The Persians

People's Light

2008

$110,000

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Melanye Finister in The Persians. Photo by Mark Garvin.

People's Light produced the Philadelphia premiere of The Persians, Ellen McLaughlin's adaptation of the ancient Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, with original music by sound designer Daniel Kluger. A tale of war and national grief, this production reinterprets the classic play that tells the story of the Athenian defeat of the powerful Persian Empire in 480 BC.

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People's Light

Performance

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Comédie et Tragédie:

Tempesta di Mare performs two of its orchestral rediscoveries from the French high baroque: Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Fêtes de Polymnie, and Jean-Marie Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus.

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Grants & Grantees

The Andersen Project

Robert Lepage's multi-media theater work was inspired by stories written by famed Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Toni Shapiro-Phim

Toni Shapiro-Phim is a cultural anthropologist with a specialization in the arts of Southeast Asia.

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News

Two Center-Funded Publications from Fabric Workshop Document Work of Ann Hamilton, Janine Antoni, Anna Halprin, Stephen Petronio

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Bernard Rands

Through more than 100 published works and many recordings, Bernard Rands is well-established as a major figure in contemporary music.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Choreographer and Movement Artist Lela Aisha Jones

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Lela Aisha Jones on the importance of “creative spirits” in her family, what motivates her to create, the Philadelphia arts scene, and more.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

C. Spencer Yeh

C. Spencer Yeh is recognized for his interdisciplinary activities and collaborations as an artist and composer, as well as his music project Burning Star Core. Yeh served as an LOI panelist in Performance in 2015.

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The Veterans' Dreams Project: Arts in the Veteran Community Discussion

The Kimmel Center, Inc. presents a discussion with Dr. Gala True, whose research on post-deployment health and reintegration into society will inform a conversation around the arts' role in the veteran community.

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Centrala

Founded in 2013 by Michał Zadara, Centrala is a theater company based in Warsaw, Poland.

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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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News

In Memoriam: Elaine Hoffman Watts, Klezmer Musician and Pew Fellow

A celebrated percussionist and treasured mentor, Watts was known for bringing an authentic and refined approach to klezmer, a centuries-old form of Eastern European Jewish folk music.

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Lydie Breeze Cycle: Cold Harbor

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The White Lama: World Premiere

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Trisha Brown In the New Body Classes

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Grants & Grantees

In Search of Eastman

The possibilities of presenting a contemporary artist's work posthumously will be explored in this discovery project dedicated to Julius Eastman, an African American composer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s, but who died at 49, leaving an incomplete but compelling collection of scores and recordings.

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Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Nikki Appino

Nikki Appino is a multidisciplinary theater artist and filmmaker.

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Nouvelle, Nouvelle: A 16th-Century French Christmas Midnight Mass

A midnight mass service featured Claudin de Sermisy's Missa voulant Honneur, French Noel songs, and a nativity play.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Václav Havel

Václav Havel was a renowned playwright and political activist who became president of the Czech Republic in 1990, the country's first noncommunist leader since 1948.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Pablo Batista

Over the course of his 30-year career, percussionist and 2000 Pew Fellow Pablo Batista has performed, recorded, and toured with a range of leading jazz, R&B, Latin, pop, and gospel artists including Bono, George Howard, Alicia Keyes, Gerald Levert, Jeffrey Osborne, Eddie Palmieri, Teddy Pendergrass, Diane Reeves, Grover Washington, Jr., Musiq, Manny Oquendo's Conjunto Libre, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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