[HvEXAS] OPEN CALL: seeking voice actors for theater/dance project

 

OPEN CALL for voice actors

EMPAC is seeking three voice actors to participate in the production of the theater/dance project Flat, directed by Belgian-based artist Rodrigo Pardo, which will be presented at EMPAC on Saturday, February 4, 2012 (and will tour internationally after that).

We are looking for one male voice (ideally between 30 to 50 years old) who will be a main character in the story, and two female voices (late twenties to 40s) for smaller yet vital roles. Participation will be compensated.

 
Minimum time commitment required:

- meeting with the director: second week of January 2012 (specific time and date TBD)

- rehearsal and recording: Thursday, January 19 and/or Friday, January 20

Both the meeting and rehearsal/recording will take place at EMPAC.

Rodrigo Pardo's dance/theater project Flat combines storytelling, video projections, and aerial performance. In the narrative, a man wakes up in his apartment feeling strange, not realizing he is upside down. The audience hears his inner monologue via headphones as he discovers his new reality and enters into his dreams; he must either learn how to live anew or try to change the world back to a familiar state. Inspired by the magical realism of J.L. Borges, Flat immerses both the performer and the audience in an intimate situation, shifting our perspective on what constitutes our reality.
 
We are accepting sample voice materials until Thursday, December 22, 2011. Please send your audio or video reel digitally to gaetap@rpi.edu, or via mail to:

Paula Gaetano

EMPAC 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

110 8th Street

Troy, NY  12180

For more information, please contact EMPAC curatorial assistant Paula Gaetano at gaetap@rpi.edu or 518.276.4052.

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[HvEXAS] JACK Quartet | tonight at 8 | EMPAC, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/fall/jack

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PERFORMANCE
JACK Quartet
Friday, December 9, 8 PM
$18 general admission (discounted tickets available)

A string quartet performance in two acts featuring three pieces from the 1960s to the present that play with conventions of music notation and performance, and a haunting 30-minute piece from the 1990s with an uncanny spectral interplay. 

+ Program:

* Earle Brown, String Quartet

* Peter Ablinger, Wachstum und Massenmord

* Alex Mincek, String Quartet No. 3 "lift-tilt-filter-split"

- intermission -

* Horaţiu Rădulescu, String Quartet No. 5 "before the universe was born"

The JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with "explosive virtuosity" (The Boston Globe) and "viscerally exciting performances" (The New York Times). David Patrick Stearns of The Philadelphia Inquirer proclaimed their performance to be "among the most stimulating new-music concerts of my experience," and NPR listed their performance as one of The Best New York Alt-Classical Concerts Of 2010.

Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Kevin McFarland, JACK is focused on commissioning and performing new works, and the quartet has worked closely with composers Helmut Lachenmann and György Kurtág, among others. JACK also offers fresh interpretations of early music, including works by Don Carlo Gesualdo, Guillaume de Machaut, and Josquin des Prez.

+ JACK Quartet site: http://jackquartet.com/

+ video of JACK Quartet performing String Quartet No. 5 "before the universe was born": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKeo79Ldz50

Evelyn's Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues during intermission and after the performance.

Tickets are $18 for general admission, $13 for students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff, and $6 for Rensselaer students (you must provide the appropriate identification for discounted tickets). Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
110 8th Street 
Troy, NY  12180
http://empac.rpi.edu/
Box Office: 518.276.3921

[HvEXAS] TONIGHT! Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire at 7:30 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/fall/eternal/wings

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SCREENING: THE ETERNAL RETURN
Thursday, December 8, 7:30 pm
Wings of Desire

directed by Wim Wenders
$6

Wings of Desire is Wim Wenders' award-winning existential film about angels who silently watch over all of humanity, comforting individuals as they confront the trials of daily life. The film follows the angel Damien (Bruno Ganz) as he falls in love with a trapeze artist and strives to relinquish his immortality to join her on earth. The film is divided temporally between the angels, which exist outside of time, and humanity, which exists within it.

+ Trailer: http://youtu.be/SEOo640zVMQ

+ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/

+ wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Desire

Wim Wenders is one of the leading representatives of new German cinema. Notable films include Lightening Over Water (1980); Wings of Desire (1987), for which he was awarded Best Director at Cannes, the European Film Festival, and German Film Awards; Until the End of the World (1991); Faraway, So Close! (1993); The End of Violence (1997); Buena Vista Social Club (1999); The Million Dollar Hotel (2000); and most recently, the 3-D film Pina (2011).
 
In the 1990s, Wim Wenders became chairman and then president of the European Film Academy. Since 2003, he has been a professor at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg.

