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PAST EVENTSÂ 2011
Loft Arts Productions
presents
Grammy Award Winner
WILL CALHOUN
from LIVING COLOUR
Will Calhoun, the widely acclaimed drummer from the Bronx, New York, graduated from the Berklee School of Music in Boston, where he received a Bachelors degree in Music Production and engineering. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Buddy Rich Jazz Masters Award for outstanding performance by a drummer.
January 23
2 pm    $15   buy tickets
DANCE PARTY AT THEATERLAB with food and drink!
To Celebrate
Italy’s most adventurous theatre company
Come meet the artists of MOTUS
with DJ Silvia Calderoni from MOTUS
(following their Public Theater/Under the Radar Festival performance)
@Theaterlab
Sunday, January 9
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Naoki Iwakawa
Action Painting Performance Events
Episode 1 – January 15 – 8 pm
Episode 2 – January 22 – 8 pm
Naoki Iwakawa, action painting
Carlo Altomare, open piano and soundscape
Tasuo Nashide, video projection
$10   buy tickets    more info
Loft Arts Productions – The Tea Series
continues its fine Jazz presentations with
Joseph Daley’s Solo Tuba Explorations
MacDowell award winning artist Joseph Daley equipped with pedals, gadgets and electronic gear will premier the African Sonata and works by Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody and Eddie Harris for solo tuba!
Joseph Daley was born in New York City were he attended Music and Art High School and Manhattan School of Music. He is an outstanding musician, composer and educator. Mr. Daley has recorded and toured with the Liberation Music Orchestra (Charlie Haden), Gravity Tuba ensemble (Howard Johnson), Taj Mahal Tuba Band, Spider Monkey Strings (Taylor Ho Bynum), Untempered Ensemble (Bill Cole), Bill Dixon, Dave Douglas, Carla Bley, Sam Rivers, Ebony Brass Quintet and Hazmat Modine (Wade Schuman). In 2010 Mr. Daley released his first CD project under his leadership featuring large ensemble compositions written while he was a MacDowell fellow.
More about Joseph:
Ground Up Productions presents
From the Ground UP
3rd Annual New Works Reading Series
Monday, Feb 7
FALLING IN LIKE
By Jerry Sipp
Tuesday, Feb 15
PRATFALLS
By Holly Webber
Monday, Feb 21
516 (five sixteen)
By Katherine Clark Gray
Monday, Feb 28
BROMANCE: THE DUDESICLE
Music By Kyle Ewalt
Lyrics By Michael Ian Walker
& Kyle Ewalt
$4 Suggested Donation at Door – All shows at 8 PM
“With a crystalline delivery, great range and a fine command of nuance and inflection, Allen brings a mix of innocence, sultriness and pure-tuned vocal beauty.”
-Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz
As part of New York’s jazz community, Aimée has navigated traditional and modern jazz, infusing her craft with a personal and intimate style. In addition to selections from the great American songbook, Aimée sings some not-so-standards, pays homage to Brazilian bossa, frequently includes a French lyric, and also performs her own inspired originals. Hers is a voice nuanced and sparkling, with soul and sensuality.
Having spent some years living abroad, Aimée’s latest CD, l’Inexplicable, is the fruit her trans-continental experiences in music and her talents as a writer. The album is a collection of warm, soulful, originals blending African rhythms, Brazilian bossa, and classic American jazz. With one exception, all the selections on l’Inexplicable were written by Aimée and are sung in French. L’Inexplicable was released in 2008 in Japan on the independent label Vivid Sound and in Europe on the Schubert Music label.
Aimée’s debut release, Dream, in 2006, offered inspired interpretations of jazz standards, familiar bossa nova classics and one original composition. In keeping with her worldly experience, it included vocals in English, French, and Portuguese.
