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> tour roster info > obakunle akinlana > artspot productions > andrea assaf > bbarash productions > beacon dance > beverly botsford
> the carpetbag theatre, inc. > teo castellanos d-projects
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> clancyworks dance company > jaehn clare > skipp coon > the conciliation project > core performance company > dance box theater > phyllis free > gateway performance prod > jemagwga > jump-start performance co > sheila kerrigan > looking for lilith theatre co
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> gesel mason performance projects > jeff mather > mondo bizarro > m.u.g.a.b.e.e > orisirisi african folklore > the pacha mamas > queen sheba > melanie st. ours > josĂŠ torress-tama > voices in the treetops, inc. > elise witt
04 Intersection of Art and Activism A regional arts service organization with 35 years of history, Alternate ROOTS is an invaluable national resource to artists, organizers and cultural workers. As a visible champion of activist artists, ROOTS is looked to for leadership particularly in the Southern United States, where it provides the most direct services to its members. Alternate ROOTS provides the connective tissue for a distinct segment of the arts and culture field - artists who have a commitment to making work in, with, by, for and about their communities, and those whose cultural work strives for social justice. While this is a large sector in US arts and culture—many artists work in this way and share these aims—these practitioners are, for the most part, informally organized and collaborations are often the result of chance as much as choice. Alternate ROOTS contributes to the sustained artistic development, increased visibility, and stability of activist artists.
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Alternate ROOTS is an organization based in the Southern USA whose mission is to support the creation and presentation of original art, in all its forms, which is rooted in a particular community of place, tradition or spirit. As a coalition of cultural workers we strive to be allies in the elimination of all forms of oppression. ROOTS is committed to social and economic justice and the protection of the natural world and addresses these concerns through its programs and services.
history Alternate ROOTS was founded in 1976 at the Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee in order to meet the distinct needs of artists who work for social justice, and artists who create work by, for, about and within communities of place, tradition, affiliation, and spirit. Originally an acronym for Regional Organization of Theaters South, ROOTS quickly established itself as a thought leader in the field of community-based arts and the only regional collective of artists committed to social and economic justice. In response to the needs of the growing field of community-based arts, ROOTS evolved to a multidisciplinary member-based and artist-driven organization. Member artists develop programs, and ROOTS provides resources for the needs of these socially conscious artists. As a progressive arts organization, ROOTS is at the forefront of establishing model programs for regional cultural organizing in the US. ROOTS is an exemplary incubator for participatory democracy, and through the practice of our guiding principles - Equitable Partnership, Shared Power, Open Dialogue, Individual and Community Transformation, and an Aesthetic that embraces both beauty and justice - we continue to be a model for regional organizing that is responsive to and reflective of the needs of this unique artistic community.
05 about the tour subsidy program The Tour Subsidy Program is one of Alternate ROOTS’ longest running programs. For more than twenty years, it has provided fee subsidies to enable qualified presenters in the ROOTS service region* to bring artists on the Tour & Residency Roster into their communities. This program provides an opportunity to utilize the arts to encourage dialogue, foster understanding, educate audiences, and nourish cooperation and collaboration amongst Southern artists and the communities they serve across the country. Alternate ROOTS will fund member artists/organizations for tour and residency with presenters in the South (our 14-state service region*) and with participants in the Ford Foundation’s Supporting Diverse Arts Spaces Initiative outside the ROOTS region. *Alternate ROOTS’ service region consists of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
eligibility requirements Only nonprofit and governmental presenting organizations are eligible to apply. Eligible presenters and projects must be in the ROOTS fourteen-state region or at specially designated Ford Diverse Arts Spaces. Presenting organizations must have not-for-profit, tax-exempt status or be an official unit of local, county or state government. Applicants must provide proof of not-for-profit or government status. Presenters are limited to one application per calendar year.
guidelines The project must take place within the pre-determined time parameters of the grant. Events must be open and marketed to the public and dedicated to serving a wide audience. All grant recipients are required to provide accessibility for constituents with disabilities at grant-funded events. All subsidies require a dollar-for-dollar cash match. Applicants are eligible to receive up to 50% of the artist fee subsidized up to $2500 (subject to the noted limits of funding availability). The minimum subsidy is $250. Only one artist/company per grant application. The artist/company is required to fully participate in the performance. The artist or members of the company must also conduct an educational/outreach component. Artist/Company must be an Alternate ROOTS dues paying Voting Member. EVALUATION CRITERIA Applications will be reviewed and funding decisions made by using the following criteria: Artistic Merit // Community Engagement // Documentation and Evaluation // Accessibility // Budget
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Obakunle Akinlana About the Artist: Obakunle Akinlana is a storyteller who uses drums, shekeres, and other African musical instruments to present fun and exciting African folktales. Since 1985, he has performed as a storyteller, lecturer and percussionist throughout the U.S. and West Africa. He travels annually to Africa to learn traditional stories, and to observe and perform with African griots and musicians. His programs focus on the arts and folklore of the Yoruba people of Southwest Nigeria, a culture he has studied for more than three decades. Akinlana performs at festivals, colleges, universities, community centers, libraries, schools and other events. Current Projects: Storyteller Obakunle Akinlana presents African Folktales is an up to 60-minute performance of African and African American folktales, music, and dance. Obakunle plays drums, shekeres, and other musical instruments to bring exciting African folktales to life. Alo Irintan Yoruba is a 60-minute presentation that features music, folklore, and artifacts from the Yoruba people. Artifacts include bead art, woodcarvings, basketry, calabashes, textiles, and musical instruments. Available for residencies and workshops; offerings of shekere making, jewelry making, batik, storytelling and African percussion. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Obakunle Akinlana afrikanfolktales@aol.com 980.213.7169 P.O. Box 464 Newell, NC 28126 http://www.lifeasartproductions.com Fee Structure: * Obakunle Presents African Folktales: Single Performance: $400 Multiple Performances: $700 (2 Back to Back Performances) One-day Residency: $1000-$1200 (3 Performances Different Locations) Multiple-Day Residency: $850-$1000/day* One-Week Residency: $3800-$5000* *Prices for other structures up to negotiation with presenter. Artistic Discipline: theater // dance // folkloric/traditional cultural // storytelling // other // music // spoken word // poetry // literary arts // visual arts // film/video // new media // multidisciplinary // producer/presenter Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Prisons // Audiences with Disabilities
