performer, composer, director/choreographer, writer, teacher making theater
I just received a grant from the Puffin Foundation for my investigation of Live Sound Action : Cosmological Composition. This grant will be applied to some exploration and perfomance work I will create in collaboration with kids from the Lower East Side Ecology Center. I enjoy the Puffin Foundation’s tag line: ” . . continuing the dialogue between art and the lives of ordinary people.”
The work-in-progress ensemble show of Live Sound Action was wonderful and informative. April 16 and 17 at Gowanus Arts Bldg. Wildlife Showcase. Now — ready for text. Video coming soon.
I/We got selected to present an ensemble performance of Live Sound Action work at Le Petit Versailles garden on the Lower East Side. More to come on this work which will include a ensemble of grown-ups and a collaboration with kids from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
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We played in our first three sessions of Tribal Epic – Kinesthetic Delight in Improvisation with Live Band monkeyworks, had a wonderful open practice session, and now, we continue on: upcoming dates: Feb 21, Mar 21, Apr 18, and May 16
Elephants and Gold 3 performed Aug 2009 at The Berkshire Fringe in Great Barrington, Mass.
Created by Eliza Ladd in collaboration with Margot Bassett, Vincent DeGeorge, Nichi Douglas, Stephanie Fittro, Adam Patterson, and Ian Smit. Lighting by Brian Scott.
See Elephants and Gold 3 photo gallery – Read testimonials and reviews
Song and Composition by Eliza Ladd. Performance by Margot Bassett, Vincent DeGeorge, Nichi Douglas, Stephanie Fittro, Eliza Ladd, Adam Patterson, and Ian Smit. Lighting by Brian Scott.
We did 5 shows, many people came. The space was amazing, sounded great.
Below are a few photos, by Alex Miles Younger, and a few snippets of reviews . . .
From Jenn Smith at the Berkshire Eagle:
The performance of the five actors and two musicians was nearly seamless. The statements made were bold, and perhaps prophetic, but not too preachy.
Whether it was from the charge of the performance, the stunningly simplistic stage setup or the intimacy of the black box, I left Elephants and Gold with a wow on my lips and wheels turning in my head.
From Chris Rohmann at the Valley Advocate:
The performers embody elephants with a lumbering four footed gait that is both majestic and vulnerable.
More to come soon on Elephants and Gold at the Berkshire Fringe and what is next . . .
I hope you can come to see the show in Great Barrington, MA this August.
(note: the Sunday Aug. 9 show is at 8 not 9 as it says on card)
This site is just going out live NOW, so no longer will it be only the wonderful designer, Alex Miles Younger, and I who see and explore it. I would love it if you travelled around the space, followed the map, sat in the garden, - there is quite a deep and wide architecture here. Please check out the Performance, Teaching, and About Me pages, and all their little children who act like rivers, tributaries, and passageways. There is even a secret apartment or two somewhere in this place. It’s like a treasure hunt, you can see beautiful things, find eggs, and, learn about what I am doing and what I have done. I actually do want to interact with humans, so, if it is YOU I am talking to across these spatial wires, let me know your response to something you have experienced here.
Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you soon. Eliza.
I went up to Wave Hill in the Bronx and found this elephant tree, or so it looked to me. I like it for its stillness and its ever pressing forward. One foot in the ground, and it lurches too.