Aimée performs frequently in New York City and tours internationally to music festivals and other events and venues. Her singular voice has garnered the love of many of the city’s best musicians
Loft Arts Productions/The Tea Series
presents
Aimee Allen
Sunday, March 20 – 2 PM
$15, ($10 Students and Seniors)
nicole renaud
A multimedia performance
French singer and accordionist, Nicole Renaud, will perform songs from her new album “Couleurs”, a love story seen though colors. Nicole accompanies herself on her new one-of-a-kind luminous transparent accordion, the lincordian, designed by British artist-engineer Paul Etienne Lincoln.   more info
March 25 – 26
8 pm  –  $15      buy tickets
Loft Arts Productions/The Tea Series
presents
Mimi Jones Band
Sunday, April 3 – 2 PM
$15, ($10 Students and Seniors)
Mimi Jones, multi talented bassist, vocalist performs songs from her inspiring debut release CD, “A New Day†, bursting with original compositions seamlessly melting from one song to another. The title of the CD speaks of embracing a changing world. Mimi Jones, transformed from “side man†will play bass and sing with bandmates; Luis Perdomo-keys, Camille Thurman-sax and Chris Eddleton- drums The Mimi Jones Band appears in The Tea Series, a monthly new music and jazz series produced by Loft Arts Productions in association with Arts & Education Continuum, Bruce Mack’s Free World Radio and Theaterlab
a guest production of Theaterlab
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
An adaptation by Michael Raver
Based on the novel by Oscar Wilde
Staged Reading Directed by Quin Gordon
Featuring: Roger Clark*, William Connell*, Lauren Molina*, Ned Noyes*, Wesley Taylor*
Produced by Steve Litwitz
April 8th at 2 pm
April 9th at 2 pm & 8 pm
by invitation only: doriangrayreading@gmail.com
*These actors are appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association
Naoki Iwakawa and friends present
a SPECIAL ENJOYABLE EVENT THIS SUNDAY
Sunday, April 10 – 2 PM – Free
ART SALE TO BENEFIT PEOPLE IN NEED IN JAPAN
You can make a difference in the peoples lives that need your help.
ALL ART WORK – $20     FB event link
ARTISTS PLEASE BRING YOUR WORK AT 12 NOON
SALE EVENT AND RECEPTION STARTS AT 2 PM
While I was in a sleeping state…
a collaborative performance of music, video and dance
Brooklyn-based sound artists, Dirty Churches whose music has been described by the New York Times as “haunting,†merge samples and electronics with conventional acoustic instruments, creating a textured sonic environment of ethereal energy. New compositions by Robert Boston and Jesse Gelaznik will be featured with video and live visual manipulation by Rachel Blackwell, whose work focuses on universal human experience: birth, death, consciousness, fear, and has been screened at Zero Film Festival and Cinema 16. Laureen Elizabeth from the Martha Graham Ensemble will incorporate original choreography and improvisation, oscillating between narrative and abstraction… in a subliminal oceanic world. Reception to follow performance.
Friday, April 22Â Â 8 PMÂ Â $15
The Seven Collective presents
FACE DIVIDED
written by Edward Allan Baker
directed by Franny Alicia Reynoso
featuring: Angelique Orsini, Brennan Vickery
and Angelique Chapman
April 27 – 30   8 PM   $20
The Seven Collective challenges the traditional theatrical evening with an innovative sensory experience. FACE DIVIDED is the story of a young wife and mother desperately yearning for the way things used to be. Debbie finds herself in the emergency room after an accident involving her three-year-old daughter. Then her husband arrives. His questions will reveal just how seriously their broken dreams have affected baby Jess.
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show followed by
The Impressions Art Exhibition
Light refreshments will be served.
Theaterlab Play Reading Series presents
KANE AND HABIL
a new play by Serge Ernandez
a premier reading featuring:
Carlo Altomare, Casimira Altomare, Sheila Dabney
Erin Downhour, Alexis Francisco, Jerome Harmann-Hardeman
Gia Lisa Krahne, Judith Z. Miller, Karen Semanek and Evan True
Sunday, May 1Â Â Â 7 PM
suggested donation $10
light fare and wine reception to follow performance
Theaterlab Play Reading Series presents
HITLER’S ANALYST
a new play by Kenneth H. Brown
(The Brig, Nightlight, The Happy Bar, etc.)
In 1951, a deranged couple is brought to a Park Avenue psychiatrist in mysterious circumstances. They believe they are Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. In the course of treatment, discoveries are made that alter the lives of everyone concerned. Any similarity between the events examined in the play and U.S. Government covert operations is purely coincidental.
Friday, May 6Â Â Â 8 PM
suggested donation $10
light fare and wine reception to follow performance
NAOKI IWAKAWA, action painting
with Carlo Altomare, open piano
EXCAVATIONÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â DOUBLE EXPOSURE
exhibition                                                                                         action painting
May 14Â Â Â 8 PMÂ Â Â Â $10
performance and reception with light fare and drinks
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Primary Colors Theatre presents
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
by Neil Labute
A startling dissection of cruelty and artistic creation from the author of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, The Shape of Things by Neil Labute challenges society’s most deeply entrenched ideas about art, manipulation, and love. Directed by Pedro Pereira.
