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Greetings!
We're sprinting into the onset of summer here at TMU, and it looks like our grantees are joining us in the footrace! There are so many exciting events happening during the month of May; we couldn't be happier...or more busy.
The X-YU Festival of contemporary dance from the former Yugoslavia at Dixon Place promises to be a highlight. Also, for those interested in Russian Drama, the Martin E. Segal Center Theatre Center and Towson University are partnering with the Center for International Theatre Development on an evening program in NYC and a weekend conference in Baltimore. And that doesn't include what Pacific Environment, one of TMU's esteemed environmental grantees, is up to in May or the many grantee events happening all over Central and Eastern Europe and Russia this month.
Please join us in welcoming the sunshine!
Best wishes,
Barbara
P.S. I'd like to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who came out for The Invisible Mentor panel and to our incredible panelists!
Pictured: Ivy Baldwin, Ellen Lauren, Ping Chong, Yanira Castro, Barbara Lanciers, Kate Valk, Dan Safer, Anne Bogart
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 Native Siberian Leader at the United Nations through Pacific Environment
Pavel Sulyandziga, a native Siberian and member of RAIPON
(Russian Association of Indigenous People of the North), has been in New
York meeting with native representatives from around the world as part of the
Ninth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Pavel is an expert on industrial development--such as logging and oil
drilling--and has been working for years to broker agreements between native
Russians and businesses to protect wild areas and compensate native
communities. He is a long-time partner of San Francisco-based
environmental NGO Pacific Environment, which partners with grassroots
environmental activist organizations around the Pacific Rim.
To learn more about RAIPON and Pacific Environment, visit www.raipon.org and www.pacificenvironment.org
PHOTO: Siberian taiga |
 X-YU Festival at Dixon Placepresented in collaboration with WaxFactory, Dixon Place, and Dance New Amsterdam
May 24th-June 10th
X-YU, the first-ever festival of innovative
performance from the former Yugoslav republics, will present three American
premieres of contemporary dance artists from Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia. From May 26th to 29th, the work of Maja Delak, Matija Ferlin, and Dalija
Aćin will be running in repertory at Dixon Place in New York. All three artists will also be teaching classes at Dance New Amsterdam May 24th through June 3rd.
The X-YU Festival is part of DOWNTOWN:USA,
WaxFactory's new curatorial initiative. The program offers
New York audiences a first glimpse of innovative, multidisciplinary
performers from other countries whose productions have not been seen in the United States. It also aims to create an ongoing exchange with American artists and audiences in
partnership with New York cultural organizations.
PHOTO: from Handle With Great Care, choreographed by Dalija Aćin
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 Wall to Wall Behind the Wall Music Marathon at Symphony Space
Saturday, May 15th at 11 am
Wall to Wall Behind the Wall explores the wealth of great music emanating from Eastern Europe from the end of World War I through the Cold War to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Forty musicians from Armenia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Poland will collaborate with 250 musicians from the New York area to perform for 12 non-stop hours at Symphony Space's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre.
Participating artists include some of New York's finest musicians, as well as visiting ensembles from Eastern Europe, including the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic (Jeffery Meyer, artistic director) in their U.S. debut, and Poland's Silesian String Quartet. Other highlights include the U.S. premiere of Shostakovich war songs, Eastern European jazz, Yiddish songs in praise of Lenin and Stalin, and music protesting the Soviet regime.
For more information about Wall to Wall, visit www.symphonyspace.org.
PHOTO: Poland's renowned Silesian String Quartet
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Roni Horn: Photography Exhibition 
CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART UJAZDOWSKI CASTLE
Warsaw, Poland
April 30th-June 13th, 2010
The exhibition RONI HORN: PHOTOGRAPHY is being featured as part of the Centre for Contemporary Art's American Season this spring. Roni Horn works in a variety of media, including sculpture, photography, installation, drawing, and books. She uses her materials with great sensitivity, and there is an unwavering intensity in her ability to reconcile materials with personal experience. In a time of isolation and fragmentation, Horn's singular and unrelenting focus on an object or an image demands much from viewers, but her work offers ample rewards to those willing to take the time to become part of it.
The following photographic cycles are on view as part of the exhibition: You are the Weather (1994/1995), Cabinet of (2001), Bird (2008) and a.k.a (2008/2009).
