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International Festival of Arts & Ideas Announces 2017 March 28, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Steven Padla / (203) 498-3702 / [email protected] INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS ANNOUNCES 2017 LINE-UP 200 Events Including 4 Festival-Commissioned World Premieres, Entirely New Programs and Collaborations, the First-Ever Reggae Headline Concert on the KeyBank Stage, and Dozens of Other Big Ideas and Thrilling Experiences Highlight the 3-Week Festival, JUNE 3-24 The International Festival of Arts & Ideas today announced complete details for Festival 2017, which will begin on June 3 and continues for three weeks through June 24 in New Haven, Connecticut. Festival 2017 features an astonishing lineup of more than 200 events––80% of which are presented free of charge––including four world premieres commissioned by the Festival among its 24 ticketed events, five unforgettable headliner bands on the KeyBank Stage (including the legendary Wailers, the Festival's first-ever reggae headliner), family friendly activities, as well as dozens of talks, tours, and more. Festival 2017 boasts a diverse group of participants from all over the globe, as well as leading artists and innovators from New Haven and across the state of Connecticut, including Grammy- nominated musician Jimmy Greene who returns to the stage on the Green this year. This year, the Festival also introduces new programs such as ALTAR’d Spaces and the Big Read as well as new collaborations with the New Haven Documentary Film Festival and the African Literature Association Annual Conference at Yale. "We have worked year-round to bring some of the world's more exciting artists and thinkers to New Haven’s stages for Festival 2017 to celebrate and explore some of the most pressing issues of the day. We'll share the thrill of empowerment manifested in the rhythms of Black Girl: Linguistic Play. We'll heal together as a community through the music of (Be)longing. We'll delight in the surprises of our international premieres from China and the cutting-edge/retro-tech company Manual Cinema, as well as LEO's gravity defying theatrics," said Chad Herzog, Interim Co-Executive Director of the Festival and Director of Programming. "We will laugh. We will sing. We will dance. Our eyes may be opened. Our minds may be changed. That’s what the Festival is all about." Ticketed Events Dance BLACK GIRL: LINGUISTIC PLAY Camille A. Brown & Dancers June 15 &16, 8PM University Theatre, 222 York Street ($35/$55) Award-winning choreographer Camille A. Brown uses the rhythmic play of social dance, double dutch, steppin’, tap, and live original music to represent a nuanced spectrum of black womanhood in a racially and politically charged world. From play to protest, the performers come into their identities—from childhood innocence, to girlhood self-awareness, to maturity— all the while shaped by the bonds of sisterhood. Music Co-Commission (BE)LONGING Byron Au Yong & Aaron Jafferis Presented in Association with Long Wharf Theatre June 17 & 18, 2PM Long Wharf Theatre, 222 Sargent Drive ($20/$35/$55) Created by the award-winning team of Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis, (Be)longing is a powerful performance event reflecting our society’s collective emergence from large-scale tragedies. Locally cast singers, beatboxers, and hip-hop artists present an original, staged oratorio about belonging, isolation, healing, and community. Prompted by our collective understanding and judgments around the Virginia Tech and Newtown tragedies, (Be)longing reflects on the impact of violence and considers deeper ways to connect and build communities of safety and support. Theater Commissioned World Premiere THE END OF TV Manual Cinema June 19–22, 8PM University Theatre, 222 York Street ($35/$55) Taking the performance world by storm, Manual Cinema is one of the hottest tickets in cities around the world. The company transforms the experience of attending the cinema, combining shadow puppetry, theatricality, cinematic techniques, innovative sounds, and music to create immersive stories. Manual Cinema experienced a gigantic success with its European debut at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival including eight 5-star and eight 4-star reviews. Now Arts & Ideas premieres an original, Festival-commissioned work by Manual Cinema right here in New Haven. Music Co-Commissioned World Premiere WHITMAN, MELVILLE, DICKINSON - THE PASSIONS OF BLOOM By Martin Bresnick June 20, 8PM Sprague Hall, 470 College Street ($35/$65) Martin Bresnick's world premiere oratorio—a large-scale work for soloists, chorus and orchestra—takes the thoughts of Harold Bloom, master teacher and secular evangelist of American Literature at Yale University, on a musical journey of passion, insight, and personal revelation. Performed by Yale Choral Artists under the direction of Jeffrey Douma, this world premiere is modeled on Bach’s St. John Passion oratorio, but centers on the lives of legendary poets Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson. Theatre WE ARE CITIZENS Theatre of the Oppressed NYC June 21, 