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January 2015    

 

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Like us on Facebook NWSA ONE-PERSON SHOWS CONTINUE TODAY

Seven BFA candidates from NWSA college theater program will continue the One-Person Shows presentations as we begin the year, led by David Kwiat, coordinator of the project at NWSA.

 

Bill D:  

  1. Michelle Hernandez: "Girl, Running." One chance and Mia took it. What does she do with it now though? Go back or go where?
  2. Gloria Cardona: "Doubts of Wonder." The world is not ready for a female superhero...neither is Diana.
  3. Danny Cruz: "Would I Lie To You?" How has that 'Change You Can Believe In' worked for you?

Bill C:  

  1. Selena Castellon: "Runaway Thoughts." Melody will you have this man to be your wedded husband, to live together in the holy bonds of matrimony?...Miss Melody?...Melody?
  2. Mark Guardamino: "This is Your Life Andrew Cunanan." Andrew Cunanan murdered fashion icon Gianni Versace. There are always two sides to every story - then, there's Andrew's.
  3. Krystel Mills: "A Cinderella Story?" Once Upon a....ah, f^@#*k it.
  4. Christopher Ferrer: "They Came From Above!" On October 30th, 1938 the radio announced the end of the world...and Eric was listening.
January 9
Bill D: 5:00 PM
Bill C: 8:00 PM

Louise O. Gerrits Theater

25 NE 2 Street, 8 Floor, Miami

Free and open to the public

Information at 305-237-3541
 

 

 

 
Like us on Facebook INNOVATIVE NWSA FACULTY CONCERT 

NWSA's Faculty Concert Series continues on Tuesday with a selection of new compositions by NWSA faculty artists Fred DeSena, Susan Epstein Garcia and Lajos Zeke, as well as by the illustrious German composer Johannes Brahms.

 

The pieces will feature from two to nine players on original works and in styles ranging from classical and jazz, to new-age technology, including a concerto for laptops. Composed by Epstein Garcia, I am Sitting in ANOTHER Room for Laptop Orchestra of 7 is a work for a laptop orchestra of seven performers. "Named after Alvin Lucier's famous tape piece, I am Sitting in a Room, in which Lucier recorded and re-recorded the playback of those spoken words to explore how ambient noise changed the recording, my goal was to create a different room-an outdoor space such as a Japanese or Tibetan Garden," explained Epstein Garcia. "Previously heard sounds return as a palindrome passed to other performers, who are free to manipulate delay, feedback, and loop speed, while performers follow certain directions provided in a graphic score, rendering the piece different each time it is performed."

 

The faculty will also perform favorites by Brahms, including Sonata for Viola and Piano in Eb Major (Richard Fleischman & Ciro Fodere) and Sonatensatz - Scherzo (Daniel Andai & Ciro Fodere) - the 3rd movement of a compilation of 3 different composers who each composed different movements to the work. This is the surviving movement that is still performed today.

 

January 13; 7:00 PM

First Presbyterian Church of Miami

609 Brickell Avenue, downtown Miami 
Free and open to the public

Information at 305-237-7855

 

 

 

 

 
Like us on Facebook MAKE ART WORK (MAW) SERIES OFFERS ITS FIRST LECTURE IN SPANISH
Make Art Work welcomes 2015 with its first lecture in Spanish. Led by Dr. Adriana Herrera, recognized art critic, writer and curator alongside Willy Castellanos - prominent Cuban art historian, curator and artist, the dynamic conversation will explore curatorial opportunities in Miami, offering students and faculty invaluable testimony about their own professional journey and how they have utilized their media knowledge and institutional alliances to establish themselves in the arts community.
 

Construyendo visiones curatoriales en Miami: alianzas y estrategias (Building curatorial visions in Miami: alliances and strategies) will be presented in Spanish and it is open to all NWSA and MDC students, faculty and the general public, free of charge.

 

The Make Art Work lecture will conclude at the Opening Reception of Benjamin Ca�as: A Selection of Works from the NWSA Permanent Collection, where the audience will have an opportunity to continue the dialogue with Herrera and Castellanos, one-on-one, while enjoying the exhibition.  

