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issue # 80 july 23   |   2012
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asn calendar of events and gatherings

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October 16-19 2012

CONFERENCE Chicago 
Chicago Academy of Arts, Chiarts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

 

January 24-25 2013

ARTS EDUCATION SUMMIT and

BOARD OF DIRECTORS' MEETING
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX

 

October 2013

CONFERENCE New York City NYU Tisch, NYU Steinhardt, Laguardia

 

October 2014

CONFERNCE Denver, CO
Denver School of the Arts 

 

 

wily theatre transformation time lapse youtube clip 

wyly  

The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, one of the world's most innovative theater facilities, hosts a wide range of classical and experimental drama, dance, musical and film productions. Recently named to receive the 2011 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honor Award, conceptual design of the Wyly Theatre is by REX/OMA, Josh Prince-Ramus (Partner in Charge) and Pritzker prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas. With its "stacked," vertically organized facility, the design of the 12-level Wyly Theatre completely rethinks the traditional form of theatre. Unlike a typical theatre setting, where support spaces wrap around the stage house, in the Wyly Theatre, these spaces are either above or below the Potter Rose Performance Hall, enabling maximum interaction and flexibility and providing optimal sight lines between performance space and seating.

 

The facility's advanced mechanized "superfly" system can raise theatrical scenery, the proscenium wall, and all three seating towers, allowing artistic directors to rapidly change the venue to a wide array of configurations, including proscenium, thrust and flat floor, depending on the desired stage configuration. This flexibility allows the Wyly Theatre to accomodate a wide variety of productions.


Video clip.

temporary large scale installation,
return to the sea: saltworks 
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Motoi Yamamoto's "Return to the Sea: Saltworks" -- Spoleto Festival USA at the College of Charleston

 

College of Charleston's Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art organized a major traveling exhibition of new work by contemporary Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto.

 

The exhibition premiered in Charleston, SC May 24-July 7, 2012, as a featured presentation of the Spoleto Festival USA. Return to the Sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto will travel nationally after its inaugural presentation, including stops in Los Angeles, CA, Charlotte, NC, and Monterey, CA.

 

The centerpiece of the exhibition will be a site-specific installation created entirely out of salt by the artist during his two-week residency at the Halsey Institute on the campus of the College of Charleston in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.

 

To view the install, click here.

 

 To view the dismantle, click here.

 

 

young arts presidential scholars youtube clip 

YA

 

Watch as Young Arts 2012 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts salute and celebrate their fellow Scholars in this spectacular performance at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  

 

Video clip.

 

pres scholars  

tony award nominations 2012 

tony award 2  

Best Scenic Design of a Play

John Lee Beatty, Other Desert Cities
Daniel Ostling, Clybourne Park
Mark Thompson, One Man, Two Guvnors
Donyale Werle, Peter and the Starcatcher


Best Scenic Design of a Musical

Bob Crowley, Once
Rob Howell and Jon Driscoll, Ghost the Musical
Tobin Ost and Sven Ortel, Newsies
George Tsypin, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark


Best Costume Design of a Play

William Ivey Long, Don't Dress for Dinner
Paul Tazewell, A Streetcar Named Desire
Mark Thompson, One Man, Two Guvnors
Paloma Young, Peter and the Starcatcher


Best Costume Design of a Musical

Gregg Barnes, Follies
ESosa, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Eiko Ishioka, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark
Martin Pakledinaz, Nice Work If You Can Get It


Best Lighting Design of a Play

Jeff Croiter, Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter Kaczorowski, The Road to Mecca
Brian MacDevitt, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Kenneth Posner, Other Desert Cities


Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Christopher Akerlind, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Natasha Katz, Follies
Natasha Katz, Once
Hugh Vanstone, Ghost the Musical


Best Sound Design of a Play

Paul Arditti, One Man, Two Guvnors
Scott Lehrer, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Gareth Owen, End of the Rainbow
Darron L West, Peter and the Starcatcher


Best Sound Design of a Musical

Acme Sound Partners, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Clive Goodwin, Once
Kai Harada, Follies
Brian Ronan, Nice Work If You Can Get It


Best Choreography

Rob Ashford, Evita
Christopher Gattelli, Newsies
Steven Hoggett, Once
Kathleen Marshall, Nice Work If You Can Get It


Best Direction of a Play

Nicholas Hytner, One Man, Two Guvnors
Pam MacKinnon, Clybourne Park
Mike Nichols, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, Peter and the Starcatcher


Best Direction of a Musical

Jeff Calhoun, Newsies
Kathleen Marshall, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Diane Paulus, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
John Tiffany, Once

 

Best Orchestrations

William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Bill Elliott, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Martin Lowe, Once
Danny Troob, Newsies

 

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executive director's message

Greetings Members and Friends,


Texas does it big! Last week a small learning cohort met in Dallas to study a successful member arts school, Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing and Visual Arts (BTW). To walk from our hotel to the school, we passed a most impressive succession of cultural venues (all of which are connected to BTW) in the Dallas Arts District including the following: Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Meyerson Symphony Center, Winspear Opera House, Wyly Theatre, One Arts Plaza, and Dallas Black Dance Theatre.

