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Christopher Williams (2006 Grantee)
The Voyage of Garbhglas (excerpt)
August 2 - 5
A site-specific work about uncharted magical lands with curious inhabitants is performed at the Irish Hunger Memorial and set to original music by Gregory Spears as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Sitelines Festival.
Irish Hunger Memorial, New York, NY
Event Information
July 1 – 4
Elliott Sharp
2003 Grantee, Music/Sound
Performance
Sharp performs the work of Christian Marclay as part of the exhibition Christian Marclay: Festival.
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/ChristianMarclay
July 8
Karole Armitage
2004 Grantee, Dance
Itutu
Armitage Gone! performs Armitage’s African-inspired dance piece with music by Burkina Electric and Lukas Ligeti as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival.
Prospect Park Bandshell, Brooklyn, NY
http://www.armitagegonedance.org/upcoming/upcoming
August 1
David First
2001 Grantee, Music/Sound
The Improvisor Festival
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of The Improvisor with Amica Bunker at the Stone!
The Stone, New York, NY
http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=1
August 2
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
Seminar
Annie speaks about the nexus of composition and improvisation.
The Stone, New York, NY
http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=1
August 2 - 5
Christopher Williams
2006 Grantee, Dance
The Voyage of Garbhglas (excerpt)
A site-specific work about uncharted magical lands with curious inhabitants is performed at the Irish Hunger Memorial and set to original music by Gregory Spears as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Sitelines Festival.
Irish Hunger Memorial, New York, NY
http://www.lmcc.net/cultural_programs/sitelines
August 3
Carl Stone
1999 Grantee, Music/Sound
Performance
A supremely eponymous performance, which will feature a full set of Lower East Side premieres of new works for computer based sound.
The Stone, New York, NY
http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=1
August 7
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
Annie Gosfield: From the Chamber to the Factory
The Jasper String Quartet will perform the NYC premiere of a new string quartet inspired by the radio transmissions of resistance groups in WWII, followed by Gosfield's trio performing "EWA7", a concert length piece inspired by factory sounds that was composed and premiered in the industrial environments of Nuremberg, Germany.
The Stone, New York, NY
http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=1
August 11
Elliott Sharp
2003 Grantee, Music/Sound
Octal: Book Two
Just released on Cleanfeed Records, this is solo music for 8-string electroacoustic guitarbass.
The Stone, New York, NY
http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=1
August 22
Okkyung Lee
2010 Grantee, Music/Sound
Performance
Performs with Miya Masaoka and Mary Halvorson.
The Stone, New York, NY
http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=1
August 29
Ikue Mori
2006 Grantee, Music/Sound
Performance
Performs her distinctive electronic sound.
The Stone, New York, NY
http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=1
August 29
Okkyung Lee
2010 Grantee, Music/Sound
Performance
After its one and only performance last fall, this quartet comes to the Stone with newly written materials by Okkyung. Expect the expected.
The Stone, New York, NY
http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=1
August 30
Guido van der Werve
2009 Grantee, Visual Arts
Greater New York (Group exhibition)
Showcase of artists living and working in the metropolitan New York area, curated by Klaus Biesenbach. Van der Werve gives a lecture and performance.
PS1, Long Island City, NY
http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/310
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Past Events This Quarter
May 4
Elliott Sharp
2003 Grantee, Music/Sound
Performance
Improvisations on acoustic guitars
The Stone, New York, NY
May 6
Miguel Gutierrez
2010 Grantee, Dance
Heavens What Have I Done
Gutierrez performs his new work as part of the Queer Conscience Festival in the Center for Performance Research's "New Voices in Performance" series.
Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY
http://www.queerconscience.org/Body2.html
May 9 – June 20
Charles Atlas
2006 John Cage Award Recipient
Dead Flowers (Group exhibition)
Exhibition based on the work of actor/director Timothy Carey, a pioneer of underground film in the 1960s.
Participant, Inc., New York, NY
http://www.participantinc.org/
May 8 – June 23
Wade Guyton
2004 Grantee, Visual Arts
Whitney on Site: Guyton\Walker
Guyton and collaborator Kelley Walker produce a temporary public installation for the Whitney’s New Commissions Downtown project.
The High Line, New York, NY
http://www.whitney.org/WhitneyOnSite
May 14
Julie Mehretu
2000 Grantee, Visual Arts
Julie Mehretu: Grey Area (Solo exhibition)
Mehretu exhibits her newest paintings.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
www.guggenheim.org/new-york
May 14
Mac Wellman
2003 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
Workshop and Performance
The play Nine Days Falling (with Lally Katz) will be performed after a workshop with Wellman.
The Flea Theater, New York, NY
www.theflea.org
May 26
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
Brooklyn, October 5, 1941
Lisa Moore performs Gosfield’s work for piano, baseballs and catcher’s mitt as part of the Keys to the Future Festival.
Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
www.keystothefuture.org
June 3 – 6
Karole Armitage
2004 Grantee, Dance
Three Theories
Armitage's newest dance piece is inspired by physicist Brian Greene's best selling book, The Elegant Universe.
Theater at Cedar Lake, New York, NY
http://www.armitagegonedance.org/upcoming/upcoming
June 3–6
Christopher Williams
2006 Grantee, Dance
Hen′s Teeth (premiere) and Gobbledygook (excerpt from a work-in-progress)
Hen’s Teeth is a work for three middle-aged women, six younger women and one man set to contemporary requiem by Gregory Spears. Gobbledygook is an imaginary version of the Buddhist segaki ritual concerned with personal atonement and easing the suffering of the wandering dead.
Dance New Amsterdam, New York, NY
www.dnadance.org
June 12
Elliott Sharp
2003 Grantee, Music/Sound
Performance
Dither Quartet will present an evening of Sharp's compositions for guitar.
Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY
http://theinvisibledog.org/
June 16 – 19
John Jasperse
2003 Grantee, Dance
Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking, and Flat-Out Lies
Jasperse’s newest dance work explores the often fluid boundaries between fantasy and reality. Accompanied by a score by composer Hahn Rowe.
The Joyce Theater, New York, NY
http://www.joyce.org/performancestickets/calendar_detail.php?event=301&theater=1
June 19
Elliott Sharp
2003 Grantee, Music/Sound
Performance
Improvised tribute to Jean-Luc Goddard with TaMo TuMa, singer, performer and video and installation artist.
The Stone, New York, NY
