TRAVELOGUE: A Free Story-Telling Event
WE TELL STORIES (and drink sangria specials!) at this FREE event at New World Stages!!
AT TRAVELOGUE, THE STAGE IS YOURS.
In addition to hearing from a handful of curated special guest writers/performers at each event, this is also an opportunity for ANYONE to tell a story from their travels. It can be off the cuff or read from a prepared essay, journal entry, blog, video, poem, song, or even a piece of fiction that you created about/while traveling–domestically, internationally, or even from one side of the city to the other! (At least 4-5 story-tellers will be pulled from a hat, so, if you’re interested, be sure to drop your name in when our host passes it around!)
Even if you don’t share a story, come listen, reunite, and hug us!!!! It’s been too long! If we’ve never met, then it’s REALLY been too long; introduce yourself! There’s lots of time chatting and “meeting up” before we get started, after we end, and in between stories!
WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT?
Travelogue is a free event – hosted by the lovely Mike Axelrod and Lacy Allen–filled with creative travelers, supportive friends, and fun performances. All Travelogue storytellers will receive a free T-shirt in appreciation for sharing.
DID WE MENTION THAT THE EVENT IS FREE AND THAT THERE ARE SANGRIA SPECIALS?
WHEN AND WHERE?
Sunday 10/22, 7:15-10:00 New World Stages, downstairs in the Time Out New York Lounge. (340 West 50th St.)
QUESTIONS?
Email christen@dramaticadventure.com
See you at Travelogue!
ACTion Fest 2017 -- JUNTOS, MANO A MANO: Hand in Hand
JOIN US.
Join us for an eclectic festival of devised theatre inspired by a month spent working and creating ‘Mano a Mano’ with diverse communities across Ecuador. From the sandy beaches of the enchanted Galápagos islands to the overgrown paths of the Amazon jungle, two casts of DAT artists seek to find and share stories of today’s Ecuador.
One Weekend Only!
THU, AUG 3 @ 2pm (Preview) & 8pm (Opening Night)
FRI, AUG 4 @ 8pm
SAT, AUG 5 @ 2pm & 8pm
SUN, AUG 6 @ 2pm
$20 at the door, $18 online
@ juntos.brownpapertickets.com
New works directed by:
Peter Petkovšek
Amy E. Witting
Performance Notes:
- Every performance will showcase each of the newly developed short plays.
- Designed with an English speaking audience in mind.
- Developed for audiences of all ages.
- Handicap accessible and air conditioned space.
#Repost @rennn92 - Actor & Teaching Artist on DAT’s ‘ACTion: Heart of Europe 2015’
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There is no greater photo that honors International Day of Happiness AND World Day of Theater for Children and Young People falling on the same day. This past summer, these inspiring young kiddos jumped into opportunities to share their stories, learn new things, and grow outside their comfort zones both on stage and off. Little did we both know, they allowed us to do the exact same. Missing these beautiful faces every day! Photo taken by the lovely @jasompetra 💙💚❤️#velkaida #storytelling #dramaticadventure #moedtoact #actionheartofeurope (at Velka Ida)
#fbf Shout out to our students on Isla Floreana in The Galápagos Islands! Our residency this January was a huge success due to your eagerness to learn and create meaningful theatre. Congratulations to our Residency Team – especially @christenita for her guidance, @cronktastic for taking the lead, and @chuksui for nurturing such a strong partnership in this community!
#movedtoact #dramaticadventure #teachingartistresidency #islafloreana #islasgalapagos #artseducation #theatreeducation (at Isla Floreana, Galapagos)
TRAVELOGUE @ The Cornelia Street Café
***Tickets are $9 at the door and INCLUDE a free drink from the bar!
Travelogue is a travel writing reading series at which artists of all types share their travel narratives through scenes, monologues, essays, songs, and more.
This special Travelogue at Cornelia St. Cafe will feature a carefully curated line-up of Travelogue’s “Best.” Hand-picked from past events and readings, Sunday night’s show will feature our most well-received narratives and monologues as well as award winning essayists.
