Fresh Ink, 2008-09 Season

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

2008

$70,000

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts received Center support for the sixth season of Fresh Ink, a concert series highlighting the work of contemporary composers and performing artists. The season featured Grammy-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds with a world-premiere performance by Jason Moran; Bang on a Can All-Stars with special guest drummer Glenn Kotche from Wilco; and the Philadelphia debut of 20-member band Alarm Will Sound with a program featuring Berio, The Beatles, Aphex Twin, and David Lang.

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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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Endless Shout Closing Party with Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents a closing party for its multidisciplinary project Endless Shout featuring a performance by the musical group Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is the music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the Orchestra Métropolitain in Montreal, as well as honorary conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

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The Quiet Circus: River Charrette 4

Headlong presents the fourth and final performance in its series of River Charrettes, exploring Philadelphia’s watershed and urban expansion

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Ars Nova Workshop

Ars Nova Workshop, a free jazz and experimental music presenter, has programmed nearly 700 events since 2000, often in atypical settings.

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Philadelphia Assembled Exhibition

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of participatory sites created through the large-scale, multi-part project, Philadelphia Assembled.

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Philadelphia Assembled Discussions and Workshops

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a series of discussions and workshops addressing social and community issues.

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Center’s Latest Book, The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory, Now in Print

The Center’s latest publication, The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory, is available June 26, 2018.

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Departure and Discovery: The Voice of a Visionary

The Voice of a Visionary explores the profound work of Schubert in his last year, featuring Piano Sonata in A Major and Schwanengesang.

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Zydeco Crossroads Presents Rockin' Dopsie Jr. and Marcus Ardoin

WXPN continues their Zydeco Crossroads project with this free concert featuring two prominent Zydeco musicians.

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Grants & Grantees

Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy

Cultural events across the region mark Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday with exhibitions, a tribute performance by singer-songwriter and poet Patti Smith, and four newly commissioned works by artists Carolyn Healy and John Phillips, The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Homer Jackson, and Spencer Finch.

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The Four Seasons Restaurant

Director Romeo Castellucci's work returns to Philadelphia with The Four Seasons Restaurant, which uses the infamous unfulfilled Mark Rothko commission as a jumping-off point to explore the impact of absence on the human psyche.

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Grants & Grantees

Private Places

jumatatu m. poe's Private Places examined everyday interactions with service providers through the choreography of J-Sette, an underground dance style.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Poet Ursula Rucker

Interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist Ursula Rucker spoke to us about the influences that shaped the trajectory of her career, from crucial early advice to collaborating across disciplines.

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Person of the Crowd Symposium: Flânerie and the Politics of Public Space

The Barnes Foundation presents a day-long symposium on the history of flânerie and the contemporary race and gender politics enmeshed in the act of walking.

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On Stage This Spring: Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Frank Zappa’s genre-defying The Yellow Shark, John Guare’s Lydie Breeze Cycle Marathon, and More

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Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Nichole Canuso

Choreographer and performer Nichole Canuso on improvisation, audience participation, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Meiyin Wang

Meiyin Wang is the associate artistic producer of The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival and Symposium in New York, which presents new and cutting-edge theatrical work from the U.S. and abroad.

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Rebecca Taichman

Rebecca Taichman is an Obie Award-winning theater director, whose work has been presented at theaters across the country, including American Repertory Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, The Old Globe, and ACT.

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Grants & Grantees

Tar

Choreographers Charles O. Anderson and Vincent Sekwati Koko Mantsoe developed a new dance work that reinterprets southern folklore.

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