Soundfield@Slought

Slought Foundation

2008

$20,000

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Theo Bleckmann.

The Slought Foundation presented Soundfield@Slought, a collaboration with Soundfield, featuring a series of concerts and educational programs with local and international artists. Performers included Austrian sound artist and composer Werner Moebius in a program of multimedia works; German composer Michael Maierhof with Ensemble Noamnesia; American composer and vocal artist Theo Bleckmann; Ensemble On-Line Vienna; and Taiwan's Chai Found Music Workshop playing music by Hwang Long Pan and Chao-Ming Tung.

Recipients

Slought Foundation

Performance

Music

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The Object Lesson

Pew Fellow Geoff Sobelle opens California's Kirk Douglas Theatre's season with his award-winning production of The Object Lesson.

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Departure and Discovery: Farewell

Focusing on the work of Bach, Beethoven, and Britten, Farewell explores how each composer addresses themes of departures.

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News

Reviving Bach’s Cantatas for Today’s Audiences: Choral Arts Philadelphia’s Concert Program Continues February 15

Choral Arts Philadelphia's project 1734–1735: A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach continues February 15 with renditions of Cantatas 14 and 147.

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Projects On Tour: Pati Hill Exhibition, Thaddeus Phillips, Silvana Cardell Bring Work to New Venues

Following successful premieres in the Philadelphia region, several Center-supported performances and exhibitions are traveling to venues around the world.

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Grants & Grantees

Trisha Brown: In the New Body

A retrospective of selected dances by Trisha Brown, an internationally known leader of post-modernism and an enduring renegade whose work has rarely been seen in Philadelphia.

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The Life of a Just Sole

Bringing together some of hip-hop's most influential pioneers, Clark will present what he calls his "physical autobiography" in a dance-theater performance blending street dance techniques with spoken word narration and video.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Kip Lornell

Since 1992, Kip Lornell has taught courses in American music and ethnomusicology at George Washington University, and has served on the university's Africana Studies program committee.

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Philadelphia Sinfonia Youth Orchestra Performs John Harbison's *Thanks, Victor*

A string quartet drawn from the Philadelphia Sinfonia youth orchestra performs John Harbison's Thanks, Victor.

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Person of the Crowd: Tania Bruguera’s Displacement

Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera will present her 1998 performance work Displacement.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Faustin Linyekula

Congolese dancer Faustin Linyekula is a leading contemporary African choreographer and the founder of Studios Kabako.

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Endless Shout: Raúl de Nieves

As part of the ICA's ongoing interdisciplinary project Endless Shout, multimedia artist and designer Raúl de Nieves presents a series of performances.

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action is primary

Centering on Foley's improvisational performance practice, action is primary will feature photographic, moving-image, sonic, and written documentation of up to 750 dances, which Foley performs on a daily basis at 3:15 p.m.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Matt Porterfield

Matt Porterfield has written, directed, and produced three feature films, Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill (2011), and I Used To Be Darker (2013).

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The Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland: Inaugural Event

Composer Mike Bullock presents the inauguration of the Philadelphia Embassy of the international art project, The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV).

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Pew Fellows News: Honors for Musicians Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Diane Monroe, Bobby Zankel; Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck Collaborate on Exhibition and Book; and More

The summer months haven’t slowed down for our Pew Fellows who are busy with exhibitions, publications, murals, performances, and more. Catch up with their newest projects below.

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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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Commissions of Work by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Helen Pickett

BalletX presented the world premiere of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's Still@Life and Helen Pickett's Union.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Michèle Steinwald

Michèle Steinwald is an independent curator and dance producer, and former assistant curator for the performing arts at the Walker Art Center.

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Close Music for Bodies

Michael Kiley presents an immersive, participatory vocal performance, developed from the sounds and movements of eight individual bodies.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Lembit Beecher

Praised by The New York Times for his "alluring, emotive" work, composer Lembit Beecher creates intimate and dramatically potent musical experiences.

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