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L.E.S.
THE
13TH ANNUAL LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
SATURDAY, MAY 24th
JOHNSON THEATER
Please
note - Schedule Subject to change. We will post all changes as soon
as possible.
6:00
- COBU
6:17
- RAQUEL ALMAZÁN
”The Virgin Stripper Personalized.”
6:29
- LAURA SHAPIRO
An excerpt from “Longevity Practices.” Choreographed
and performed by Laura Shapiro. Poem: "Edward Hopper: New York
City, August, 1945" by Ernest Farres (translated from the Catalan
by Lawrence Venuti). Music: performed by Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp
and Jim Staley from "Jim Staley--Mumbo Jumbo" (Einstein
Records),
6:36
- MARY RILEY & JENIFER GELBER
Are excited to be back for their second year of performing here at the
L.E.S. Festival. They met while working together on “Romeo and
Juliet” at Genesis Repertory Theater in 2007. They hope you
enjoy tonight's Opera Sampler.
6:48
- NU DANCE COMPANY
”Forgotten Mine.” Choreographer: Eva Perrotta. Dancers:
Holly Colino / Samir M' Kirech. Music: Jacques Brel. Music Editing:
Taavi Rammar.
7:00
- JOE FRANKLIN
Host of the longest-running talk show on Television.
7:17
- JOHN
GRIMALDI, NEW YORK LYRIC CIRCUS
Will perform 3 short pieces that blend poetry, circus arts, fire and
possibly soap in a unique blend!
7:29
- PAULINA BRAHM
Performs “Let It Go,” written by Crystal Field. Dressed in
her school colors, a Young Girl speaks to a hometown crowd set to welcome
the boys back home.
7:36
- MARIANA BEKERMAN DANCE COMPANY
”Nova Nemo” (an excerpt from “BLACK & WHITE”)
Choreographed and danced by: Mariana Bekerman. Music: Captain Tom. Costume:
Keiko Voltaire.
7:42
- FANTASTIC
EXPERIMENTAL LATINO THEATER
“The Imaginary Invalid,” by Moliere, English Translation
and Adaptation by Marisol Carrere and Gloria Zelaya. Music by
Hector Marin. Choreography by Gloria Llampard. Director: Gloria Zelaya.
7:54
- LAURENCE HOLDER
”The Fighter,” written by Laurence Holder & directed
by Aaron Joy. Excerpted from the unproduced one act, fighting to discover
himself a man looks back on the influential events of his youth.
8:11
- JUDY GORMAN
Will perform a set of political songs. She has just returned from performing
as the only performer invited from the U.S.A. at both the prestigious
International Songfest at Pfingsten and the Open Ohr Festival - both
in Germany.
8:23
- BANGLADESH THEATER OF AMERICA (BTA)
Bangladeshi Classical Folk Dance, performed by Tayebina Meem, Anika,
Marsha and Mohinee.
8:35
- DANIEL GALLANT
“Gerald’s Method,” written and directed by Daniel
Gallant, is a one-act play that will be produced as part of a show called
“Zen and the Method, or Why Actors Drink” at Center
Stage (48 W. 21st Street in Manhattan) from May 28-June 8. In “Gerald's
Method,” a once-great Broadway star guides rising actors through
a tangled theater tutorial based on his own
dark past. Performed by Robert Fitzsimmons, Kira Sternback and Elya
Ottenberg.
8:49
- e-Dance
”Listening to Music on a Moonlit Night.” Choreographed by
Zheng-Yi Li, Performed by Cha-Lee Chan.
8:58
LORCAN OTWAY with TAYLOR
GIACOMA
Lorcan Otway grew up in the Irish singing tradition. He has been playing
in New York, Ireland and everywhere in between for more than thirty
years. Taylor Giacoma is a singer-songwriter-pianist whose music has
been called a cross between Joni Mitchell and Kurt Weill. She joins
Lorcan Otway this evening on a couple of his tunes and one of hers.
For more information on Taylor, visit www.mynameishardtospell.com.
9:10
- WENDY OSSERMAN DANCE COMPANY
”Knife Eater” (2 sections from OUT of PLACE,
2008). Choreography by Wendy Osserman. Music by Iva Bittová.
Dancers: Cori Kresge and Stephanie Sauer.
9:22
- JIM NEU & BLACK-EYED SUSAN
As “Rick and Cora,” written by Jim Neu. directed by
Keith McDermott. Jim Neu and Black-Eyed Susan have worked together since
the mid-90s. They will both be part of his new full-length play "Gang
of Seven" at LaMaMa, opening Dec. 4, 2008 for three weeks.
9:34
- JUDITH MALINA
was born in 1926 in Kiel, Germany. In 1947, after studying acting and
directing at the Dramatic Workshop at the New School with Erwin Piscator,
she and Julian Beck founded The Living Theatre as an artistic challenge
to the commercial theater, producing nearly 100 productions including
The Connection, The Brig, Frankenstein, Antigone, Paradise Now, Seven
Meditations on Political Sado-Masochism, I and I and Resistenza. A brilliant
actress and an even greater Director, Judith Malina has led the way
in American Theater, and through her work with Julian Beck and Hanon
Reznikov, and their collaboration as heads of The Living Theater, helped
to change the course of American Theater and forced it to obtain a relevancy
to today’s world.
