synesthesia

2010

a game of artistic telephone across the genres

April 21 – May 1

TICKETS NOW ON SALE!

“… strangely prophetic…” – NY Times

In October 2009, a composer/lyricist team was asked to select a fortune cookie.  They created a piece based on the fortune.  Two weeks later, they presented their work to the next artist in the series. This artist then had two weeks to create a piece based on the work shown to him (never having seen the fortune), and then presented his art to the next artist.  She then created a piece…and then another artist, and then another artist… eventually, ten in all.

From April 21st – May 1st 2010, the assembled works of all ten artists will be presented live, in-sequence, at the
Wild Project in New York City’s East Village.

“Electric Pear Productions has taken the grade-school game of Telephone to a new level.”
– Time Out New York

Witness the next stage in the convergence of media. Now in its fourth season, Synesthesia is a live, annual event which unites a select and diverse range of arts and artists for four days only. Synesthesia is an Electric Pear exclusive production, conceived by Ashlin Halfnight and Melanie Sylvan, and staged for the first time in 2007. This year’s show will offer up an evening of original music, theatre, art, film, dance…and surprises!

THE SYNESTHESIA 2010 ARTISTS:

Ari Hest (Singer/Songwriter Extraordinaire)
Jon Morris /Windmill Factory (Fuerzabruta’s Running Man)
Brent Arnold (Electric Looping Cellist)
Mariana Elder & Andrew Elsesser (Musical Theatre’s Next Hot Team)
Thomas Doyle (Micro Sculpture Artist)
Meghan Frederick  (Superphysical Dancer/Choreographer)
Brian Bustos (B’way Costume Designer)
Stone Cold Fox (UCB’s House Sketch Comedy Team)
Tariq Cherkaoui (Animator and Motion Graphic Artist)
The Mayhem Poets (Spoken Word/Slam Poet Dream Team)
Joel Bravo (Indie Rock Interstitial Music)
and Adam Ramsey (Mixologist)!!

ONLY 8 PERFORMANCES…BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY!

Wednesday 4/21, Thursday 4/22, Friday 4/23, Saturday 4/24, Monday 4/26, Wednesday 4/28, Thursday 4/29 - Shows at 8pm

Final Show: Saturday 5/1 at 7pm!

at The Wild Project
 – 269 East 3rd Street – 
New York, NY
F Train to 2nd Avenue

All Tickets $20.00

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS TODAY
OR CALL 212.352.3101.

Click Here To View The Synesthesia 2009 Teaser

and save the date-
the 4th annual electric pear gala benefit at the vault!
thursday, may 13th, 2010!

]]> http://www.electricpear.org/thank-you-synesthesia/feed/ 0 http://www.electricpear.org/balaton/ http://www.electricpear.org/balaton/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:53:48 +0000 Admin http://www.electricpear.org/?p=233 A new play by Ashlin Halfnight Directed by Kristjan Thor

World Premiere:

• October 17 - November 7 2009 at The Theater at 30th Street

April 16 – May2, 2009

Electric Pear Productions and Performance Lab 115 present

The World Premiere of

ARTIFACTS OF CONSEQUENCE

A play by Ashlin Halfnight
Directed by Kristjan Thor

In a crumbling, burnt-out America, an underwater bunker stores the relics of our everyday lives: Barbie, Moby Dick, Twinkies and bond traders are all preserved in a labyrinthine warehouse, shelved in boxes, awaiting the stabilization of the continent above. One woman is charged with safeguarding our cultural artifacts for the rebuilding of a great society… but the walls are leaking, resources are running out, and her wide-eyed assistant is hell-bent on losing her virginity to the first man she can find.

As the facility nears collapse, it’s clear that vast quantities of our legacy will be lost…

What would you save?

April 17 – May 2, 2009
at The Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street (between A & B)
Monday – Saturday at 8pm

Two of the most groundbreaking and original companies in New York City team up to take on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur with Artifacts of Consequence. This collaborative piece, which has been in development for 8 months, takes a theatrical, hilarious, and twisted look at a dystopian American landscape.

Starring:
Sara Buffamanti*
Tobias Burns
Hanna Cheek*
Marty Keiser*
Rebecca Lingafelter*
Jayd McCarty*
and Amy Newhall

Stage Manager – Andrea Wales*
Scenic Design – Jennifer de Fouchier
Lighting Desing – Kathleen Dobbins
Costume Design – Amelia Dombrowski
Sound Design/Composer – Mark Valadez

*Members of Actors Equity Association. An Equity Approved Showcase

Artifacts of Consequence is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Support also provided by The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and The Mental Insight Foundation.

“… strangely prophetic…” – NY Times

On September 22, 2008, a poet was asked to select and open a fortune cookie. Two weeks later, she presented her work to a painter. Two weeks after that, the painter’s work was presented to a puppetry collective. And then another artist, and then another artist… eventually, ten in all.

From February 25-28, 2009, the assembled works of all ten artists will be presented live, in-sequence, at the Wild Project in New York City’s East Village.

“Electric Pear Productions has taken the grade-school game of Telephone to a new level.” – Time Out New York

Witness the next stage in the convergence of media. Now in its third season, Synesthesia is a live, annual event which unites a select and diverse range of arts and artists for four days only. Synesthesia is an Electric Pear exclusive production, conceived by Ashlin Halfnight and Melanie Sylvan, and staged for the first time in 2007. This year’s show is directed by Brooklyn-based artists Ilana Manaster and Gregory Stuart Edwards, and offers up an evening of original film, music, painting, performance, dance, and cuisine.

SYNESTHESIA 2009 Lineup:

• Spoken Word by Aja Monet
• Painting by Harry Hancock
• Puppetry by Piehole
• Song by Jessica Delfino
• Graphic Art by Kevin Colden
• Theatre by New Georges
• Dance by Ed Rice
• Film by Dan Sharnoff
• Music by Juliana Trivers
• Chocolate by Mast Brothers Chocolate

Additional Music by Ljova

Directed and Associate Produced by Ilana Manaster and Gregory Stuart Edwards

Synesthesia 2009
8pm, February 25 – 28
The Wild Project, NYC
Purchase Tickets Online Now!

Read the features in The New York Times and Time Out New York about Synesthesia 2008.

The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents

By: Lukas Bärfuss
Translated by: Neil Blackadder
Directed by: Kristjan Thor

November 6-22 @ 8 PM
The Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street (between A & B)

photos by Hand Keefe

After ten years on tranquillizers, Dora emerges with an adamant sexual hunger that pits her violently against a secret and deviant adult world…not your normal coming of age story; not your everyday sexual awakening.

Following a smash run in London, Bärfuss’ play hits New York for a limited run. Don’t miss this fearless look at the explosive place where family, pharmaceuticals, and sexual awakening collide. Directed by rising star Kristjan Thor, named one of New York Magazine’s “Most Likely to be Famous Before 30.”

“An impressively thought-through performance that retains the power to surprise…”

- New York Times

“Under Kristjan Thor’s keen direction…Grace Gummer shows intelligent instincts and a riveting presence.”

- BackStage

“It’s a play that’s simultaneously unafraid of addressing serious topics and eliciting a few laughs from its audience along the way…reason enough to recommend this smart, stylish production.”

- Music OMH

“Kristjan Thor’s direction is invaluable.”

- New Theater Corps

Starring:

Grace Gummer
Laura Heidinger*
Kathryn Kates*
Max Lodge
Charlie Mitchell
Jim Noonan*
Peter O’Connor*

Scenic Design/Costume Design: Moza Saracho
Music/Sound Designer: Joel Bravo
Graphic Design/Costume Design: Kylie Ward
Lighting Design: Kathleen Dobbins
Stage Management: Carter Edwards & Mario Hernandez
Understudy: Allison Zempel

Electric Pear brings a stunning and disturbing new Swiss play to New York for its US premiere.

*actors appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association

This production was made possible with the support of the Consulate General of Switzerland

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Performed

• September 24-27 @ Village Community School

Artistic telephone across the genres.

Congratulations to all the Artists who participated in Synesthesia 2008!

Check out the stories about Synesthesia in:

Time Out New York and The New York Times.

If you are an artist who would be interested in participating in Synesthesia 2009, please email us at: info@electricpear.org.

“Synesthesia’s Aristic Collision Comes Calling Again”

- nytheatremike blog spot

Produced by:: Melanie Sylvan and Ashlin Halfnight

Electric Pear Productions

Synesthesia 2008 (in it’s second year) is the culmination of five months of work by over a dozen breakout artists in 9 different genres – from film and dance to comedy and spoken word.

And it all starts with a fortune cookie…

In the fall of 2007, the first artist chose a cookie and used the enclosed fortune to inspire his film. After a few days of furious work, he passed his work off to a writer, and, in turn, the writer created a piece that was passed on to the next artist – and so on, and so on…

Audiences are given the opportunity to trace not only the overall development of the five-month game of artistic telephone, but also each individual artist’s point of attack – and what they generated from their given circumstances.