Readers/Performers:
Ola Elliott
Sarah Cronk
Mike Axelrod
Christen Madrazo
Hailey Moran and Meghan Cashel
Hosts:
Annie Hartkemeyer
Lacy Allen
MORE ON CORNELIA STREET CAFE
“An artists’ cafe… Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega started out here, as did Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues. Senator & presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy & attorney-activist William Kunstler have read their poetry; Dr. Oliver Sacks continues to read his prose. Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann presents a monthly Science Series; members of Monty Python & the Royal Shakespeare Company intermittently perform."
WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT?
This special Travelogue event – filled with creative travelers, supportive friends, and fun performances – costs $9 at the door and INCLUDES a free drink. All Travelogue storytellers will also receive a prize complimentary DAT T-shirt in appreciation for sharing.
See you at Travelogue!
#latergram
After traveling from the Amazon, we worked our way across the Andes and up the coast to Esmeraldas – the heart of Afro-Ecuadorian culture! We have been working in the city of Esmeraldas for years, but with this trip we met with new partners in a small, charming village accurately named “Pueblito.” It was a fantastic meeting and we are thrilled to be expanding our efforts into this rural community. And as you can see from this mural, although there is no ongoing arts education being offered at this school – there is definitely a desire to learn!
#dramaticadventure #movedtoact #esmeraldas #afroecuatoriano #ecuadorisallyouneed #artseducation #theatreeducation #allvoicesmatter #niñosenelarte #childreninthearts (at Pueblito, Esmeraldas, Ecuador)
#latergram
We decided to hike in for our meeting with the leadership of this Shuar community in the Amazon. Although things began cautiously, we all left the meeting feeling like this was the beginning of an important relationship. We look forward to working hand in hand with our new friends to strengthen public speaking/storytelling skills – needed now more than ever as their voices desperately needs to be heard.
#dramaticadventure #movedtoact #artseducation #theatreeducation #empoweredvoices #poweroftheatre #indigenousrights #amazonjungle #ecuadorisallyouneed
#latergram
Heading into the Amazon in our trusty ‘Pichi’ – meeting with the syndicate of a local shuar community!
#dramaticadventure #movedtoact #adventuresofpichi #pichirilo #vwbug #amazonjungle
What an incredibly productive and fun trip this has been. Hasta pronto Ecuador, see you for ACTion 2017!!
#dramaticadventure #movedtoact #actionecuador #inflight #ecuadorisallyouneed
#latergram
On our way to another community meeting, we were shown nearby and newly discovered ancient petroglyphs. Amazing. Love this one!
#dramaticadventure #movedtoact #ecuadorisallyouneed #indianajones #ancientaliens
Galapa… GONE.
We set up our resident teaching artists on the island of Floreana and now it’s time for us to go. Sad to leave!
#thatsthewayitgalapaGOES #dramaticadventure #movedtoact
#teachingartistresidency
#latergram
Heading to meet with community leaders in the valley, but first we had to pull over and take in the view.
#goldenhour #stunningview #peacefuleasyfeeling #dramaticadventure #movedtoact #ecuadorisallyouneed (at Limón Indanza, Morona Santiago)
#latergram
Our beloved ‘Pichi’ took us on a full loop of Ecuador as we met with community partners on each corner of the country!
#dramaticadventure #movedtoact #vwbug #pichirilo #roadtrip #andesmountains (at Gualaceo)
TRAVELOGUE @ New World Stages
WE TELL STORIES (and drink sangria specials!) at this FREE event at New World Stages!!!!
AT TRAVELOGUE, THE STAGE IS YOURS.
In addition to hearing from a handful of curated special guest writers/performers at each event, this is also an opportunity for you to tell a story from your travels off the cuff or bring in a prepared essay, journal entry, blog, video, poem, or song that you created about/while traveling–domestically, internationally, or even from one side of the city to the other!