The Eternal Return is a collection of films that begins with the idea that time is a lie. Reveling in déjà vu and non-linear timelines, the series is inspired by such varied sources as Nietzsche's notion of the eternal recurrence and the multiverse hypothesis in physics. Each of the films in the series is structured by a central narrative loop and a thematic focus on the incommensurability of the momentary and the eternal.

Evelyn's Café will open at 6:30 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

110 8th Street 

Troy, NY  12180

http://empac.rpi.edu/

Box Office: 518.276.3921

[HvEXAS] Robert Lue, Wings of Desire, and JACK Quartet

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. A still from The Inner Life of the Cell - courtesy of the artist TALK: OBSERVER EFFECTS Robert Lue: Using Art to Express and Advance the Scientific Process Wednesday, December 7, 6 PM FREE Robert Lue, biologist and director of life sciences education at Harvard, will discuss the vital and transformative role that visualizations play in both science research and education. Lue is the founder of BioVisions, a collaborative initiative led by Harvard scientists to improve the beauty and precision of science visualization. BioVisions is responsible for animations such as The Inner Life of the Cell (2006) and Powering the Cell: Mitochondria (2010). Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (1987) SCREENING: THE ETERNAL RETURN Wings of Desire Thursday, December 8, 7:30 PM Tickets Wings of Desire is Wim Wenders' award-winning existential film about angels who silently watch over all of humanity, comforting individuals as they confront the trials of daily life. The film follows the angel Damien (Bruno Ganz) as he falls in love with a trapeze artist and strives to relinquish his immortality to join her on earth. The film is divided temporally between the angels, which exist outside of time, and humanity, which exists within it. Trailer JACK Quartet - photo by Justin Bernhaut PERFORMANCE JACK Quartet Friday, December 9, 8 PM Tickets A string quartet performance in two acts featuring three pieces from the 1960s to the present that play with conventions of music notation and performance, and a haunting 30-minute piece from the 1990s with an uncanny spectral interplay. Featuring compositions by Peter Ablinger, Earle Brown, Alex Mincek, and Horaţiu Rădulescu.          CAMPUS + COMMUNITY CONCERT 2011 Holiday Concert Sun. 12/11, 7:30 PM FREE - registration required Follow EMPAC on FACEBOOK + TWITTER! EMPAC 2011-2012 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions. EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide. Our mailing address is: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2011 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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[HvEXAS] REMINDER! Japanther: The Cake of The 3 Towers | Fri. + Sat. 12/02+03, 8 PM | EMPAC, Troy, NY

Hope you can make it tonight and/or tomorrow night!

+ Preview interview in the Times Union: http://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/japanther-performs-at-empac-hopes-for-a-reaction/19723/

+ Behind-the-scenes videos: http://vimeo.com/empac

+ Behind-the-scenes photos: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150473366389453.390957.65599049452&type=1

Tonight's performance will be broadcast live on WGXC 90.7-FM (Columbia + Greene counties, NY), and will be available soon after on their website: http://wgxc.org/

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http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/fall/quote/japanther

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PERFORMANCE
Japanther: The Cake of The 3 Towers
Friday + Saturday, December 2 + 3, 8 PM
EMPAC, Troy, NY

$18 general admission / $13 students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff / $6 Rensselaer students

 

The three towers are prison, museum, and (housing) project, albeit loosely. Music, video, and performance draw parallel lines between three industrial archetypes. Moving through these structures, the artists utilize fragments of their environment to envision a utopian creative endgame. Meanwhile, an Austrian super villain (Florian Reither) attempts to unite and destroy the dystopian worlds. The Cake of The 3 Towers (TCo3T) is a collaborative project featuring Japanther, Schuyler Maehl, Florian Reither, and Felice Faison commissioned for Quote Unquote: Experiments in Time-Based Text, an interdisciplinary series presenting work by artists that use an existing text as a departure point for installation, film, and performance.

Japanther is an art project established circa 2001 by Ian Vanek and Matt Reilly in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to wild interactive live showings in unconventional settings, the duo has collaborated with Dan Graham, Gelitin, Eileen Myles, ninjasonik, and Spank Rock, among others. Japanther was featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial as part of Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty and the 2011 Venice Biennial as part of Gelitin's Some Like It Hot performance. The duo has made a name for themselves through unique performance situations including shows with synchronized swimmers, oversized puppets, from out of the back of a moving truck, alongside giant dinosaurs, and with BMXers flying off the walls of the Whitney sculpture garden. http://japanther.com/

Evelyn's Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues after the performances. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website: http://empac.rpi.edu/. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.