Top row left to right: Marie Baker-Lee, Lesley Flanigan, opera cast and crew, Khoi Bao Le
Bottom row left to right: Anna Shelest, Joseph Kubera, Blue Gene Tyranny, Mustafa Ahmed, Andrew Bolotowsky,
and Alisha Desai, Douglas McDonnell, Courteney Symonds, Mary Hurlbut in scene
Lower
East Side Performing Arts, Inc.
501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2006
Acknowledgements
L.E.S.P.A. received support from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, and public funds from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (State Senator Daniel Squadron), The Fund for Creative Communities supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and aministered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Material for the Arts, as well as private donations and memberships. We thank our sponsors for their generous support.
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LESPA encourages the creation of new work in contemporary music and musical theater. It facilitates the interface between diverse composers, artists, performers, especially women, and primarily low-income, multi-cultural communities. LESPA’s affordable programs show depth and humanity, and effectively address the complexity of our time, improving the quality of life and sense of community.
In conjunction with New Museum Ideas City, Art Loisaida Foundation,
Smart Clothes Gallery, Lower East Side Preservation Initiative,
East Village Dance Project
OP ON SCREEN WOMEN With special guests Mary Hurlbut, soprano, and Andrew Bolotowsky, flute
New York Public Library
Hamilton Fish Branch -
415 Houston Street (Ave D)
Saturdays at 2pm - FREE
In its fifth year, in partnership with the New York Public Library,
this video screening festival features multi-arts new music theater forms.
Curated by Elodie Lauten,
artistic Director, Op on Screen Women focuses on new music theater by women composers.
August 25, 2012 LENORE VON STEIN
Screening: The Facts (2 episodes) from her current series on Manhattan Cable Network which airs every week, with subjects drawn from reality such as victims of violence.
Live performance: Andrew Bolotowsky, flute
September 22, 2012 ELODIE LAUTEN
Screening: Excerpts of Waking in New York, an opera in progress setting the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, in collaboration with Frank Haye and the Brooklyn Interdenominational Gospel Choir. Live performance: Andrew Bolotowsky and Mary Hurlbut, soprano.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS SCHEDULE TBA SORREL HAYS
Screening: The Bee Opera and other recent works. The Bee Opera is a two act comic “pocket” opera, with texts by Sorrel Hays, Denise Duhamel, Gertrude Stein, Eamon Grennan and Maureen Seaton.
Live performance: Andrew Bolotowsky, flute
NKEIRU OKOYE
Screening: Excerpts from Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom, an opera about the 19th century anti-slavery activist. Nkeiru Okoye is a native New Yorker of Nigerian descent.
ANDREW BOLOTOWSKY will premiere his special program of “One Pagers” for flute
A program of original, contemporary tango music, offered free to SENIORS and patients in nursing homes.
As an alternative to standard entertainment programs for seniors, this program brings new music to this audience, and the form of tango is very much recognized and appreciated by seniors - they may even dance to it.
NEW OPERA/MUSIC THEATER PREMIERES
Co-productions in partnership with Theater for the New City.
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