Feast Your Famine
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Feast Your Famine: a watch-and-play is an interactive five-night performance-and-social-action hybrid event, re-envisioning the legacy of the "hero" in Western culture from medieval knights to today and seeking to practice new realities in community. With possibilities for multi-day game play or a single night's experience, audiences can join a diverse body of artists and activists in a journey of boundary crossing, soul-troubling, and action through both avant garde and traditional performances and social-action events -- set inside the framework of a re-imagined medieval feast. For details on the schedule and the presenters, please visit the Feast Your Famine website and follow the event on Instagram @feastyourfamine. This event is a result of Wistaria Project's Re-Residency, in which we "re-gift" the Performing Artist Residency we received from The Center at West Park to an exciting diversity of performers and activists. Each Re-Resident will present their work on one night of the festival. The Re-Resident Cohort has worked together to devise First Night and Last Night -- the opening and closing of the feast -- with interactive, hybrid performance/events to bring us together to imagine, engage, and take action here and now. Wednesday, November 13. FIRST NIGHT An interactive event inside a re-invented, justice-oriented medieval “feast”, created by the Re-Residents. Songs. Poetry. Activities. Quests. Re-Residents Mz Aza Metric Eric Farber Dhira Rausch Hee Ran Lee Jace Valentine (IntegrateNYC) Kelsey Pyro Monica Carillo Timothy Craig Wistaria Project Zafi Dimitropoulou Liquid Courage written by Kevin Green (Black Revolutionary Theater Workshop) Kevin Green is a Brooklyn-based actor/writer/producer. He co-founded the company with Heather Harvey. Mei by Kazuo Fukishima played by Kay Soricelli Thursday, November 14th commoning Text and Music / Performance by Eric Farber Directed by Andrew Neisler Projection Design by Maya Sharpe Sound Design by Eamon Goodman Dramaturgy of History by Daniel Wortel-London Sound Board Operator: Tristan O'Shea The Things We Conquer Waterwell Drama Program Class of 2020 A series of short pieces exploring the themes of Colonialism, Americanism, and The Hero’s Journey Devised and Directed by the Ensemble Featuring: Sara Arce, Miguel Batista, Emma Burns, Jerdan De Guzman, Julia Dec, Isabella Friedman, Julia Grzyb, Grace Isaacs, Miranda Jackel, Grace Kilgallen, Bianca Koniuk, Alice Kris, Fiona Lopez, Mary- Kate Mahaney, Jessa Moverman, Victoria Muniz, Jasper Newell, Josi Oz, Jude Packer, Sadie Parker, Julia Petrova, Jude Rollinson, Rebecca Sullivan, Chris Sumpter, Sarah Tie, and Sarah Weitzman About the Waterwell Drama Program: The Waterwell Drama Program is NYC’s premiere training ground for young artists, innovators and leaders. Founded in 2002 by Arian Moayed and Tom Ridgely, Waterwell has been nominated for three IT Awards, a Drama Desk, a New York Magazine Culture Award and a Village Voice Best of NYC. Since 2003, Waterwell has offered structured classes in collaborative playmaking, or “devising”, the process by which the ensemble develops its material. This training addresses the student-artist holistically and demands you develop both as an interpreter and as a creator. Voice and movement work connects with scene study and theatre history; interpretation is exercised alongside original creation; and Everything is designed to be in dialog with what’s going on outside the classroom – in your home, community and the world at large. Waterwell has provided the Theater Arts and Drama programs at the Professional Performing Arts School since 2010. In partnership they deliver top-quality, year-round, in-school theater training to over 200 6-12th graders, absolutely free of charge. In addition to two-hours of class daily in Acting, Movement, Voice & Speech and Theater History/Literature, each grade also completes a rehearsal/performance project helmed by outside professional artists. This sequence culminates in the senior year with a new play commissioned for the class (New Works Lab) and an original Devising project that tours to area public schools and teen centers. Our mission is to create an environment that fosters Excellence, Engagement and Empathy and prepares students to become world-class leaders and collaborators in whatever field they choose to pursue. Conversation with youth activists Jace Valentine and Dekalia Wilson of IntegrateNYC and members of T eens Take Charge Friday, November 15th, 4:15-6:15pm & 7:30pm -10:30pm @4:14-6:15 The Space Between the Letters Facilitated by Claire Moodey, Nicolas Noreña, Jonelle Robinson, Paul “P-Funk” Stallings, and Eva von Schweinitz Conceived in collaboration