La MaMa ETC in association with East Coast Artists presents:
PITCH by Kolekt::f
Gracie Leavitt, text
Benjamin Mosse, direction
Nick Murphy, movement
Wolfgang Zäh, composition
Performed by:
Caleb Bark
Tuomas Hiltunen*
Erin Layton
Jennifer Lim
Elka Rodriguez*
Joe Tuttle*
Wolfgang Zäh
Scenic Design by Kanae Heike, Lighting by Gina Scherr, Costumes by Michael Huang
Production Management by Jennifer Caster
*These artists are appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association in this Equity Approved Showcase.
Limited Engagment:
September 18 - October 4, 2009
at
First Floor Theatre
74A East 4th St.
New York, NY 10003
Box Office: Mon - Fri, Noon - 5pm
Buy tickets for PITCH here.
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About East Coast Artists |
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EAST COAST ARTISTS (ECA) was founded in 1992 by Richard Schechner as a professional ensemble dedicated to boldly re-inventing classic texts, debuting radically new international work and challenging conventional notions of contemporary theater and performer training. During the last few years, ECA productions have performed in New York, Shanghai, Wroclaw, Bucharest, and Stockholm, even as RasaBoxes™, a psychophysical performance technique developed from Schechner’s time in India and East Asia, has found applications beyond the theater in work with K-12 Educators, doctors and scientists. Lauded by critics and scholars from such diverse publications as The New York Times, National Geographic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Backstage, ECA, under newly appointed artistic director, Benjamin Mosse, continues to evolve its mission of intercultural exchange and artistic experimentation. |
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About La MaMa E.T.C. |
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LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB first opened in 1961 and has since become a world-renowned cultural organization for its dedication to new works. It continues to pursue its founder, Ellen Stewart's mission to develop, nurture, support, produce and present new and original performance work by artists of all nations and cultures. La Mama believes that in order to flourish, art needs the company of colleagues, the spirit of collaboration, the comfort of continuation, a public forum in which to be evaluated and fiscal support. |
A new theatrical piece by Kolekt::f fusing poetry, monologue, movement, and music
to celebrate the urgency of stories.
"Elegant and smart and performed with real commitment by its ensemble of seven.... A cohesive and pertinent piece of theatre art." (Martin Denton, nytheatre.com)
OPENING SEPTEMBER 18TH
What is PITCH? A simple premise: A group of
characters (A, B, C, D, E, F, and W) are at C's place for dinner. When: During a time when stories are
forbidden. On this day, however, a brash
utterance incites a frenzy of imagination as these characters discover that
profoundly personal joy of expression. A eulogy for a time before
communication's reductively impersonal and incessant twittering, PITCH celebrates the fundamental and human urgency to invent and
mimic, share and relate. At the present, we are so bombarded by
information and status updates that there is no time to reflect. Yet, in exploding the reflective
intimacy of monologue form by juxtaposing, splicing and refracting with poetry,
movement, and music those moments in life that arrest and haunt and remain with
us, PITCH reminds us of our own memories
and instances, inviting us through these glimpses of characters ruminations to
take notice of our own experiences. And cherish them. The product of an intensive
year-long process, PITCH was developed by
poet Gracie Leavitt, director Benjamin Mosse, choreographer Nick Pleshette
Murphy and composer Wolfgang Zäh from locations all over the world by video
conferences, email exchanges, and improvisational workshops. A global
model of collaboration, the Kolekt::f of PITCH
now comprises artists from Japan, China, Finland, Mexico, Germany as well as
the United States, all of whom have come together to author this story about
stories. This story about memory and routine and the individual. This story about that dynamic
relationship between audience, character and performer in the space between
words. Memory, after all, is contagious.
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