Even if you don’t share a story, come listen, reunite, and hug us!!!! It’s been too long! If we’ve never met, then it’s REALLY been too long! Introduce yourself!
WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT?
Travelogue is a free event – filled with creative travelers, supportive friends, and fun performances. All Travelogue storytellers will receive a complimentary T-shirt in appreciation for sharing!
DID WE MENTION THAT THE EVENT IS FREE AND THAT THERE ARE $4 DRINK SPECIALS!
WHEN AND WHERE?
Sunday 10/18, 7:30-9:30pm, New World Stages (340 West 50th St., NYC), downstairs in the Time Out New York Lounge.
QUESTIONS?
Email christen@dramaticadventure.com
See you at Travelogue!
A Staged Reading of The Rebel Bird
Dramatic Adventure Theatre, NYC
presents:
A Staged Reading of
The Rebel Bird
Written by Jason Williamson
Directed by Kathleen Amshoff
*Workshop presented with the generous support of
the U.S. Embassy and Divadlo Andreja Bagara
At the culmination of a six-day development residency at Divadlo Andreja Bagara, Dramatic Adventure Theatre, NYC will present a public staged reading of their newest play: Jason Williamson’s The Rebel Bird, featuring Slovak actress Lucia Siposova (360, Guard 47, She Twice Over) alongside American actors Nick Lehane (This is Our Youth, Warrior, The Mysteries of Laura)Jonathan David (Greater Angels, Shameless, A Civil War Christmas). Roma musicians and actors—Milan Hudak, Lukas Hudak, and Jan Koky—from the Slovak Roma theatre company, Slumdog Theater, will accompany the piece.
Directed by Kathleen Amshoff, The Rebel Bird explores issues of prejudice, poverty, and human trafficking on the Roma people. The play features Yeva, a Roma woman imprisoned in the seediest of Prague brothels. Her only comfort is singing the songs of her childhood with her brothers, who appear from her memory. When the intuitive henchman of an NYC millionaire hears Yeva’s voice, he buys her for his boss, who is obsessed with owning his own version of opera’s most infamous “Gypsy”: Bizet’s Carmen. And so, in a posh Manhattan penthouse, Yeva is dragged into a battle for survival that may erase her—body and soul. Colliding the music of Bizet with that of a live Roma band, this lyrical thriller exposes the scars of prejudice, poverty, and human trafficking on the disenfranchised and enfranchised alike.
An optional public talkback will follow the presentation; this project aims to bring Slovak, Roma, and American artists and audience members together to discuss a play that tackles issues affecting each of our unique communities and cultures. By shedding light on complicated issues of discrimination, cultural identity, and human trafficking, this project will foster dialogue, awareness, and understanding about each of our unique perspectives.
DATES: June 30, 2015
TIME: 18:00
COST: Free
PLACE: Divadlo Andreja Bagara, Nitra, Slovakia
More on Dramatic Adventure Theatre:
Dramatic Adventure Theatre, an NYC-based theater company with a large international service arts component, has ongoing projects in Ecuador, Tanzania, and Slovakia. DAT’s main goals are to provide the opportunity for artists to perform, teach, and serve around the world and to share their skills and experiences with others who may not have access to arts and humanities funding/programs. Since its founding in 2006, DAT has produced 22 plays, developed 7 ongoing programs, participated in 31 service projects in 18 communities and taken more than 200 artists abroad, where they’ve engaged with disenfranchised communities through performance, teaching, and service.