ArtSpot Productions About the Group: ArtSpot Productions is an ensemble of artists dedicated to creating meticulously live theater. We are Louisiana’s most accomplished and awarded ensemble theatre company. Our productions are a sincere blend of disciplines, developed through ensemble authorship, physically rigorous training, original music, interactive sculptural environments, and extended research and rehearsal. We strive to incite positive change in our community with visually stunning performances and empowering educational programs. Current Projects: Rumours of War, an epic re-imagining of the events that launched America’s largest slave revolt. Go Ye Therefore, a duet for two women that strives to promote racial healing, the empowerment of women, and religious tolerance. Loup Garou, the story of a Cajun werewolf that celebrates Louisiana life and culture while revealing the damage the oil industry has inflicted on Louisiana. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Sean LaRocca sean@artspotproductions.org 504.826.7783 7100 St Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118 www.artspotproductions.org Fee Structure: * Single performance begin at $250 Multiple performances begin at $500 One-day residencies begin at $1,000 Multiple-day residencies begin at $2,500 *Full productions require multiple days to install; total fees including travel costs can be significant. However, we are willing to work with any presenter to reach an agreement that will be beneficial to all parties. We also offer one-day workshops, process demonstrations, and master classes in conjunction with or independent of a full performance engagement. Please contact or visit us at www.artspotproductions.org for more information. Artistic Discipline: theater // music // multidisciplinary // folkloric/traditional cultural Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Prisons
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Andrea Assaf About the Artist: Andrea Assaf is a writer, performer, director & cultural organizer. She’s the founding Artistic Director of Art2Action Inc. Formerly Artistic Director of New WORLD Theater (2004-09), and Program Associate for Animating Democracy (2001-04), she has a Masters degree in Performance Studies and a BFA in Acting, both from NYU. Recent awards include: FY11 NPN Creation Fund Commission, 2010 Princess Grace Award in Theater, 2007 Hedgebrook residency, 2004 Cultural Contact grant. She is a Board member of CAATA (Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists) and Alternate ROOTS, and a member of RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers). Current Projects: Andrea creates original performances—from page to stage, language to embodiment, political consciousness to poetic sensibility. Art2Action supports new work by women, artists of color, and GLBTQidentified - artists and allies, from devised theater, to interdisciplinary performances, to community-based arts and performative acts. Current projects include Eleven Reflections on September, a poetry & multimedia performance on Arab American experience, wars on/of terror, and the “constant, quiet rain of death amidst beauty” that each autumn brings in a post-9/11 world. Also touring in 2012-13, Outside the Circle, a new play about sexuality and (dis)ability co-created with playwright-performer Samuel Valdez, directed by Dora Arreola. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Andrea Assaf art2action@earthlink.net 413.531.5042 Tampa, FL 33614 www.art2action.org Fee Structure: * Workshop: $300-$1000* Solo Performance: $500-$3000* Full Show with Ensemble: $5000-10,000* *All fees are negotiable, and depend on the nature of the work and time commitment. Detailed discussion with the presenting organization or person is required. Week or longer residencies, and other structures, are available. Will work on NPN contract or equivalent fee structure. **Fees do not include housing and transportation, which should be provided by the presenter. Artistic Discipline: *** theater // spoken word // poetry // literary arts // multidisciplinary ***Full productions include live music, dance, video and visual art. Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // Immigrant populations // Audiences with Disabilities // Workshops for women, GLBTQI groups, and teens are also available. // Additional programs can be designed upon request.
BBarash Productions About the Artist: Bailey Barash is an independent documentary maker with many years of experience in television news. After 19 years producing medical and science news at CNN, she formed an independent production company to produce documentaries that reveal the hidden issues in society and show factual information and possible solutions through the stories of real people dealing with those issues. She screens her work in interactive workshops at universities, community health centers, churches, youth organizations, film festivals and conferences, world wide, emphasizing the ethical and creative considerations of verite film making while introducing the audience to the basics of documentary production. Current Projects: Bailey researches, shoots, writes and produces documentaries that focus on distinct social conditions or cultural communities, human stories of issues like terminal illness, HIV/AIDS, aging and racial, ethnic or gender discrimination. She works directly with people whose lives are affected to tell their stories, connecting the viewer to their lives, daily decisions they make and actions they take to survive. Bailey enlists artists within the community to collaborate on production and screening. She screens and discusses her films at local community venues. Bailey interacts with other filmmakers about how to make relevant, issue-focused, low-budget, effective films. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Bailey Barash bailey.barash@gmail.com Office: 404.373.8246 Mobile: 678.358.2349 1875 McLendon Ave., NE Atlanta, GA 30307 www.bbarash.com Fee Structure: Single Screening + Talk: $1500, including transportation and housing Multiple Screenings + Talk: $400 each, plus $500 for transportation and housing One-day Residency: $2000, including transportation and housing Artistic Discipline: film/video // Short and feature-length documentaries Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Prisons
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Beacon Dance About the Group: Beacon Dance is a professional, performance-focused organization. Our mission is to enrich the lives of those who intersect with our work, by presenting classes, workshops and performances to the general public. We design our projects to be interactive experiences with our audiences, to reflect the realities of our time, to occur in unusual spaces and with passionate attention. Beacon Dance seeks to provide our programming as public art—free of charge and within the public realm. As an organization, Beacon Dance is committed to the ideals of the public art movement: Access, public service, social justice and responsibility. Current Projects: The Elemental Project (Full length performances inspired by the primal elements of Water, Earth, Fire and Air) At Once Now and Then (an evening-length multi-disciplinary performance addressing some aspects of mental disability) A Bountiful Feast (an evening-length performance inspired by cultural food practices) The Marriage Project (An evening length multi-disciplinary performance reflecting various communities’ attitudes on marriage). Contact Info: Tour Contact: D. Patton White patton@beacondance.org 404.607.9148 P.O. Box 1553 Decatur, GA 30031-1553 www.beacondance.org Fee Structure: Classes (one instructor): 60 minute-$200; 90 minute-$275 Workshops (two or more instructors): 30 minute-$150 45 minute-$200 60 minute-$250 90 minute-$400 Performance (evening length/90 minutes): $1000-$3500 Residency (3-7 days; combination of classes/workshops and performance): $1500-$5000 Artistic Discipline: dance // film/video // multidisciplinary Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Audiences with Disabilities // LGBT populations
Beverly Botsford About the Artist: Beverly Botsford is a cross-cultural percussionist and educator who blends music, movement and spoken word in solo and ensemble presentations. Embracing drumming traditions of Africa, Cuba, Brazil and her native North Carolina, she celebrates more than 30 years of professional experience, performing, teaching and touring around the world. Highlights include 13 years with Chuck Davis and the African American Dance Ensemble, American Dance Festival faculty and more than a decade of touring globally with Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist, Nnenna Freelon. The language of rhythm is universal and her goal is empowerment, enlightenment and inspiration for people in all walks of life. Current Projects: As a cross-cultural percussionist, Beverly Botsford uses rhythm and percussion as a tool to build bridges; to educate, empower, inspire and to promote racial and cultural understanding. She offers a variety of solo and ensemble performances, as well as workshops, residencies, master classes and lecture/demonstrations. Solo offerings include “Dancing Drums” for families or schools and “Hand to Heart” for community audiences. “Drums Alive”, “Tambor Vivo” and “Percussive Jazz Theater“ are ensemble offerings. Current workshops include “Drum Talk” and “Catch a Groove”. Beverly tailors all presentations to the needs of the presenter, the audience and in educational settings, to the curriculum. Contact Info: beverly.botsford@gmail.com 919.384.8418 P.O. Box 62312 Durham, NC 27715 www.beverlybotsford.com Fee Structure: * Solo performances and residencies: $500 to $1500 per day, $2500 to $5000 per week Ensemble performances: $1500-$5000 * These fees do not include housing and transportation. * NEGOTIABLE - specifics of fees depend on travel, personnel, and length of program. Artistic Discipline: dance // music // spoken word // poetry // multidisciplinary // folkloric/traditional cultural // storytelling Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Prisons // Audiences with Disabilities