with Lanxing Fu, Jonah Rosenberg, and Violet Asmara Tafari This workshop is led by a group of artists who have investigated the subject of literacy over the past two years. Originally, the project took the shape of a participatory performance which has been presented at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, HERE Arts Center, and JACK Brooklyn. The workshop has grown out of the artists’ desire to engage in a more direct exchange with their audience. This fall, they have conducted workshops with adult students at Literacy Programs and Learning Centers in Brooklyn including BPL Learning Centers, Fifth Avenue Committee, YROADS, and in the Bronx at Lehman College. @7:30pm 我们不只是 / We Are More / ﻣﺎﺑﯿﺸﺘﺮﻫﺴﺘﯿﻢ / Somos Más a world premiere inspired by our stories Devised and Performed by the PTP Company Sol Ensemble: Carmen Barbosa, Sinny Feliz, Ursula Hellberg Kaid, Jiawen Hu, Chuk Obasi, Angie Regina, Yolanny Rodriguez, and Vida Tayebati Directed by Zafi Dimitropoulou Assistant Director: Stefania Bulbarella In a dystopian nation where people are forced to assimilate, six immigrants unite in secret to spark a joyful revolution. This multilingual performance runs approximately one hour and will be followed by a twenty-minute facilitated dialogue. This project is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, and the Howard Gilman Foundation. Rooted in Upper Manhattan, People's Theatre Project (PTP) is an arts and social justice organization that creates ensemble-based theatre with and for immigrant communities to develop generations of diverse, socially-engaged artists and leaders. Zafi Dimitropoulou (PTP Artistic Director) is a Mexican Greek performer and Director. Born in Mexico, her parents decided to move to Greece when she was two years old, she started taking ballet classes and since then she never quit dancing. She has studied Political Sciences and Public Administration at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Acting at the Greek Art Theatre Karolos Koun. During her third year of studies, she did an internship at the Troubleyn/ Jan Fabre company for the reenactment of two historical shows of the company in Antwerp, Belgium. Moving back to Greece, she has been part of many productions and has worked with several directors and ensembles. In 2013, the audience of all4fun voted for her as the best female actress of the year for her part in the play 'Pitsibourgo in the Argo Theater, directed by Babis Klaliotis. In 2017, she graduated from the M.F.A program in Physical Theatre from Dell'Arte International in Blue Lake, California where she was awarded a scholarship for her research in physical theater and new forms of community theater making. Mino Lora (PTP Executive Director): Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Mino has been living and working as an artist, educator, activist and arts administrator in NYC since 2000. People’s Theatre Project is a true passion project for Mino and she takes a very hands-on approach to the work. Each of the programs the organization has developed began with her in the role of teaching artist. NBC Latino recognized Mino as one of 10 Latinos with Heart and she has been profiled by FoxNews Latino, NBC Latino, El Diario, Manhattan Times, Listin Diario, El Nacional and other newspaper and magazine publications in the US and abroad. Mino has participated as a panelist and guest speaker throughout New York City and was the international orator for the Women of Success 2014 conference in Santo Domingo, DR. Mino received her BA in English Literature and Theatre from Manhattanville College and her MA in Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation from the Graduate Institute. Execute By Kevin Green and Timothy Edward Craig MAKADEWIIYAASIKWE By Kelsey Pyro Created in residency with The Shed Open Call, Makadewiiyaasikwe is sound poem of Kelsey Pyro's original music and personal stories. Meaning, "a Black woman; a woman of African descent,” in the Ojibwe language, Makadewiiyaasikwe connects the history and healing process of Native American and African American people. This work premiered, live at The Shed, in June 2019. Saturday, November 16th Mosh-Pit Daisies — a realm of lost birds, a tree that got cut down, and Ronald’s horse who went awry. By Wistaria Project With Jeremy Goren, Jenna Kirk, Sarah Bitar, and Kay Soricelli a collage of ancient sacred texts, modern academic writing, “found” popular elements, and original material exploding the mythology of myths, dominant traditions’ suppression of elemental (often woman-centered) streams, U.S. living-history exhibitions, and contemporary gender/power dynamics. The Mountaintop By Katori Hall By Adreyauna Jean-Louis Antigone Assata Shakur Written and Directed by Jacqueline