Premiere Recording Grant

Ars Nova Workshop

2008

$25,000

The experimental music presenter Ars Nova Workshop received Center support to produce five recordings on the record label High Two. The recordings featured Spanish Fly (Steven Bernstein, slide trumpet/valve trumpet; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Dave Tronzo, electric guitar) performing music by Bernstein; Min Xiao-Fen Asian Trio (Min Xiao-Fen, pipa; Okkyung Lee, cello; Satoshi Takeishi, percussion) performing "Return of the Dragon Suite" by Xiao-Fen; Pew Fellow and jazz musician Marshall Allen with drummer Louis Moholo performing their original music; alto saxophonist John Tchicai, guitarist Mary Halvorson, and drummer Ches Smith performing their own compositions; and the Scorch Trio (R. Björkenheim, electric guitar; I. Håker Flaten, double bass; P. Nilssen-Love, drums) performing their own music.

Recipients

Ars Nova Workshop

Performance

Music

Event

Partners for Sacred Places: Playing and Preserving October Concert

Partners for Sacred Places presents a free community concert inspired by the importance of the pipe organ as a center of community and musical life.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Michelle Hensley

Michelle Hensley is artistic director of the Minneapolis-based theater company Ten Thousand Things, where she has directed and produced over 60 tours of award-winning drama to nontraditional audiences, in locations which included prisons, shelters, and housing projects.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Richard Schechner

Richard Schechner is a legendary downtown theater artist, currently on faculty at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he was one of the founders of the Performance Studies department.

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Grants & Grantees

An Investigation of Contingency and the Uses of Data Streams

New Paradise Laboratories' core ensemble will expand their devised theater techniques and lay the groundwork for a series of new pieces, through investigations of improvisational structures, games of chance, and audience interactivity, with a group of international practitioners including composer Bhob Rainey and UK game theory specialist Tassos Stevens.

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News

On Stage This Spring: Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Frank Zappa’s genre-defying The Yellow Shark, John Guare’s Lydie Breeze Cycle Marathon, and More

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Collaborators & Colleagues

taisha paggett

taisha paggett is a Los Angeles-based artist whose individual and collaborative work for the stage, gallery, and public space takes up questions of the body, agency, and the phenomenology of race and gender. In 2015, paggett served as a Performance LOI panelist.

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Event

The Space Between the Notes Jazz Workshop with John Harbison

Composer John Harbison leads a jazz workshop with area students and professional musicians.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Theater Artist Jennifer Kidwell

Theater artist and Pew Fellow Jennifer Kidwell on how she became an artist, the role of humor in her work, Philadelphia’s arts scene, and more.

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Event

Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Performances of Pastora

Flamenco dancer Pastora Galván performs in this self-titled work, choreographed by her brother, Israel Galván.

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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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News

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ken Vandermark

Ken Vandermark's primary creative emphasis is the exploration of contemporary music that deals directly with advanced methods of improvisation.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Michael Kiley

Michael Kiley is a composer, sound designer, performer, and educator working in dance, theater, and public installation.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Girard College

Girard College is a five-day boarding school for academically capable first-through-twelfth-grade students from families with limited financial resources.

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News

Making Ideas Happen: Program Directors on What Lies at the Heart of a Strong Center Grant Application

As the Center opens the 2020 grants cycle, we asked Bill Bissell, director of Performance, and Bill Adair, director of Exhibitions & Public Interpretation, to share some insights into the Center’s grant-making process.

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Grants & Grantees

Still Unknown

Nicole Cousineau collaborated with seven local performance artists to create an immersive dance-theater work.

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Cell

Headlong created a dance-theater event designed to be experienced by one audience member at a time.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ernesto Pujol

Performance artist and social choreographer Ernesto Pujol has performed with urban and rural communities worldwide.

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Event

The Tattooed Lady World Premiere

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Grants & Grantees

22nd New Edge Residency

Theater artist Justin Jain, theater artist Adrienne Mackey, and choreographer Olive Prince developed new work in the CEC’s New Edge Residency program.

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