David Finkelstein & Ian Hill

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) Presents an evening of live improvised theatre and improvisation-based video created by David Finkelstein of Lake Ivan Performance Group. Two recent works will be screened: "Terrifying Blankess" (featuring Cassie Terman) and "Marvelous Discourse" (featuring Agnes de Garron and Ian W. Hill). Preceding the screenings, Finkelstein and Hill, along with Emmy-nominate musician Steve Sandberg (David Byrne, Ruben Blades), will demonstrate the beginnings of the improvisational process used in the films. After the screenings, you are invited to stay for a glass of wine and an informal discussion with the artists.

A second program of videos with live performance by Finkelstein, Terman, and Sandberg, will be presented on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 8 pm.

Finkelstein's videos are founded on the improvising actor's art of spontaneously creating poetic and evocative texts. The groundwork involves videotaping two actors, gesturing and tossing brief monologues back and forth, creating a picaresque dreamscape. Back at his computer, Finkelstein modulates and mutates the footage through elaborate video wizardry. The work has won awards at several film festivals and is available as single channel DVD releases.

Finkelstein has been making performances since 1982. His video work has been featured in the Brick Theater, Brainwash Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, CRS New York, Outer Film Fest, Artist Television Access, Free Form Film Festival, Ybor Festival, Rubric Video, WRO (Poland) Festival, New Vision Cinema, Athens (Ohio) Film Fest, Dahlonega Film Festival, VideoBardo, Exground, Valleyfest, Big MiniDV Festival, Park City Film Music Festival, the Puget Sound Cinema Society, the Downstream Film Festival, the Silver Lake Festival, EXP2, New Filmmakers, Bearded Child Festival, X-Fest, SinCiné, and the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema. Altogether, his video works have won nine awards at four different Festivals, including the Grand Festival Award from the Berkeley Video and Film Festival for "Born in Mid-Flight" and "Best of Festival: Experimental" from the Brooklyn Arts Council Film Festival for "Earth and Moon in Love." He has been commissioned three times to create videos for the Outmusic Awards, and these videos were subsequently shown on the PrideVision cable network and the PBS series "Under the Pink Carpet." His work has been funded by The Fund for Creative Communities, The Field, Movement Research, Meet the Composer, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BACA, and other sources..

Emmy-nominated composer Steve Sandberg currently scores "Dora the Explorer" and "Go Diego Go" for Nickelodeon/CBS. He recently wrote the music for "Climbing Miss Sophie," which had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. He has toured with David Byrne, Ruben Blades, and Bebel Gilberto. His current solo concerts, "Chants, Songs and Musical Landscapes," highly influenced by his studies of North Indian raga singing in the Sufi lineage of Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan, are improvised shamanistic sound journeys that have been described as "music from a country i've always wanted to go to but never found". He has presented them at the Knitting Factory, the Guggenheim Museum and the Petit Versailles Garden in NYC.

Ian W. Hill is an actor, writer, director, producer, and technician in theatre and film. He managed and lived in the Nada Theatre on Ludlow Street, NYC, from 1996 to 2000. He mainly works at The Brick theatre in Williamsburg, Brooklyn now. Has acted in around 75 independent theatre productions in NYC since 1989, has directed around 50 since 1997, and has designed elements (primarily lights, sound, and/or projections) for many, many more. Hill is also the Founder/Director of the Gemini CollisionWorks arts production company.

Agnes de Garron, perennial pioneer of avant-garde dance, film, and performance art in San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam, Berlin and New Orleans, has recently appeared solo in David Finkelstein’s film “Agnus Dei,” narrated and starred in Lawrence Brose’s Oscar Wilde film “De Profundis,”  choreographed and danced at  P.S. 122, Rapture Café, Judson Memorial Church, Foreman’s Ontological Theater and Margaret Jenkins Dance Theater and the Japan Center in San Francisco.  His marionette company, the Puppetears of Ecstasy, was featured at the New Orleans Jazz Festival and King Richard’s Renaissance Fair.  Agnes was chosen by Theater Journal critic Robert S. Gross as one of the ten best acting performances of the year 2000 for his work in Richard Foreman’s play “Permanent Brain Damage.”

Cassie Terman is a performer, writer, and teacher. Raised in California she arrived to theater in her early twenties by way of dance. Originally trained in ballet and modern technique she began an intensive practice in Action Theater™ with Ruth Zaporah in 1991 and since then has been improvising and creating original physical theater work on stages from San Francisco to Berlin. Fascination with language led to an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, a small Buddhist college, which then influenced her theater work on many levels. In 1999 she became a member of Shinichi Iova-Koga's inkBoat company and was introduced to Butoh dance and a starkly imagistic theater-making that resonated with an ongoing delight in the surreal and darker world of fairytale, myth, and the profoundly mysterious nature of being. Since moving to New York in 2004 she has continued solo performances as well as collaborating with such talented artists as Tanya Calamoneri & Company SoGoNo, composer Keren Rosenbaum's Reflex Ensemble, Heather Harpham, Shinichi Iova-Koga, and the Action Theater Ensemble. Current and past collaborators also include Owen Walker, Sten Rudstrom, Sabine von der Tann, Leigh Evans, Katie Yates, Max Regan, and Etiquette (Mary Lois Hare and Linda Carr).

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