KRISTINA WONG RESIDENCY – PERFORMANCE ART
FEB 23, 24 & 25, 7-10pm, LIVING ARTSPACE. No Charge

Finding Your Language: Playing with Different Performance Tongues. You don’t have to be the best actor, singer, or dancer to tell an amazing story. Finding the honest place and dabbling between different disciplines might be where you find your strongest voice. Sometimes your award-worthy performance may work best offstage for an unsuspecting audience. This workshop is focused on process rather than product. We start with some warm-ups, movement and theater games-- the rest is playing! Be dressed to move! Bring a box of images and props. In a non-judgmental space, participants will play with movement, text, visuals and working in site-specific contexts to forge a new performance language all their own. Suitable for: Ages 18 and up. Free, but must be committed to attend all three days. ENROLLMENT: These residencies are totally free this year – but you do need to enroll.  Please email: Steve Liggett  (steve@livingarts.org) and in the Subject Line put “New Genre Residency Enrollment”
Send your name, phone number and email address and which (or all) of the residencies you wish to take.

k@kristinawong.com      www.kristinawong.com

AARON LEE BENSON – CLEFT FOR ME
OUTDOOR GALLERY - UNIVERSITY OF TULSA SCHOOL OF ART
Opens Thurs, February 25, 5-7pm

Continues through the summer of 2010. No charge.
Cleft for Me is a two part piece that will frame a crack or "cleft" into the gallery. Each piece will be constructed out of 2/4's, one on each side of the patio developing the cleft. The installation deals with the ability of art to give us a glimpse into the eternal, the transcendent nature of life that so many find hope in. Funded by the Kilmer Foundation. ARTIST TALK 4PM, THURS, FEB 25, Jerri Jones Lecture Hall, Rm 211, Phillips Hall. No charge.

lbenson@uu.edu   www.companyzero.net/leebenson/

KRISTINA WONG – WONG FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
NIGHTINGALE THEATRE. – FRI, FEB 26, 8PM & SAT, FEB 27, 8PM
$15 ($10 MEMBERS AND STUDENTS)

Started initially as Wong’s personal exploration of mental illness among Asian American women. Asian women have the highest rates of suicide in a highly unpublicized statistic. The show itself examines larger themes of human isolation, “fiction” as a mode of cultural and psychic survival, and satirically skewers the bureaucracy of low-income mental health services. Despite the somber subject, the show is quite funny and is a great way to engage audiences to think about mental health issues in their community. This serio-comic, swear-to-god-not autobiographical show was created from the support of three major arts funders – NPN, Creative Capital and the NEA.

k@kristinawong.com  www.kristinawong.com

CONTEMPORARY DANCE NEW GENRE – LIGGETT STUDIO, FRI & SAT, FEB 26 & 27, 8PM
$12 ($10 MEMBERS AND STUDENTS)

With assistance of Living Arts newly formed Contemporary Dance Committee, the Festival will feature new eclectic works which go beyond traditional dance boundaries. Encouraging and supporting the creation and presentation of new local contemporary dance work as well as enhancing the public's understanding and appreciation of the art form is the current focus of the committee. Festival audiences will get a taste of the most intriguing intersection of forms at the Contemporary Dance New Genre this year. The return of local Festival favorites, Living Water Dance Company, and Portico Dans Theatre as well as introduction of  Festival newcomers Nina Madsen and Jordan Fuchs.

Master Class with Contact Improviser, Jordan Fuchs  | Saturday, Feb. 27th, 10 am - 12 noon 
Where: ORU Howard Auditorium Dance Studio | Cost: $5/person

porticodanstheatre@live.com    livingwaterdance@gmail.com    www.facebook.com/pages/Tulsa-OK/Portico-Dans-Theatre/157277244960   www.livingwaterdance.org

New Genre Video Matinee CIRCLES & OTHER SPINNING WHEELS - CIRCLE CINEMA
SUN, FEB 28, 2:00pm $7 ($5 MEMBERS AND STUDENTS) 
53 min

