Micia Mosely and Friends is “Hotter Than July”

Join Micia Mosely in celebrating the latest installment of Micia Mosely and Friends during the 20th Annual HOT Festival at Dixon Place, featuring Ganessa James, Shelley-Nicole Jefferson, and Damian Washington! This event should not be missed!

EVENT DETAILS

Thursday, July 14th, 2011 @ 9:30pm

HOT Festival

Dixon Place

161 A Chrystie Street (btwn Delancey and Rivington)

Lower East Side, New York

Ticket: $5

For more information, click here .

Call for California Visual Artists

The Alliance of Artists Communities is accepting applications through May 23, 2011 for the 2012 Visions from the New California awards. The Awards celebrate, support, and promote California visual artists from diverse communities – artists whose work may still be unfamiliar but whose compelling visions will define California in its next decades.

Eligibility Criteria

Applications will be accepted from artists in all visual media who:

(1) are permanent residents of California;

(2) are not currently students, will not be students in 2011, and will not be students in 2012; and

(3) have not participated in an artist residency previously.

Artists selected for the 2012 Visions from the New California awards will receive a one-month residency, a $4000 grant, promotion through an internationally-distributed publication, and inclusion in an exhibition/performance.

Application Deadline: May 23, 2011

For more information and to apply, visit Visions from the New California

Questions may also be directed to Adam Short at grants@artistcommunities.org

Visions from the New California is a partnership between the Alliance of Artists Communities and six California artist residency programs, and is fully funded by The James Irvine Foundation.

For information and to apply, visit: www.visionsfromthenewcalifornia.org

Participating Programs

18th Street Arts Center (Santa Monica)

Djerassi Resident Artists Program

(Woodside)

Headlands Center for the Arts

(Sausalito)

Exploratorium (San Francisco)

The Sally & Don Lucas Artists Programs at Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga)

Kala Art Institute (Berkeley)

Apply now at www.visionsfromthenewcalifornia.org

Queer Art History Drips in Glitter!

Join Queer Art Impact in celebrating and making some Queer History as we bring you:

The Fabulous Cockettes

Queer Art Impact presents:

A Cocktail of Glamour & Anarchy

with Rumi Missabu of the Fabulous Cockettes

Monday, February 14th, 2011 @ 9:30 pm

The Tank

354 West 45th Street, New York City

Tickets: Suggested Donation of $7 to help support the artists

Click here for more details !

“As the psychedelic San Francisco of the ’60?s began evolving into the gay San Francisco of the ’70?s, The Cockettes, a flamboyant ensemble of hippies (women, gay men, and babies) decked themselves out in gender-bending drag and tons of glitter…” READ MORE .

NOTABLE QUOTES

“Insanity becomes reality, fantasy becomes truth.”

Village Voice 1971

“Of course it was political, but no one among verbalized it. We had no need of rhetoric. We were madcap chefs cooking up a storm and the ingredients were magic and tribal anarchy.”

Martin Worman

Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning

“What’s so marvelous is that they look happy, truly happy, and that’s so rare these days, don’t you think?”

Diana Vreeland

Village Voice

“I think I’m performing Gay Liberation through my art.”

Rumi

Rolling Stone 1970

Find Creative Time and Space

Alliance of Artists Communities and College Art Association present

BE OUR GUEST: FINDING CREATIVE TIME + SPACE

a conversation on artist residency programs

SPEAKERS

* Caitlin Strokosch

Alliance of Artists

Communities

* Mario Caro

Res Artis



* Linda Marston-Reid

Bellagio Center



* Margaret Murphy

Fine Arts Work Center

* Kathy Black

Vermont Studio Center

EVENT DETAILS

Thursday, February 10th, 2011 @ 2:30pm

Hilton New York

1335 Ave of the Americas

Murray Hill Suite, 2nd fl

New York City

Learn about the hundreds of artists’ residency opportunities available for artists of all kinds and every career stage, in your backyard and across the globe. Find out what distinguishes them, the best way to apply, and how to maximize your experience. Visual artists, writers, choreographers, composers, filmmakers, architects, performance artists and more — there’s a residency for you!

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This session is a part of College Art Association’s ARTspace program, promoting dialogue about visual-arts practice and its relation to critical discourse. ARTspace also provides professional-development seminars and roundtables as well as opportunities for the creative exchange of ideas. All ARTspace sessions are free and open to the public. Click here for a complete schedule .

Catch the Latest Installment of NPA Micia Mosely’s The Progress Report

For the latest installments of The Progress Report , see below!