May 19 – 22    8 PM    $20/$12
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Theaterlab is sponsoring this extraordinary event
at The Baruch Performing Arts Center
25th between Lexington and Third Avenues
NORTHPOINT
Voices From A Kentucky Prison
Monday, May 23rd, 7 PM – Baruch Performing Arts Center
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On Monday, May 23rd, New York’s theatrical community will come together to present Northpoint: Voices from a Kentucky Prison, a benefit reading of short plays written by prisoners at Northpoint in Burgin, Kentucky. This exciting, one-night only event will support the 2011 playwriting program at Northpoint as well as seed a two-week playwright residency at the prison.
Loft Arts Productions presents
The Tea Series
REGGIE NICHOLSON’S PERCOETRY
with special guests
FAY VICTOR and AMIRI BARAKA
Sunday May 22, 2 PMÂ Â Â Â $20/$15
Join us when we feature Reggie Nicholson’s Percoetry with songstress Fay Victor and special legendary poet Amiri Baraka on Sunday, May 22 at 2p at Theaterlab- 137 W 14th St. NYC 10010 , for a wonderful afternoon of new music, sweet tea and pastry for the entire family!
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AMIRI BARAKA
presents
2 One–Acts by S. Brian Jones
Directed by Nichole Donje’
Deconstructing Family &  Sister, Mother, Daughter, Wife
Tuesday, May 24Â Â Â Â Â 7 PMÂ Â Â Â Â Â RSVP: TAPTheatre@gmail.com
THE AWAKENING
A reading of a screenplay
by Jim Sherry
Based on the novel by Kate Chopin
Directed by Joyce Wu
Sunday      June 12     3 PM      FREE
rsvp: jjsherry@optonline.net
CHAIN
by Pearl Cleage,
CHAIN tells the tale of a sixteen-year-old crack addict, Rosa Jackson, whose parents take matters into their own hands. Their solution: to keep their daughter chained inside their home for seven days. In this desperate attempt to keep their daughter away from drugs and the violence of their Harlem community, Rosa teeters between discovering her self worth, the admiration for her boyfriend, Jesus, who introduced her to the drug, and the reality of her addiction.
This one-woman show not only explores “urban†violence and the impact of drugs on the African American community but the affects of peer pressure and how far parents will go to protect their children. CHAIN will be performed by Brittany A. Bellizeare and directed by Crystal A. Dickinson.
June 9 – 12       8 PM, Sunday 7 PM     $20/$15     buy tickets
nicole renaud
A multimedia performance
French singer and accordionist, Nicole Renaud, will perform songs from her new album “Couleurs”, a love story seen though colors. Nicole accompanies herself on her new one-of-a-kind luminous transparent accordion, the lincordian, designed by British artist-engineer Paul Etienne Lincoln.   more info
June 2, 3, 4
8 pm  –  $15      buy tickets
Nicole Renaud returns to Theaterlab with Couleurs after 2 sold out runs in February and March!
RELATIONSHIFTS
written by Joanie Fritz Zosike
June 25       8 PM      buy tickets $10
produced by The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective –
directed by Steven Carl McCasland
featuring Zoe Anastassiou, Mallory Berlin, Dean Conroy, Sheila Dabney, Priscilla Flores, Claire Helene, Robert Hieger, Tracy Jennissen, Joy Smith Kelly, Morton Kroos, Laurie Strickland, and Miguel Suero.
As cells divide and passion accelerates, we inevitably arrive at the permeable atrium of Love. RelationShifts is a suite of twelve loosely related plays about love in several of its countless myriad forms. it was inspired by a quick cup of coffee at Mr. Tu’s Bakery in Flushing, Queens in late 2010.
Mad Dog Theatre Company presents
THIS IS NOT THE PLAY
by Chisa Hutchinson
Directed by Joel Waage
June 22-25Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 8 PMÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â June 26Â Â Â 2 PM
June 29-July 2Â Â Â Â Â 8 PMÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â July 3Â Â Â Â Â Â 2 PM
Cast: Â Chisa Hutchinson, Heather Kelley, Jennifer Logue,
Kevin O’Callaghan, Nicole Samsel
THIS IS NOT THE PLAY is…well, not really a play. It’s an inside look at the effed up process by which one playwright constructs characters and ultimately a story. Problem is the playwright has no idea who the characters really are. She isn’t even sure she wants to tell their story.  And it doesn’t exactly help that the characters go on strike mid-brainstorm. Watch to see how she gets them to reveal themselves–and their deep, dirty issues–despite deep distrust and mutual prejudice. The bonus? You get a say in what the actual play will be.
