| HERE Announces 2024-2025 Season with Four World Premieres and More | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:50 pm EDT 07/27/24 | |
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| HERE ANNOUNCES 2024-2025 SEASON WITH FOUR WORLD PREMIERES AND MORE A Meal, Part-Ritual, Part-Celebration, Part-Installation, Part-Dinner by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya, Sept 11–29, 2024 Eat the Document, New Opera by Composer John Glover, Librettist Kelley Rourke, Director Kristin Marting, and Music Director Mila Henry, January 9–17, 2025 [Untitled Miniature], In-Person & Digital Hybrid Durational Performance by Joshua William Gelb / Theater in Quarantine, Spring 2025 RHEOLOGY, New Performance Memoir by 2024 Pulitzer Finalist Shayok Misha Chowdhury, April 22 - May 17, 2025 Plus Puppet Parlor, December 17-18, 2024, Prototype, January 9-19, 2025, and Puppetopia, April 30-May 11, 2025 For over 30 years, the OBIE award-winning HERE has been a leader in the field of commissioning, producing, and presenting new, hybrid performances viewed as a seamless integration of artistic disciplines. HERE's 2024-2025 season, announced today, is the final season to be programmed under Emeritus Founding Artistic Director Kristin Marting and the first to be guided by the organization's newly appointed Co-Directors, Jesse Cameron Alick, Annalisa Dias, Lanxing Fu, and Lauren Miller. The season exemplifies HERE's mission of creating a home for artists who blend multiple genres—theatre, dance, music and opera, puppetry, media, visual art and installation, spoken word and performance art—and defy categorizations. HERE's 2024-2025 season opens with the world premiere of A Meal, a multi-sensorial live performance by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. Part-ritual, part-celebration, part-installation, and part-dinner, A Meal explores our deep connection with food—where it comes from, what we eat, and who we share it with. A Meal (September 10–29, 2024) is the first of three premieres this season that have been developed through HARP, HERE's nationally recognized artist residency program. As part of Prototype, HERE will premiere Eat the Document, a new opera by composer John Glover, librettist Kelley Rourke, director Kristin Marting, and music director Mila Henry. Based on the novel by Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document (January 9–17, 2025) unfolds in the wake of a radical protest gone wrong. Shifting between the 1970s and the 1990s, the work considers idealism, activism and consequences, while exploring connections between the two eras – their language, technology, Also in Spring 2025, HERE will present [Untitled Miniature], the newest work created and performed by Joshua William Gelb and his company Theater in Quarantine. [Untitled Miniature] is being developed as a durational, solo-performance intended for both an in-person audience at HERE's DOT theater in New York City, and a live-streamed audience on HERE's digital platform URHERE. Theater in Quarantine imposes its strictest limitations to date in this hybrid, digital confrontation performed entirely from a box measuring only 34" wide by 19" tall. [Untitled Miniature] is the third premiere this season to have been developed through HARP, HERE's nationally recognized artist residency program. In a co-production with The Bushwick Starr and Ma-Yi Theater Company, HERE will present RHEOLOGY , the newest work by Obie Award-winning writer/director Shayok Misha Chowdhury, a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for his celebrated play, Public Obscenities. RHEOLOGY, is a performance memoir created and performed with his mother, the physicist Bulbul Chakraborty. In this production, an artist son studies his physicist mother while she studies the strange behavior of sand. Together, they try to understand the science and perform the story of how things flow. RHEOLOGY (April 22-May 17, 2025 at The Bushwick Starr) is the second premiere this season to have been developed through HARP, HERE's nationally recognized artist residency program. HERE's 2024-2025 season will also include Puppet Parlor (December 17-18, 2024), Dream Music Puppetry's annual celebration of new puppetry shorts, curated and hosted by Basil Twist; the twelfth annual Prototype (January 9-19, 2025), a opera and music-theatre festival which is co-curated and co-produced with Beth Morrison Projects; and the fourth annual edition of Puppetopia (April 30-May 11, 2025), a festival of new puppetry that presents fresh, live and fully realized works. HERE is located at 145 Sixth Avenue, just below Spring Street. Memberships and single tickets are now on sale and can be purchased by calling 212-647-0202 or by visiting www.here.org . In person sales at the box office after 5pm only on performance days and two hours prior to curtain for matinees. For Group Sales, contact tickets@here.org. Memberships start as low as $100 for four flexible tickets and complimentary wine, with additional benefits offered at other levels. Single tickets can be purchased for as low as $15 for all preview performances. Students and seniors can access free tickets on a rush basis, subject to availability for each performance, and must be redeemed at the box office. Additional details on HERE's 2024-2025 season follows. HERE's 2024-2025 SEASON WORLD PREMIERES A Meal Created by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya Commissioned by HERE and co-produced with LEIMAY September 11–29, 2024 Created by critically acclaimed multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya, A Meal is multi-sensorial live performance that is part-ritual, part-celebration, part-installation, and part-dinner. Commissioned by HERE and co-produced with LEIMAY, A Meal explores our deep connection with food—where it comes from, what we eat, and who we share it with. This