Balaton will be presented in concurrence with the Extremely Hungary Festival, a year-long celebration showcasing contemporary Hungarian visual, performing, and literary arts in New York and Washington, D.C., throughout 2009. The festival reveals the roots of Hungary's thriving contemporary culture and its impact on American society through a broad spectrum of events at leading cultural institutions including: Lincoln Center, BAM, Galapagos, and The Jewish Museum. The festival is part of a larger arts movement in 2009, bringing artists and exhibitions from former Eastern Bloc countries to NYC. The closing night of Balaton will also commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989) and the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
Balaton reunites the team that produced Artifacts of Consequence ("deliriously imaginative...fantastical drama..." - The New York Times; "an important play that's a joy to watch." - Kul). Balaton will have scenic design by Jennifer de Fouchier: lighting design by Kathleen Dobbins: costume design by Stephanie Alexander: sound design by Mark Sanders: and video design by Alex Koch. Melanie Sylvan serves as Executive Producer with Associate Producer Veronique Ory.
SYNESTHESIA 2010
April 19 - May 3
Artistic Telephone Across The Genres...
An artist is asked to select and open a fortune cookie.
She spends the next two weeks working on a piece inspired by the fortune.
She then presents her work to the next artist...
Two weeks later, that artist's work is presented to the next creative collaborator.
And then another artist, and then another artist... eventually, ten in all.
From April 19 - May 3, the assembled works of all ten artists will be presented live, in-sequence, at the Wild Project in New York City's East Village.
"Electric Pear Productions has taken the grade-school game of Telephone to a new level." - Time Out NY
Witness the next stage in the convergence of media. Now in its fourth season, Synesthesia is a live, annual event which unites a select and diverse range of arts and artists for two weeks only. Synesthesia is an Electric Pear exclusive production, conceived by Ashlin Halfnight and Melanie Sylvan, and staged for the first time in 2007. Don't miss this 90-minute journey through original film, song, comedy, composition, drama, dance, and cuisine.
Further season details and casting to be determined.
Electric Pear Productions, founded by Ashlin Halfnight and Melanie Sylvan in 2006, is a non-profit company which cultivates, backs and presents original and persuasive theatrical endeavors. The company is committed to exploring the junction between disparate entities; Electric Pear seeks to deepen the performance landscape by working at the crossroads where the mainstream meets the avant-garde, where artistic disciplines cross-pollinate, and where translation and border-crossing is embraced. Electric Pear seeks to create a welcoming, vibrant community of artists and enthusiasts where respect and generosity are paramount, where creation and vision are honored.
Electric Pear: At home on the stage, at play in the world.
www.ELECTRICPEAR.org