The artist Melody Owen has spent the last few years traveling in Paris, Quebec, Iceland, and the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains.  As she roamed, she collected video works from artists she met along the way.  Owen has organized these works into a compilation of animations, mini-documentaries, music videos, and experimental films that feature the curves and planes of circles.  This simple shape of Euclidean geometry remains constant despite the artists' different styles and methodologies. $7
($5 Students) Many thanks to the TBA Festival in Portland, OR for their help with this project.

saltwater@thistlepress.net    thistlepress.net

ARTSPOT PRODUCTIONS & Mondo Bizarro
PERFORMANCE ART/VOCAL WORKSHOP
Monday March 1, 7-10pm.  No Charge.    Living ArtSpace

Kathy Randels will work with a group of Tulsa performance artists to further develop solo material they have been creating throughout the Living Arts Festival this year.  Randels has taught and directed performers for over 15 years. She will bring her unique physical theatre and live singing techniques to this performance art laboratory experiment.

sean@artspotproductions.org    www.artspotproductions.org & www.mondobizarro.org

MARK RUMSEY - Creation of: ASK: Tulsa - LIVING ARTSPACE - March 2 & 3, 2-5pm & March 4, 5-8pm

The Community is invited to come to several work sessions as Mark builds his installation.

This is a process installation from which the artist started collecting materials for the piece which will be a continuous rope made from tying together thousands of pieces of fabric. The rope will be woven up and down the walls of the gallery creating a visual matrix. Once the matrix is in place, the community is invited to add to it by writing their hopes, wishes, prayers, etc onto white pieces of fabric then tying them to the matrix.  Many thanks to the Fiber Artists of Oklahoma Tulsa Branch and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their help.

mark@markrumsey.com    www.markrumsey.com

CLAUDIA WYLIE – UNDER THE TREE - INSTALLATION at TULSA ARTISTS COALITION
FRI, MAR 5, 5-7PM Through Sun, Mar 7.  No Charge.

"During the last few years, I have been working on a series of small sculptures made mostly from found, recycled, or natural objects. Each assemblage works individually, yet there is a commonality among them; so I have been looking for a way to unite them into one statement. On November 22, 2009, during a skit on Saturday Night Live, Al Gore quipped that he had come up with a new tactic for getting people to care about green issues. One idea was to tape toy guns to trees so politicians know that the forest is coming to get its revenge. When I heard this, I knew all I needed was a tree, an armed tree, to guard or perhaps threaten the accumulation of gifts beneath it."  Gallery Hours during the New Genre Festival: Sat & Sun 1-5pm

treefarm2005@yahoo.com

THE REVEREND COOKIE BON BON - LE CONFESSION ZEN
INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCE CHRYSALIS SPA
FRI, MAR 5, 5-7PM.  No Charge.

THIS IS DISPLACEMENT – EXHIBIT
LIVING ARTS LAB ON KENOSHA,
FRI & SAT, MAR 5 & 6, 5:30-6:00PM & 7:30-8:00PM & ON SUN, MAR 7, 5:30-6PM

This is Displacement: Native Artists Consider the Relationship Between Land & Identity is curated by Emily Johnson (Yup'ik) & Carolyn Anderson (Diné) & will be shown along with The Thank-you Bar.  Many thanks to Okla Dada for their contribution to this exhibit.

emily@catalystdance.com   www.catalystdance.com

EMILY JOHNSON/CATALYST  -  THE THANK YOU BAR -  BEGINS AT
LIVING ARTS LAB (308 S Kenosha)
FRI & SAT, MAR 5 & 6, 6PM & 8PM (2 shows each day).   Arrive 30 min early to view exhibit first. RESERVATIONS ARE NEEDED AND SEATING IS VERY LIMITED. 585-1234
$15 ($10 MEMBERS AND STUDENTS)

This is a multi-disciplinary solo performance of dance, storytelling, by Emily Johnson with musicians JG Everest and Joel Pickard.  It explores the confluence of truth and myth as it relates to one person's contemporary Native Alaskan experience.  In The Thank-you Bar, the connective threads between truth and myth are woven with elements of real history, pre-conceived notions, architecture, and ideas of displacement, longing, and language to present audiences with new perspectives and images in asking the question, "what is a true home?" Made possible with assistance from the National Performance Network.

emily@catalystdance.com   www.catalystdance.com

EMILY JOHNSON Our Bodies in Performance Workshop
March 7, 2-5pm & 8, 9,  5-10pm LIGGETT STUDIO  No Charge.