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The Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. About the Group: The Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. (CBT) is a professional, multigenerational ensemble company dedicated to the production of new works. Its mission is to give artistic voice to the issues and dreams of people who have been silenced by racism, classism, sexism, ageism, homophobia and other forms of oppression. CBT serves communities by returning their stories to them with honesty, dignity, and concern for the aesthetic of that particular community. CBT has numerous touring performance options and a range of cultural services including workshops in: ensemble process, storytelling and story circles, spoken word, song development, and an extended digital storytelling workshop. Current Projects: Speed Killed My Cousin, a new play by Linda Parris-Bailey, is a multi-discipline work rooted in the story of an African-American, female combat soldier and her struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder after returning home from Iraq. The central character, a third generation soldier, courts death by vehicular suicide. Between a Ballad and a Blues chronicles the seven decade career of Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong and his musical partners. Together, as Appalachia’s “Tennessee Chocolate Drops,” they traveled the world planting the seeds for modern American music forms including Country and Blues, becoming one of the most famous African-American String Bands in history. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Linda Parris-Bailey, Executive/Artistic Director lindapb1@aol.com 865.544.0447 100 South Gay Street, Suite 106 & 114 Knoxville, TN 37902 www.carpetbagtheatre.org Fee Structure: Speed Killed My Cousin: 3-Day Residency (3 Performances + Workshop): $11,000 + Transportation Between a Ballad and a Blues: 3-Day Residency (3 Performances + Workshop): $15,000 + Transportation Digital Storytelling Training: $6,000 per week Artistic Discipline: theater // music // spoken word // new media // multidisciplinary // folkloric/traditional cultural // storytelling // digital storytelling Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Prisons // History Centers // Americana Music Venues // Youth Programs // Festivals
Teo Castellanos D-Projects About the Group: Founded by Fringe First Award winning actor/director/playwright Teo Castellanos, the contemporary performance company, Teo Castellanos D-Projects, is a Dance/Theater company influenced by ritual, culture, spirituality, collage art, traditional and progressive music. Teo Castellanos D-Projects fuses ancient traditions with B-Boy choreography to create a new aesthetic in Dance Theater. Their first work Scratch and Burn, a peace ritual based on the war and funeral rituals of the Zulus of South Africa, was commissioned by Miami Light Project and premiered in Miami in 2005. It has since gone on to tour throughout the U.S., South America and China. Teo Castellanos D-Projects will begin touring their next piece, Fat Boy in January 2012. Fat Boy is an examination of world poverty juxtaposed with American consumerism, influenced by Balinese culture and Asian rice rituals. Fat Boy was co-commissioned by Miami Light Project, Tigertail Productions, 7 Stages and Hip Hop Theater Festival. Current Projects: Fat Boy is a dance/theater work exploring world poverty, hunger, American consumerism and waste. The core of its choreography is hip hop based and is also influenced by Balinese Rice Rituals and Mythology, as well as traditional Buddhist ritual movement. The work also incorporates Dub Reggae music composed by Grammy-nominated DJ LeSpam and video projections of Asia and Africa. The touring company consists of 5 Artists and 1 Technical Director. Contact: Teo Castellanos D-Projects teocastellanos@me.com 786.271.2076 PO Box 557845 Miami, FL 33255 www.teocastellanos.com Fee Structure: The fee is based on the National Performance Network one-week (5-7 days) residency fee structure: 2 performances, residency activities (TBA), Artist Fees (6), Administrative Fee: Total $6,140 This fee does not include travel/housing or $40 a day per diem per artist. Artistic Discipline: theater // dance // spoken word // multidisciplinary Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // Prisons
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ClancyWorks Dance Company About the Group: ClancyWorks Dance Company is an ensemble of contemporary dance artists, based in Washington, DC. We present award winning dance performances and offer high quality arts-in-education programs. Adrienne Clancy, Artistic Director/Founder, creates choreography that features dynamic partnering work and reflects her powerful aesthetic to form trust within a framework of diversity. The company’s outstanding skill lies in its ability to combine physically demanding, powerful movement with the sensitive portrayal of cultural nuances and personal emotions. The Washington Post has described Adrienne Clancy as a “wizard of invention,” and her choreography as “a tour de force of unpredictable partnering.” Current Projects: In Back to the Wall, dancers face the wall as an opportunity as opposed to an obstacle and mount the wall in interesting ways, with no harnesses or apparatuses – just strong physical partnering. On Taking Steps to Climbing Mountains uses five ladders of graduated sizes to create windows, doors, and pathways, creating a world in which we would want to participate. Webmasters uses Internet connections to pair dancers in two distinct locations together, both physically/virtually via image projection. The dancers explore the wondrous, winsome, lose-some, whirling web of relationships. Love Strings is another version of Webmasters made for the proscenium-stage without the use of Skype. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Adrienne Clancy Info@ClancyWorks.org 301.717.9271 PO Box 3111 Silver Spring, MD 20918 www.ClancyWorks.org Fee Structure: * One performance: $3,500-$6,500 1/2 Week Residency (including at least one activity and one performance): $4,000-$7,000 Full Week Residency (which typically includes at least 2 performances and activities): $6,000-$9,000 *Plus travel, per diem, and lodging. Price ranges accounts for difference in rep (sets). Artistic Discipline: dance // film/video // multidisciplinary Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Audiences with Disabilities
Jaehn Clare About the Artist: Jaehn Clare is a trained professional theater artist, with more than thirty years experience as an actor, director, producer, playwright, touring artist, teaching artist and arts administrator. She holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota, and an M.A. in Dramatic Literature from the University of Essex. Since 1986, Ms. Clare has been active as a disability awareness educator and trainer, offering awareness and inclusion workshops in a variety of community settings. She is currently employed as a Professional Learning Teaching Artist with the Alliance Theatre. Current Projects: Belle’s on Wheels is an autobiographical performance depicting Clarity Belle’s journey through recovery from a life-altering injury to a new appreciation of her life. This personal theatre piece addresses cultural myths and stereotypes that have traditionally separated persons with disabilities from the “mainstream.” Tail Tell Tale is a one-woman performance … an intimate conversation shared by a woman who claims she “grew into a mermaid.” Both performances run less than one hour, are appropriate for high school adult audiences, and involve minimal technical requirements. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Jaehn Clare jaehnclare@jaehnclare.net 404.693.5273 144 Avery Street Decatur, GA 30030 www.JaehnClare.net Fee Structure: Single performance: $1,250 for one performance Multiple performance: $1,000 each One day residency: $1,000 Multiple day residency: $750 per day Travel - Mileage fee of $0.55/mi is charged for bookings within GA. Outof-state bookings require round trip air travel paid in advance. Accommodations - Venues more than three hours’ drive from the performer’s home require an overnight stay. Per Diem - A per diem rate applies to all bookings requiring an overnight stay. Important Note: Presenters are responsible for ensuring that the performance space is wheelchair accessible for both the performer and audience members. Additionally, accessible travel accommodations for the performer are required. Artistic Discipline: theater Special programs available for: Audiences with Disabilities // Residencies are custom designed specifically for each client, within the performer’s skill set(s) and capacity.