two and a half hour immersive experience takes audiences through a series of vignettes across HERE's two-story building, where they'll eat together, witness performances by mythological creatures, and encounter offering songs and evocative sound/video movement installations. The layered work features handmade organic tableware, crafted artifacts, and suggestive images and dances, all resonating with our post-industrial relationship with food and the Japanese and Colombian roots of the co-creators. Eat the Document Composed by John Glover, Libretto by Kelley Rourke, Directed by Kristin Marting, Music Directed by Mila Henry January 9–17, 2025 as part of Prototype Based on the novel by Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document unfolds in the wake of a radical protest gone wrong. Shifting between the 1970s and the 1990s, this new opera by composer John Glover, librettist Kelley Rourke, director Kristin Marting, and music director Mila Henry considers idealism, activism and consequences, while exploring connections between the two eras – their language, technology, music, and activism. [Untitled Miniature] Created by Joshua William Gelb / Theater in Quarantine Spring 2025 Theater in Quarantine imposes its strictest limitations to date in this hybrid, digital confrontation performed entirely from a box measuring only 34" wide by 19" tall. Pushing the boundaries of, and proximity to, a concept of self-exposure that's becoming the default extension of our ever more codependent relationship with technology and life online, [Untitled Miniature] asks how we find ourselves embedded within all this technology. How is our body exploited when the content we share is ourselves? [Untitled Miniature] is being developed as a durational, solo-performance for a Spring 2025 premiere intended for both an in-person audience at HERE's DOT theater in New York City, and a live-streamed audience on HERE's digital platform URHERE. The Bushwick Starr presents a co-production with HERE and Ma-Yi RHEOLOGY Written and Directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury in collaboration with Bulbul Chakraborty April 22-May 17, 2025 at The Bushwick Starr (419 Eldert Street, Brooklyn) Obie Award-winning writer/director Shayok Misha Chowdhury's recent play, Public Obscenities, is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and was singled out as one of the best theater works of 2023 by The New Yorker. His newest work, RHEOLOGY, is a performance memoir created and performed with his mother, the physicist Bulbul Chakraborty. Chakraborty's specialty is the titular science of rheology, the laws governing the malleability and movement of matter under force. Another of her loves is the poetic songs of Bengali composer Rabindranath Tagore. These songs paint glorious pictures about the drama of nature: monsoons produce drum-like thunder claps, rivers let loose their long hair into waterfalls, music flows through generations. Chakraborty learned these songs from her foremothers, then passed them on to Misha. In this production, an artist son studies his physicist mother while she studies the strange behavior of sand. Together, they try to understand the science and perform the story of how things flow. FESTIVALS HERE's Dream Music Puppetry presents Puppet Parlor December 17-18, 2024 Dream Music's annual celebration of new puppetry shorts returns! This two-night-only event is curated and hosted by Basil Twist. HERE and BMP present Prototype January 9 –19, 2025 PROTOTYPE: OPERA l THEATRE l NOW is a co-production of Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, two trailblazers in the creation and presentation of contemporary, multi-disciplinary opera-theatre and music-theatre works. The pioneering festival is the only one of its kind in New York City and is a model now emulated around the country – producing and presenting a wide spectrum of works, from intimate black-box experiences to larger chamber opera productions, valuing artistic, curatorial, and producorial risk-taking. In addition to the world premiere of Eat the Document, Prototype will include New York premieres of Black Lodge by composer David T. Little and poet Anne Waldman (which was developed in its earliest stages at HERE), In A Grove by composer Christopher Cerrone and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, Positive Vibration Nation by Sol Ruiz; we well as a new edition of ART BATH in partnership with producers Mara Driscoll and Liz Yilmaz. HERE's Dream Music Puppetry presents Puppetopia April 30-May 11, 2025 HERE's festival of new puppetry returns for its fourth annual edition. Curated by HERE co-founder Barbara Busackino and Dream Music Artistic Director and master puppeteer Basil Twist, the festival presents new, live and fully realized iterations of works and in-progress excerpts. URHERE Ongoing, with premieres and archival releases throughout the season In addition to the above in-person performances, HERE also offers accessible programming on its new virtual platform, URHERE. A one-of-a-kind, rigorously curated virtual platform for outdoor, digital premieres, and archival works which soft-launched in November 2022, URHERE builds on HERE's extensive outdoor and digital work during the pandemic. URHERE aims to occupy an important part of the art ecosystem which nurtures experimentation, sparks dialogue, and creates engagement with the local community. It also provides an opportunity for global audiences and artists to take part in HERE's programming. Supporting independent artists and ensembles, URHERE expands on HERE's mission to support multidisciplinary work made by artists at every stage of their careers. While projects may take many different forms, the platform focuses on artists whose work captures a rich cross-section of risk-taking, new perspectives, and artistic disciplines. About HERE The award-winning