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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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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Grants & Grantees

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

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Susan Stockton

Susan Stockton recently retired as the president of the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, a position she held since September of 2003. She is currently studying creative writing at Oxford University. Stockton served as a 2015 Performance LOI panelist.

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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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Susan Rethorst and Group Motion Event

In perceiving the "just this"-ness, Group Motion Dance Company shares a preview of a new work by choreographer Susan Rethorst.

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Faith Project

A new dance work contemplates the relationship between religious practice and contemporary dance, taking inspiration from exchanges with an interfaith group of community participants.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Michael Rohd

Michael Rohd is founding artistic director of Sojourn Theatre, an ensemble-based company in Portland, Oregon that explores the intersection of theater with democracy.

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Melancholy, A Comedy

Sarah Felder's solo performance piece combined comedy, juggling, and multi-media projections to address societal discomfort around mental illness.

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The Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland

Composer, improviser, and media artist Mike Bullock will join forces with Swedish composers and conceptual artists Leif Elggren, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, and Kent Tankred, and Philadelphia musicians such as Ian Fraser and Bhob Rainey, for a program of electronic music, performance, and installations, expanding Philadelphia's connection to the international experimental music scene.

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Seven Responses

The Crossing will commission seven of the world's foremost composers to create new works, and will be joined in performance by early music ensemble Quicksilver Baroque and the International Contemporary Ensemble.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Joseph Klein

Joseph Klein is distinguished professor of composition studies in the College of Music at the University of North Texas, where he has served as chair of composition studies since 1999

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Opera Director Yuval Sharon on Modern Opera Techniques

Opera director Yuval Sharon explains how to engage a modern audience.

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Will Rawls

Will Rawls is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer, who works in dance, sound, and speech.

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Clone of Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul: St. Thomas Gospel Choir

In conjunction with its Center-supported project Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul, WXPN presents the St. Thomas Gospel Choir in concert at the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas.

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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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The Emperor Jones

FringeArts presented the Wooster Group's production of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones during the 2007 Fringe Festival.

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Free Simulcast Screening of Supper, People on the Move at Independence Mall

A simulcast of the Supper, People on the Move performance at the Icebox, screened outdoors at Independence Mall, free and open to the public.

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Grounds That Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking): Processional Series

Choreographer Reggie Wilson curates performances by Philadelphia-based artists at three Society Hill religious sites: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church, and Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul: Closing Musical Celebration

WXPN presents a closing musical celebration and panel discussion for the Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul.

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