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

Event

The Anchoress

Composer David Ludwig and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society present the world premiere of The Anchoress.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Taylor Mac

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

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Event

In Motion, In Place: Trisha Brown Dance Company: Performances in Fairmount Park

Fairmount Park Conservancy presents a series of site-responsive, outdoor performances in various locations in Fairmount Park and along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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Grants & Grantees

The Quiet Circus

A 15-month-long series of performances and conversations held at sites along the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers explored the city’s maritime and industrial heritage while considering human interaction with an urban landscape, community, and the contemplative.

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Leah Stein Dance Company: Voice and Movement Public Showing with Pauline Oliveros

A yearlong research project on voice and movement culminates in an open public showing and panel discussion with Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Stein, and the research ensemble.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Reggie Wilson on the “Cultural Retentions” of Sacred Spaces

Choreographer Reggie Wilson discusses his approach to choreographing and curating dance in religious spaces with Pew Fellow Yolanda Wisher.

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Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on the Live Experience of Radio

Michael Rakowitz describes the “beautiful blindness” that radio can create for listeners.

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Event

Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul: Fisk Jubilee Singers at World Cafe Live

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Trisha Brown In the New Body Lectures Public Talk with Marissa Perel and Brian Wallace

Curators Marissa Perel and Brian Wallace give an overview of Trisha Brown's work as it connects to the In the New Body performances at the Barnes Foundation.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

WXPN, University of Pennsylvania

WXPN (88.5 FM) is a nationally recognized public radio station operated by the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on rock, blues, roots, and folk music.

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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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Event

Endless Shout: Mouth of Darkness by Travis

The ICA presents Mouth of Darkness, a performance by musician Travis, organized by Endless Shout collaborator The Otolith Group.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Bruce A. Lemon, Jr.

Bruce A. Lemon, Jr. is an actor, writer, director, and artistic director of Watts Village, a Los Angeles-based theater company and arts education organization.

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Shannon Jackson

Shannon Jackson is the Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts and Design, the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Chair of the Humanities, and a Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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PRISM Quartet: Color Theory Workshops

PRISM Quartet's Center-funded project Color Theory features a series of performances, lectures, and workshops that investigate the concept of "musical color."

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Tell Me What I Can Do from ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury

Bryn Mawr College presents Tell Me What I Can Do, part of ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury.

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Grants & Grantees

Philadelphia Real Book Concerts - New Music in Jazz and Blues

Legendary Philadelphia jazz musicians—including guitarists Pat Martino and Monnette Sudler, pianist Dave Burrell, and saxophonist Jimmy Heath—will headline a four-part concert series inspired by the first published collection of compositions by the city's jazz artists.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: Finale at Union Transfer

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival culminates in an all-day celebration in and around Union Transfer.

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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form Performances

The Michener Art Museum presents a series music performances and dance workshops that capture the spirit of the 1920s.

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Grants & Grantees

SaltSoul

The universality of sudden loss and trauma will be examined in this multimedia dance theater work integrating Kim's heritage in traditional Korean dance with Western dance, improvisation, music, and found sound, to be developed in collaboration with Marion Ramírez, Germaine Ingram, Merián Soto, and Korean musician Gamin Hyosung Kang.

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