5:30PM & 8PM Bregamos Theater, 491 Blatchley Avenue ($25) We Are Citizens is the culmination of a three-day intensive New Haven residency with Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, a company whose mission is to partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre. New Haven residents will take the stage in this dynamic performance exploring experiences of oppression. The actors all have powerful stories to share and they’ll invite you to join them onstage to upend the old narratives and find new solutions. Music Co-Commissioned World Premiere WU MAN + MIRÓ QUARTET June 22, 8PM Sprague Hall, 471 College Street ($35/$65) East meets West as Grammy-nominated musician Wu Man and the award-winning Miró Quartet perform a Festival-commissioned world premiere work by Chinese composer Xiaogang Ye. Rarely is a western audience the first to experience new music from this legendary Chinese artist. The performance marks Wu Man's return to the Festival—recognized as the world's premier pipa virtuoso—and the Festival debut of the Austin, Texas-based, internationally touring Miró Quartet. YALE-CHINA FELLOWS June 22–24 1156 Chapel Street ($25) The International Festival of Arts & Ideas and Yale-China Association Arts Fellowship is an 18- month experience for emerging professional Chinese artists. Fellows spend six months in residence in New Haven learning from practicing artists and professors at Yale and in the greater New Haven community, while developing a project of their own to be premiered at Arts & Ideas. The program is made possible through a special partnership with the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, New York (HKETO-NY). in-between: CAI Ying Inspired by the childhood games played by CAI Ying, in-between explores the individual experiences, the relationships between the individual and the collective, and the process of change itself. It invites the audience to create a space using rubber bands, in which they can experience gravity, tension, and body motions that they are unfamiliar with. The Chaos Project: Phoebe Hui The Chaos Project is a series of kinetic “elements” built with electronics, music wires, and piano keys retrieved from an abandoned grand piano. Acts of performance by the acoustic sculpture and the audiences—the ever-present element of chance these acts engender—are integral for unexpected sonic outcomes. Onnie Chan What does it feel like to be contained in our chaotic world? Using elements of the ancient Chinese game, Mahjong, Never Stand Still gives audience members an opportunity to travel on a journey with people halfway around the world, in Hong Kong for a completely new experience. Debe Sham Working with New Haven public schools, sculptor Debe Sham will help students find their voice in their city as they design their own urban playground. Students will develop small models that will be realized as life-sized sculptures at our Pop-Up Festivals and on the New Haven Green. Contemporary Circus LEO The Anti-Gravity Show June 23, 8PM & June 24, 12PM, 3PM University Theatre, 222 York Street ($35/$55) A mind-bending, funny, surreal, and surprisingly touching work, LEO challenges the senses through the clever interplay of acrobatic physical theatre and video projection. Directed by the Montréal actor and director Daniel Brière, and based on an original idea by the multi-talented performer Tobias Wegner, LEO is now touring in countries all around the world, dazzling audiences and critics from New York to Berlin, from Melbourne to Hong Kong with stops in Montréal, Moscow, and London along the way. Theater YALE INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC THEATRE Presented in Association with Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre June 23 & 24, 1PM, 3PM, 5PM, 7PM Off Broadway Theater, 41 Broadway ($25) Attend open rehearsal readings of exciting new work created by emerging music theatre artists. These readings are the culmination of the annual Yale Institute for Music Theatre, an intensive two-week summer lab that allows composers, book writers, and lyricists the opportunity to develop their work with a team of professional directors and music directors as well as a company of actors and singers. Special Event LUX & GRAVITAS Celebratory Dinner, Performance, and Dessert Reception June 23, 5:30PM Starts at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street ($275/$500) The Festival culminates this year with a celebratory evening and farewell to Mary Lou Aleskie, groundbreaking Executive Director of the Festival for 11 years. Your ticket includes a roaming dinner at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library with artists and special guests close to Mary Lou; a premium seat for the evening’s gravity-defying circus performance LEO; and a dessert reception and champagne toast after the show at The Study. Headline Concerts on the KeyBank Stage TROKER June 17, 6PM (Free) Six musicians from all over Mexico, with different influences but the same goal of creating mesmerizing rhythms and presenting unrepeatable live experiences, Troker’s sound careens between the sublime and the dangerous.
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