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Join terraNOVA Collective for the 4th annual soloNOVA Arts Festival, celebrating artists
from diverse disciplines, including spoken word, dance, performance art, monologues,
burlesque, music and multimedia artists. Each individual has a unique story.
Delight in these tales, and rediscover the joy of solo artists at the top of their game.
GO HERE FOR A COMPLETE CALENDAR FOR THE FESTIVAL |
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Front man, wild man, washboard player, harmonica player, record producer, video director, cultural instigator, three time national poetry slam finalist, visual artist, DJ, actor, Wammo has spent most of the last thirteen years criss-crossing the planet with his band, the Asylum Street Spankers. He has released eleven albums with the Spankers and three solo CDs: Fat Headed Stranger, Faster Than The Speed Of Suck and Lowriders On The Storm. Wammo played the role of the Anti-Artist in Richard Linklater's debut, Slacker. He lives in Austin, Tx with his wife, record collection and beer.
Wammo's sensitive side can drink you under the table.
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Wammo is one of those unusually gifted performers who have a penchant for swimming against the societal current. His observations tend to skirt the prevailing political correctness, often giving it a quick slap in the face. As a musician, he displays a talent that few attain, with his finger firmly on the pulse of the entire global music scene. He is Americana music's answer to Frank Zappa!
- Rockzilla.net
...how many of your favorite groups are lead by a virtuoso washboard player?
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DEAR DAD, CONFESSIONS OF GOGO
MAY 17 & 23 @ 8PM
MAY 19 @ 1PM
Written & Performed by Monica West
Directed by Brad Calcaterra
Running time: 70 minutes |
photo by Brad Calcaterra
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Dear Dad, Confessions of GoGo, a one woman show with music and of course, dancing, is about a right of passage, following GoGo as she separates her father from God, finds her own faith and expresses her unique sexuality to boot. GoGo encourages young people to accept adulthood, to have their own ideology, even if it means pushing the boundaries of unconditional love with boldness and humor.
www.confessionsofgogo.com
"Growing up, God and my father were one in the same."
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EXTRAORDINARY VACANCY
MAY 17 & 23 @ 9:30PM
MAY 19 @ 2:30PM
Performed by Anne Goldmann
Written by Anne Goldmann and Sue Morrison
Directed by Sue Morrison
Running time: 30 minutes |
"Extraordinary Vacancy" is a clown piece about the illusion of love and the consumption of it. A dance with a coat, which leads to a wrestling match and a love affair with a whiskey bottle. Performed with comedy and tradegy in high contrast,
this is the world of Gerkle Tourpare, a girl on the run from the loneliness of strangers. Come see her Choreography, High-Risk Dance Performance and the Baggage that brings itself!
"I'm homesick. But I don't know for what."
This performance was funded by The Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
www.svetlanashow.com
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BUTTERFLY SUICIDE
MAY 18, 20, 22 @ 8:00PM
Performed by Samantha Lally
Written by Samantha Lally, Rebecca Lally and Jeannine Jones
Directed by Debbie Jones
Running time: 55 minutes |
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Award-winning actress and comedian, Samantha Lally comes to soloNOVA with her 4th solo show, Butterfly Suicide. After years of collaboration with director Debbie Jones and the writers of Dora Mae Productions, this show takes audiences into spaces and places that exist only in Sam’s comedy. Sam is a New Yorker – born and bred. Her characters are eclectic, driven and lost. The females that rise up out of her are looking to be reborn. Whether it’s an Upper Eastsider trading wealth for wilderness, or a summer butterfly trading love for life, Sam’s comedy is provocative, interactive, and absolutely ridiculous.
www.doramae.com
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BY RAIL
MAY 18, 20, 22 @ 9:15PM
Written & Performed by CJ Critt
Directed by Richard Sabellico
Running time: 50 minutes |
Suspiciously soon after 9/11, another plane plunges from the sky, safely labeled an ‘unfortunate disaster.’ But is it? And how does a heartland chicken cross the road to return to NYC in such uncertain times? Easy - By Rail.
