Tête-a-Tête

Lightbox Film Center at International House Philadelphia

2008

$40,000

International House Philadelphia collaborated with Ars Nova Workshop to present Tête-a-Tête, a series of duets showcasing a cross-selection of experimental, improvisational, and exploratory music from the past 40 years. The five-concert series featured performances by Tony Conrad and John Cale; Pharoah Sanders and Hamid Drake; Mats Gustaffson and Thurston Moore; The Paul Bley Duo; and Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid.

Grants & Grantees

Jérôme Bel and Jan Fabre Choreography

FringeArts presented the Philadelphia premieres of Jérôme Bel's The Show Must Go On and Jan Fabre's Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day in the 2008 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Saxophonist and Composer Matthew Levy

Saxophonist and Pew Fellow Matthew Levy on what motivates his multi-faceted practice as a musician, composer, and commissioner/producer of new music, his daily art-making routine, and more.

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Telemann 360º Concerts

Tempesta di Mare – Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra presents a two-part concert program that offers audiences a renewed perspective on baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann.

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Heiner Goebbels: Imaginary Stages

The Philadelphia premiere of two works by Heiner Goebbels—an internationally acclaimed German composer and director—merges theater, performative installation, and experimental chamber music.

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Breath Beneath

PRISM will explore the artistic possibilities that arise at the intersection of saxophone music, technology, and time-based visual art, to lay the foundation for an evening-length production.

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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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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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Performing Arts Producer Jenny Gersten on Art as an “Agent of Hope”

Jenny Gersten discusses the approach to programming the Center for Performing Arts at the World Trade Center.

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Adapt!

This world premiere play, written by the Wilma's artistic director Blanka Zizka, invites audiences to consider the immigrant experience and questions surrounding identity, homeland and exile, the idealism of youth, and the compromises of adulthood.

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Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project

The experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans will be illuminated in this multimedia work created by MacArthur Fellow and jazz pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and poet/librettist Mike Ladd, in combination with a publication of local veterans' writings produced through a partnership with the veteran-focused arts organization Warrior Writers.

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There

The Wilma Theater presents a world premiere adaptation of There by Lebanese American poet Etel Adnan.

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Nick Stuccio

Nick Stuccio is President and Producing Director at FringeArts, and is the co-founder of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

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Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole at Geffen Playhouse

Originally commissioned by People's Light, the new music-theatre work Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole makes its West Coast premiere at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

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Centrala

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

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Grants & Grantees

Color Theory

PRISM commissioned new works by Guggenheim Fellow Steven Mackey and Berlin prize recipient Ken Ueno, which paired the saxophone with a wide range of percussion instruments, in order to investigate "musical color."

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Daniel Felsenfeld

Daniel Felsenfeld is a Brooklyn-based composer and writer.

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Diane Monroe: Violin Woman, African Dreams Performances

Composer, violinist, and 2018 Pew Fellow Diane Monroe presents the premiere of Violin Woman, African Dreams, an evening-length suite.

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Tom Moon

Music critic Tom Moon has written about pop, rock, jazz, blues, hip-hop and world music for more than three decades.

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Hazami Sayed

Hazami Sayed is the founder and executive director of Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture

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Color Theory Concert: PRISM Quartet and So Percussion

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

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