On May 7, 2011, composer Joe Diebes, poet Christian Hawkey, and director David Levine will present fragments of their new opera-in-progress, inspired by Milli Vanilli. To an extent unusual for an opera project, the three artists generate much of their material with performers in a workshop environment. They will leave [...]
On June 3, Tereza Velikova will present a video installation of newly created moving images inspired by the architecture of the Watermill Center. The work shown will include what she has created in residence at Watermill as well as work created prior to the residency. Velikova's new work is [...]
On June 4 at 6:30 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE), SS will present What's He Building in There?, a demonstration exploring the many techniques of the commonly known magic trick, the disappearing coin. What’s He Building in There? is the first part of an ongoing performance research project that [...]
Part of The Watermill Center / CPR residency partnership. On June 13 at 7:30 p.m. at CPR - Center for Performance Research, Megan Whitmarsh and My Barbarian will perform a transcendental, new wave musical in which wealthy eco-tourists have traveled back in time to visit “nature," of which the future [...]
On June 16 at 6:30 p.m. Megan Whitmarsh and My Barbarian present Tourists from the Future. Wealthy eco-tourists travel back in time to visit “nature,” of which the future is bereft. These “Futurians” will spend their residency at Watermill discovering, collecting, and archiving artifacts and relics. These findings will be [...]
On June 18 at 4:00 p.m. Sasha Petrenko—working with Miriam Dym and WWAWUT—will present Pieces-of-you-topia(Watermill variation) an excerpt of a larger exhibition project scheduled to open in San Francisco, August, 2011. Pieces-of-you-topia explores channels toward a more egalitarian position among humankind and our material objects. About a new kind of [...]
On November 12, 2011, Allie Avital Tsypin and Gabrielle Herbst will present a live multimedia performance at The Watermill Center. With live music for voice and chamber ensemble, sculptural costumes and video, the performance will be a work-in-progress, showcasing the artists' developments at the residency. This residency is part of [...]
Part of The Watermill Center / CPR residency partnership. Tickets are $10 and will be sold at the door. To make a reservation please email: kristin.fabrizio@watermillcenter.org Krymov Lab presents Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas as an “object-based opera” performed by a company of stage designers led by Vera Martynova. All graduating [...]
Krymov Lab presents Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas as an “object-based opera” performed by a company of stage designers led by Vera Martynova. All graduating students of GITIS, the Moscow Theater Academy, the young artists not only devised, conceived, imagined, and created every element on stage but they are also performers [...]
On December 20, Nashat and Linder will present an installation of their current work-in-progress. Sculpture, performance props, body images, movement, video and sound will be engaged in a whole encompassing structure in which the nature and relevance of any single element is interchangeably being seduced, interrogated or authenticated by the [...]