By Rail is a collection of passenger portraits and personal epiphanies, connecting and overlapping, leading to the conclusion that “We are all in this together – Alone.”
Dubbed, “Spoken Word Queen” by the Dallas Observer, audio-book ace, CJ Critt (voice of bounty-hunter, Stephanie Plum, and forensic sleuth, Dr. Kay Scarpetta) dissects America, one whistle-stop at a time, in the bittersweet/funny, oral history.
“I will fly again. I know it. My butt tells me so…”
web.mac.com/cjcritt
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photo by Holly Lackner
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LUCKY PINK WONDERLAND
Written and Performed by Amanda Duarte
Directed and Choreographed by Ben Kerrick
MAY 19, 21, 25 @ 8:00PM
Running time: 70 minutes |
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At the intersection of fame and rehab is Lucky Pink Wonderland, a terrible and funny fever dream of a play that chronicles the struggles of Katie, remembered by the public as Pinky Peppercorn, the child lead of the popular eponymous 1980’s sitcom. Katie’s life has since become one long “Where Are They Now” segment – she has drifted for fifteen years on a sea of booze and drugs, to find herself washed up on the banks of the Hudson, a destitute yet familiar face, utterly alone in the madding crowd, trying to start over. As Katie soldiers on through a landscape littered with the famous and infamous, she asks herself whether fame is a dream or a nightmare, and either way, why can’t she wake up?
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CONFESSIONS
Written and Performed by Milica Paranosic
MAY 24, 26, 29 @ 8:00PM
Running time: 55 minutes |
photo by Peter Dressel |
Confessions is a collection of original, arranged and improvised compositions inspired by Serbian folk heritage and real-real life stories of Milica Paranosic, told by exploring new techniques involving electronics, ethnic and found instruments, vocals, movement, spoken word and visuals. Confessions renders a variety of musical styles (folk, pop, punk, hip-hop, classical and opera), merging them with one another to create unique blends. Confessions shares Milica’s life and art, exposing her most intimate moments. Confessions is the artist, vulnerable and bare, her musical diary, her musical blog.
www.milicaparanosic.com
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VAMPING
Written and Performed by Kali Quinn
Directed by Jonathan Maloney
MAY 30, 31 @ 8:00PM
JUNE 2 @ 1:00PM
Running time: 50 minutes
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photo by Jonathan Maloney
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Through the creative use of a wheelchair and a series of virtuoso transformations, master performer Kali Quinn plays five unforgettable characters all connected to Julia, a 91-year old woman struggling with senile dementia. The additional element of director Jonathan Maloney’s video montage allows the audience to go back in time and into the aging mind. Audiences and critics have described GUTWorks’ Vamping as inspiring, funny, beautiful, moving and magical. Although we might not experience dementia ourselves, we can all relate to the struggle of what it must be like to lose your most important memories… after all, who are we, if we can’t remember who we have been?
Vamping is a dynamic, multi-media piece created and performed by GUTWorks, a Brooklyn-based theatre & multimedia company.
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MIRACLE TOMATO
Written and Performed by Jessica Cerullo
Directed by Ragnar Freidank
MAY 30, 31 @ 9:00PM
JUNE 2 @ 2:00PM
Running time: 65 minutes
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Miracle Tomato is a histriofabulists' account of the passing of time told through the journey of the tomato. Performer Jessica Cerullo portrays Angelina, the troubled waitress at the pizzeria who struggles to set the historical record straight for her audience. Racing against the running time of the show, Angelina employs the assistance of her triplet sisters Valentina and Josephina as well as her ancestor Cristoforo Columbo in a tale of love, bioengineering and the search for home. No two performances will be the same in a production that proves that although history repeats itself, it doesn't necessarily happen the same way twice.
www.jessicacerullo.com |
photo by Pamela Traynor
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THREE SOLO DANCES
JUNE 1, 2 @ 8:00PM
JUNE 3 @ 1:00PM
Making Ends Meet choreographed and performed by Larissa Velez
Lonely choreographed and performed by Heather Olson
Ex-Memory: waywewere choreographed and performed by Jeanine Durning
Running time: 60 minutes |
photo by Jason Akira Somma
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Larissa Velez’s Making Ends Meet grapples with self imposed demands in a conceptual experiential fabricated world. She comes to grips with movement, an emotional landscape within which to conjure and stew, ordinary tasks- fits of weeping, fake vomiting and vocal yowling - often these things all at once. She strives for “abstraction” in terms of performance.