Micia Mosely Says Goodbye to 2010…

For the previous episode, click here .

Nursha Project Guest Curates Late Night with Mason Rhynes Productions in DC

Join Nursha Project in celebrating Late Night with Mason Rhynes Productions . If you missed the December 2010 installment of the performance series, click here for details.

The April 30th edition of Late Night with Mason Rhynes is one you will not want to miss! Nursha Project is proud to co-curate this production!

EVENT DETAILS

April 30th, 2011 at 10pm

Late Night at Joe’s Movement Emporium

3309 Bunker Hill Road

Mt. Rainier, Maryland

Featuring A.O. Movement Collective, Wendell Cooper, and other special guests!

Co-presented with Joe’s Movement Emporium

Tickets: $20 General Admission; $15 Student Tickets with ID

Must be 18 to attend

Featured Artists

A.O. Movement Collective will be performing their piece, “Wet.”

Choreographed by Sarah A.O. Rosner + dancers

Performed by Tara Aisha Willis

Music by The Idiot

Additional choreographic research by Kirstan Clifford

This excerpt is one section of our larger work in process, barrish , or: i promise i’ll only look at the sky (goddamn black fucking hole).  La Mama Experimental Theater will present the (pre)premiere of the work at La Mama Moves! this May 27/28 in NYC.  The entire work is transmutable – able to be put together in any configuration for any space – and available for curation by anyone interested. Find out how you can participate at www.theAOMC.org/menu

AOMC Bio:

Founded in 2006, the A.O. Movement Collective is a home for hard falls and heavy slow dances: a community of dancers, thinkers, and makers who live by their art.  The AOMC encompasses my choreographic work; when joined with blog Urgent Artist and freelancing collective A.O. PRO(+ductions) , it is the movement third of a platform representative of a new model for dancemaking.

Choreographically, the AOMC pioneers pomo-humanism via a rigorous love affair with the aesthetics of mess.  At the same time, we are developing a discourse of anti-ephemeralism that surrounds our dancemaking.  We believe that by actively questioning the underlying assumptions of our field (be they artistic or economic) we become radical agents of progress, evolving the form and creating a more sustainable future.

Performer Bios:

TARA AISHA WILLIS (dancer) dances, makes dance, and writes things from her overly cozy apartment

in Brooklyn. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College in 2009 with a B.A. in Dance and English, where she performed the work of Sean Curran, David Parker, Ivy Baldwin, Yanira Castro, Stephen Petronio, Gerald Casel, Nora Chipaumire, and Susan Rethorst. She received the Dance Theater Workshop Van Lier Fellowship just after college, and has shown work at DNA’s Works-In-Progress and Green Space’s Fertile Ground Series. Tara’s newest works will be presented this spring as an Alumni Guest Artist at The Latin School of Chicago, at the new REHEARSAL workshop series, and in the RoofTop Dance Series.  Aside from The A.O. Movement Collective, Tara has most recently danced with Sydnie L. Mosley Dances, Anna Brown Massey and Edisa Weeks. She is completing her Pilates Teacher Certification at The Kane School, and teaches at the Pilates Garage in Park Slope. She supports her artistry as a freelance writer for A.O. Pro(+ductions), House Manager at Dance Theater Workshop, and hostess at Joe’s Pub. www.bodypoem.blogspot.com

The IDIOT (composer) is the per­form­ing Alias of  THEODOR WILSON , a per­form­ing artist liv­ing in Brook­lyn, NY. He calls his style of music “ Elec­tro­Drama ,” because it com­bines trashy elec­tronic riffs with melo­dra­matic nar­ra­tives, and because his live shows incor­po­rate the­atri­cal devices. Related gen­res include post-punk cabaret, new roman­tic, and indus­trial pop. Wil­son is a trained pianist and occa­sion­ally per­forms acoustic ver­sions of his elec­tronic numbers.

The Idiot has referred to his per­sona as a “grotesque bitch,” and a “har­le­quin.” In con­cert, as well as in pro­mo­tional appearances, he often wears arti­cles of women’s cloth­ing, notably high-heeled shoes, but insists he is not a drag queen, and that drag is “its own medium, with its set of own rules.” How­ever, The Idiot does per­form under the rap alias, “Ham­Samwich,” a self-described drag queen to end all drag queens, whose num­bers often appear in the Idiot’s live act.  The Idiot released his first offi­cial album, called “JUVENAL!A,” in 2010.