While abroad, DAT artists workshop with local artists and non-artists of all ages and work with communities on-site to devise, rehearse, direct, and present original works with and for the community. In Slovakia, DAT has partnered with ETP Slovensko for five years to facilitate workshops in Roma settlements throughout the country. These workshops and the resulting performances have had a profound effect on Roma and non-Roma alike, as the telling of stories inherently creates a forum where ideas, culture, and experience can be shared and examined. To view a national news clip featuring a portion of our work during DAT’s last project in Slovakia, please visit the following link: http://tiny.cc/29qdyx
In addition to its educational activities, DAT commissions its resident playwright to create plays inspired by its work all over the world as part of its Global Play Initiative. In Fall 2013, DAT produced the Ecuador-inspired A Girl Without Wings in NYC—a play that not only brought Andean culture to NYC, but also shed light on important issues of post-colonial poverty among indigenous communities. (The play was called “poignant” in a rave review by The New York Times.) This summer, DAT expands the Global Play Initiative’s reach to Slovakia by presenting this workshop production of the Slovakia-inspired play, The Rebel Bird.
Email: christen@dramaticadventure.com
Website: http://www.dramaticadventure.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DramaticAdventure
Contact: Christen Madrazo
Seeking actor for THE REBEL BIRD
Dramatic Adventure Theatre seeks actor for a cross-cultural developmental workshop of THE REBEL BIRD, a new play by resident playwright Jason Williamson. The workshop will take place in Nitra, Slovakia, from June 24 to July 3. DAT Associate Artistic Director Kathleen Amshoff directs a cast of American and Slovak actors, with musical contributions by members of Slumdog Theater from Moldava, Slovakia.
Dramatic Adventure Theatre will provide roundtrip airfare, accommodation and food for the week in Slovakia. Auditions will take place by appointment, between now and May 1st.
AIDEN:
White male. Late 20’s-30’s. A rapid speaking intellectual, with a sharp sense of humor and a malevolent streak. Though he’s from a working class background, Aiden got obscenely rich while still young. His early success has left him manic and empty, with a special brand of sadism that’s tinged with childlike wonder.
PLAY SYNOPSIS:
Yeva is a Roma woman from Slovakia imprisoned in the seediest of Prague brothels. Her only comfort is singing the songs of her childhood with her brothers, who appear from her memory as a live Roma band. When Jones, the intuitive henchman of an American millionaire, hears her voice, he offers her a way out of her miserable existence. He’ll take her away to Manhattan as long as she becomes the perfect Carmen for his boss Aiden, who’s obsessed with owning his own version of Bizet’s tempestuous heroine. Tensions grow as Yeva begins to rebel against Aiden’s plans and as feelings grow between her and Jones, until a fateful trip to the Metropolitan Opera hurtles them all to the inevitable.
Combining the music of Bizet with that of a live Roma band, THE REBEL BIRD is a unique theatrical piece that explores the impact of prejudice, poverty, and human trafficking on the Roma people.
To submit, please send headshot and resume to casting@dramaticadventure.com.
#Repost @journeymanbaxter ・・・ Today is the last day of #auditions for #ACTionheartofeurope (heading to #Czech and #Slovakia this summer!). Since we had Skype auditions scheduled back to back all day, I felt it would be fitting (and fun and delicious) to hold these final auditions at the @bohemianhallbeergarden in #Astoria.
#dramaticadventure #bryndzovehalusky #pilsenerurquell #mariannewilliamson #ourdeepestfear #coldreading #DATstyle
DAT representing at the Cultural Mobility Symposium today – the three of us are filled to the brim with ideas for the future!
#theatrewithoutborders #onthemove #movedtoact #DATcore #dramaticadventure
25 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY
Today we commemorate, along with our Czech and Slovak friends/colleagues, the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution – and we ruminate on the lasting impact of their founding playwright president, Václav Havel.
Václav Havel was a man who knew just how powerful theatre can be. This is very clearly heard in the following speech:
The International Theatre Day
Prague, March 27, 1994“For the first time in the history of man, the planet he inhabits is encompassed by a single global civilization. Because of this, anything that happens anywhere has consequences, both good and ill, for everyone everywhere. This civilization, however, is composed of an enormous number of peoples or ethnic groups with widely diverse customs and traditions, and of many cultures, or cultural spheres, both large and small, many religious worlds, and many different kinds of political culture.
