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Bonnie Marranca, Creative director, Special Performance Projects

admin — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:34:45 +0000

Bonnie Marranca is co-founder/Editor of the arts publishing house PAJ and continues to edit PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (formerly titled Performing Arts Journal), which celebrated its 25th year in 2001. The triannual offers expanded coverage of performance, video, dance, drama, film, music, photography, installations, and new media. PAJ has also published numerous books on theatre and performance, including essays and more than 900 plays and performance texts, translated from 20 languages. PAJ received an Obie Award in 1983 for “Outstanding Achievement in the Off- and Off-Off Broadway Theatre.”

(For information on the journal and PAJ books: mitpress.mit.edu/paj)

Bonnie Marranca is the author of two collections of essays, Ecologies of Theatre and Theatrewritings, and has edited several anthologies, including Conversations on Art and Performance, Interculturalism and Performance, Theatre of the Ridiculous Plays for the End of the Century, The Theatre of Images, American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Senior Scholar, and winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. She has taught and lectured in numerous American and European universities and is the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton University for 2001. (all with Gautam Dasgupta);

At Location One Bonnie is director of Locution, a series of interviews with artists and writers in the performance community. In 2002, she is organizing a series of artist talks called PerformanceContemporary.

Locution Interview: The Living Theatre

heather — Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:03:06 +0000

Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov of the internationally-renowned company, The Living Theatre, speak to Locution curator Bonnie Marranca, the editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art and Director of Special Performance Projects for Location One. The theatre is known for its many productions, which include: The Connection, Paradise Now, Mysteries and Smaller Pieces, Frankenstein, Seven Meditations on Sado-Masochism, and The Money Tower.

To mark the beginning of its fiftieth year of continuous production, the Living presented the English-language premiere of its latest work, Resistance. It is directed by Malina and written by Reznikov. Resistance: News from the Val Borbera is the first work that has been created at the theatre company’s European-based home, the Centro Living Europa in Rocchetta Ligure, Italy.

Resistance
from February 28 – March 11
at Chashama
111 W. 42nd St., New York City.

For more on this legendary theatre, see: www.livingtheatre.org

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Locution Interview: Rachel Rosenthal

heather — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 18:57:59 +0000

RACHEL ROSENTHAL
Rachel Rosenthal, one of America’s pioneering performance artists, has been making work for five decades. She fled her home in Paris during World War II, eventually settling in New York and then California where she organized her own Instant Theatre, a precursor to Happenings. Rosenthal became a founder of Womanspace in Los Angeles in 1973, and shortly afterwards started performing. Among her many pieces, solo and collaborative, are: “Traps,” “My Brazil,” “KabbaLAmobile,” “L.O.W. in Gaia,” “Rachel’s Brain,” “Pangaean Dreams,” and “Zone.” Rosenthal, based in LA, has been teaching for many years and continues her workshops at Espace DBD (Doing by Doing); she will be at Rhinebeck’s Omega Institute in the summer. Rosenthal is the subject of the recent book, “Rachel Rosenthal,” edited by Moira Roth. In January 2001, she received the prestigious award (previous winners; Baryshnikov, Graham, Cunningham) given by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. For more information on the artist, see: www.rachelrosenthal.org

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Locution Interview: Meredith Monk

heather — Thu, 25 May 2000 18:52:18 +0000

MEREDITH MONK
Location One inaugurated the Locution interview series with Meredith Monk, the internationally-celebrated performer/composer/choreographer/filmmaker. Monk has been creating multimedia and musical works for more than three decades, among them Atlas, Quarry, Education of the Girlchild, Dolmen Music, and Songs from the Hill.

Her music is available from ECM records. She is also the subject of the recent book, Meredith Monk, edited by Deborah Jowitt. Meredith Monk was recently the subject of a major retrospective at the Lincoln Center Festival 2000.

website :: www.meredithmonk.org

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Locution Interview: Meredith Monk

heather — Thu, 25 May 2000 17:44:56 +0000

MEREDITH MONK
May 25, 2000

Location One inaugurated the Locution interview series with Meredith Monk, the internationally-celebrated performer/composer/choreographer/filmmaker. Monk has been creating multimedia and musical works for more than three decades, among them Atlas, Quarry, Education of the Girlchild, Dolmen Music, and Songs from the Hill.

website :: www.meredithmonk.org

Locution Interview: Mac Wellman

heather — Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:41:49 +0000

MAC WELLMAN
Mac Wellman is one of the best-known “downtown” dramatists. Among his many plays are Terminal Hip, Crowbar, 7 Blowjobs, Sincerity Forever, Cleveland, Murder of Crows, Hyacinth Macaw, which have been staged in several theatres and universities throughout the country. Cat’s Paw was produced by the Soho Rep in December and Jennie Richee at MCA in Chicago in February 2001.
Wellman’s plays are collected in The Bad Infinity and the forthcoming Cellophane. He also edited the drama anthologies Theatre of Wonders and From the Other Side of the Century: New American Drama, 1960-1995. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and multiple Obie Award winner and has received a Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award. Wellman is Professor of Playwriting at Brooklyn College. He is also a novelist and poet.

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Locution Interview: Mac Wellman

heather — Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:14:32 +0000

March 6, 2000
Mac Wellman is one of the best-known “downtown” dramatists. Among his many plays are Terminal Hip, Crowbar, 7 Blowjobs, Sincerity Forever, Cleveland, Murder of Crows, Hyacinth Macaw, which have been staged in several theatres and universities throughout the country. Cat’s Paw was produced by the Soho Rep in December and Jennie Richee at MCA in Chicago in February 2001.
Wellman’s plays are collected in The Bad Infinity and the forthcoming Cellophane. He also edited the drama anthologies Theatre of Wonders and From the Other Side of the Century: New American Drama, 1960-1995. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and multiple Obie Award winner and has received a Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award. Wellman is Professor of Playwriting at Brooklyn College. He is also a novelist and poet.