The Partita Project

Lisa Kraus

2006

$10,000

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Lisa Kraus, The Partita Project, 2006. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Choreographer Lisa Kraus developed The Partita Project, a postmodern dance work that responded to the violin partita of Johann Sebastian Bach through movement. Featuring original and improvised violin compositions performed live by musician Diane Monroe, the work drew inspiration from women’s quilting circles by having the audience seated in-the-round. The Partita Project premiered in 2006 at the historic Mount Pleasant Mansion.

Recipients

Lisa Kraus

Performance

Dance

Collaborators & Colleagues

Taylor Mac

Taylor Mac is an award-winning playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director, and producer.

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Event

How Sweet the Sound: Network for New Music Concert with John Harbison

Taking Harbison's Songs American Loves to Sing as inspiration, Philadelphia composers layer jazz and classical traditions to create works that tell America's story with today's voices.

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Questions of Practice

Excerpt from The Sentient Archive: Artist Sarah Crowner on Painting and Dancing

Artist Sarah Crowner questions the idea of a painting as “fixed and static,” and proposes that a painting is “an archive of all the actions and gestures that surround it.”

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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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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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Event

Room 21

A new album-length composition by composer Jace Clayton informed by the artworks of The Barnes Foundation and Albert Barnes' extensive record collection.

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Grants & Grantees

Urban Echo

Leah Stein, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and composer Pauline Oliveros collaborated on a new music and dance work.

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Grants & Grantees

Private Places

jumatatu m. poe's Private Places examined everyday interactions with service providers through the choreography of J-Sette, an underground dance style.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Marie Bardet

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Grants & Grantees

Vespers, Premiere Recording

Piffaro recorded composer Kile Smith's Vespers with The Crossing choir.

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Grants & Grantees

Crossing

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers developed a new contemporary dance work that explores the significance of “crossings.”

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Event

Midway Avenue in New York

Philadelphia choreographer Nichole Canuso presents a solo performance, originally Center-funded, that uses personal reminiscences and universal yearnings to explore the relationship between memory and self.

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Event

That Which Is Fundamental Concerts

Bowerbird presents a multi-concert retrospective of the late African American composer Julius Eastman.

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Event

Romeo Castellucci Film Screening and Discussion with Tom Sellar

This free event includes film excerpts of Romeo Castellucci's theater works, and a discussion with scholar and critic Tom Sellar about Castellucci's approach.

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Event

Making/Breaking the Binary: Suzanne Ciani in Concert

Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson presents a concert by electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.

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Facing Front: Writing Dance

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion lead a master class investigating choreographic and compositional process, performance and philosophies, questioning how a performance can be made and what it might communicate to someone watching.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Rudresh Mahanthappa

Rudresh Mahanthappa is a saxophonist and composer who hybridizes progressive jazz and South Indian classical music.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is the music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the Orchestra Métropolitain in Montreal, as well as honorary conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Iquail Shaheed

Dance Iquail's artistic director, Iquail Shaheed, seeks to create dance projects that tell stories not frequently heard in the performing arts, and to engage with audiences drawn from Mantua, the West Philadelphia neighborhood where he grew up.

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Grants & Grantees

Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits

Acclaimed French choreographer and experimental dancer Boris Charmatz visited Philadelphia for a residency and public presentation of his performance piece for 24 dancers, Levée des conflits (Suspension of conflicts), at Drexel's Mandell Theater, co-presented by FringeArts, in combination with a series of interpretive programs.

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