with live music by Elyas Kahn of the gypsy rock band Nervous Cabaret.

Fully produced as part of HERE’s season, April 1-17, 2006

*suitable for kids, ages 12 and up 

In this puppet work for adult audiences, a tree branch is struck by lightning, falls to the ground, and wakes up in a strange world beginning a musical journey of self-discovery—learning that one’s predicament can become a useful artistic talent. CHARCOAL BOY was lauded by the Village Voice as being "superbly directed by Sarah Provost, with beautiful puppets by Eric Novak and live, ethereal music by Elyas Khan,” and which was “sure to please."

 
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND*
Adapted and created by composer John Dyer & puppet artist Lake Simons
Fully produced as part of the HERE season, March 29-April 22, 2006

*suitable for kids, ages 8 and up 

Take a rock and folk music-infused tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice in her kaleidoscopic version of Wonderland featuring a live five-piece band and puppets in all styles and sizes.  The result was a show that blended intricate soundscapes with joyous spectacle and which NYtheatre.com called "an explosion of surrealistic sight and sound."ON EDGE
Hazelle Goodman, directed by Vernice Miller

Take a journey with the one-woman powerhouse Time Out New York calls, “a memorable comic gem,” as she explores the viewpoints of 12 ordinary people trying to create meaningful lives in a post-9/11 nation—as a culture "on edge." Audiences at Spoleto and the Aspen Comedy Festival have already discovered this film and television actress whom People magazine raves is “sinfully good” and the New York Times praises, "Ms. Goodman does an outstanding job...she seems to change gender by facial expression alone."

Contact Executive Director Kristin Marting for more information about touring innovative work.

 

(RUS)H - James Scruggs & Kristin Marting
media effects by Hal Eagar
Incorporating video, text, dance, and an experimental video puppet rig, this project is inspired by the myth of Icarus. Focusing on the concept of boundaries and what happens when one leaves the comforts of the world one knows, Rus explores the dangers of an intensly pleasure-consumed existence. The New York Times lauded the trio’s last collaboration, DISPOSABLE MEN, “With the adept assistance of the director, Kristin Marting, the show manages to be both light and tragic, earnest and postmodern, all while putting one in mind, oddly enough, of a phrase coined by Clarence Thomas: 'a high-tech lynching'." 

**see more about MEN in HERE THERE Past Touring Productions.

oph3lia - Aya Ogawa
Dreams and reality converge in Ophelia 3 as the character in Shakespeare's Hamlet inspires a haunting exploration of contemporary communities. Through three disparate stories of displacement, isolation, and disconnection, this work explores the cultural crises that pervade our global society. Of her past work, The Village Voice said, “the richness of [Ogawa’s] freewheeling theatrical vocabulary (drawn from a variety of cultures and genres) suggests more provocative stage compositions ahead.”

 

Drum of the Waves of Horikawa - The Theatre of a Two-headed Calf 

Loud, violent, transgressive, and fueled by radical politics, Kabuki and 1970s punk were both unforgiving performance movements that captured the stories of social discord.  The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf calls on both of these forms to take on this five-episode saga by Monzaemon Chikamatsu, the "Shakespeare of Japan,” and slices into a topsy-turvy world teeming with lying, cheating, drinking, assassination, and, of course, live music.  Their recent creations include MAJOR BARBARA at LaMama and PANIC at PS122.

You can also sample all of our Resident Artists' work. Contact Executive Director Kristin Marting for more information about growing innovative work.

 

Since 1999, HERE’s residency programs have commissioned over 70 works (most of which were presented as part of Culturemart; over 40 were produced as part of a HERE season; and 18 have gone on tour). 

 

We’ve successfully toured HARP artists’ work to venues as varied as Edinburgh Fringe, Jacob’s Pillow, Mass MoCa, Mark Taper Forum, the Novaja Drama Festival in Moscow, the Perishable Theatre, the Philadelphia Fringe, PICA, 7 Stages in Atlanta, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Spoleto Festival, U. Mass Amherst, and a one-room schoolhouse in India.

Our residency programs offer the time and space in which to experiment, to take risks and to blur boundaries between dance, theatre, music, new media, puppetry, and visual art. This kind of care and nurturing produces innovative work like Young Jean Lee's SONGS OF THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVEN (photo above), Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle’s ALL WEAR BOWLERS, Eve Ensler’s VAGINA MONOLOGUES, Basil Twist’s SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE and Tiffany Mills’s ELEGY.