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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Blood Moon: Let Me Trompe Your L’oeil

As part of The Fabric Workshop and Museum's Blood Moon project, museum co-curator Alex Unkovic leads a tour of multidisciplinary artists Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley's installation with a focus on the artists' use of the trompe l'oeil technique.

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Grants & Grantees

Our Norristown

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The Wilma Theater

The Wilma Theater creates living, adventurous art through bold and ambitious design choices.

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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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Civilian/Warrior

Multimedia artist Tobin Rothlein created an interdisciplinary work combining dance, documentary film, and multi-screen video projections to address modern war culture.

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Lydie Breeze Trilogy

The world premiere of Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy, an epic trilogy about an American family, set between the Civil War and the birth of 20th-century industrialism, will be performed in a consecutive cycle for the first time.

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The Quiet Circus: River Charrette 2

Headlong's second River Charrette will take place at RAIR and will address sustainability issues through art and performance.

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The Body Lautrec

Independent theater artists Mary Tuomanen and Aaron Cromie collaborate on their first full-length theatrical work, The Body Lautrec, to explore the life of French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

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Chopin's Voice: Chopin's Music in Performance

This interactive panel discussion, part of Swarthmore's Chopin Without Music, reveals new possibilities for contemporary theater and classical music to intersect in performance.

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As Far As My Fingertips Take Me from ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury

Bryn Mawr College presents As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, part of ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury.

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The Life of a Just Sole

Bringing together some of hip-hop's most influential pioneers, Clark will present what he calls his "physical autobiography" in a dance-theater performance blending street dance techniques with spoken word narration and video.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Honors for Musicians Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Diane Monroe, Bobby Zankel; Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck Collaborate on Exhibition and Book; and More

The summer months haven’t slowed down for our Pew Fellows who are busy with exhibitions, publications, murals, performances, and more. Catch up with their newest projects below.

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Steppes

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble presented a home season program featuring Ukrainian costumes and live music by violinist Vasyl Popadiuk.

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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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ear-whispered: Reflections on Syria

Bryn Mawr College will host “Reflections on Syria,” a conversation in partnership with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture and Slought.

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After the Rehearsal / Persona

Art and reality, illness and normality: two Ingmar Bergman screenplays are reimagined for the stage by Ivo van Hove and Toneelgroep Amsterdam, part of the 2015 Fringe Festival.

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The Crossing presents Seven Responses

The Crossing commissions 15-minute musical pieces by seven leading composers, created in response to 17th-century composer Dieterich Buxtehude's Jesu Membra Nostri, a series of seven German Baroque cantatas.

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Invention for Destruction/The Syphilis of Sisyphus

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Philadelphia Real Book Concerts - New Music in Jazz and Blues

Legendary Philadelphia jazz musicians—including guitarists Pat Martino and Monnette Sudler, pianist Dave Burrell, and saxophonist Jimmy Heath—will headline a four-part concert series inspired by the first published collection of compositions by the city's jazz artists.

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Kanaval Ball

WXPN presents Kanaval Ball, a free event with performances by Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ram, and Boukman Eksperyans and featuring festive Haitian Carnival and New Orleans Mardi Gras décor, food, and beverages.

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