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Featured Event
Foofwa D'Imobilité (2009 Grantee)
Pina Jackson in Mercemoriam
August 7 - 8
A humorous tribute to Michael Jackson, Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham, presented as part of the Mount Tremper Arts Festival.
Mount Tremper, New York
Event information
Through July 26
Guido van der Werve
2009 Grantee, Visual Arts
Double Dutch (Group exhibition)
Exhibition showcasing contemporary Dutch installation art.
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
http://www.hvcca.org/double-dutch.html
July 8
David Meltzer
2009 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry reading
With Neeli Cherkovski
Moe’s Bookstore, Berkeley, CA
www.moesbookstore.com
July 14 – 18
Karole Armitage
2004 Grantee, Dance
Three Theories
Armitage Gone!’s newest dance piece is inspired by physicist Brian Greene's best selling book, The Elegant Universe. Performed as part of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.
Ted Shawn Theater, Becket, MA
http://www.jacobspillow.org/festival/2010/07/armitage-gone/
July 16 – 17
Elizabeth Streb
1996 Grantee, Dance
STREB: FORCES
This high-powered team explores perpetual motion as not just a concept - but an action. Part of the Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival.
Callahan Theater, Rochester, NY
http://www.naz.edu/dept/artscenter/dancefest/streb.cfm
July 28
Michael Gizzi
2010 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry reading
The Bookstore, Lenox, MA
www.bookstoreinlenox.com
July 28
Miguel Gutierrez
2010 Grantee, Dance
Jenny Holzer and Miguel Gutierrez
Gutierrez’s choreography and text inventions are paired with visual artist Holzer’s text projections as part of the Co Lab: Process and Performance series at the Institute for Contemporary Art and Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy.
Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
http://www.icaboston.org/programs/performance/co-lab/holzer-gutierrez/?event_id=14389001
August 5
Ron Padgett
1996 Grantee, Poetry
Reading
Reading of selected poems, with Adam Halbur.
St. Johnsbury Athaeneum, St. Johnsbury, VT
http://www.ronpadgett.com/
August 5
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence
The world premiere of Gosfield’s new string quartet, performed by the Jasper String Quartet as part of the Caramoor Festival.
Spanish Courtyard of Caramoor’s Rosen House, Katonah, NY
https://tickets.caramoor.org/public/show.asp
August 7 – 8
Foofwa D’Imobilité
2009 Grantee, Dance
Pina Jackson in Mercemoriam
A humorous tribute to Michael Jackson, Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham, presented as part of the Mount Tremper Arts Festival.
Mount Tremper, New York
http://www.mounttremperarts.org/foofwa-d%E2%80%99imobilit%C3%A9
August 7 – October 17
Charles Atlas
2006 John Cage Award Recipient
Dance with the Camera (Group exhibition/screening)
Atlas’ films are included in this exhibition and screening program that explores the crossover between artists and dancers who make choreography for the camera.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
http://www.camh.org/exhib_future_exhib.html
August 13 – 15
Fiona Templeton
2002 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
Bluebeard (working title)
New work by Fiona Templeton and The Relationship; presented as part of the Wassaic Festival.
Wassaic, NY
www.therelationship.org
August 22
Michael Gizzi
2010 Grantee, Poetry
Poetry reading
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
www.geoffreyyoung.com
September 10 – 12
Lucinda Childs
1987 Grantee, Dance
Dance
An exploration of musical movement, rhythm, and harmony, as part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.lucindachilds.com/calendar.php
September 15 - 18
Elevator Repair Service
2009 Grantee, Theater/Performance
The Sun Also Rises
A performance based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, as part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.
Arts Bank at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.elevator.org/shows/show.php?show=tsar
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Past Events This Quarter
May 3
Rosmarie Waldrop
2003 Grantee, Poetry
Reading by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop
Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: Andrea Cohen alcohen66@gmail.com
May 7
Michael Pisaro
2006 Grantee, Music/Sound
Fields Have Ears
Pisaro is joined by percussionist Greg Stuart and red fish blue fish for an evening of experimental percussion music.
Sushi: A Center for the Urban Arts, San Diego, CA
http://www.freshsoundmusic.com/2009/12/percussion-series-michael-pisaro-greg.html
May 9
David Meltzer
2009 Grantee, Poetry
Reading
Bird & Beckett, San Francisco, CA
www.birg-beckett.com
May 12
Carl Stone
1999 Grantee, Music/Sound
Blast Phemy 2
Carl Stone and Carole Kim join forces in a world premiere evening of cutting-edge digital sounds and multi-layered, multi-surfaced, multi-projector imagery.
Cinefamily, 611 North Fairfax, Los Angeles, CA
http://cinefamily.org/calendar/events.html#blast4
May 16
Annie Gosfield
2008 Grantee, Music/Sound
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Pianist Aron Kallay performs Gosfield’s work for piano and sampling keyboard, on a retuned 12-foot custom Rubenstein piano.
Rubenstein Hall, El Segundo, CA
http://www.aronkallay.com/microfest2010/
May 17 – June 4
Luciana Achugar
2010 Grantee, Dance
New work (as yet untitled)
Achugar premiers her newest work commissioned by the Walker Art Center, performed by the Zenon Dance Company.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
www.walkerart.org
May 18–20
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
2010 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
Romeo and Juliet
Conceived of and directed by NTO, this performance is the result of a series of phone calls to people who were asked to tell, in their own words, the story of Romeo and Juliet from beginning to end.
Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
http://www.wexarts.org/pa/?eventid=4331
May 20 – 22
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 Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5148
May 21–23
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
2010 Grantee, Theater/Performance Art
Rambo Solo
Staged as a one-man war, actor Zachary Oberzan portrays Rambo as he struggles to adequately recount the entire plot of First Blood, the story of a shaggy Vietnam vet bent on revenge and his life-or-death struggle with a small-town cop in the backwoods of Kentucky.
Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
http://www.wexarts.org/pa/index.php?eventid=4333
May 29
Allison Smith
2008 Grantee, Visual Arts
Smith's residency at SFMOMA culminates with an active re-staging of the WWII-era Red Cross Arts & Skills Service at the museum's original location, the War Memorial Veterans Building at San Francisco City Hall.
San Francisco, CA
http://www.sfmoma.org/events/series/1325
Through June 6
Guido van der Werve
2009 Grantee, Visual Arts
Paying a Visit to Mary: 2008 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition (Group exhibition)
The exhibition explores how reality is perceived and interpreted. Curated by Maxine Kopsa.
Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
http://www.aldrichart.org/exhibitions/visit.php