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Skipp Coon About the Artist: His words embody those of one that is definitely a by-product of his environment. His lines are witty & dark, sincere yet powerful and his message is thought-provoking and socially conscious, all of which complement his political, societal, and economic views. Skipp simply “makes music that allows his listeners to react and not feel alone in the struggle”. Current Projects: political hip hop // lyric analysis Contact Info: Tour Contact: Joecephus Martin skipp@tibbitmusic.com 601.214.0861 4925 Oak Creek Drive Jackson, MS 39212 skippcoon.tumblr.com Facebook/Twitter: skippcoon Fee Structure: Single Performance: $1000-$1500* Multiple Performances: $750-$1000/ea* One-day Residency: $1000-$1500* Multiple-Day Residency: $750-$1000/day* One-Week Residency: $3500-$5000* Artistic Discipline: spoken word // poetry // photography Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Prisons
The Conciliation Project About the Group: The Conciliation Project works to promote, through active and challenging dramatic work, open and honest dialogue about racism in America in order to repair its damaging legacy. As a social justice theatre company, the ultimate goal is individual and community transformation. Their dramatic works challenge audiences to rethink their beliefs and prejudices by: Presenting previously hidden historical accounts; Encouraging candid conversations, rather than tired rhetoric; Replacing misconceptions with genuine understanding and acceptance, and; Igniting dialogues that have been stifled and silenced by political correctness, misunderstandings, inaccurate historical accounts and fear. Current Projects: TCP productions illuminate the distortions of America’s racial history and provide an honest interrogation, while including marginalized, under-represented and unheard voices. Our engagements are geared toward businesses, organizations, schools, and communities to help in the process of eliminating racial and cultural stereotypes and the movement toward a more just and equal world. The “Original Works Series” is a set of six plays specifically geared towards our mission. The “Community Collaboration Series” partners the mission of community groups with the mission of TCP. Our productions can be used in a number of ways including: workshops, dialogue sessions, performances, lectures, and residencies. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Gaiya Gillespie-Walker info@theconciliationproject.org 840.477.6453 15 King Street Richmond, VA 23222 www.theconciliationproject.org Facebook/Twitter: facebook.com/theconciliationproject Fee Structure: * Performances $1,700 and up Workshops, Lectures and Residencies $750 and up *All prices negotiable. Fees do not include housing and travel. Artistic Discipline: theater Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 (K-12 performances are for 9-12 grades and in some cases grades 7 and 8) // Prisons
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CORE Performance Company About the Group: Founded by Sue Schroeder, CORE Performance Company creates and performs innovative contemporary dance. Delving deeply into the arts and the many cultures of the world, CORE unearths and offers unique and compelling dance experiences. Guided by a strong sense of community responsibility, CORE uses dance to educate, question, connect, heal, and inspire. Current Projects: CORE has been acclaimed for its performances and residencies in the United States and internationally, and recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. “An evening full of unexpected pleasures and beautiful mysteries” is how Atlanta’s Creative Loafing remarked on 2010’s Corazón Abriendo (Heart Opening), adding “CORE is a company whose dancers work together with a remarkable ease and with clearly linked intention.” CORE creates original work that evolves through experimentation, improvisation, and collaboration with artists from different mediums. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Elizabeth Geiger, Tour Development sues@coredance.org 404.373.4154 P.O. Box 2045 Decatur, GA 30031-2045 www.coredance.org Facebook/Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/coredance Fee Structure:** Single performance: $4,000-$25,000 Community residency activities in addition to regular performance: $200-$600 One week residency with multiple performances and activities: $14,000-$40,000 **CORE believes it is essential to develop and nurture a meaningful connection through successful and mutually beneficial residency experiences, which are created with the imagination, resources, and input of presenters, educators, administrators, artists, community leaders, and all other supporters. Fees vary depending on a number of factors. The fees stated reflect a range; presenters are encouraged to contact CORE for further discussion. Artistic Discipline: dance Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Prisons // Audiences with Disabilities
Dance Box Theater About the Group: Co-Artistic Directors Laura Schandelmeier and Stephen Clapp began working together in 2004 and since then have created six full-evening performance works. They have received choreographic commissions from the Creative Communities Fund of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 2010, Schandelmeier and Clapp received the Metro DC Dance Awards’ Founder’s Award for Innovation in Dance. In addition to dance theater productions, Dance Box Theater has been engaged in arts-integration residencies, professional development for artists and educators, and arts education for youth. Current Projects: Dance Box Theater is a dance theater company whose creative process is fluid, collaborative and non-conventional. The company’s work explores issues of social justice and human interaction and is based on the collaborative partnership between seasoned professionals, Laura Schandelmeier and Stephen Clapp, who bring their talents together to create choreography through many hours of intricate partnering. They collaborate with other performers, visual artists, musicians and technical artists to create interdisciplinary work. Contact: Dance Box Theater, Inc. Tour Contact: Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp production@danceboxtheater.org 415.779.6383 3311 Rhode Island Avenue #305 Mount Rainier, MD 20712 www.danceboxtheater.org Facebook/Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dance-Box-TheaterInc/351564920036; http://twitter.com/#!/danceboxtheater Fee Structure: Single Performance: $1,500-$2,500 Multiple Performances: $1,000-$2,250 each One-Day Residency: $500-$2,000 Multiple-Day Residency: $500-$2,000 per day One-Week Residency: $1,500-$6,000 *Plus housing and transportation for 2-5 company members (including technical personnel). Artistic Discipline: theater // dance // multidisciplinary Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Audiences with Disabilities
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Phyllis Free About the artist: Phyllis Free is a master drummer, poet, and choreographic, theatrical, & visual artist. A master teaching artist, professional development trainer & workshop facilitator, Phyllis says the following about her work: “I believe in the power of the arts to enhance personal growth and to create positive social change, to focus attention on issues and experiences which isolate, divide, or connect us, and to bridge the gaps in between. The essential ‘heart of the arts’ is the power to speak the truth of one’s own experience; arts present for us an opportunity to respond to what is expressed by others.” Current Projects: Drummer On-Call: Improvisational drum circle facilitation for all ages & abilities; creative collaboration, percussion accompaniment for musicians &/or dance and theatrical ensembles; performance engagements, studio recording sessions. Phyllis Free Association performs in ensemble w/ various guest artists selected by genre, venue, & purpose of the event. Free Spirit Drumming and Creative Arts: Workshops & residencies for team-building to foster community; foster individual creative expression & group affirmation; healing & recovery. Contact: Phyllis Free / Creative Services phylfree@mindspring.com 502-938-8427 2117 Fairhaven Cir NE Atlanta, GA 30305 Fee Structure: Drummer On-Call: $300-500+ per day * Phyllis Free Association: $500-1500+ per performance* (depending upon size of ensemble) Free Spirit Drumming & Creative Arts: $350+ per workshop* Creative Consultation & Performance Coaching: $350-500+ per day* + Private accommodations, travel, & per diem *Sliding-fee scales negotiable for extended projects, multiple bookings, & residencies Artistic Disciplines: theater // dance // music // spoken word // poetry // visual arts // multidisciplinary Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Audiences with Disabilities // Alternative Schools // Residential Treatment populations // Recovery & Wellness // LBGT+ // Women’s Studies // Cultural Diversity