buy tickets $18        Mad Dog website
Negar Bouban is deeply involved with the art of improvisation, both in traditional way of Dastgah concept and in free improvisation on… themes of various origins and modes. A manifestation of this is made in her two solo albums: “Payaapey” (continuous) and “In Turn” with each piece improvised on a pre-composed short theme. www.negarbouban.com
Alan Kushan appears to have taken over the surrealist theory of “automatism” and transformed it into a more positive method of expression, which he has named “essential encounters”. His performance method employs an academically meticulous technique that is, paradoxically, in stark contrast to the unreal “dream space” he generally endeavours to depict, and its markedly other-worldly, hallucinatory character. http://alankushan.net/
CHAOTIC PAUSE
Two Iranian Musicians
Negar Bouban – oud and vocals
Alan Kushan – santuras
July 8       8 PM      buy tickets $10
Iranian oud player and vocalist, Negar Bouban, and the internationally avant-garde Santurist , Alan Kushan, will perform the music of a contrastive situation. Negar and Alan shall display their own individual interpretation and their performances shall illustrate how contrast may merge together.
light fare and wine reception to follow concert
PURE WAR/THE MADNESS OF THE DAY
part one of the trilogy – Deus X Machina
Directed by Carlo Altomare
Texts by Maurice Blanchot and Paul Verilio
Actors: Casimira Altomare, Chelsey Clime, Andrew Greer, Madeleine James, Zebedee J. Row
Music by Carlo Altomare
Set by Jacques Perdigues
June 1 – 28     8 PM    $10
July 18, 2011       7 – 9 PM
Performances by:
Maryam Blacksher, Kendall Cornell, Karine Fleurima, Zainab Jah, Dominique Morriseau, Amelia Workman, and The Renegade Cabaret performing on Theaterlab’s fire escape.
Also – Lisa Silvestri’s extraordinary fine art photography:
The New Orleans Portrait Project – The John McDonogh Series
http://www.thejohnmcdonogh series.com/
Join us for a night of food, drinks and entertainment celebrating the creative spirit of all women in the arts, the League of Professional Theatre Women and its work to promote opportunity and visibility to women in the theatre.
All the proceeds benefit the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Rosamond Gilder/Martha Coigney International Award.
Dutch theatre artist LINDA OLTHOF
returns to New York with her workshop
ON PHYSICAL ACTION
A 4 day workshop
July 26 – 29    11am to 2pm    $100.
“What I do is not train certain parts of the body, but liberate the body. In other words, give it a chance to live and be personal.
“I search for a theater that tries to disorder with immediate images. Everything in my performances is a sign, a translation and distortion. I believe that an illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.â€
Workshop Theaterlab NYC 2011.pdf
Call 212-929-2545 for enrollment
Ann McCoy – The Alchemical Opus
lecture w/projections – Q & A – congenial discussion – wine and light fare
Sunday, September 25Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 8 PMÂ Â Â Â Â Â Free
Alchemy is a way of bridging the opposites. Through a richly illustrated presentation, artist Ann McCoy will discuss the alchemical imagery in the work of contemporary artists such as Herman Nitsch, James Lee Byers, Joseph Beuys, and Eric Orr, as well as within her own work. She will touch upon the stages in The Great Work such as the putrefactio, the rubedo, and the albedo, and their relationship to depth psychology and dream imagery — as well as the role of depression, introversion, and dream states. She will also explore the role of the artist as an alchemist, and the ideas of incarnation, transmutation, and transformation. Psyche and spirituality have become devalued currency in today’s art world which is focused rather on political and sociological content. Ann will show how the alchemical model is, in fact, a model for political and spiritual change both in the individual and society.
THE PHILOSOPHY SALON
The Philosophy Salon is a series of six bi-monthly free lectures open to the public at large, presenting cutting edge theories and uncharted visions of the trajectory of consciousness in the contemporary world. Philosophers will be joined by artists, linguists and scientists in the course of the series which is comprised of a formal lecture, a Q/A discussion followed by a congenial gathering with refreshments served. The goal of this project is to create a public forum where ‘critical thinking’ becomes a necessary tool to the experience of life. Living in a fast pacing present while envisioning the future challenges us everyday. The Philosophy Salon strives to create a space where we can publicly address what it is to be human and how we reconcile knowledge and experience. Hosted by George Lee Moore.
Theaterlab is proud to host the opening reception of
Art In Odd Places’ annual art activities on 14th St.
This year the theme is RITUAL.
Friday, September 30   6 – 9 PM
installations, performance, drinks and light fare
featuring many of this year’s festival performers and artists
Join us and celebrate this extraordinary event
BIRDS’ EAR VIEW
an audio/visual installation – wine reception
Sunday, October 2   7 – 9 PM
The Birds’ Ear View Collective (Alexandra Wolkowicz, Jon Barraclough, Rob Peterson) formed in 2008 when they learned that thousands of birds fly into skyscrapers during migration season every year in NYC alone. Since then the collective gathered ‘evidence’ and traces of these collisions (rather than the moment of impact itself) through photography and drawings of collision victims, and the extraordinary audio environment they inhabit as sound recordings.