 

Seems like a perfect place to drop an arts school into the line up, right? However, the school was there first, almost one hundred years earlier in fact. Principal Tracie Fraley cast our study with inspirational representatives from all segments of BTW to illuminate how a great school evolves AND maintains greatness. A quick view of this student video allows a glimpse into BTW. (go to their website, scroll down to video clip). 

 

Advisory board members were our $65 million facility tour guides, explaining everything from capital campaign efforts to student ownership of the campus. Their focus has now shifted from the container to the contents, investing in program enrichment for students and faculty.

 

BTW has a dozen school governance committees, the most unique being the succession team, charged with integrating millennial practices and planning for whom will lead next as faculty and administration depart. The mass exodus consists only of the graduating seniors, whom last year won $23 million is scholarships.

 

A brilliant and refreshingly blunt arts school dean, Jose Bowen Ph.D. of SMU, spoke to us of where these students are going and specifically the cost of their education, which he emphasized is an artful negotiation. He also emphasized the need for students to be innovative, entrepreneurial doers, and arts school students should only consider secondary institutions offering business savvy in their curriculum.

 

BTW has a parent guild for every art form and surprisingly, the leader of each guild no longer has a student in the school. And the same goes for the advisory and development committees. Their belief in the mission of the school is so strong they have stayed on after their children have graduated. BTW is not just an amazing campus, it is a community with shared core values. As echoed in the above video clip, anyone connected to the school has a mantra, "I am Booker T" and they live it. 

 

Please continue to share your noble deeds. Good luck and Godspeed.

  

Sincerely,

Kristy Callaway

Executive Director

Arts Schools Network  

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asn spotlights
NEW MEMBER  SPOTLIGHT

parsons the new school for design, new york, ny

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A pioneer in art and design education since its founding in 1896, Parsons has cultivated outstanding artists, designers, scholars, businesspeople, and community leaders for more than a century. Today, when design thinking is increasingly being employed to solve complex global problems, Parsons is leading new approaches to art and design education.

At Parsons, a diverse community of students develops critical thinking skills and applies them to challenges ranging from environmental degradation to physical accessibility and humanitarian crises. Through a network of interconnected design laboratories, students explore global phenomena at multiple sites and scales of engagement, from on-campus research initiatives to partnerships that affect change in New York and around the world.  

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SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT

omaha south high school magnet school, omaha, ne

omaha 

South High Magnet School specializes in visual and performing arts, information technology, and dual language. Students active in one or more of South's magnet areas have the opportunity to major in one of those areas.

Majoring allows our students to hone their skills and develop their talents, with required and elective coursework that challenges their intellect and rewards their creativity. It puts students an extra step ahead, when applying for colleges and scholarships. This year marks our second full year of offering majors. Forty-nine of our seniors graduated last May, with a major in one of our focus areas.

 

Majoring offers our students the opportunity to take such diverse magnet courses as Music Theory, History of Game Development, Metalsmithing, Filmmaking, Music Technology, Computer Programming, Beginning and Advanced Piano, and Dance. Dual Language students study their core subject areas in both English and Spanish, moving fluently between the two languages.

 

Our course offerings are paired with enrichment experiences that include Omaha Symphony master classes, apprenticeships at the Omaha Community Playhouse, job shadowing and internships in Information Technology, and Dual Enrollment courses that provide college and high school credit at the same time.