Lonely, created and performed by Heather Olson, blends virtuosic dancing with shameful awkwardness, raw emotion with hopeful vulnerability and ends up with a choreographic exploration of loneliness and power.
In Ex-Memory: waywewere, Jeanine Durning delves into movement as a non narrative biographical form. Challenging the perception and experience of real time events through memory and personal association by creating fictionalized documentaries, Ex-Memory creates an unexpected dialogue between fiction and reality, past and present. With original music by London based composer, Jules Maxwell.
www.jeaninedurning.com
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MAN UP
JUNE 1, 2 @ 9:30PM
JUNE 3 @ 2:30PM
Written and Performed by Carlos Andrés Gómez
Directed by Tamilla Woodard
Running time: 60 minutes |
Man Up is one man’s journey of discovery toward finding out what it is to be a man in a world where “masculinity” is often confined by the narrowest of definitions. Who are you told to be as a “straight man of color”? What is not allowed or accepted by society? What questions are we not allowed asking, even within ourselves? Pushing up against the boundaries of who he thinks he is, Carlos Andrés Gómez takes the audience on a gritty, raw, and, often, hilarious trip through his sexuality, cultural identity, family relations, and deepest fears and dreams, ultimately to find out who he is.
www.carloslive.com
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photo Jung Kim
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MO PITKIN’S LATE NIGHT LINE UP INFORMATION |
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MAY 19, MIDNIGHT
LATE NIGHT BURLESQUE HOSTED BY UNKLE DAVE MONSTER
Come check out some of the hottest burlesque dancers strut their stuff.
Starts at midnight, and the party goes late!
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JUNE 1, 10:00PM
LATE NIGHT COMEDY HOSTED BY ANDRES DU BOUCHET
Killer stand up and alternative comics bust your gut with laughs!
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JUNE 2, 10:00PM
LATE NIGHT MUSIC HOSTED BY REBECCA HART
Singer/songwriters take it to the next level with this assemblage of wonderful musicians.
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The 2006 soloNOVA Arts Festival ran June 8-25 at Center Stage, NY
Click here for details
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soloNOVA 2007 PRODUCTION TEAM
UNDER THE ARTISTIC DIRECTION OF:
Jennifer Conley Darling
PRODUCERS:
James Carter and Allison Prouty
PS122 CURATORS:
James Carter, Hilary Clark, and Andy Horwitz
LATE NIGHT SERIES CURATORS:
David Anzuelo, James Carter, Rebecca Hart and Livia Scott
FESTIVAL PRODUCTION MANAGER/PS122 LIGHTING DESIGN WEEK 1:
Zack Brown
PS122 LIGHTING DESIGN WEEK 2:
Bruce Steinberg
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER:
Elizabeth Cheslock
BROCHURE AND POSTER DESIGN:
Christy Briggs
FESTIVAL WEB PAGE DESIGN:
Jeremy Kerner
POSTER/BROCHURE PRINTING:
Pickle Press
OFFICIAL BAR OF THE soloNOVA ARTS FESTIVAL:
"best secret restaurant" time out ny
"best beer" aol cityguide
"tastiest wine and beer bar" timeout ny
"affordable and delicious" ny sun
"best cheap eats top 101" new york magazine
Jimmy's no.43 is a basement restaurant/bar in the east village.
A former ukrainian speakeasy, chef Jimmy Carbone recently
opened it with a great selection of small production draft beers as the feature.
There is also a small seasonal menu of creative american food with mediterranean influences.
Jimmy's no.43 is a friend to the theatre community,
a 2007 recipient of the nyc-arts (association of resident theatres)
"local hero" award for its support of Rising Phoenix rep.
See the website www.jimmysno43.com for more info.
www.becomingachef.com
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