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

Grants & Grantees

Maryanne Amacher: Perceptual Geographies

The multimedia compositions and visceral, large-scale installations of pioneering sound artist Maryanne Amacher are illuminated through concerts, workshops, and a performance installation.

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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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Event

OutBeat Jazz Festival: Fred Hersch Trio

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with the Fred Hersch Trio.

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Krzysztof Penderecki Week

A weeklong series honored the prolific composer's 75th birthday with concerts, lectures, and workshops.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Philadelphia Folklore Project

Since its founding in 1987, Philadelphia Folklore Project has documented, supported, and presented Philadelphia-area folk arts and culture to sustain living cultural heritage in communities.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Maria Hassabi

Maria Hassabi is a Cyprus-born, New York-based artist and choreographer.

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Event

Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: Part I

Part I of Taylor Mac's performance work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music covers 12 decades from 1776–1896 as part of the 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.

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Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni creates work in performance art, sculpture, and photography.

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In Plain Air: Music Box Workshop with Phyllis Chen

In Plain Air composer Phyllis Chen is working with the community to create a 400-foot music box strip. During this hands-on family workshop, each participant will create a one-foot section of Phyllis’ music box mosaic.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Susan Stockton

Susan Stockton recently retired as the president of the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, a position she held since September of 2003. She is currently studying creative writing at Oxford University. Stockton served as a 2015 Performance LOI panelist.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Reggie Wilson

Reggie Wilson is the artistic director of Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group, where he presents his unique blend of African and post-modern dance styles.

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Grants & Grantees

The Anchoress

The world premiere of composer Ludwig's song cycle for soprano, presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, will channel the voice and inner life of an imagined medieval "anchoress," bridging Renaissance and contemporary musical languages.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Catherine Wood

Catherine Wood is curator of international art and performance at Tate Modern.

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Grants & Grantees

Izu House Project

Roko Kawai and a team of collaborators traveled to Japan to develop the dance/sound piece Izu House.

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News

2018 Project Grant Guidelines Now Available

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is pleased to announce that the 2018 guidelines for Project grant applications are now available.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Dancer taisha paggett on the Relationship Between Art and Politics

Choreographer and dancer taisha paggett discusses how her artmaking engages with the “political landscape of being.”

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Grants & Grantees

Scorched

North American twins return to their Middle Eastern homeland as they uncover family secrets.

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Event

Brindabani Jatra: Weaving Dance and Divinity

In conjunction with Threads of History: Resurrection of a Textile, dance artist Madhusmita Bora presents a classical Indian dance performance in collaboration with the Dancing Monks of Assam on their first US tour.

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Theatre Exile presents Rizzo

Theatre Exile presents the world premiere production of Rizzo, based on Sal Paolantonio's best selling book Frank Rizzo: The Last Big Man in Big City America, written by playwright and Pew Fellow Bruce Graham.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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