HIGH-RES IMAGES – please provide up to 2 high-res (300dpi) images and the photo credit
SHOW/PROJECT NAME: Jay Scheib: Untitled Ecologies
COMPANY/LEAD ARTIST: Jay Scheib & Co.
MAIN CONTACT NAME: Jay Scheib
EMAIL:
PHONE: 1-917-612-2137
COMPANY/LEAD ARTIST WEBSITE URL: http://www.jayscheib.com
ARTISTS INVOLVED (performers, designers, etc.): Jay Scheib & Co.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION FOR PRESS/MARKETING (ONE PARAGRAPH):
Jay Scheib and Co. presents in the form of a manifesto the Epilogue and Synthesis of his Performance Trilogy Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems. After six years of work This will be performed as a brief closing of accounts with a handful of small explosions, a brief lecture demonstration, an avatar and seven diagrams.
COMPANY/LEAD ARTIST BIO:
A 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, and 2012 OBIE Winner Scheib is a director, designer and author of plays, operas and live art events. Internationally known for works of daring physicality, genre-defying performances and deep integration of new (and used) technologies, Scheib’s productions include his original Fassbinder adaptation “World of Wires,” which premiered earlier this year at The Kitchen in New York and will be presented in the fall of 2012 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; the KRT Festival in Krakow Poland; Lieu Unique in Nantes France, Festival d’Automne in Paris at the Maison des Arts Cretéil, and Le Manege in Maubeuge. Other recent productions include “Bellona, Destroyer of Cities,” which played at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the MAC Exit Festival in Paris, following its premiere at The Kitchen. Other recent works include Evan Ziporyn’s“A House in Bali,” as part of BAM’s Next Wave Festival 2010; Beethoven's “Fidelio” at the Saarländisches Staatstheater. Named Best New York Theater Director by Time Out New York in 2009, and one of the 25 theater artists who will shape the next 25 years of American theater, by American Theater Magazine, Scheib is a recipient of the Edgerton Award, The Richard Sherwood Award, and a National Endowement for the Arts/TCG fellowship. He is Professor for Music and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Born in Shenandoah Iowa, Scheib’s recent productions include a new ballet theater collaboration with choreographer Yin Mei and the Hong Kong Dance Company titled “Seven Sages,” which premiered in March 2012 followed by a new staging of Fassbinder’s controversial play “Garbage, the City and Death” with the Norwegian Theater Academy in Oslo, Norway.
UPCOMING DATES FOR PROJECT (WORKSHOPS, PREMIERES, ETC):
Upcoming this season will be a new staging for New York City Opera of Thomas Adès’ opera about the Duchess of Argyll, “Powder her Face,” which will premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music in February 2013.
PRESS QUOTE ABOUT ARTIST/PROJECT/COMPANY:
World of Wires opened with one of the most thrillingly witty displays of illusion I've ever seen on a stage or a screen — a genuine challenge to one's fixed notion of reality — and then barreled through another 90 minutes of riveting near anarchy. I'm hereby sending a brain transmission out to some Off Broadway/nonprofit Morpheus: Please, reboot this soon. — Scott Brown - New York Magazine
For the interdisciplinary auteur Jay Scheib mixing media is as much a socio-philosophical statement as an aesthetic one. His “World of Wires” has equal measures of wonder and anxiety (and, thank heaven, asense of humor).
— Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Scheib’s brand of theater always seems to be ahead of everybody else.
- Tom Murrin, PAPER
ANTICIPATED RUNNING TIME: 7 Minutes? 17 Minutes?
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY SHOWING (for technical purposes, so our stage managers and lighting/sound techs can know what to expect):
I’ll need a microphone. A table. A projector. I’ll work with either VGA or Mini DVI (I’m guessing I’ll bring a macbook pro —the 17 inch version.)
IF YOU WISH TO HAVE A FEEDBACK/Q&A SESSION AS PART OF YOUR PERFORMANCE, WILL YOU NEED A MODERATOR? [ YES PLEASE CAN HELEN DO IT? ]
LIST OF ITEMS/EQUIPMENT YOU WILL BE BRINGING: Macbook Pro. Some Wigs. Maybe a fake pistol. A camera maybe? One or two Avatars and a very large white table-cloth.
LIST OF ITEMS/EQUIPMENT YOU NEED: microphone on a table top stand (sm58-ish preferably)
ANY SPECIAL SOUND, LIGHTING, OR VIDEO NEEDS: Nothing special. A spot light cut exactly to the table top at center would be swell? Would that be doable?
WILL YOU NEED TECH/REHEARSAL TIME PRIOR TO YOUR PERFORMANCE? [YES] [NO]
IF YES, HOW MUCH: One half of an hour I guess to write two light cues. Focus one spotlight on the table and test the projector sound for fun.
IF YES, PLEASE TELL US YOUR FULL AVAILABILITY ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1 AND 2:
Not available on Monday. Only available on Tuesday. As late in the afternoon as possible, if possible.
IF YES, PLEASE TELL US YOUR FULL AVAILABILITY ON THE DAY OF YOUR PERFORMANCE, LEADING UP TO THE TIME OF YOUR PERFORMANCE:
I am part of a group of performances right? I am available super early in the morning and then really late in that afternoon. Like six?
IF NO, PLEASE TELL US WHAT TIME WE CAN EXPECT YOU TO ARRIVE THE DAY OF YOUR SHOWING: