Mass Live Arts Returns to Great Barrington| 11:21AM / Monday, July 14, 2014 | |
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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Mass Live Arts, a summer festival of contemporary and experimental performing arts, returns for its second year to Bard College at Simon’s Rock in the Berkshires.
This year’s festival runs through July 26 and presents three New England Premieres of critically acclaimed, new and remounted works by choreographer Faye Driscoll, theater artists Sibyl Kempson and Mike Iveson Jr, along with two media based performances by director Phil Soltanoff.
In addition to works of live performance, this year’s offerings have been expanded to include a Monday night film series continuing July 14 and 21 of the Bogeyman Trilogy by seminal theatre director Reza Abdoh (1963-1995), as well as a rotating gallery showcasing visual works by established American theater artists Andrew Schneider (of The Wooster Group), Anne Gridley and Nature Theater of Oklahoma This year will also be the first of an annual benefit dance party on July 20 to raise funds for year-round residencies to commission and develop large-scale new works.
Phil Soltanoff closes out the festival July 24 - 26 with two of his distinctive new media theatrical works, L.A. PARTY and AN EVENING WITH WILLIAM SHATNER ASTERISK. Soltanoff, an award-winning director, challenges familiar forms, build links among seemingly incompatible media and materials, and employs new technologies in surprising and human ways.
In L.A. PARTY, a fanatical vegan falls off the purity wagon one night, plunging head first into a wild, drug-induced bender in the City of Angels. Six performers take the stage to produce a compelling composite human being recounting this hilarious short story, mixed with live video.
AN EVENING WITH WILLIAM SHATNER ASTERISK meticulously catalogues and remixes everything William Shatner ever said on the original Star Trek series. Phil Soltanoff with Joe Diebes (writer) and Rob Ramirez (systems designer) create a dynamic video oracle of the lead commander on the USS Enterprise – expanding our universe on contemporary arts and science as only Captain Kirk can.
Mass Live Arts 2014 takes place at The Daniel Arts Center [Bard College at Simon’s Rock] 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA 02130. Tickets are on sale now and range $10-30 with $150 all-inclusive Festival Passes. For complete schedule of events, visit www.masslivearts.org.
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