9:43
- THE LIVING THEATRE
”Paradise Now.”
9:55
- FACEBOY
“I am an amusing disciple of love. I believe that all people are
innately good and they do evil things because they are hurting. My goal
therefore is to try to heal myself and others. I'm so very grateful
for the loving people in my life who help me in my goals and forgive
my failures. I also occassionally produce and/or perform in a variety
of formats including stage, film and television. For 678 weeks I ran
Faceboyz Open Mike Night. Below are some quotes related mostly to said
open mike. I am now producing Pennies Open Mike. For information on
this go to http://www.artstars.org, click, "shows and events"
then click, "Pennies Open Mike."
10:02
- GARY CORBIN
”Waiting for Oz,” performed by Actor, Writer, producer and
Arts Administrator Gary Corbin.
10:14
- DAVID AMRAM
David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music
works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including
the classic scores for the films "Splendor in The Grass"
and "The Manchurian Candidate;" two operas, including
the ground-breaking Holocaust opera "The Final Ingredient;"
and the score for the landmark 1959 documentary "Pull My Daisy,"
narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac. He is also the author of three
books, “Vibrations," an autobiography, "Offbeat: Collaborating
With Kerouac," a memoir, and "Upbeat: Nine Lives
of a Musical Cat" published this Fall by Paradigm Publishers.
A pioneer player of jazz French horn, he is also a virtuoso on piano,
numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments
from 25 countries, as well as an inventive, funny improvisational lyricist.
He has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, who chose him as The New
York Philharmonic's first composer-in-residence in 1966, Langston Hughes,
Dizzy Gillespie, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk, Odetta,
Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, E. G. Marshall,
and Tito Puente. Amram's most recent work "Giants of the
Night" is a flute concerto dedicated to the memory Charlie
Parker, Jack Kerouac and Dizzy Gillespie, three American artists Amram
knew and worked with. It was commissioned and premiered by Sir James
Galway. Today, as he has for over fifty years, Amram continues
to compose music while traveling the world as a conductor, soloist,
bandleader, visiting scholar, and narrator in five languages.
He is also currently working with author Frank McCourt on a new setting
of the Mass, "Missa Manhattan," as well as a new orchestral
work commissioned by the Guthrie Foundation, "Symphonic Variations
on a Song by Woody Guthrie." premiered Sept. 29 2007
in San Jose California by the Symphony Silicone Valley, who have also
comissioned him to compose a new piano concerto.
10:36
- ACOUSTIC WORLD MUSIC
10:48
- KATHERINE ADAMENKO
an Eexcerpt from the play “Halma and Raina.” Written
by: Issak Esmail Issak. Directed by: Ashley Marinaccio. Performed by:
Katherine Adamenko
10:57
- ALTERNATIVE
THEATRE OF MANHATTAN
Performing an excerpt from “Anna Christie,” directed
by Ted Mornel.
11:14
- ALESSANDRA
BELLONI
11:26
- LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD CHINESE OPERA
Zijun Mo worked as a lead performer with the Hubei Provincial Peking
Opera Troupe. He currently appears as The Wolf in
Little Red Riding Hood: The Chinese Opera.
11:38
- DUNYANA DANCE ENSEMBLE
Presents their newest piece of Belly Dance Theatre, “After Midnight.”
Created by Amantha. Performed by Alura, Amy Staub, Leela, Charlyn, Lisa
Reyes, Amantha. The DDE is a collective of dancers who explore timeless
human experience through contemporary American Belly Dance.
11:50
- CRYSTAL
FIELD
Reading from the work of Grace Paley
11:57
- JACK TYNAN
”Strangely Wonderful,” an excerpt from a film written
by Jack Tynan. Starring Jack Tynan. Music, "French Kiss"
by Little Louie Vegas
12:09
- JAMES RADO
”American Soldier,” “The White Haunted House.”
Music & Lyrics by James Rado. Book by James Rado and his brother
Theodore Radomski. JAMES RADO is an actor, writer and composer, best
known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of the groundbreaking
1960s rock musical Hair. He and Ragni were nominated for the
1969 Tony Award for best musical, and they won for best musical at the
Grammy Awards in 1969. He began as an actor and moved to New York in
the early 1960s. Prior to Hair, Rado originated the Broadway
role of Richard Lionheart in The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
(starring Robert Preston and Rosemary Harris). Later, both Rado and
Hair co-writer Gerome Ragni were cast in the Chicago company of Mike
Nichols' production of The Knack, by Ann Jellicoe. They played
the roles of Tom and Tolan, becoming a kind of acting duo. In 1968 he
would perform with Ragni again when he originated the role of Claude
(opposite Ragni's Berger) in Hair, both on Broadway and in Los
Angeles. Since then, he has been active in developing new productions
of Hair, including the 11 city 1994 national tour which he directed,
and the 2006 CanStage production in Toronto.
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