Gateway Performance Productions About the Group: Gateway Performance Productions offers performances, classes and workshops that provide opportunities for meaningful community engagement. The company is known for its original productions for all ages celebrating the human spirit with drama, dance, mime, masks, puppetry and music. Each is written, choreographed and directed by Sandra Hughes with hand-carved, museum quality masks created by Michael Hickey. Current Projects: Gateway has performed in urban and rural communities all over the U.S. and abroad. Venues include theatres, art centers, festivals, schools, colleges, universities, community centers, senior centers, churches, hospitals and a variety of other nontraditional performance spaces: Mostly Mime Illusions - Mask Theatre The Warrior Tree A Mummers Tale Contact Info: Tour Contact: Michael Hickey gatewaypp@masktheatre.org 404.222.9262 PO Box 8062 Atlanta, GA 31106 www.masktheatre.org Fee Structure: (all inclusive) Single Performance: $750- $3,000 Residencies: 1 day (2 activities): $1000 - 3200 2 days (4 activities): $1500 - 5000 3 days (6 activities): $2250 - 6600 4 days (8 activities): $3000 - 8000 5 days (10 activities): $3750 - 9500 Artistic Discipline: theater // dance // music // spoken word // literary arts // visual arts // multidisciplinary // folkloric/traditional cultural // storytelling Additional Offerings: Mask Theatre, Mime, Puppetry, Traditional Irish Mummers, Performance Art Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Prisons // Audiences with Disabilities
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JEMAGWGA About the Artists: Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet have worked for thirty years independently and collaboratively in the field of visual arts in France and the States, receiving support from the SC Arts Commission, Alternate Visions, Spoleto Festival, the Humanities Foundation, the Russell Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, Alternate ROOTS and the NEA. Their collaborative experiences have evolved from art pieces strictly by the two of them, to creating and managing two French cafés offering all the features of an art & socio-economic sustainability project, to rhizome-like activities, specific partnerships and creative art programs. Their most recent endeavors have involved neighborhoods, other artists and activists. JEMAGWGA is their official name. Current Projects: PROCESS: collaborative research and dialogue with third parties communities, other artists, people in other disciplines - to develop an understanding, a critique, an action or a projected vision of and around social, political, art-related situations offered to us as fields of intervention. Meetings, workshops, meals ... are tools for this investigative step. Art, race, generations, class, social and economic justice are our main topics. END RESULT: usually large installations using as many techniques, materials and disciplines as necessary to make a meaningful piece for all partners. They may also offer to use a combination of past art works and artifacts for special exhibitions. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Gwylene Gallimard jemagwga@gmail.org 843.607.5811 68 Devereaux St Charleston, SC 29403 www.fastandfrench.org Fee Structure: Public lecture or presentation: $200-$750 One-Week Residency: $1000-$3000 Multiple-Week Residency: $800-$2500 per Week Initial site-visit to develop a project: $200 These fees do not include housing, transportation and materials. Prices are totally negotiable. Artistic Discipline: visual arts // film/video // multidisciplinary Special programs available for: Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Neighborhoods
Jump-Start Performance Company About the Group: Jump-Start Performance Co. is a collective of performing artists dedicated to the discovery and support of new ideas in the arts and arts education and is committed to the creation of art that is a lasting voice of diverse cultures and communities. With a long history of continuous and vibrant artistic growth, the company’s work, although nationally recognized, is firmly and proudly rooted in San Antonio, TX and its cultural richness. Since 1985, Jump-Start has created, produced or presented over 500 original performance works and the company’s educational programs have served over 110,000 individuals, over 90 schools and community groups. Current Projects: I’ll Remember for You is a two-person play on Alzheimer’s. This funny, sad and courageously honest look at Suarez’s experiences as the primary caregiver for her mother with Alzheimer’s was listed as one of San Antonio’s Best of 2010 in Stage by the San Antonio Express News. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Lisa Suarez lisa@jump-start.org 210.227.5867 108 Blue Star San Antonio, TX 78204 www.jump-start.org Fee Structure: * Single Performance: $1000-$1500 Multiple Performances: $750-$1000/ea One-day Residency: $300-$600 Multiple-Day Residency: $500-800/day One-Week Residency: $2250-3000 *Prices for other structures up to negotiation with presenter. *These fees do not include housing and transportation. Artistic Discipline: theater Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers
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Sheila Kerrigan About the Artist: Sheila Kerrigan’s work is about creating a safe space to open up our senses so we can really see, listen to, and sense each other, so we can bridge the artificial gaps we call difference—race, class, sex, culture, etc.—and connect on a simple, deep level. Her college courses—Collaborative Creative Process, and Community-Based Performance—are founded on the practice of peaceful communication and peace-making. The facilitation she does in classrooms and with community groups is about carving out a space where trust can abound. Current Projects: Mime Explains String Theory for adults: a talking mime show, twoperson solo, brings us a serious comedy about life and death with magical surprises, puppetry, and metaphysics. It reminds audiences of the web of life that connects them, and leaves them uplifted, laughing, and crying. In The Mime Who Talks! a fun and educational show for children, Kerrigan juggles, drops, and talks about setting a positive mental attitude and trying, failing, and trying again. She does a lecture/demo about mime, and struggles against invisible forces. Residencies and Workshops on: integrating drama with curriculum, mime, movement for actors, collaborative creative process, creating original performance. Contact: Sheila Kerrigan kerrigan@mindspring.com 919-929-1624 or 919-360-0690 (c) 2310 Stansbury Rd. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 www.collaborativecreativity.com Facebook/Twitter: Sheila Kerrigan Fee Structure: Note - fees vary with travel distance, community needs, and block-booking opportunities. Mime Explains String Theory Single Performance $4500 3-Day Residency with 2 performances & workshops $5500 The Mime Who Talks! The Juggler Who Drops! (Oops!) Single Performance $500-$790 Two Performances, 1 day, 1 location $750-$990 One week of 10 performances $2100-$3500 One Week Teaching Residency $1500-$2200 Artistic Discipline: theater // storytelling // mime // puppetry // ventriloquism // juggling and dropping Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Prisons Audiences with Disabilities
