Culturebot loves PRELUDE! Yes, okay, I curated for three years, but I loved it even before that. Created by the indefatigable and inspiring Frank Hentschker, PRELUDE has established itself as the best way to see new work from all your favorite emerging and established NYC-based artists. This year PRELUDE.11 takes as its starting point the dialogue between recent tendencies in theater, dance and visual art performance. For the first time in PRELUDE’s history, it will use the James Gallery at the Graduate Center as well as the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center so that this interdisciplinary festival can continue to investigate the resonances between the “white cube” and the “black box.” Invitees include Jay Scheib, Temporary Distortion, Sibyl Kempson and Big Dance Theater, Donelle Woolford, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Mac Wellman, Suzanne Bocanegra and Paul Lazar, Half Straddle, Daniel Fish, lumberob, Jake Hooker, Otso Huopaniemi, Elevator Repair Service, Young Jean Lee, Rob Fitterman, Will Holder, Nina Beier, and a host of others, including a new commission from Jackson Pollock Bar. Events occur daily from 4pm-10pm, with selected performances loosely based around the following themes:

· We Present A Presentation: performative lectures, theory-installations, and performances within performances.
· Repurposing: taking preexisting works, events or texts as the basis for new performances
· Text As Texture: creating a musical or performative experience from the materiality of language.

THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!! DON’T MISS IT!!!

PRELUDE.11
The Eighth Annual PRELUDE Festival

Wednesday Oct 12 – Friday, Oct 14, 2011
FREE and open to the public. First come, first served.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) NYC
WWW.PRELUDENYC.ORG

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY is pleased to present PRELUDE.11, the eighth annual PRELUDE festival dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre, dance and visual art performance. PRELUDE will offer over 20 short performances, readings, and open rehearsals—a completely free sneak-peek into the work being prepared for the 2011/12 season, as well as new commissions and daily panel discussions with artists and performers.

PRELUDE is the annual three-day festival organized by the Martin E. Segal Theater Center at CUNY Graduate Center. It was established in 2003 with the remit of showing the best in New York-based theater and performance. Each year Frank Hentschker, director of the Martin E.Segal Theater Center, assembles a curatorial team to select and organize the program. This year’s PRELUDE has been selected by Claire Bishop (Associate Professor, PhD Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center), Rob Marcato (Artistic Line Producer, Signature Theatre Company, NY) and Helen Shaw (Theater critic, Time Out New York). PRELUDE.11’s Producer is Caleb Hammons (Producer, Soho Rep., NY).

All presentations will be held in the James Gallery and the Segal Center at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. A closing night party will be held on Friday 14 October at The Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. All programs are subject to change.

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Dear Prelude Festival friends,

Prelude 09: Economies, Ecologies, and Engagement is nigh! This is your invitation to our opening night extravaganza, which lands this coming Wednesday, September 30th. We’ll be hosting an artists reception beginning at 5:00pm at the Segal Theatre (365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th Street) with wine and light bites- to be followed by the Prelude 6X6 Opening Panel: a fast and furious Pecha-Kucha style kick-off with Wayne Ashley, Tairone Bastien, Yehuda Duenyas, Bonnie Marranca, Esther Robinson, & Andrew Schneider. Following the panel, we’ll head to Koreatown for a night of arty karaoke (karaoke optional), drinks, a few special performances, and of course, celebration!

Thanks so much for your sustained commitment to the downtown theatre and performance community, but also for the many ways you’ve helped Prelude grow year after year- we look forward to seeing you at some or all of our events next week!

Love,

TEAM PRELUDE

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Just a reminder to save the date for PRELUDE 09! September 30-October 3, 2009. It is going to be great.

Check out the new website! http://www.preludenyc.org/

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Calling all lovers of downtown theatre and performance! Prelude 09: Ecologies, Economies, and Engagement is currently looking for a few good hands to volunteer for festival outreach and hospitality. Prelude 09 is an amazing opportunity to get involved with New York’s downtown theatre and performance scene, and is chock full of fantastic parties, symposia, and more. Prelude 09 runs September 30th-October 3rd,at the Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue b/w 34th & 35th St.)

Greeters/Ushers!
The festival is looking for 2-4 persons available Wednesday-Saturday (or a portion of those dates) for greeting people, directing them to the Segal and Elebash venues, and, in several cases, acting as the guide between the lobby and other on-site event spaces.

Hours: 2pm-4pm; 4pm-6pm; 6pm-8pm; Each day of the festival.

Hospitality/Runners!
The festival is looking for 2 persons available Wednesday-Saturday (or a portion of those dates) for space and hospitality services for Prelude 09 Artists, liasing between event Producers and participating artists, panelists, and Stage Managers.

Hours: As above.

Neighborhood Do-gooders!
Prelude 09 Needs your help in our marketing efforts. We remain a totally FREE festival at a time when everyone is feeling the pinch- can you think of local haunts (coffee shops, performance spaces, educational institutions) who will display our postcards? Can you commit to taking a stack or two around the city with you in the coming weeks?

Hours: Own.

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Artists for this year’s PRELUDE are:

Marina Abramovic
Bruce High Quality Foundation
The Chocolate Factory
Erin Courtney
Steve Cuiffo
William Cusick
Andrew Dinwiddie
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
John Jesurun
Kristen Kosmas
Aaron Landsman
David Levine
The Living Theatre
Mad Dog Experimental
David Michalek
NYC Players
Object Collection
Radiohole
Jay Scheib
SPOTLIGHT: KOREA
Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf
Adrienne Truscott
Witness Relocation

Plus lots of great panels and discussions. MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!

September 30 – October 3, 2009 at The Segal Center

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Check out photos from last year’s PRELUDE on Facebook!!

Here are some samples:

Andrew Schneider (photo by Rachel Roberts)

Temporary Distortion (photo by Rachel Roberts)

Wax Factory/Intervention (photo by Rachel Roberts)

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Here’s a big THANK YOU to all the artists, audience members, curators, thinkers, do-ers, staff and supporters of PRELUDE ’08. This year was absolutely phenomenal.  Pretty much every showing and talkback and panel was full, there was performance in the library, the halls, the lobby, the auditoriums, on the street and even in Second Life! (I finally got it going on Saturday afternoon thanks to the invaluable help of Streamguys!)  We had an awesome opening party at Chorus Karaoke with live performance/installation from Big Art Group and a throw-down drinkfest celebratory closing night party at Under the Volcano on Saturday night –  sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute…..And we got a great write-up in TimeOut! Phew!

The artists showed amazing works-in-progress, the panelists were all insightful and articulate, the audiences were engaged and active and enthusiastic. YAY!!!!

We will post Rachel Roberts’ photos and Michael Arthur’s illustrations as soon as we catch our collective breath….

Thanks again and see you all soon in theaters all around town!

xoAndy

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Thanks to Beatrice for picking up the editorial slack around here while yours truly is neck-deep in PRELUDE!

It has been going really well – check in with Claudia and Art.Cult for updates.

also check out the article in TIME OUT! – and check the Prelude Blog for updates and illustrations from Michael D. Arthur!

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Okay everybody! Wanna get the scoop on the whole thing!? Download the Web-Optimized version of the Prelude ’08 Program and get a sneak-peek of this season’s most awesomest all-FREE downtown theatrical extravaganza!!!

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