Performance

Big Apple Playback Theatre is a professional physical theatre company that brings true stories told by the audience to life on the spot using movement, music, metaphor, text, and poetry.Read more

Also on the program: "Seeds," a recent video by Aya Shibahara

Following the program, we invite you to stay for a glass of wine and discuss the work.

Performed by Yoshiko Chuma, Ursula Eagly,
Jun Kim & Mina Nishimura
Images by Rie Ono, Sound by Kohji Setoh
in Japanese with English subtitles

CRS invites you to join us for a first public reading (with projected subtitles and sound design) of Yoshiko Chuma's HOLD THE CLOCK. Inspired by the writing of Japanese student radical Genichiro Takahashi, HOLD THE CLOCK continues Ms. Chuma's multi-year investigation of the aesthetic and philosophical questions and responses that arose during the revolutionary movements across the globe during the 60's and 70's. Takahashi was arrested as a student radical and spent half a year in prison, a harrowing experience that rendered him incapable of reading or writing for several years. His subsequent first book, Sayonara, Gangsters, captured the era's punk lyricism and irreverent upheaval of social convention and took the Japanese literary establishment by storm.

This work-in-progress showing of HOLD THE CLOCK is the culmination of a residency at CRS made possible in part through a grant of public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. With additional support from NYSCA and from the Performing Arts Japan Program of Japan Foundation, this work will have its official premiere as part of the 92nd St Y Harkness Dance Festival Anniversary Season: Past-Future-Now March 19−21, 2010. This production is part of the Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, a performing arts festival marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, presented by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in partnership with key New York City cultural organizations and academic institutions, November 2009—March 2010. www.performingrevolution.org

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CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) Presents an evening of live improvised theatre and improvisation-based video created by David FinkRead more

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. Read more