Looking for Lilith Theatre Company About the Group: Looking for Lilith is a KY-based ensemble theatre company founded in 2001. They dedicate themselves to re-examining history through women’s perspectives and creating original plays based on their research, in order to reveal and celebrate women’s contributions and experiences. They also explore existing plays & do a wide variety of outreach. They create and tour plays to numerous education institutions, festivals, performing arts/ community centers, & houses of worship all over the U.S. and abroad; working with ages 3-93. Current Projects: Fabric, Flames and Fervor: Girls of the Triangle - honoring the tragedy and transformation of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire CHOICES: An Interactive Play on Cyberbullying & Suicide - a Forum Theatre piece that involves the audience in vital problem-solving Strangers/Extranjeras - a bilingual show about an optimistic U.S. volunteer and her generous Mayan host-mother What My Hands Have Touched - stories of World War II factory workers, army nurses, homemakers, USO performers and pilots Master Classes for play creation, actor training, and more Contact Info: Tour Contact: Trina Fischer trina@lookingforlilith.org 347.228.6438 312 Crescent Ct. Louisville, KY 40206 www.lookingforlilith.org Fee Structure: * Single Performance: $500-$5,000 Single Performance w/Workshop(s) - $1,000-$5,000 One-Day Residency: $400-$5,000 One-Week Residency, no performance: $1,000-$2,000 One-Week Residency with Performance: $2,500-$7,500 *These fees do not include housing and transportation. **Fees depend on which show, the venue, etc. Please inquire about specific show fee details. ***LFL has full-length and excerpted versions of shows available. Artistic Discipline: theater Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Audiences with Disabilities // Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Programs in higher education
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Gesel Mason Performance Projects About the Artist: Gesel Mason Performance Projects uses art as a vehicle to encourage compassion and inquiry. Artistic Director Gesel Mason’s distinctive blend of dance, theater, storytelling and humor brings visibility to voices unheard, situations neglected or perspectives considered taboo. Her award winning projects “move her audiences to tears and laughter” (Washington Post). GMPP has been presented by John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Bates Dance Festival, Joyce SoHo, 651 Arts, South Dallas Cultural Center, Painted Bride, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Poland, and the International Association of Blacks in Dance. Current Projects: Women, Sex, & Desire: Sometimes You Feel Like a Ho, Sometimes You Don’t is a multi-media performance dialogue about how women navigate sex, desire, choice, and perception. Provocative, sensual, amusing, and raw, Women, Sex, & Desire reflects the struggles and pleasures we encounter as sexual beings -- whatever our erotic choices may be. Mason’s solo show, NO BOUNDARIES: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers, includes work by Robert Battle, Donald McKayle, Bebe Miller, David Rousséve, Reggie Wilson, Andrea Woods, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. “…a show that should be required viewing for students of dance history.” (New York Times) Contact Info: Tour Contact: Gesel Mason gmason@mason-rhynes.org 301.350.0092 3311 Rhode Island Ave #310 Mt. Rainier, MD 20712 www.gmasonprojects.com Fee Structure: * Single Performance: (solo) $1,500-$5,000, (group) $5,000 - $12,500 Multiple Performances: (solo) $2,500-$7,500, (group) $7,000 - $16,500 One-day Residency: (one artist) $1,000-$1,500 Multiple-Day Residency: (solo or group) $1,500 - $12,500 One-Week Residency: (solo or group) $2,000 - $16,500 * Prices for other structures up to negotiation with presenter. Artistic Discipline: theater // dance // multidisciplinary Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Audiences with Disabilities
Jeff Mather About the Artist: Jeff Mather is a community-based public artist; an environmental sculptor, site artist & teaching artist. He is on the rosters with Young Audiences and the Georgia Council for the Arts and is the Board President for the Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning. Jeff researches with community partners to excavate and understand layers of history and meaning embedded in a place. His art projects engage youth and elders and everybody in between. Local businesses often provide materials in support. Most often Jeff is engaged to direct outdoor environmental sculpture projects, which are sometimes indoors; the sculptures can be suspended overhead or wall-mounted relief sculptures. He frequently collaborates with dance companies and uses body movement concepts in coaching environmental sculpture design. He is also a director of Object Theater (puppetry without puppets) and directs multigenerational performance projects. Current Projects: Hidden Streams, a collaborative environmental sculpture project for West Baltimore which involved students from two schools and a culminating event at RootsFest 2011. Directing a public art project for the Clarkston Community Center, Clarkston, GA, collaborating with the refugee community youth. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Jeff Mather mathersiteart@bellsouth.net 404.578.5448 2845 Orion Drive Decatur, GA 30033 mathersiteart.org Fee Structure:** Workshops: $100/session (per hour) Half-day: $200 (two sessions/workshops) Full-day: $400 (four sessions/workshops) Five days: $2,000 Ten days: $4,000 Fifteen days: $6,000 (etc.) Professional learning workshops: $150/hour **These fees do not include materials or housing and transportation. Artistic Discipline: theater // visual arts // new media // multidisciplinary // Digital Storytelling; and Object Theater Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Audiences with Disabilities // Pre-school age children // Elderhostel groups // Multi-school collaborations // Business groups
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Mondo Bizarro About This Group: Mondo Bizarro is a New Orleans-based ensemble that creates, presents and produces a wide array of imaginative projects aimed at utilizing art as a tool for understanding what makes us commonly human and individually unique. We are place-based artists. Our work ranges from physical theater to large scale community festivals, from digital storytelling to collaborative ensemble productions. Everything we do is fused with a hunger to push the outer limits of original performance. Current Projects: Mondo Bizarro is currently touring a site-specific, outdoor performance called Loup Garou and our multi-disciplinary partnership with M.U.G.A.B.E.E., Race Peace. They are also available for a variety of workshops concerning the ways stories are used as tools in devised performance, digital storytelling and festival planning. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Nick Slie nickslie1@gmail.com 225.571.2929 1721 Third Street New Orleans, LA 70130 www.mondobizarro.org Fee Structure: Single Performance - $1500.00 Multiple - $1000.00 per performance One -Day Residency - $1000.00 Multiple Day Residency - $1000.00 per day One-Week Residency - $5000.00 One Month Residency - $15-20,000 Artistic Discipline: theater // dance // music // poetry // visual arts // film/video // new media // multidisciplinary // storytelling Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // Immigrant populations // Audiences with Disabilities