An experiential workshop focused on bodily practice and commitment to performance. We will do warm-ups for the body, engage deep levels of concentration and work toward a new consciousness by experimenting with focus. We will practice intentional and random movement. We will work indoors and out, with music and without. A workshop for “dancers” and “non-dancers,” participants need to be interested in investigating: 1. why you perform  2. how your body can be engaged in performance AND in the act of creating performance-based work.

emily@catalystdance.com   www.catalystdance.com

ARTSPOT PRODUCTIONS  & Mondo Bizarro
FLIGHT – DOENGES THEATRE.
TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
FRI & SAT, MAR 5 & 6, 8PM  $20 ($15 MEMBERS AND STUDENTS)

Using performer-activated machines, film projections, song and live theatre, “Flight” collages characters and ideas inspired by the mythical and historical manifestations of man’s irrepressible urge to fly, and by the all-too-frequent need to flee disasters of our own making. Made possible with assistance from the National Performance Network, the George Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Tulsa PAC Trust.

sean@artspotproductions.org    www.artspotproductions.org & www.mondobizarro.org

MARK SOUTHERLAND AND WEE SNUFF JAZZ presents:
URBAN NOISE CAMP

LIVING ARTSPACE
FRI & SAT, MAR 5 & 6, 10PM  $15 (10 MEMBERS AND STUDENTS)

Artist Biography: I am a jazz musician who makes horn sculptures. I have used the saxophone as a medium for exploring sound for over 26 years. My music runs the gamut of pop culture to Rahsaan Roland Kirk tributaries. I add visual layers to expand upon my performances: costumes, LED lights, wearable sculptures, props and backdrops. My bastardized horns and costumes have been displayed as free standing sculptures at Urban Culture Projects and the Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City, the OSP in Boston, the Stray Show in Chicago. I recently produced two performances and had my horns displayed at Bridge Art Fair during Art Basel Miami. I have played experimental music locally, nationally, and throughout France and Germany with Malachy Papers. Snuff Jazz and Wee Snuff involve a constantly changing musical cast. I collaborate with visual artists (David Ford, Naoko Wowsugi, Peregrine Honig) and musicians (Eugene Chadbourne, Mike Dillon,Earl Harvin, Jimmy Carl Black) to produce events that push convention and familiarity.        Artist Statement: Music is about innovation and memory. Improvisation conveys things written music cannot. In traditional music, the repetition of a melody or rhythm becomes first familiar, and then memorable. In my performances, the visuals signal memories for my music. Improvising with costumes and wearable horn sculptures, not only changes the audiences perception but also the perception of the performer. Your eyes become your ears; originality becomes familiar. If music is a universal language, I am providing cue cards. My performers often play a major role in documenting events. This makes the audience a pointedly passive part of the show. Integrated art elements and distorted roles give my musical performances an expanded sense of place. I use maximalism to elevate my improvisation.

markmalachy@hotmail.com    www.hornsculpture.com

NEW GENRE CABARET - COMMUNITY PERFORMANCES FROM ALL RESIDENCIES - SAT, MAR 13, 8pm  LIVING ARTSPACE.      $7 and $5 for members

The culminating aspect of all the participants in Kristina Wong s, Emily Johnson s and Kathy Randels  Residency.
Last year's event was amazing.   Don t miss this final performance of the New Genre XVII Festival.

Performers will rehearse T, W, March 9 & 10 at the Living Arts LAB & Thu, March 11 & Fri, March 12 at Living ArtSpace on Brady from 7-10pm