Jason Moran Commission Project

Philadelphia Museum of Art

2008

$40,000

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Jason Moran.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art commissioned an original composition by jazz pianist Jason Moran, developed in conjunction with the museum's 2008 exhibition Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt. The new composition was performed by the musical group Jason Moran & the Bandwagon as part of the museum's "Art After 5" music programming. Moran also presented a public lecture and performance about his compositional process and its intersection with the visual arts.

Recipients

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Performance

Music

Grants & Grantees

The Musical World of Don Quixote

This music and movement performance will offer audiences a distinctive interpretation of Miguel de Cervantes' four-century-old classic, Don Quixote, combining narrative elements and ballads drawn from the novel, recited in both Spanish and English, and accompanied by monophonic melodies, organ and vihuela works that are reminiscent of the sounds of Golden Age Spain.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Martha McDonald

Martha McDonald is an interdisciplinary artist whose performances and installations feature handcrafted costumes and objects.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Kim Whitener

Kim Whitener is the Producing Director at HERE in New York, where she works in partnership with Artistic Director Kristin Marting to curate and produce HERE's performance programs and activities. She also served as the Center's panel chair in theater in 2013 and as a Performance LOI panelist in 2014 and 2015.

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Event

Perfect Blue

Tiny Dynamite presents a digital theatrical experience co-produced with British theater company Pursued By A Bear.

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ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury: A Conversation with Artist Tania El Khoury at Bryn Mawr College

In advance of the presentation of Embody the Art: Works by Tania El Khoury, Bryn Mawr College will host a conversation with El Khoury on April 9.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Kyle deCamp

Kyle deCamp is a cross-media performance artist whose work investigates the intersections of art, history, space, and individual lives.

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Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni creates work in performance art, sculpture, and photography.

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Grants & Grantees

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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BATCH: An American Bachelor/ette Party Spectacle

Part play, part sporting event, part anthropological study, this physical theater work examined rites of passage.

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Philadelphia Assembled

Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk initiated collaborations that reimagined Philadelphia's changing landscape through a series of installations and events across the city, laying the foundation for an installation that activated the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Perelman Building.

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News

Tiny Dynamite’s US Premiere of Perfect Blue Showcases Two Actors on Two Continents, with One Live Internet Connection, July 14–23

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Pew Fellows News: Tiona McClodden Awarded Tiffany Foundation Grant, Michael Djupstrom Premieres New Work, National Coalition of 100 Black Women Honors Sonia Sanchez

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Event

Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: Part II

Part II of Taylor Mac's performance work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music covers 12 decades from 1896–Present as part of the 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.

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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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Breath Beneath

PRISM Quartet presents a pilot performance for its discovery project Breath Beneath—an investigation of the artistic possibilities that arise at the intersection of saxophone music, technology, and durational visual art.

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Person of the Crowd: Zachary Fabri’s Mourning Stutter

Performance artist Zachary Fabri will present a performance work consisting of a series of walks and performative actions exploring the process of mourning in response to African American murders.

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Philadelphia Freedom Festival: Let Freedom Ring Panel Discussion

Philadelphia's academic and activist communities will reflect on the life and impact of Octavius V. Catto.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Theatre Horizon

Founded in 2005, Theatre Horizon is an organization presenting plays and musicals in Norristown, PA.

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Telemann 360º Concerts

Tempesta di Mare – Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra presents a two-part concert program that offers audiences a renewed perspective on baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann.

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