M.U.G.A.B.E.E. About the Group: M.U.G.A.B.E.E. is an acronym meaning Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction. It describes a performing arts group that blends jazz, hip-hop, spoken word poetry and soul music together with non-traditional storytelling. One of their greatest assets is their willingness to learn, grow, and evolve as artists, but truly their greatest strength is their understanding that art is used to empower and uplift all people, assisting the evolution of human beings by providing thought-provoking entertainment in a wide range of subject matter. Since 2001, M.U.G.A.B.E.E. has been working in communities across the South in the form of residencies, workshops, performances and lectures. Current Projects: M.U.G.A.B.E.E. is currently working on several projects around the country, including Race Peace, a multi-year collaboration with performance group Mondo Bizarro to present a performance project on issues of race and racism in the United States (www.racepeace.com); UPRISE: Raising Black Men, a new community-based theater production commissioned by the August Wilson Center for African American Culture (www.augustwilsoncenter.org); the Fort Greene Project, a collaboration with the Irondale Ensemble in Brooklyn, NY (www.irondale.org); and Between Worlds a three-year collaboration with Atlanta-based dance company Moving in the Spirit and poet Alice Lovelace. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Carlton Turner cturner@turnerworldaround.org 601.473.6074 1785 Lebanon Pinegrove Road Utica, MS 39175 www.turnerworldaround.org Fee Structure: * Workshops start at $500 Performances start at $800 Residencies start at $2500 *All fees are subject to adjustments due to factors including transportation, duration, lodging, etc. Artistic Discipline: theater // music // spoken word // poetry // literary arts // film/video // new media // multidisciplinary // storytelling Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // Immigrant populations // Prisons
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Orisirisi African Folklore About the Group: Orisirisi African Folklore is co-produced, directed, and performed by a husband and wife team comprised of Nigerian born Adetutu “Tutu” Harrell and music scholar Don Harrell. Tutu, a graduate of Crown College, London, England is an extraordinarily talented musician, dancer, singer, and storyteller, who shares the rich cultural heritage of her ancestry with love that knows no boundaries. Don holds a Master of Arts degree in African Studies from UCLA and has completed additional studies with the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. He believes in the usefulness of the arts as tools in positive social change. Current Projects: In addition to its usual tour schedule and appearances for Disney Character Events, Orisirisi African Folklore has undertaken a long-term project aimed at infusing an arts-activism component into the Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of Arts and Humanities, which is held in the hometown of Zora Neale Hurston, Eatonville, Florida. Additionally, the company is engaged in work as Storytellers/Anthropologists associated with a grant from the Florida Department of Historic Preservation, the purpose of which is to produce 25 story videos of the town’s founding families. The work will be unveiled at the 125th Anniversary Celebration of the town, which is historically recognized as the oldest AfricanAmerican incorporated body. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Don Harrell orisirisi@aol.com 407.697.1336 14001 Beargrass Court Winter Garden, FL 34787 www.orisirisi.com Fee Structure: Single Performance: $1000-$1500 Multiple Performances: $750-$1000/ea One-day Residency: $1000-$1500 Multiple-Day Residency: $750-$1000/day One-Week Residency: $3500-$5000 Artistic Discipline: theater // dance // music // spoken word // literary arts // multidisciplinary // folkloric/traditional cultural // storytelling Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Prisons // Audiences with Disabilities
The Pacha Mamas About the Group: The Pacha Mamas is comprised of three unique individuals who work in harmony with each other and spirit to create, express and inspire. Their performances are primarily driven by their eclectic original songs, but also include movement, humor, improvisation and storytelling. The Pacha Mamas seek to inspire the viewer to reflect upon such subjects as inclusion, diversity and respect for self and others. Joy is their ultimate intention in co-creating with the viewer as they seek to engage them in the experience. Current Projects: The Pacha Mamas’ voices are their primary instrument, often harmonizing in three parts, occasionally accompanying themselves with African drums, piano and guitar as well as various percussive intruments. For more information on their performances and workshops, visit www.thepachamamas.com. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Angela Holley pachamamas3@gmail.com 615.504.0069 633 Spruce Street Pine Lake, GA 30072 thepachamamas.com Fee Structure: * One to one and a half hour performance: $500 Two performances in a day: $750 Two performances in two days: $1000 One day residency: $800 Two day residency: $1500 *Note: These rates do not include travel and accommodations which would need to be part of the contract. Artistic Discipline: theater // music // spoken word // poetry // multidisciplinary // storytelling Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers Hospitals // Prisons
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Queen Sheba About the Artist: Queen Sheba is an internationally renowned award winning poet, journalist, budding playwright, actor, activist, and CEO of Oya Exclusive Int’l. Her group Below the Radar, produces the Rough Language Poetry Slam & Live Music series, writing workshops and multi-media shows. Current Projects: She is currently working on her first collection of long poems and short stories: Long Story Short - From Foster Care to Fame Run Ugly! You know you’re a runner when - A comedic motivational book for runners of all levels. A new Alternative Rock album “they say” due for release early spring. Sheba has performed her poems as a solo artist and with her all-girl alternative rock band, Tempo 1-60, all over the U.S. and abroad. Contact Info: Bethsheba A. Rem queensheba811@gmail.com 404.697.9734 2887 Edgewater St. Altanta, GA 30331 www.thequeensheba.org Facebook Fee Structure: * Single Performance: $1200, includes Live Band and DJ. “Band” can range from 2 -7 pieces with multi-media show: $3200 Multiple Performances: back to back $1000| 3 of 5 days $900| 4 of 5 days $800| 5 of 5 days $750 One-day Residency: $1000 Multiple-Day Residency: back to back $1000| 3 of 5 days $900| 4 of 5 days $800| 5 of 5 days $750 One-Week Residency: $3500 *This pricing structure is to encourage promoters/organizers to work with each other in creating multiple venue shows within the same region. Does not have to be same city but each venue should be less than 2-3 hrs driving distance. * Everything is negotiable. These fees do not include housing and transportation. Artistic Discipline: theater // music // spoken word // storytelling // One Woman Show: Social Disorder (The Queen Sheba Show!) Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Prisons
Melanie St. Ours About the Artist: Melanie St. Ours works at the crossroads of arts and healing. Previous work includes: Zilphia Horton residency in partnership with immigrant youth in NC, co-directing and devising The Eleventh Face: Ravana’s Untold Story for the South Asian Performing Arts Network and co-directing How to Be a Human. Melanie directed the DC V-Day 2009 production of The Vagina Monologues, founded and directed Acting Up, a theatre company of homeless and formerly homeless performers in partnership with Picture the Homeless, and The Rumi Project, developed and performed while on fellowship in New Delhi. Melanie practices clinical herbalism and massage therapy in Washington, DC and holds a BFA in Drama and Applied Theatre from NYU. Current Projects: Melanie is committed to facilitating theater-making and community healing processes that give us space to free our bodies, our stories, and to experience the change we long for. The process of doing the work itself is transformative and is as important as the outcomes. Residencies are developed with the community and may include Theater of the Oppressed, community storytelling, community-based healing practices and/or the creation of original plays from community stories. She has experience working with youth, senior citizens, people dealing with chronic illness & mental health challenges, immigrants, and young artists. Contact Info: Tour Contact: Melanie St. Ours melaniest.ours@gmail.com 410.802.0404 2608 10th St NE Washington, DC 20018 Fee Structure: * One day residency: $700 Multi-day residency: $600/day One week residency: $3500 *Fees do not include travel and housing costs; fees are based on 6 hours of workshop time and 2 hours of planning time per residency day and are subject to change based upon the specific nature of the request. Artistic Discipline: theater // multidisciplinary // movement // body work // yoga Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Prisons // Audiences with Disabilities
