Jul 25 2008
STILL LIFE WITH TOE SHOES, July 25, 26, 27 in the Dance Studio at Deerfield Academy, Deerfield MA
(note – July 24th canceled due to another event in adjacent venue)
Googlemap of the Dance Studio
Music by Marisa Michelson
Lyrics by Joshua H. Cohen
Tickets available at The Northampton Box Office
at nbotickets.com
76 Main St
Northampton, MA 01060
(413) 586-8686
$20 regular and $15 for students and seniors
Six young female ballet dancers have come to define themselves through the eyes of the audience they dance for and the other women in their class. When a renowned male painter visits to observe their dancing and more private moments (not only while they dance, but while they watch, while they change in the dressing room, smoke on the balcony, whisper to a friend) his presence begins to affect their own perceptions, as they start to see themselves through his eyes. Through movement and song, these eight very different young women explore what it means to play multiple roles in their every day lives.
Article in the Amherst Bulletin on July 18
Marisa Michelson teaches singing and piano to children and adults in NYC. An award-winning composer, her work has been heard at NYU, CAP21, The Salvation Army Theatre, Smith College and in India, and she has been honored by the St. Botolph Club in Boston, the New Dramatists Guild, and most recently the prestigious Shen Foundation in NYC. Along with Joshua, Marisa was recently commissioned by the Prospect Theater Company to create a short musical based on Rene Magritte’s painting “The Lovers.” Marisa’s full-length musical, Hotel Sarajevo, for which she wrote book, music and lyrics, is currently being developed for education and outreach with NY- based QuoVadimus Theatre. This past March, 2008, she was selected to participate in the New Dramatists Guild’s Composer-Librettist studio. In 2006 and 2007 Marisa traveled to India on a fellowship to compose music and study Indian Hindustani singing in the Global Arts Village, an international artist’s colony. Marisa graduated with a B.F.A in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Winner of the 2006 St. Botolph Award for Excellence in Composition, she has studied composition with Adam Guettel as well as classical voice at Tanglewood Young Artists’ Institute.
Joshua H. Cohen wrote lyrics for The Day the World Went Queer!, whose premiere in the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival received rave reviews. His song cycle The Entropy Songs inaugurated the Abingdon Theatre Company’s new cabaret space in 2006, and its component songs have been heard in cabarets and showcases across the country. Most recently, his play And Twenty-Five for the Insult received a developmental reading with Studio 42. He also wrote music and/or book and/or lyrics for Far Away From America (performed at Dixon Place’s Warning: Not for Broadway! festival); The Mirror Song (Amherst College); and Dragons (Silver Wordsmith Productions). One-acts: The Lovers (Prospect Theater Company); and Project Ex, The List, and Tolltaker, Tolltaker (all three commissioned and produced by Raw Impressions Music Theatre). He composed the music for William D. Arnold and Trebien Pollard’s dance piece Erosion: Things Fall Apart, and incidental music for Keats in Curlers at the Looking Glass Theater. One-act straight plays include Misnomers (The 24 Hour Theatre Company’s Cold Readings Series), Thin Walls and Hide and Seek (Hampshire College Festival of New Plays, 1999 and 1998, respectively); and At the End of Rainbow Street (Theatre-Studio Inc.). Current projects include the musicals City Upside Down (book and lyrics), Maggie the Pirate (music and lyrics) and Still Life With Toe Shoes (book and lyrics). He received his BA from Amherst College, and his MFA from New York University/Tisch School of the Arts’ Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.
Directions to Theatre:
From Exit 24 off Interstate 91 – follow Route five and ten North. Go 5.5 miles and pass the Sunoco station on your left. Take your next real left which is Memorial Street. At the end of Memorial Street (very short) take a right and a quick left onto Albany Road. You may park along Albany Road – looking to your Right you will see a very, very large flag pole just in front of the Fine Arts Building. The Black Box (Doubt) is at the base of the flagpole. And the Dance Studio (Toeshoes) is in the parallel position on the opposite side of the building (to the right). You can Googlemap Albany Road, Deerfield and if you do the satellite version you’ll see the big arts building with the left addition (black box) and right addition (dance studio). There are lots of signs around so once you get to Deerfield Academy you should be safe.
shows
Jul 25 2008
STILL LIFE WITH TOE SHOES, July 25, 26, 27 in the Dance Studio at Deerfield Academy, Deerfield MA
(note – July 24th canceled due to another event in adjacent venue)
Googlemap of the Dance Studio
Music by Marisa Michelson
Lyrics by Joshua...more...