It seems that the more tightly this variegated community is crowded together by contemporary civilization and compelled to accept common values and modes of behaviour, the more powerfully will various groups feel the need to defend their national, racial, and cultural autonomy and identity. Many dangerous conflicts in the world today can be explained by the simple fact that the closer we are to one another, the more we notice our differences.
Moreover, we are living at a time when various artificial orders have collapsed, whether these orders have been formed by the colonial system, or the bipolar system dominated by two superpowers. The world is becoming genuinely multicultural and multipolar and is only now beginning to seek a new, genuinely just order, one that meets the needs of the present.
All of this makes the modern world an especially dramatic place, with so many peoples in so many places resisting coexistence with each another. And yet its only chance for survival lies precisely in such coexistence.
It is not true that because of television, film, video, and the other great achievements of this era, theatre is dwindling in importance. I would say that exactly the opposite is true, that theatre is better-suited than any other medium to reveal, in genuinely compelling and challenging ways, not only all the dark forces that are dragging the world down, but also everything bright and luminous, in which its hopes are contained.
In today’s dehumanizing technological civilization, theatre is one of the important islands of human authenticity. That is, it is precisely what if this world is not to end up badly must be protected and cultivated. After all, the return of the irreplaceable human subjectivity, the concrete human personality and its concrete human conscience, is precisely what this world of megamachinery and anonymous megabureaucracies needs. Only man is capable of confronting all the dangers that face the world, confronting it with his renewed responsibility, his awareness of connections in other words, precisely with something within him which not even the best network of modern computers can replace. The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being.
Yes, theatre is not just another genre, one among many. It is the only genre in which, today and every day, now and always, living human beings address and speak to other human beings. Because of that, theatre is more than just the performance of stories or tales. It is a place for human encounter, a space for authentic human existence, above all the kind of existence that transcends itself in order to give an account of the world and of itself. It is a place of living, specific, inimitable conversation about society and its tragedies, about man, his love and anger and hatred. Theatre is a point at which the intellectual and spiritual life of the human community crystallizes. It is a space in which it can exercise its freedom and come to understanding.
In the global technical civilization created by so many autonomous cultures and threatened by conflicts between them, theatre is I firmly believe a telescope into the future and a means of giving a concrete shape to our hope. Not because its purpose is to describe a world better than the one that exists, or to construct a vision of a better future, but because it embodies the main hope of humanity today, which is the rebirth of a living humanity. For, if theatre is free conversation, free dialogue, among free people about the mysteries of the world, then it is precisely what will show humankind the way toward tolerance, mutual respect, respect for the miracle of Being.
I appeal to you all, people of the theatre, to remember your colleagues in Sarajevo. They are doing precisely what I have been talking about. Through the exercise of freedom of the spirit, through the cultivation of dialogue and the creation of a space for real human communication, they are confronting the terrible war in their country. Ethnic fanatics and thugs are casting the world back into its darkest past. People of the theatre who engage their audiences in a dialogue about the dramas of the world of today and the dramas of the human spirit point the way to the future.
There is another war going on in Sarajevo beside the one we see on television. It is an unarmed conflict between those who hate and kill others only because they are different, and people of the theatre who bring the uniqueness of human beings alive and make dialogue possible. In this war, the people of the theatre must win. It is they who point toward the future as a peaceful conversation between all human beings and societies about the mysteries of the world and Being.
These people of the theatre are serving peace, and they remind us that theatre still has meaning.”
– Václav Havel
Read more:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/vaclav-havel-playwright-turned-polical-dissident-turned-president/
#rebelmusic - Native America
Heartbreaking and hopeful, these voices are straining to be heard.
Let’s come together to strengthen and amplify these voices. Together, we can overcome the high rates of poverty and suicide that currently exist within native nations across America
“Hopefully [art] can be a peace-making force; it can be a force for reconciliation and understanding. I hope it’s a force for education too.”
- Wab Kinew
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/h2/osmo/rebelmusic/12-native-americans-who-are-making-a-difference?b=1