 

Among Benjamin Ca�as' most prominent works - on view - is El Baile de las Mu�ecas (The Dance of the Dolls). Painted in 1974, Ca�as illustrates what Mexican critic Mario Garc�a said in 2000: "If you can explain it, then it's not magical realism." Ca�as' canvas depicts a group of grotesque figures - including a torso with three heads that levitates in space - inhabiting a nightmarish vision whose cryptic message remains unresolved. Other pieces in the exhibition include Marinero, 1982 and Im�genes del Popol-Vuh, 1974. The opening reception is also free and open to the public.

 

MAKE ART WORK LECTURE 

January 29; 4:30 PM

NWSA Dance Studio B 

25 NE 2nd Street, 8th Floor, downtown Miami

Free and open to the public

Information at 305-237-3649

 

OPENING RECEPTION - BENJAMIN CA�AS

January 29; 5:30 PM

New World Gallery 

25 NE 2nd Street, Lobby, downtown Miami

Free and open to the public
Information at 305-237-3649


 

 

 
Like us on Facebook TWO EVENINGS WITH GLENN DICTEROW

Make Art Work continues its dialogue series with the distinguished violinist Glenn Dicterow, former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. The illustrious musician will follow the conversation, directed at the music students of New World School of the Arts, with a Master Class. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.

  

The following day, on Wednesday, February 11, Glenn Dicterow will share the stage with the NWSA Symphony Orchestra during the school's much-anticipated annual symphony concert. The Orchestra, under the baton of Alfred Gershfeld, will present Rienzi Overture by Richard Wagner and Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, while Glenn Dicterow will perform Samuel Barber's beloved Violin Concerto commissioned in 1939 for a fellow Curtis graduate.       

 

 

Glenn Dicterow has established himself worldwide as one of the most prominent American concert artists of his generation. Having appeared as soloist with orchestras, recitalist and chamber musician from coast to coast, he retired as concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic at the end of the 2014 season having held that title for 34 years. He is the longest serving concertmaster in the orchestra's history. Dicterow has performed with numerous orchestra worldwide, is a winner of top international competitions, and can be heard in the violin solos of the film scores for The Turning Point, The Untouchables, Altered States, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and Interview with the Vampire, among others. He serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, the Music Academy of the West, and became the first to hold the Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music.

 

MAKE ART WORK LECTURE / MASTER CLASS 

February 10; 7:00 PM

MDC Wolfson Campus Auditorium

300 NE 2nd Avenue - Building #1, downtown Miami

Free and open to the public

Information at 305-237-3539

 

NWSA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH GLENN DICTEROW

February 11; 7:30 PM

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts - Knight Concert Hall

1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami

General admission $20 / students and seniors $10

Information at 305-237-7855

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Like us on Facebook NWSA JAZZ QUINTET TRAVELS TO SAN DIEGO
Under the direction of NWSA Faculty member Jim Gasior, the New World School of the Arts Jazz Quintet was selected to perform in the nationally recognized Jazz Education Network Conference in San Diego, California this month. This coveted invitation offers the NWSA Jazz Quintet an opportunity to join a number of other schools from around the country, to participate in numerous performances, lectures and seminars by leading artists and educators. The ensemble will feature original compositions by NWSA students in addition to performing with GRAMMY Award winning pianist and composer, John Beasley.

 

 

 

 
 
Like us on Facebook NWSA ALUMNA PREMIERES COLLABORATIVE WORK

Charise Castro Smith, an actor-playwright who graduated from the New World School of the Arts high school theater program is among four collaborators for the upcoming bluegrass "lively theatrical album" to premiere during the 39th Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville in early March.  

 

Castro, whose play-writing credits include Feathers and Teeth (The Goodman Theatre's New Stages), Boomcracklefly (Miracle Theatre Group), The Hunchback of Seville (Brown Trinity Playwrights Rep/Washington Ensemble Theatre), and Estrella Cruz [The Junkyard Queen] (Ars Nova's ANT Fest/Yale Cabaret), also performed as an actor in fellow grad Tarell Alvin McCraney's set-in-Haiti version of Antony and Cleopatra, in her hometown of Miami. She has also acted in Tartuffe (Westport Country Playhouse), An Enemy of the People (Baltimore Center Stage), The Good Wife, and Unforgettable (CBS).

 

Like McCraney, Charise earned her master of fine arts degree from the Yale School of Drama and was commissioned by the theater to help create the piece for the acting apprentice company.

 

 

 

 
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