The Hollenbeck Commission

Painted Bride Art Center

2008

$50,000

Painted Bride Art Center commissioned composer, bandleader, and jazz drummer John Hollenbeck to create and perform a new work with his Large Ensemble. Hollenbeck also participated in a two-week residency program, during which he produced and performed a new work in collaboration with 10 Philadelphia musicians.

A virtuosic percussionist with a daring approach to composition, Hollenbeck is a Grammy-nominated artist best known for his work with the big band group the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble and the avant-garde jazz ensemble The Claudia Quintet.

Collaborators & Colleagues

Harris Eisenstadt

Harris Eisenstadt is a drummer, composer, and bandleader who has studied with respected names in jazz and improvised music, as well as in West African and Cuban drumming.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Elevator Repair Service’s John Collins on Process in Theater-Making

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Re-Place-ing Philadelphia

Built on a foundation of public dialogue and interaction, the Re-Place-ing Philadelphia project used art as a lens for viewing the city and its history.

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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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Yuval Sharon

Yuval Sharon is founder (in 2010) and artistic director of The Industry, a Los Angeles-based production company.

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Rinde Eckert

Rinde Eckert is a writer, composer, librettist, musician, singer, actor, and director whose theater, musical theater, and dance theater pieces have been performed throughout the US and abroad.

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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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Performance Lecture by Malavika Sarukkai at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Bhratanatyam dancer and choreographer Malavika Sarukkai will present a performance lecture that ties the language of Indian classical dance to its interpretation in the visual arts.

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Sruti Presents the Philadelphia Premiere Screening of The Unseen Sequence

"The Unseen Sequence – Exploring Bharatanatyam Through the Art of Malavika Sarukkai* offers a glimpse into the talent and journey of one of India's leading choreographers and dancers.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: Fred Hersch Trio

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with the Fred Hersch Trio.

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ARC

An evening-length performance suite brings together the drumming traditions of tabla from North India and taiko from Japan, with contemporary dance and Japanese butoh.

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Odean Pope: Sounds of the Circle at The Barnes

Pew Fellow and pioneering jazz saxophonist Odean Pope previews selections from Sounds of the Circle at the Barnes.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

William Parker

William Parker is a leading figure in the New York creative jazz scene. Renowned as a composer, bassist, and multi-instrumentalist, he is also an educator and author.

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Superterranean

The world premiere of a design-driven theater work, created in collaboration with MacArthur Fellow and Tony Award-winner Mimi Lien, considers how underground architecture, built environments, and hidden networks influence human behavior.

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Jay Sanders

Jay Sanders is executive director and chief curator of the New York-based organization Artists Space.

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Facing Front: The Duets of Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion

Drozdowski, a curator of performance, will host European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career.

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In Terms of Performance at BAM

The online keywords anthology In Terms of Performance is reimagined as an installation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), on view March 6 through May 8.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Maria Hassabi on Dancing in Museum Spaces

Choreographer Maria Hassabi on how performance work changes from a theater to a museum setting.

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Philadelphia Assembled Film Screening

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a film screening of Zein Nakhoda’s Grounded While Walls Fall.

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Supper, People on the Move

Supper, People on the Move, a large-scale performance by choreographer Silvana Cardell, inspired and informed by the immigration process, will premiere in June 2015.

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