Wilson has collaborated with Rosner and the AOMC since 2007, and has scored both her performance works ( Haunt, The What’s Left Over After ) and short films ( Flour, Eggshells, Study #4 ).  He has also appeared in her performance works ( in Love and Defense of the Ones I Destroy, barrish ) and is a performative force to be reckoned with.  The composition he created for The What’s Left Over After appears on his 2010 album JUVENAL!A.

SARAH A.O. ROSNER is the founder of A.O. ³ (the A.O. Entity), a three-part platform uniting the A.O. Movement Collective , freelancing collective A.O. PRO(+ductions) , and the Urgent Artist blog.  A.O. ³ represents a new model for downtown dancemaking by holistically supporting all involved – artists, audience, funders, and critics. When not working on her own ventures, she is the Manager of Engagement at New York Live Arts in NYC.

Born and raised outside of Washington, DC, Rosner attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York where she studied dance and film with teachers including Emily Devine, Sara Rudner, Keith Sabado, Tony Schultz, and Kathy Westwater.  Rosner founded the A.O. Movement Collective in 2006, and has been at their helm creating Anti-Ephemeral PoMo Humanist discourse and works ever since, presenting work at the RAW festival, THROW, Open Perform, WAXworks, Green Space, AUNTS, Dance Place (DC), the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center and most recently, Joyce SoHo.

WENDELL COOPER is is modern shaman and creative artist based in Brooklyn, NY. A graduate of the

George Washington University (Dance/Religion), he is also a certified practitioner of energy bodywork and Thai Yoga Massage. He has taught, performed, and choreographed in China, Kenya, Russia, and the Netherlands. Cooper creates all of the elements of his interdisciplinary multimedia works that include both choreographed and improvised dance, original music, and video installation. He has worked with Nicholas Leichter Dance, the Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Grisha Coleman, and the Magpie Music Dance Company. Wendell also self- produces as well as collaborates on projects with Mathew Heggem (as Kinaeathesia), Monstah Black, and Yozmit. SEA GLASS is his latest collaborative project.  [ www.complexstability.com ]

milDRED on Gender Performance

MilDred is part of a panel on gender and performance, following Jomama Jones RADIATE!

EVENT DETAILS

FEED*:Post Show Discussion: “Performing Gender”

January 7th, 2011 at 9pm

After Jomama Jones * RADIATE (7:30pm)

Soho Rep.

46 Walker Street; New York City

Guests: Taylor Mac, Jomama Jones, Mildred Gerestant. Moderator: Djola Banner (Hampshire College)

Tickets: $25 Performance; Post show talk is FREE

www.sohorep.org

*FEED is Soho Rep’s literary and humanities program. Free artist dialogues, in-depth discussions, online content, events, and more.

We Are Singing Songs of the South

Queer Art Impact presents Cabaret Cataplexy:

Songs of the South

Following the 2010 holy holidays, the cementing of resolutions anew and the national celebration of MLK we deliver the first 2011 dose of Cabaret Cataplexy! This 3D rendition, carefully themed Songs of the South is one part variety, two parts dance party with major irreverence and a touch of racial inappropriateness.  Expect to be titillated and transformed. For more information, click here .

EVENT DETAILS

Monday, January 24th, 2011 @ 8:30pm

Doors at 8pm

Haven, NYC

244 East 51st Street (between 2nd and 3rd Aves.)

Tickets: $15 Online; $20 @ Door

21 and Finer; ID Required

Micia Mosely Kicks Off the Second Season of the Progress Report!

Micia Mosely returns with a second season of Progress Report . To watch, click below.

Gay Marriage Approved : Let Them Eat Cake…

Nursha Project Artist Micia Mosely is featured in Let Them Eat Cake : A gay marriage in one act with confections!

Written by Miss HOLLY HUGHES,

Miss MEGAN CARNEY and Miss MAUREEN ANGELOS

Cake by LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB

Directed by Miss MEGAN CARNEY

It’s the wedding nightmare your mother warned you about: a gay marriage gone wrong that asks the guests to salvage the situation by interrogating what it means to be married, single, gay, straight, commitment-phobic, a joiner, included or jeering from the outskirts. Come for the cake, if nothing else! Find out more on the show’s site .

EVENT DETAILS

Thursdays – Saturdays, December 2* – 4, 9 – 11, 16 – 18 at 7:30pm

Saturday matinees, December 4 & 11 at 2pm

Dixon Place

161A Chrystie Street (between Rivington and Delancey)

New York City

Tickets: $15 advance purchase ; $20 / $18 (stu/sen) at the door

Saturday matinees: $10 advance purchase ; $15 at the door

For more information, click here .

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