The Cinematic Cello

2006

$4,700

Chamber Music Now (CMN) presented The Cinematic Cello, a multimedia concert featuring cellist Ovidiu Marinescu alongside video and electronic accompaniment. CMN commissioned four world-premiere works for the production, pairing local composers and filmmakers to create collaborative compositions inspired by Philadelphia. Collaborators included composers Richard Belcastro, Andrea Clearfield, David Ludwig, and Paul Geissinger, and filmmakers Deron Albright, Ed Feldman, and Can Yegen.

Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Composer Andrea Clearfield

Composer and Pew Fellow Andrea Clearfield on what inspired her to dedicate her first opera to the life of an 11th-century Tibetan yogi, the influence of composer Margaret Garwood on her practice, and more.

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Departure and Discovery: Farewell

Focusing on the work of Bach, Beethoven, and Britten, Farewell explores how each composer addresses themes of departures.

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Endless Shout: taisha paggett’s counts orchestrate, a meadow (or weekly practice with breath)

The ICA presents choreographer and performance artist taisha paggett’s counts orchestrate, a meadow (or weekly practice with breath).

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¡Bienvenidos Blancos! Or Welcome White People at Swarthmore College

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Ernesto Pujol on Pursuing Aesthetics

Social choreographer Ernesto Pujol on the transcendent power of aesthetics, once it is untangled from the “contaminated” notion of beauty.

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Veterans on Stage with Paula Vogel

Veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam share their writings, created with Paula Vogel during the development process of Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq.

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Grants & Grantees

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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Sight/Sound/Symphony: Beethoven’s Seventh with visuals by Refik Anadol

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News

Photos: Artists Activate In Terms of Performance Event at BAM

On April 4, we celebrated In Terms of Performance—the exhibition at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) that reimagines our web-based keywords anthology—presented in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley and BAM.

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The Dance Apocalypse at New York Live Arts

Gabrielle Revlock shares a solo version of her recent duet with Nicole Bindler, about two female artists in a spectacle-driven world.

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Coming to a Stage Near You: Performances from The Wilma Theater, Kyle “JustSole” Clark, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and More

A number of Center-funded performances take the stage this spring.

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Endless Shout: Raúl de Nieves

As part of the ICA's ongoing interdisciplinary project Endless Shout, multimedia artist and designer Raúl de Nieves presents a series of performances.

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A Billion Nights on Earth at Harbourfront Centre

Thaddeus Phillips’ Center-supported visual theater work A Billion Nights on Earth plays at Harbourfront Centre’s international children’s festival in Toronto.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Anna Deavere Smith

Tony-nominated actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith is founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, a center for artistic excellence addressing social change.

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Pew Fellows News: Kate Watson-Wallace Premieres Work at LA’s REDCAT, Tayarisha Poe’s Film to be Adapted by Amazon Studios, Benjamin Volta’s Mural Honored by Americans for the Arts

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer

A concert of new klezmer compositions, written and performed by three generations of women, brings contemporary meaning to a traditional, Eastern European, Jewish folk music form.

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In-Progress Showing of A Period of Animate Existence

Pig Iron Theatre Company presents an in-progress showing of its symphonic theater work A Period of Animate Existence, ahead of its September 2017 premiere.

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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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Robert Mealy

Robert Mealy is director of the Historical Performance Program at The Juilliard School, a professor at the Yale School of Music, orchestra director for the Boston Early Music Festival, and co-director of the 17th-century ensemble Quicksilver.

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RoseAnne Spradlin

RoseAnne Spradlin is a New York City-based choreographer whose work explores body consciousness and innovation of structural forms in contemporary dance.

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