The Chicago-based performance group Synapse Arts Collective creates opportunities for all types of artists to work collaboratively on performance-based projects. Integrating movement experimentation, theater, photography, music, visual art, video, creative writing, and stage design, the group strives to both inspire their audiences and evoke critical thinking and emotion.
Chicago-based Von Orthal Puppets is committed to keeping the ancient art of puppetry alive by educating a new generation of puppeteers and creating a communion of cultures and ideas through their art form. Using puppets of dazzling beauty and mesmerizing complexity, there’s a big Wow Factor for both young and old in their performances.
New York-based visual artist Kira Lynn Harris uses drawings, light and reflective surfaces, such as mirrors and Mylar, to call attention to and even “destabilize” everyday space. Her work creates an intersection of fact and fiction, real and surreal, and asks the viewer to consider the question “what if?”
Set aside all the stereotypes that you have about opera, including that it’s three-plus hours of passive listening. New York City’s Underworld Productions creates operas that speak to 21st-century audiences and demystifies opera so that all may enjoy it. Among the ensemble’s aims are the elimination of opera’s “trial by length” and the dissolution of the separation between cast and audience.
With more than 20 years of experience and two Emmy Awards, producer Andrea Melville has created myriad films and television programs: from shorter magazine-style segments, to public affairs programming, hour-long documentaries and a 30-part series. In 2008, she completed An Island Kingdom, a 90-minute documentary highlighting the 400-year history of the Isles of Shoals off the New Hampshire coast.
A theatre ensemble that presents delicious home-cooked meals through staged performances, Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant creates a social dinner party setting as it would be run by a troupe of visionary artists of the avant-garde theatre. A dinner theatre, you ask? Absolutely not, says producing director Connie Hall…
A modern dance company based in Northern Virginia, Next Reflex Dance Collective centers around the practice of collaboration and provides a venue for more artistic voices in the Metro D.C. dance community.
In 1991, Nan Richardson founded Umbrage Editions, an artistic, socially conscious, and photojournalism-oriented publishing company, and has published nearly seventy books under the imprint. Umbrage also represents a human rights organization, Speak Truth to Power, that produces plays, events, colloquia, films and more.
A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Fractured Atlas member Samuel Thompson began playing violin at a young age and made his debut at the age of eighteen with the Carolina Amadeus Players Chamber Orchestra. He earned a Master of Music degree from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where he studied with Kenneth Goldsmith and Raphael Fliegel. Currently living in New York, Samuel recently took time out from his busy schedule of performing, editing recordings and writing about music and the arts to answer a few of my questions…
Just off its premiere concert, the newly-formed San Marco Chamber Music Society has no shortage of talent and enthusiasm for bringing world-class chamber music to the Jacksonville, Florida, area. In this week’s Featured Member profile, violist and society co-founder Ellen Olson describes the group’s early successes and challenges.
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