Synesthesia 2008 is:

• * Filmmaker, Gregory Stuart Edwards -Spleen, Independent Feature Project
• * Author/Playwright, Damian Lanigan – Dissonance, Williamstown 2007
• * Photographer,Peter Hapak- New York Magazine
• * Comedians, Nathan Phillips and Joe Schiappa – Project:Projekt
• * Artist,Brian Whiteley- 717 Gallery
• * Spoken Word Artist,Shanelle Gabriel- HBO’s Def Poetry Jam
• * Author/Playwright, Clay McLeod Chapman -The Pumpkin Pie Show
• * Dancer/Choreographer,Jo-anne Lee- Brian Brooks Moving Company
• * Musician,Leah Siegel- Little Mule
• * DJ, JayCeeOh – The Masters, Special Teamz
• * Filmmaker, Avriel Hillman
• * Music by Zac Lasher – U-Melt

And More!

Join Electric Pear on the “2.5 Minute Ride”

“An Exhilarating Ride!”

- The New York Sun

Lisa Kron’s Obie Award-winning play returns to New York for the first time since its triumphant turn at the Public Theatre in 1999.

Lisa Kron’s 2.5 Minute Ride
Associate Producer: Electric Pear Productions

Friday, January 18, 2008 through Saturday, February 09, 2008

How do you document a life? Brooklyn, Sandusky and Auschwitz collide in one woman’s hilarious and poignant journey on the roller coaster that is family.

Drop all your pre-conceived notions of a one-person play: hop in a speeding car through Eastern Europe, cram into a caravan to a Midwestern amusement park, and jump on the L train to the Canarsie Jewish Center for the most romantic wedding ever. Told with laughter and love, this uniquely American story stars Nicole Golden as Lisa, with direction by Matt M. Morrow.

Altered Stages
212 West 29th Street (7th/8th)
Second Floor

Death brings out the beautiful in all of us.

June 7th -23rd, 2007

walkerspace, NYC

Dad drives himself through the Walmart display window on a Vespa…

and post-funeral, his wife and kids are left debt-ridden and mystified. As mom ramps up her mid-life money-making scheme with a Russian cosmetologist of questionable reputation, her daughter faces the angry mobs at the abortion clinic, and her son gets embroiled in a wild search for Dad’s missing corpse. Baby Face charts one Florida family’s bizarre and hilarious journey through grief and guilt – into the heart of American consumerism and a sickening obsession with wrinkle-free skin.

Baby Face brings together some of the most talked-about emerging theatre artists in New York City. Ashlin Halfnight has been lauded as a playwright “who has a gift for foreshadowing…with a finesse that is rare for a new writer” by The New York Times. (April 2007) Alexis Poledouris leads a quartet of stellar actors: Rebecca Henderson*, Jordan Kaplan*, Michael McGregor Mahoney*, and Carolyn Popp*. The team of designers includes Lighting Designer, Gina Scherr (Safe in Hell, Yale Rep); Scenic Designer, Jesse Poleshuck (Sly Fox, Broadway); Sarah Laux, Costume Designer (Assistant on Shining City, Broadway), and Mark Valadez, Sound Designer (God’s Waiting Room, PS122).

JUNE 7th – 23rd, 2007
walkerspace

46 Walker Street (Church & Broadway)

THE BATTLE IS ON!

Join us as we compete in the 3rd Annual Battle of the Bards, presented by Partial Comfort Productions.

The Battle of the Bards is a one-night-only theatrical competition pitting 7 of New York City’s most electrifying downtown theater companies against each other in a stage-fight to the finish. Each company writes, casts and rehearses a world premiere one-act play in exactly two weeks! The plays are then performed by each of the seven participating companies and judged by a panel of celebrities and seasoned industry professionals and by the audience

(that means YOU!).

Current participants include: Partial Comfort Productions, New Georges, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Youngblood, Vampire Cowboys, Resonance Ensemble and Electric Pear!

And yes, there are celebrity judges! This year’s pannel consistes of: Sigourney Weaver, Josh Lucas, Adam Rapp, OBIE Award-winning director Jim Simpson, director Robert Woodruff, and Time Out NY’s David Cote.

We need you there to scream really loudly for us!

Saturday, April 21st
Studio Mezmor, 530 West 28th St. 7:00pm – Complimentary Sponsored Drinks
8:00pm – Battle (7 World Premiere 10 Minute Plays)
10:30pm – Winners Announced
11:00pm – Party, featuring DJ Rookie Traxxx, drinks, and dancing
$10 – General Admission, $50 – $100 – VIP