Ralph Lemon
Scaffold Room
6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Acclaimed choreographer and curator Ralph Lemon melds performance, visual art, music, and text in his new work Scaffold Room, an inquisitive hybrid “lecture-performance-musical” that refracts ideas and images of black female personae in American pop and contemporary art culture.
Created, Choreographed, and Directed by Ralph Lemon
Coproduced by Cross Performance Inc. and MAPP International Productions
Performed by Okwui Okpokwasili and April Matthis
Composer/Turntablist Marina Rosenfeld
Video Designer/Editor Mike Taylor
Lighting Designer Roderick Murray
Scenic Design Collaborator R. Eric Stone
Engineer/Fabricator, Scaffold Room F. Randy deCelle
Production Manager and Sound Engineer Philip White
Costume Designer Naoko Nagata
Dramaturg Katherine Profeta
Source Texts:
Kathy Acker, Empire of the Senseless (1988) and
Rip Off Red, Girl Detective (published 2002, from 1973 manuscript)
Additional music:
Janis Joplin’s “Little Girl Blue” The Essential Janis Joplin (Sony Music/Columbia Records, 2003)
Belle & Sebastian’s “Waiting for the Moon to Rise,” Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant (Red Light Management, 2000)
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Scaffold Room is a coproduction of Cross Performance and MAPP International Productions.
Scaffold Room was co-commissioned by Live Arts Bard, the commissioning and residency program of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Ralph Lemon received a 2013–14 Live Arts Bard Choreographic Fellowship, generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The presentation of Scaffold Room is made possible in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the MetLife Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
The work is co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with support provided by the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, and the NEA. Additional commissioning support was provided by the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University (Tallahassee), and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center/EMPAC (Troy, New York). The work was developed in part through a residency at the Park Avenue Armory.
The creation of Scaffold Room is made possible through grants from the NEA, the Surdna Foundation, the Doris Duke Performing Arts Awards Audience Development program, and the MAP Fund (a program Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation). Scaffold Room is also made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the MetLife Foundation, and the NEA; the New England Foundation for the Arts’ Production Residency for Dance Program, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the James E. Robison Foundation; and the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation.
Individual support for Scaffold Room has been provided by Jorge Arias, Kate Danziger, Felicia Furman, Margit Galanter, Gina Gibney, Sam Miller, Jon Nakagawa, Tamara Ober, Stanley Smith, Charmaine Warren, Kathy Westwater, and Anita Yavitch.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=126879.
Time: 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage
Ticket Information: Admission: $30, $10 all students(suitable for ages 18 and up)
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