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Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, GC CUNY sets
its 2023 PRELUDE Festival,
PRELUDE ‘23 "Re: Generation"
20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
17 Locations
60+ Presentations
October 7 – October 22, 2023
Curated by Frank Hentschker
Presented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, GC CUNY
WHERE AND WHEN:
PRELUDE ‘23 "Re: Generation"
October 7 to 22, 2023
Over 60 presentations live in 17 venues in and around New York City
Panels, talks and selected performances will be live-streamed on: www.HowlRound.com.
Presented by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center of CUNY Graduate Center
ALL FREE
Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/mdMSbqwZXx6WFVKJ7
NEW YORK -- From October 7 to 22, 2023 the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center of
CUNY Graduate Center will present its 20th annual PRELUDE Festival, titled "Re:
Generation." The event brings together artists, thinkers, activists, and
presenters from New York City and beyond in free performances and panels to
explore the many ways in which new forms of theater and performance are taking
place today. The festival will offer over 60 free presentations in 17 venues
in and around New York City.
This festival is the annual flagship event of the Segal Center. Traditionally, it is dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary NYC theater, dance, interdisciplinary and mediatized performance and offers an array of short performances, readings, and screenings -- a survey of the current New York moment and the work being prepared for the next season and beyond, plus new commissions and panel discussions with artists, scholars, and performers.
Included among the 60+ partcipating artists this year are Elevator Repair Service, Nature Theater of Oklahoma/Talk, Richard Maxwell/New York City Players, Kate Valk & Liz LeCompte/Talk/Wooster Group, Jess Barbagallo & Tina Satter, Aaron Landsman and Carl Hancock Rux/Mabou Mines. For the full list, see below.
Among the festival's 17 venues this year are Segal Theatre Center, The Tank, The Brick, PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Park Avenue Armory, Newtown Creek Nature Walk, Jersey City Theatre Center, and The Watermill Center. For the full list, see below.
Panels, talks and selected performances will be live-streamed on: www.HowlRound.com.
After the time of COVID, the New York theater and performance landscape woke up to a new reality where nearly every aspect of theater and performance has changed. Theaters are experiencing a collapse of the subscription system, a loss of audiences, and the closure of spaces and festivals. But is it really the doom and gloom we talk and read about? Theater artists, ensembles and institutions from New York’s vibrant performing arts scene are coming up with radical ideas, new spaces, and inspiring projects. PRELUDE ’23 asks artists and audiences: Do we need a renaissance to get back to where we were before — or do we need a revolution? The festival will feature a wide array of new work created by artists at the forefront of contemporary theater and performance, as well as a series of artist talks and panels that put artistic practice in conversation with critical discourse while debating tradition, change, and the ethics and politics of making work in response and relation to racial capitalism, climate collapse, and a new environment for the arts in the 21st Century.
View the full schedule at https://www.thesegalcenter.org/prelude
PRELUDE '23 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Elevator Repair Service, Nature Theater of Oklahoma/Talk, Richard Maxwell/New
York City Players, Kate Valk & Liz LeCompte/Talk/Wooster Group, Jess
Barbagallo & Tina Satter, Aaron Landsman, Carl Hancock Rux/Mabou
Mines, Stefanie Batten Bland, Anne Washburn, Exposure/Maggie Hoffman/Radiohole/Ilan
Bachrach/Alexander Paris/Alex Tatarsky/Kristin Worrall, Dan Safer &
Tony Torn, Annie-B Parson, Paul Lazar, Scott Shephard, Eric Dyer & Jim Findley,
Raja Feather Kelly, Josie Bettman, Stanley Love Performance Group, David
Michalek, Lisa Fagan, Alison Clancy, Aaron Landsman, Kenneth Collins/Temporary
Distortion, Peter Mills Weiss/Julia Mounsey, The Anthropologists, Farm Arts
Collective, Ashley Kelly Tata & Jerry Lieblich, Will Eno, David Greenspan, Andrew
Scoville, Andy Boyd, Anh Vo, Theresa Buchheister/The Brick, Alaina Ferris, Karinne
Keithley Syers, Katy Pyle, Meghan Finn/The Tank, Anne Gridley, Anne
Hamburger, David Levine, April Sweeney, Al Límite Collective, Ben Holbrook,
Cameron Stuart, Catherine Correa, Ciro Chonik Itsaj, Dennis A. Allen II, Eagle
Project, Edy Soto, Elena Siyanko, Erin Landers, Esther Neff, Maria Livan, Fernando
Vieira, Friend of Friend, Fritz Donnelly, Guy Yair Beider, HanJie Chow,
Hayley Spivey, Ilana Khanin, Eric Marlin, Isabelle Duverger, IV Castellanos,
James La Bella, Jess Applebaum, John Phillip Faienza, Keith Josef Adkins, Kemiyondo
Coutinho, Kimberly del Busto Ramírez, Laia Cabrera, Lena Engelstein,
Lianne Elsouki, M. Can Yasar, Maria Litvan, Marissa Ghavami, Marissa Joyce Stamps,
Matthew Gasda, Maya Sharpe, Michal Gamily, No Visa Production, Mitchell Polonsky,
Montgomery Sutton, Nana Simopoulos, Nancy Ma, New Black Fest, Nic Benacerraf,
Opalanietet Ryan Pierce & Ash Marinaccio, Philip Santos Schaffer, Randi
Berry, Rawya El Chab, Robert M. Johanson, Sanaz Bita Tennent, Sauda Aziza Jackson,
Shan Y. Chuang, Sleth Larson, Steven Cosson, Caitlin George & Violeta
Picayo/The SuperGeographics Ensemble Theatre, Syd Island, Taiwo Aloba, The Goat
Exchange, Tristan Allen, William Burke, Watermill Open Studios, and
others.
17 PARTICIPATING LOCATIONS
Segal Theater Center, The Tank, The Brick, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Collapsable
Hole, Prospect Park, Torn Page, Anita's Way, Mercury Store, Theatrelab, Newtown
Creek Nature Walk, Jersey City Theatre Center, PS21: Performance Spaces for
the 21st Century, CultureLab LIC, Elebash Hall, Park Avenue Armory, The Watermill
Center.
Schedule subject to radical change. Check out the current PRELUDE '23 lineup at: https://www.thesegalcenter.org/prelude.
PRELUDE ’23 "Re: Generation" is curated by Frank Hentschker.
Produced by Ann Kreitman and Tayler Everts. Festival web development provided by Gaurav Singh. Festival graphic design provided by Alison Pascale. General Segal Center Operations Intern: Virginia Muturi.
PRELUDE ’23 "Re: Generation" is supported by the Lucille Lortel Foundation.
Brief history of the PRELUDE Festival
Since 2003, the annual PRELUDE Festival has given audiences a first look at
new work and ideas from groundbreaking theatre and performance artists based
in New York City. PRELUDE has presented the work of more than three hundred
artists including Annie Dorsen, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Half Straddle, Lucas
Hnath, Branden Jacobs Jenkins, Young Jean Lee, Taylor Mac, and Nature Theater
of Oklahoma, alongside legendary figures such as Richard Foreman, Marina Abramovic,
the Living Theater, and many more.
About the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is a nonprofit center for theatre, dance,
and film affiliated with CUNY’s PhD program in theatre. The Center’s
mission is to bridge the gap between academia and the professional performing
arts communities both within the United States and internationally.
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For press inquiries or any questions, please email Frank Hentschker at fhentschker@gc.cuny.edu.
Photos are available at: https://photos.app.goo.gl/mdMSbqwZXx6WFVKJ7.