Click here for more information on the exhibition.
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 Double Edge Theatre in Residence at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland, for the Month of May
Ensemble members of Double Edge Theatre will be in Wroclaw, Poland, for a month-long residency at
the Grotowski Institute. The Institute's Na Grobli Center
was inaugurated by Peter Brook earlier this year, and Double Edge is the first international guest company to work in this stunning space. The company will perform their productions of Republic of
Dreams and the Disappearance on May 13, 14, and 16; will work intensively with famed Grotowski collaborator and lead actress of the Polish Laboratory Theatre Rena Mirecka May 1 through 5; and will conduct an open training session on May 15.
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 New Russian Drama at the Martin E. Segal Center
Wednesday, May 5th at 6:30 pm
Martin E. Segal Theater
The Segal Center's collaboration with the Center for International
Theatre Development (CITD) continues in this special presentation of
Vyacheslav Durnenkov and Yury Klavdiev, two leading Russian playwrights
of the post-Soviet generation. Durnenkov and Klavdiev have
achieved notoriety in Russia as co-screenwriters of the controversial
Russian television series School. The event will feature a
reading from Klavdiev's I Am The Machine Gunner in English
translation and a discussion with the artists, CITD director Philip Arnoult, and Moscow Times theater critic John Freedman.
Click here for more information on the event.
PHOTO: Yury Klavdiev |
 Stop & Go
An animated film screening curated by Sarah Klein
coming to Croatia in May and June 2010
Stop & Go is an 80-minute program of short videos that highlight the process of stop-motion animation in many of its forms. An international selection of work by visual artists and established filmmakers breathes new life into magazine cutouts, homemade drawings, everyday objects, and even the body itself. The film festival will be touring through Croatia at the end of May and beginning of June, making stops in Zagreb, Rijeka, Bjelovar, and Split.
Click here for festival dates.
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 Center for International Theatre Development Conference:
New Russian Drama
May 7th-9th
Towson University, Baltimore, MD
An invited group of theater professionals and journalists will convene at Towson University's Center for the Arts for a three-day conference on new Russian drama. The events will include five full productions of new Russian plays translated into English, including Natasha's Dream by Yaroslava Pulinovich, the Schooling of Bento Bonchev by Maksym Kurochkin, Tanya-Tanya written by Olga Mukhina and adapted by Kate Moira Ryan, Martial Arts by Yury Klavdiev, and Frozen in Time by Vyacheslav Durnenkov. In addition, conversations with the playwrights, translators, and adaptors will be led by Marc Masterson (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Jim Nicola (New York Theatre Workshop), Christian Parker (Atlantic Theatre Company),and Tom Sellar (Theater magazine.) PHOTO: Tanya-Tanya by Olga Mukhina |
 Complexions Contemporary Ballet:
May Performances in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
May 3rd-13th
Using film, fashion, poetry, theater, improvisation, urban street dance, and American pop culture, Complexions melds diversity with athleticism and precision, performing works from classical to contemporary ballet. Its artistic directors, Dwight Roden and Desmond Richardson, have been hailed by New York magazine as, "Two of the greatest virtuosos ever to emerge from Ailey Land." This month, Complexions Contemporary Ballet is performing in Moscow at the Stanislavski Theater, in St. Petersburg at the Mikhailovsky Theater, in Tallinn at the Nokia Concert Hall, in Riga at the National Opera House, and in Vilnius at the Ukio Banko Teatro Arena.
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 Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin in Budapest
Sunday, May 9th at 7pm
Orient Hall of the Hungarian Railway Museum
American conductor Murry Sidlin's Defiant Requiem: Verdi at
Terezin is based on performances given
of Verdi's Requiem by Jewish prisoners at the Terezin concentration camp
during World War II. It includes survivor testimonials, original Nazi footage,
and parts for orchestra and chorus.
The piece has been performed in the United States and in the Czech Republic at the site of the Terezin camp. The Hungarian premiere of the piece will include members of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the Honvéd Male Choir, and
the Angelica Girls Choir. The show's prosaic interludes will be
performed by celebrated Hungarian artists Mari Törőcsik and Dezső Garas.
PHOTO: Murry Sidlin
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