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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Tell Me What I Can Do from ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury

Bryn Mawr College presents Tell Me What I Can Do, part of ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury.

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Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia's Big Sing

The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia opens its 141st season on Sunday, October 26 with its biggest BIG SING ever, laying the foundation for the North American premiere of the Bach-Mendelssohn St. Matthew Passion.

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Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental at The Kitchen

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Body of Text

Choreographer Nichole Canuso and her ensemble will engage in an interdisciplinary discovery process with an oral historian, a writer, and a vocal teacher to develop new performance techniques that integrate movement, voice, and personal history.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Raphael Xavier’s Hip-Hop Practice in Visual Art Exhibition, James Ijames’ ‘Kill Move Paradise’ at The Wilma Theater, and Leah Stein’s Site-Specific Dance at Woodmere Art Museum

This month, Pew Fellows offer premiere performances and exhibitions with works in photography, film, theater, dance, and music.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Susan Foster

Dr. Susan Leigh Foster is a choreographer, dancer, and scholar. Her "danced lectures" became a launching point for the third iteration of the Center's danceworkbook series.

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Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul: McCrary Sisters

In conjunction with its Center-supported project Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul, WXPN presents the McCrary Sisters in concert at World Café Live.

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Departure and Discovery: New Directions at the Apex of Creativity

A trio of concerts from the world-acclaimed pianist Jonathan Biss, tenor Mark Padmore, violist Hsin-Yun Huang, and the Brentano String Quartet provided new insights on the forms of expression found in the late stages of the lives of nine great composers, including Bach, Kurtág, Mozart, and Schubert.

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Leah Stein

Stein’s choreographic practice integrates improvisational methods in site-specific works that illuminate the connections among the body, sound, location, and audience.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Nick Stuccio

Nick Stuccio is President and Producing Director at FringeArts, and is the co-founder of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

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Questions of Practice

25 Years of Pew Fellowships in the Arts: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Paula Marincola and Melissa Franklin reflect on a quarter-century of direct support to artists—how we got started, how the program has evolved, and what we've learned.

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In Search of Eastman

The possibilities of presenting a contemporary artist's work posthumously will be explored in this discovery project dedicated to Julius Eastman, an African American composer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s, but who died at 49, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings.

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NY Phil Biennial Presents Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields with the Bang on a Can All-Stars

Originally commissioned by Mendelssohn Club, for world premiere performances in Philadelphia in April 2014, the Bang on a Can All-Stars will perform Wolfe's new work as part of the upcoming NY Phil Biennial.

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*In Terms of Performance*, A Keywords Anthology

In Terms of Performance provokes dialogue, debate, and discovery in an anthology of keywords designed to generate shared literacies.

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Pig Iron: I Promised Myself to Live Faster

Conceived by Co-Artistic Director Dito van Reigersberg and directed by Dan Rothenberg, this new work builds on Pig Iron's longtime fascination with characters that live on the margins of society.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Johannes Goebel

Johannes Goebel joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002 as the founding director of the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.

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Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental

In conjunction with In Search of Eastman, exploring the possibilities associated with presenting the work of Julius Eastman (1940–90), Bowerbird presents a weekend of free events introducing the life and work of the composer.

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A Conversation with Warrior Writers

Following a performance of Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq, there will be a post-show conversation with representatives of nonprofit organization Warrior Writers.

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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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