The Andersen Project

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

2008

$105,000

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Yves Jacques in The Andersen Project. Photo by Em Valette.

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts presented The Andersen Project, a multi-media theater work created by Québec-based artist Robert Lepage. Taking inspiration from stories written by famed Danish author Hans Christian Andersen and anecdotes drawn from his Parisian travels, this one-man performance starring French-Canadian actor Yves Jacques juxtaposed past and present, Romanticism and Modernism, and established and underground art forms.

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Mariam Ghani

Mariam Ghani is a multi-media artist, writer, and filmmaker.

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Fail Better

Nichole Canuso Dance Company engaged in an exploratory project with a team of collaborators to develop a multidisciplinary dance-theater work inspired by Samuel Beckett's play Act Without Words I.

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Heiner Goebbels: Imaginary Stages

The Philadelphia premiere of two works by Heiner Goebbels—an internationally acclaimed German composer and director—merges theater, performative installation, and experimental chamber music.

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Re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia: Marty Pottenger's #PHILLYSAVESEARTH

Through the ongoing Center-funded project re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia, Painted Bride Art Center presents #PHILLYSAVESEARTH by performance artist and theater director Marty Pottenger.

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The Cherry Orchard 

A new interpretation of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, led by Dmitry Krymov, will provide a modern-day means of viewing the 1903 classic through the eyes of a contemporary Russian artist.

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Re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia: Faustin Linyekula's Philly Files

As part of the ongoing Center-funded project re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia, Painted Bride Art Center welcomes Congolese dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula.

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The End of the Way It Was Open Salon

New Paradise Laboratories continues its Center-funded investigation into improvisational structures, audience interactivity, and games of chance through the ongoing project An Investigation of Contingency and the Uses of Data Streams.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Jennifer Higdon Awarded Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, King Britt’s Orchestral collaboration, Plays from Jennifer Kidwell and Bruce Graham in the News, and More.

This month’s Pew Fellows news includes new exhibitions and performances from coast-to-coast, critically-acclaimed plays, and a national award in music composition.

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Free Simulcast Screening of Supper, People on the Move at Independence Mall

A simulcast of the Supper, People on the Move performance at the Icebox, screened outdoors at Independence Mall, free and open to the public.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Lisa Bielawa

Composer and vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in musical composition and a 2017 recipient of the Music Award of the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Madhusmita Bora

Born and raised in Assam, India, dancer Madhusmita Bora is co-artistic director of the Philadelphia-based Sattriya Dance Company.

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Words Adorned: Demonstration of Arabic Vocal Tradition

In conjunction with the Center-funded project Words Adorned, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture will present a free music demonstration with renowned Palestinian vocalist Dalal Abu Amneh and Al-Bustan's Takht Ensemble.

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The Wilma Theater, in partnership with Intercultural Journeys and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of Pennsylvania (HIAS), presents an evening of music from the world premiere of the play Adapt!.

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Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans

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KLANG

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Questions of Practice

Opera Philadelphia Director David Devan on Going Digital and “Inclusive and Equitable Artistic Practice”

Opera Philadelphia Director David Devan spoke with us about the company's shift toward digital programming and their approach toward inclusivity and equity.

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Ogun & the People

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Travis Preston

Travis Preston is dean of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) School of Theater and artistic director of the CalArts Center for New Performance.

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Art and reality, illness and normality: two Ingmar Bergman screenplays are reimagined for the stage by Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam, part of the 2015 Fringe Festival.

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