A READING OF
THE SEAGULLÂ BY ANTON CHEKHOV
adapted by Michael Raver
Monday, September 26Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Doors open 6:30
wine/cheese reception to follow    $10
Piece Theatre presents
CRACKED (upon a time)
Written and Directed by Josiah Houston
with Brent Wellington Barker III and Zebedee J. Row
Stretching the boundaries of absurdist comedy by exploring the tragedies of limitation, Houston’s CRACKED (upon a time) is a simple story about the complexities of language and those who speak it. As two ancient companions sit at the foot of a graveyard, their potent ramblings and hysterical bickering discuss memory, illusion, love, luck, fear, trust, choices to be made, time to be passed, and the desire to avoid ending before they conclude that Everyman must go through life on his own.
October 13 – 22     Schedule and Tickets
Theaterlab’s 6th Birthday Party!! Come celebrate with us!
Food – Drink – Performance – amazing auction items big and small!
Mon., October 24th – Doors open 6:30 PM
ACEDIA
Created by Jillian Johnson
Collaboratively devised by Keiko Green, Will Neuman, Carolyn Rossett, Katherine Stutts, and Nora Jane Williams
music by Gene Baker
lights by Kirstin Kapustik
October 26 – November 6
Carolina Morais Fonseca
Flamenco & Gypsy Duende Workshops
training and study series
September 24 through November 14
Weekend workshops in Indian Gypsy Duende, Transylvania Groove Gypsy Duende, Balkan and Turkish Gypsy Duende, plus Friday night open Duende Classes.
Carolina Fonseca in
LORCA!
DUENDE!
Gypsy Duende Dance
Music: Sinan Gündogdu
and Michaela LInd
November 9 – 12  9 PM
November 13Â Â 7 PM
$15
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
by Neil LaBute
Produced by Bruth Media
Cast:
Adam: Barry DeBois
Evelyn: Chelsey Clime
Jenny: Karen Bray
Phillip: Nick Fesette
Directed by Brayden Hade
Assistant Director: Emily C. Walker
Stage Manager:Â Justyn Wade Dansby
After a chance meeting in a museum, Evelyn, a sexy, aggressive artist, and Adam, a shy, insecure student, become embroiled in an intense affair. Before long, Adam, under Evelyn’s steady influence, goes to unimaginable lengths to improve his appearance and character while his friends Phillip and Jenny have a front row seat to his metamorphosis. How far would you go for love? For art? What concessions would you make?
November 16, 17, 18
Forward Flux Presents
FriendAndy.com    Staged Reading
Performers: Hayes Dunlap              Sean Hefferon
Laura Kaldis                 Nastasha Strang
FriendAndy.com is a dark comedy that explores how we exist in the digital age. The world of internet is brought to life on stage as we meet Andy, a young NYC blogger who finds fame, fortune, and friends online. Does Andy have it all?
November 15th Doors 7pm, show 7:30
Pre & Post Show Reception. Suggested Donation $10
Come Join Us
at
THEATERLAB’S
ANNUAL
CHRISTMAS
PARTY
With Special Guest
NICOLE RENAUD
The Alchemical Theatre
Pure War / The Madness of the Day
Texts by Maurice Blanchot and Paul Virilio
Directed by Carlo Altomare
Chelsey Clime, Andrew Greer, Gia Lisa Krahne, Zebedee J. Row, Katarina Vizina
December 7 – 17   $20    Schedule and Tickets
This production is made possible through the generous support of The New York Department of Cultural Affairs
…experimental sound technicians                   PAS Website
A night of Experi-MENTAL music featuring:
PAS
Richard Lainhart and Lucio Menegon
Koning’s Blauw
Amar Chaudhary
‘History of the Future’
live film score directed by Richard Lainhart with various improvisors.
Sat. November 26     7 – 11:30 PM    $10 with complementary wine
DEAD BIRDS or AVIAN BLUES
reading/performance featuring Howard Pflanzer and El Tahra Ibrahim
with Tom Walker reading from his Memoir about The Living Theatre
Introduced by Robert Roth
Howard Pflanzer will read/perform with El Tahra Ibrahim from his new book, DEAD BIRDS or AVIAN BLUES, published by Fly By Night Press, celebrating the birds and animals commenting on the human condition in edgy short plays and poems with surreal illustrations by Juliane Pieper.
Sun. December 11Â Â Â Â 7:30 PMÂ Â Â Â $5
