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.

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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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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Grants & Grantees

Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project

The experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans will be illuminated in this multimedia work created by MacArthur Fellow and jazz pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and poet/librettist Mike Ladd, in combination with a publication of local veterans' writings produced through a partnership with the veteran-focused arts organization Warrior Writers.

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Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental at The Kitchen

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Pew Fellows News: Kate Watson-Wallace Premieres Work at LA’s REDCAT, Tayarisha Poe’s Film to be Adapted by Amazon Studios, Benjamin Volta’s Mural Honored by Americans for the Arts

Catch up on this month’s Pew Fellows news, including the latest recognition, new works, and press coverage.

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Person of the Crowd: Wilmer Wilson IV’s Channel

Interdisciplinary artist Wilmer Wilson IV will present his performance and sculpture work Channel.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann is a curator and has been a guest contributor to Center publications.

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

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Coming to a Stage Near You: Performances from The Wilma Theater, Kyle “JustSole” Clark, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and More

A number of Center-funded performances take the stage this spring.

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Grants & Grantees

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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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Bill T. Jones

Bill T. Jones is an artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer, as well as the founder of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and executive artistic director New York Live Arts.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Theater Artist Taylor Mac on Duration and Ritual in Performance

Taylor Mac discusses the ways in which durational and participatory theater can break down an audience’s defenses.

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Trisha Brown In the New Body: Proscenium Works, 1979–2011

Bryn Mawr College presents a retrospective of selected dances by Trisha Brown, an internationally known leader of post-modernism and an enduring renegade whose work has rarely been seen in Philadelphia.

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WHERE IS MY B-O-D-Y 

Accomplished dance artists Gus Solomons jr and Pallabi Chakravorty will collaborate with choreographer Kun-Yang Lin in a discovery process to develop new movement methods for artists who are navigating lives as mature creators with physical limitations.

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Sun & Sea Performances

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Heiner Goebbels: Songs of Wars I Have Seen

FringeArts presents Songs of Wars I Have Seen as part of its Center-supported project Heiner Goebbels: Imaginary Stages.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Matthew Dirst

Matthew Dirst is a conductor, harpsichordist, organist, and music pedagogue. He is founder and artistic director of Ars Lyrica Houston.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Performing Arts Producer Jenny Gersten on Art as an “Agent of Hope”

Jenny Gersten discusses the approach to programming the Center for Performing Arts at the World Trade Center.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: From Strayhorn to Cecil: Jazz Innovation in America

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with "From Strayhorn to Cecil: Jazz Innovation in America," featuring David Hajdu, John Szwed, and 2010 Pew Fellow Orrin Evans.

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