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 Incredibly Dangerous Astonishing Lucrative and Potentially Completely TRUE Adventures of Barry Seal

Thaddeus Phillips uses his two years on a telenovela as the jumping off point in The Incredibly Dangerous Astonishing Lucrative and Potentially Completely TRUE Adventures of Barry Seal.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Silvana Cardell

Silvana Cardell is a choreographer, dancer and, educator, whose choreographic impulses are defined by her experience as an Argentine expatriate living, working, and raising a family in the United States.

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Grants & Grantees

Telemann 360º

A two-part concert program, with a live talk show hosted by Live from Lincoln Center's Fred Child and an accompanying studio recording, will offer a renewed perspective on the artistic legacy of baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann.

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Person of the Crowd: Classes and Workshops

The Barnes Foundation will host two educational classes on the history of performance art and urban exploration.

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Scenes View 2

BalletX commissioned Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo to create a new dance work that combined sharp movements, dynamic athleticism, and classical ballet vocabulary.

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Heritage/Evolution: The PRISM Quartet with Tim Ries and Miguel Zenón

The PRISM Quartet presents new works composed and performed by Tim Ries and Miguel Zenón.

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The Life of a Just Sole

Kyle “JustSole” Clark presents an autobiographical dance-theater performance blending street dance techniques with spoken word narration and video.

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Grants & Grantees

A House With No Walls

This world premiere by resident playwright and Pew Fellow Thomas Gibbons, developed by InterAct Theatre Company, addressed the legacy of slavery and issues of cultural identity.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Nikki Appino

Nikki Appino is a multidisciplinary theater artist and filmmaker.

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Red-Eye to Havre de Grace at New York Theatre Workshop

Thaddeus Phillips teams up with the Minneapolis-based musical duo Wilhelm Bros. & Co. to create this action-opera about Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious last days.

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Grants & Grantees

Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music

In its Philadelphia premiere, Taylor Mac’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated performance work journeys through 240 years of US history and popular songs, staged in two 12-hour installments.

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The Quiet Circus: River Charrette 1

As part of its year-long project, Headlong presents a series of River Charrettes—performances and participatory conversations—at various sites along Philadelphia's waterfronts.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Curator Lumi Tan on Cross-Disciplinary Curation at The Kitchen

The Kitchen’s Lumi Tan discusses the curatorial opportunities within a cross-disciplinary space.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Diane Ragsdale

Performing arts expert Diane Ragsdale, a frequent panelist and keynote speaker at arts conferences, is pursuing a PhD in cultural economics at Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Maria Bauman

Maria Bauman is the founder and artistic director of MBDance, which has received Harlem Stage Fund for New Work awards through the Jerome Foundation, among other honors. Bauman served on the Center's Performance panel in 2014 and 2015.

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Dulé Hill

Dulé Hill is an actor best known for his work as Charlie Young on The West Wing. In 2017, he appeared in the Center-supported music-theater work, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole, presented by People’s Light.

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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Performances of La Curva

La Curva features Bacán's spare singing, Courvoisier's atonal and dissonant compositions, and Galván's score that employs rhythms from his own footwork.

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In Motion, In Place: Trisha Brown Dance Company in Fairmount Park

Audiences experience Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park in new ways as a series of site-responsive, outdoor performances present the works of pioneering post-modern choreographer Trisha Brown.

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Close Music for Bodies

An immersive, participatory vocal performance, developed from the sounds, stories, and movements of individual bodies, will place audiences amidst performers, creating an intimate experience of group voice.

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News

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Presents Concerts, Discussions, and Master Class Examining the Art Song Form

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society is curating a series of events that illustrate how the art song form remains a powerful vehicle for social exchange.

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