 

TEACHER - BEST PRACTICES SPOTLIGHT

Inspiring the Independent Learner: best practices
A Literacy/Arts Based Project

Carla Cruess 

Grade 5 Teacher
Nichole Amodeo-Titley
Intermediate Art Teacher

 

Rotella Interdistrict Magnet School

Waterbury, CT

 

This integrated project is designed for our advanced learners. Together, Mrs. Titley and I wanted to provide these students with the opportunity to perform at a higher level of thought (analyze, evaluate, and create). This literacy/arts based project includes six packets, featuring the following artists: Paul Klee, Georgia O'Keefe, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Albriet Duer. Each packet includes the artist's biography, portrait of artist, samples of their artwork, higher level comprehension questions, instructions for a hands-on visual art project, self-reflection art journal question, and a student self-assessment titled "Artful Learning". READ MORE

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2012 olympic london aquatics center architecturally speaking
zaha zaha hadid architects

Design Concept

The architectural concept of the London Aquatic Centre is inspired by the fluid geometry of water in motion, creating spaces and a surrounding environment in sympathy with the river landscape of the Olympic Park. An undulating roof sweeps up from the ground as a wave - enclosing the pools of the Centre with its unifying gesture of fluidity, whilst also describing the volume of the swimming and diving pools. The London Aquatic Centre is designed to have the flexibility to accommodate the size and capacity of the London 2012 Olympic Games whilst also providing the optimum size and capacity for use in Legacy mode after the 2012 Games.

 

Site Context

 

The London Aquatic Centre is situated within the Olympic Park Masterplan. The site is positioned on the south eastern edge of the Olympic Park with direct proximities to Stratford. The new pedestrian access from the east-west bridge called the Stratford City Bridge which links the Stratford City development with the Olympic Park will cross over the LAC. This will provide a very visible frontage for the LAC along the bridge. Several smaller pedestrian bridges will connect the site to the Olympic Park over the existing canal.

 

The Aquatic Centre addresses within its design the main public realm spaces implicit within the Olympic Park and Stratford City planning. These are primarily the east-west connection of the Stratford City Bridge and continuation of the Olympic Park space alongside the canal.


Visit Zaha Hadid Architects.

careful planning and focus on audience crucial to success of new cultural facilities
Study examines 'building boom' for museums, arts centers and theaters

The University of Chicago's Cultural Policy Center, in partnership with the Harris School of Public Policy and the research organization NORC, launched in 2007 a major study of cultural building projects in the United States looking at a building boom between 1994 and 2008 that included museums, performing arts centers (PACs), and theaters. The primary goal of the study was to establish research that would serve as a basic and essential resource for any cultural group in the country involved in planning the construction, renovation, or expansion of their facilities.


books
scpa summer dance intensive at midpoint
school for the creative and performing arts & cincinnati ballet
  dance 
It's already the midpoint in the 6-week Summer Dance Intensive at the School for Creative & Performing Arts (SCPA). This is the second year that the Mayerson Foundation has provided support to the Dance Intensive.  With funding from a recent grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Foundation's Artistic Excellence Program makes it possible for world-class Soloist Ballerinas, Gema Diaz and Dawn Kelly, from the Cincinnati Ballet to join the talented dance faculty at SCPA for the Summer Program. It also provides scholarship assistance to SCPA students who would not otherwise be able to participate in the Program which is critical to becoming a nationally competitive dancer.

 

Just ask alumni Garett Stegall (Class of 2011) and Justin Hogan (Class of 2005) about being nationally competitive.  Both are returning as adjunct faculty in the Summer Dance Intensive.  Garett received a full scholarship to study at the prestigious Conservatory of Performing Arts at Pointe Park University in Pittsburgh after his stint in the Summer Dance Intensive. 

 

Justin, who graduated before the new air-conditioned SCPA opened permitting a summer dance program, is now a dancer with the Louisville Ballet.  Both know that summer programs during high school can add up to an additional year of study for dancers hoping to have a career in the demanding field.

 

The SCPA Summer Dance Intensive is led by co-directors Patricia Rozow and Daryl Bjoza, with Sarah Swinehart, all faculty at SCPA.  For Pat and Daryl, it's an opportunity to bridge dedicated students with the dance profession through a nationally recognized dance curriculum free of the demanding academic classes and social distractions of the regular school year.  The Summer Program meets 9:30 to 3:30 five days per week and provides an array of innovative approaches to dance in addition to classic ballet technique.  The days begins with a Pilates workout and includes health seminars, martial arts, salsa and belly dancing - even water aerobics at the YMCA next door to SCPA.

 american choreographer and her daring dancers wow londoners with circus-style performance across capital

streb

guardian uk

by mark brown 

july 15 2012

 

London 2012 festival: Elizabeth Streb abseils down City Hall - in gold boots.

 

As if on cue, a beautiful sun emerged on Sunday morning from behind clouds over the Thames as seven "extreme action" dancers dangled off the Millennium bridge to the delight of around 250 people.

 

Three hours later and a mile east, 10 times that number watched the choreographer Elizabeth Streb, 62, and two of her dancers make their way - slowly - down the outside of City Hall. It was heart-stopping to watch.