HERE was named a Top Ten Off-Off Broadway Theater by Time Out New York and is a leader in the field of producing and presenting new, hybrid performances viewed as a seamless integration of artistic disciplines—theatre, dance, music and opera, puppetry, media, visual and installation, spoken word and performance art. HERE is a producer, presenter and venue for local and global ground-breaking artists. HERE's standout productions include Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, Taylor Mac's The Hang and The Lily's Revenge, Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle all wear bowlers, Young Jean Lee's Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, Robin Frohardt's The Pigeoning, and Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique, as well as works directed by Emeritus Founding Artistic Director Kristin Marting including James Scruggs' Disposable Men and Kamala Sankaram and Rob Handel's Looking at You. In addition to its extensive producing work with local artists through its HERE Artist Residency Program, HERE presents work from New York, across the country, and around the globe through its Dream Music Puppetry Program, and its widely acclaimed PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now festival of opera-theatre and music-theatre, co-curated and co-produced with Beth Morrison Projects. As a welcoming venue, HERE proudly curates adventurous artists, companies and productions, whether emerging or recognized, through its SubletSeries. Since its founding in 1993, HERE and the artists it has supported have received 18 Obies, 2 Bessies, 5 Drama Desk Nominations, 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 4 Doris Duke Awards, 7 Tony Nominations, and 2 MacArthur Fellowships. Funding credits HERE's programming is made possible with Public Funds from New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Kathleen Hochul and the New York State Legislature; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the Offices of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Eadie Adams, and New York State Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick. We are grateful for the support and advocacy of all of our dedicated elected officials: Senator Charles E. Schumer, Senator Kirsten R. Gillibrand, Representative Carolyn Maloney, Governor Kathleen Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Council Member Christopher Marte and the Cultural Affairs Committee of the City Council, and State Senator Brad M. Hoylman. Additional support for HERE and our artists provided by Howard Gilman Foundation; Mellon Foundation; The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation;; the Mental Insight Foundation; The Shubert Foundation; The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; The Scherman Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Broadway Green Alliance; The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc.; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; FJC - A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds; Frances Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts; The Jane Henson Foundation; the Jim Henson Foundation; Hines; the Leon Levy Foundation; Lucille Lortel Foundation; MacMillan Family Foundation; Select Equity Group; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Studio Institute; Trinity Church Wall Street, Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York; ; and HERE's generous community of individual donors. The HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Additional support provided by Alliance of Resident Theatres/ART NY; Café Royal Cultural Foundation; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Howard Gilman Foundation; The Mertz Gilmore Foundation; IRT Theater; The Jim Henson Foundation; JKW Foundation; The Leon Levy Foundation; Lucille Lortel Foundation; Mellon Foundation; The Mental Insight Foundation; National Performance Network; New England Foundation for the Arts; New York Community Trust; New York Foundation for the Arts; OPERA America; Puffin Foundation; The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; The Scherman Foundation; Select Equity Group; The Shubert Foundation; The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation; Tow Foundation, and HERE's generous community of individual donors. Dream Music Puppetry is made possible through the generous lead support of Cheryl Henson and The Jim Henson Foundation with the additional support of many puppet fans. Prototype receives major funding from the Mellon Foundation and other leadership support from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, Amphion Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, OPERA America, and The Ted Snowdon Foundation. Further support is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts. A Meal is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council. A Meal is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by HERE, 7 Stages, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by Doris Duke Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, visit npnweb.org. A Meal was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. We are also grateful for support from Agnes Gund. Eat the Document is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. We are also grateful for support from Nancy & Jim Barton, Joan Desens and Simon Carr-Ellison, Robert Ellis, Gene Kaufman & Terry Eder-Kaufman, Ann D. McChord, Thomas Simpson, and Faith E. Gay & Francesca Zambello. Eat The Document received developmental support from American Opera Projects, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Center for Fiction, Joe's Pub and HERE. Rheology is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. It is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. |
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