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.

Collaborators & Colleagues

Liz Munsell

Liz Munsell is assistant curator of contemporary art and special initiatives at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Faith Project/The Door Performances

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Radio Silence

Mural Arts Philadelphia presents a large-scale performance inspired by the late Iraqi broadcaster Bahjat Abdulwahed—dubbed the “Walter Cronkite of Baghdad.”

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Available Light

Experience this monumental and deeply-realized artistic encounter of dance, light, sound, and architecture on a scale not seen since its premiere 30 years ago.

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Departure and Discovery: Waywardness

The work of Schumann, Gesualdo, Brahms, and Mozart will be performed to evoke themes of fragility, unconventionality, and playfulness explored by the composers late in their careers.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Nichole Canuso

Canuso’s choreographic practice spans genres and experiments with the participation of audience bodies, personal narratives, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”

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The Quiet Circus: Reflection Event 3

Headlong presents a reflection event, part of a series of happenings occurring alongside the project’s ritual performance practice.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Tiona McClodden Receives Keith Haring Fellowship, Justin Cronin’s The Passage Adapted Into TV Series, Heidi Saman Selected for International Emerging Film Talent Association Initiative, and More

This month’s Pew Fellows news includes fellowships, grants, and honors, a new television series, and critically-acclaimed performances and exhibitions.

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Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits Performances

Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design presents acclaimed French choreographer Boris Charmatz's experimental performance piece Levée des conflits, as part of the 2016 Fringe Festival.

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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Performances of Cómplices

The all-female ensemble of Pasión y Arte will explore conflicting definitions of the 21st-century woman in its first outside commissioned work, choreographed by Rosario Toledo.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Vijayalakshmi

Vijayalakshmi is a classical Indian dancer and a renowned expert in the mohiniyattam dance form.

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Jay Sanders

Jay Sanders is executive director and chief curator of the New York-based organization Artists Space.

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Grants & Grantees

Radio Silence

Internationally noted artist Michael Rakowitz wove the stories of local Iraq War veterans and Iraqi refugees, cultural traditions, music, and found sound into a participatory performance at Independence Mall, combined with a 10-episode radio program for a national audience, providing an intimate, multifaceted, and sustained portrait of Iraq.

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Questions of Practice

Excerpt from The Sentient Archive: Artist Sarah Crowner on Painting and Dancing

Artist Sarah Crowner questions the idea of a painting as “fixed and static,” and proposes that a painting is “an archive of all the actions and gestures that surround it.”

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Harris Eisenstadt

Harris Eisenstadt is a drummer, composer, and bandleader who has studied with respected names in jazz and improvised music, as well as in West African and Cuban drumming.

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Grants & Grantees

Philadelphia Real Book Concerts - New Music in Jazz and Blues

Legendary Philadelphia jazz musicians—including guitarists Pat Martino and Monnette Sudler, pianist Dave Burrell, and saxophonist Jimmy Heath—will headline a four-part concert series inspired by the first published collection of compositions by the city's jazz artists.

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Dancing Diplomats

A public screening for *Dancing Diplomats* follows choreographer Taras Lewyckyj's work with Ukrainian artist Anatoly Kryvochyzha.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Judy Hussie-Taylor

Judy Hussie-Taylor has served as Executive Director of Danspace Project, a New York City venue for independent experimental choreographers, since 2008. Hussie-Taylor served as a Pew Fellowships panelist in 2012 and 2013, a Performance LOI panelist in 2014, and as the Performance panel chair in 2015.

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Grants & Grantees

Color Theory

PRISM commissioned new works by Guggenheim Fellow Steven Mackey and Berlin prize recipient Ken Ueno, which paired the saxophone with a wide range of percussion instruments, in order to investigate "musical color."

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Elizabeth Huston

Elizabeth Huston is a harpist, educator, and producer of contemporary performance events.

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