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Events: April 2008 March, 2008
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January 19 - November 22 Urban Bush Women Les écailles de la mémoire (The scales of memory) (MAP 2005 and 2006), a new dance work created in collaboration between American choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny and their respective companies, the all-female Urban Bush Women and the all-male Compagnie JANT-BI. March 27 - April 5 Goat Island Performance Group The Lastmaker (MAP 2006) takes its inspiration from the historical trajectory of the Hagia Sophia: church/mosque/museum, considered here as movements encountered on different planes. The Lastmaker recapitulates the concerns of 20 years of Goat Island, in what we hope will be a fitting conclusion to our contribution – a journey, within a restrained structure, from the intellectual to the emotional, with lasting resonance. Museum of Contemporary Art April 2 - April 12 Rude Mechanicals World Premiere Production of The Method Gun (MAP 2007), a new performance work by the Rude Mechanicals which presents and reenacts the life and tragic death of Stella Burden, a fictional reclusive acting guru and architect of "The Approach," a suite of exercises intended to ground Western naturalism in more physically-based performance rituals. The Long Center April 10 - April 12 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts/Marc Bamuthi Joseph the break's (MAP 2007), a new multimedia theater work created by writer/performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph, director Chay Yew, and dramaturg Brian Freeman, that joins personal narrative and social history in a poetic investigation of identity. Walker Art Center April 16 - April 18 The Builders Association CONTINUOUS CITY (MAP 2008), a new work by The Builders Association that explores social networks and the connectivity of our increasingly global society through the lives of one traveling father and his daughter back at home. Wexner Center for the Arts April 17 - April 19 The Field/ Young Jean Lee Workshop of THE SHIPMENT (MAP 2007), a hip-hop African-American identity-politics piece written and directed by Young Jean Lee, a Korean-American. Brooklyn Arts Exchange April 24 - April 26 New York Foundation for the Arts/Yasuko Yokoshi Reframe the Framework DDD (MAP 2007) is an experimental dance project conceived and conducted by choreographer/performance artist Yasuko Yokoshi in collaboration with teenagers in Vermont that involves research into the transformation and progression of postmodern dance, particularly through the work of David Gordon’s “Framework.” The Kitchen
April 30 - May 3 The Builders Association CONTINUOUS CITY (MAP 2008), a new work by The Builders Association that explores social networks and the connectivity of our increasingly global society through the lives of one traveling father and his daughter back at home. Danube Festival |
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