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José Torres-Tama About the Artist: José Torres-Tama explores the underbelly of the North American Dream mythology, the Latino immigrant experience, and the lingering legacy of white supremacist power structures in the United States. His interdisciplinary creative practices include spoken word poetry, critical essays, visual arts/ installations, short films, and performance art. An NEA award recipient and Louisiana Theater Fellow, he received a 2010 Creation Fund Award from the National Performance Network for the commissioning of ALIENS, IMMIGRANTS & OTHER EVILDOERS, a sci-fi Latino noir and multimedia solo exploring the rise in hate crimes against immigrants in the U.S. His critically acclaimed post-Katrina performance The Cone of Uncertainty chronicles his dramatic escape from the flooded city on a stolen school bus three days after the levees breached. Current Projects: José’s performances thrive on a fusion of bilingual texts, exaggerated characters, conceptual rituals, and film projections, creating spectacles that are visually dynamic and politically charged. His solos have been presented at venues all over the U.S. Many higher education institutions have also staged his work and academic lectures on performance art and social change. A recent international tour included performance projects at Roehampton University in London, The Bluecoat Arts Centre in Liverpool, and the Center for Performance Research in Aberystwyth, Wales. Contact Info: Tour Contact: José Torres-Tama jose@torrestama.com 504.232.2968 2426 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA 70119 www.torrestama.com Fee Structure: * Single lecture, reading, or workshop: $1,000.00 Single performance: $3,500.00 Residency that includes one performance and one or two activities, lecture and workshop: $4,000.00 Residency that includes two performances, and two residency activities: $5,000.00 Residency that includes up to three performances and three activities, a lecture and two workshops: $6,000.00 All stage productions are followed by a thirty-minute question and answer session with the artist, unless otherwise requested by the presenter. *These prices do not include a $40.00 per diem and all travel and lodging expenses, which are the responsibility of the presenting organization. Artistic Discipline: theater // spoken word // multidisciplinary Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Immigrant populations // Prisons
Voices in the Treetops, Inc. About the Artist: Paula Larke left professional theatre in NY, returning to the southeast for now over two decades of community conflict transformation and youth arts education. North Carolina’s Visiting Artist Program, NC Touring Program, innumerable residencies, keynote addresses and workshop facilitations throughout the southeast grounded her in grassroots art and activism. Her training in violence and bullying prevention is through CONNECT Training Institute in NYC, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Children’s Creative Response to Conflict, Inc. She is currently working with refugee and American-born youth to form an arts - based peace collective in DeKalb County, GA and abroad. Current Projects: Unique integration of vocals, drumming, bass, banjo, guitar, with techniques from Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, get spun into humor and pathos for bully-busting, profoundly thought – provoking “PaulaTics”. Real life stories engage children, adults, and senior citizens, honoring the elders, encouraging the young and celebrating our collective lives. Audiences participate in the songs, drumming, stories, and general merriment. Venue-flexible. Residencies in: Interdisciplinary Performance, Bully-Busting for Community Organizers, Self-Image for Social Survival, Irritating Racial Realities Contact Info: paula@paulalarke.com 404.228.7978 P.O. Box 513 Stone Mountain, GA 30086-0513 www.voicesinthetreetops.org / www.paulalarke.com Facebook Fee Structure: * Single Performance: $750-$1000* Multiple Performances: $1500 per 8 hour day* One-day Residency: $1750 with evening event* Multiple-Day Residency: $1000/day* One-Week Residency: $3500-$5000* *Fees do not include travel and lodging. Negotiable rates for small organizations. Artistic Discipline: theater // dance // music // spoken word // literary arts // multidisciplinary // folkloric/traditional cultural // storytelling // sensitivity training for work with refugee, PTSD / WAR TRAUMA, domestic violence Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Prisons // Audiences with Disabilities // Alternative schools // DV shelters
Elise Witt About the Artist: The producer of the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage calls Elise Witt “a performer to remember with international savvy & personal charm.” Singer, songwriter, educator, and community activist, Elise was born in Switzerland, raised in North Carolina, and since 1977 has made her home in Atlanta. She has been a cultural ambassador to many countries around the world. Elise has 11 recordings on EMWorld Records and recently premiered the Elise Witt Choral Series. Elise has earned a reputation as a masterful educator, working with elementary schools through universities, and with professional ensembles and community groups, transforming any group into an Impromptu Glorious Chorus. Current Projects: A Concert of Global, Local & Homemade Songs™: Elise takes audiences on a glorious and rollicking musical journey, visiting lands of gypsy jazz, smoky cabarets, and funky swing, as well as a capella & poignant ballads. Solo, duo, or with full band. Impromptu Glorious Chorus: Vocal Workshop and Community Sing brings the community together with Bobby McFerrin style circle songs, quirky rounds, food songs, plus music from around the world. For all levels of singers. A Musical Trip Around the World for Elementary Schools: Multi-lingual, participatory concert. Students sing in multiple languages. Language is Music is Language for Middle & High school French, Spanish, and German classes get students excited about language through song. Fun and engaging musical routes to pronunciation, grammar, and cultural history.
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Contact Info: Tour Contact: Elise Witt emworld@mindspring.com 404.297.8398 PO Box 148 Pine Lake, GA 30072 www.EliseWitt.com Fee Structure: * Single Performance: $500-$5000* Multiple Performances: $350-$4000/ea* One-day Residency: $1000-$6500* Multiple-Day Residency: $750-$6000/day* One-Week Residency: $2500-$10,000* Multiple-Week Residency: $2000-$9000/week* *Prices vary for Solo, Duo, or Full Band and are tailored to needs of Presenter. *Programs available as Performance, Workshop, or Residency. *Fees include housing and transportation. Discounts available for housing donated by Presenter. Artistic Discipline: music Special programs available for: Colleges and universities // K-12 // Senior Centers // Immigrant populations // Hospitals // Audiences with Disabilities In 2011-12, Alternate ROOTS supported performances & residencies by our roster artists with the following presenters: Arts Council of Beaufort County; Beaufort, SC Azule; Hot Springs, NC Black Rock Center for the Arts; Germantown, MD City of Sandy Springs; Sandy Springs, GA Clarkston Community Center; Clarkston, GA Dance Place; Washington, DC Great Performances at Vanderbilt; Nashville, TN Orange County Arts Education Center; Orlando, FL University of Central Arkansas; Conway, AR
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