 

"I was a little terrified," admitted Streb. "But I was having a lot of fun."

 

The events were among seven guerrilla-style performances at London landmarks taking place as part of the London 2012 festival.

 

Each was shrouded in secrecy until the power of social media brought out crowds that increased in number throughout the day.

 

Read full article.

indie focus: 'farewell, my queen' follows marie antoinette and her loves
marie los angeles times

by mark olsen

july 14 2012

 

Beno�t Jacquot's film traces the queen's relationships with two women in her French court at the Palace of Versailles.

 

Set almost entirely within the walls of the great Palace of Versailles, the film, which opened in Los Angeles on Friday, focuses specifically on four days in July 1789 as the French Revolution picks up momentum. The drama captures the crumbling of the aristocracy set against the intrigues of Marie Antoinette's relationships with two women: Duchess Gabrielle de Polignac and the queen's personal reader, the young servant girl Sidonie Laborde.

 

The narrative traces a silent romantic triangle in which passions are withheld, affections concealed and romance denied: The queen (Diane Kruger) has a stormy friendship with De Polignac (Virginie Ledoyen), while Marie Antoinette's personal reader, Laborde, harbors a royal crush of her own.

 

"What I really liked about this book is the combination of a very simple point of view, a point of view from a very modest place, combined with such an enormous event," Jacquot, 65, explained last spring while in Los Angeles. "It's all very streamlined in terms of the narrative; the film takes place mostly within Versailles, except for a couple of scenes, and even within Versailles in just a few locations."

 

"What really interested me about Versailles was exploring confined space," Jacquot said. "It's one location, but it's a very paradoxical place, composed of many different kinds of spaces. It's practically like Versailles was a country within the country."

 

Read the full article. 

july 6-august 19 bard summerscape
summer

Bard SummerScape 2012 presents seven weeks of opera, music, theater, dance, films, and cabaret.

 

The season's focal point is the 23rd annual Bard Music Festival, which this year celebrates the French composer Camille Saint-Sa�ns, whose remarkable career shaped not only the history of music, but also the ways in which that history was transmitted and communicated to the public.

 

Another season highlight is The King in Spite of Himself, an op�ra comique about a reluctant ruler by Saint-Sa�ns's contemporary Emmanuel Chabrier.

 

Add to this a French dance company that seamlessly blends the Baroque and the contemporary, a production of Moli�re's hilarious comedy The Imaginary Invalid, an unusual and provocative film festival, and the lively cabaret and eclectic musical acts of the Spiegeltent, and the sum is a festival like no other-SummerScape 2012.

 

Go to Bard SummerScape 2012. 

band camp for grown ups
bandcamp new york times

by daniel j. wakin

july 13 2012

 

Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italian" surged faster and faster as I sat on the stage of Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall amid the ranks of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Marin Alsop, the music director, was giving no quarter. The notes were rushing past, more quickly than my fingers could move. The train was leaving, and I wasn't on it.

 

Fortunately I was not alone at that first rehearsal. A clarinetist, I was one of 104 amateur musicians who had signed up for the Baltimore Symphony's BSO Academy, a unique weeklong program to give amateurs an education in orchestral life. It was also a good way for the orchestra, at a minimum of $1,750 a head, to bring in desperately needed revenue and bond with the public.

 

The week, late last month, included lectures on musicianship, the science of hearing, practice methods, how to blend and performance anxiety. But mostly we played: in chamber music rehearsals, private lessons, group classes, coaching sessions and run-throughs with Ms. Alsop on the bright Meyerhoff stage.

 

We sat next to the Baltimore players, drank beer with them and sipped from their decades of musical wisdom. We experienced the obsessive nature of orchestra musicians and felt their physical pain, self-doubt and, once in a while, supreme confidence.

 

The academy was a kind of fantasy camp, better known to rock and baseball fans. But unlike air-guitarists or flabby softball players, we faced a high level of intensity from the start. The music was difficult, even for the pros many of us hoped to keep up with. Virtually all of us were there to improve our technique and musicality, not merely soak up star power.


Read the full article. 

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Tuesday, Oct 16
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  • Arts Integration (elementary & middle schools)
  • Fund Development
  • Holistic Admissions, Everyone's Role
  • Using your SNAAP Data (high schools)

Wednesday, Oct 17 School Visits, opening general session

 
Thursday, Oct 18 Core-Conference member sessions, by members for members, awards ceremony, general session

 

Friday, Oct 19 Core-Conference member sessions, by members for members, general session