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øøwas established in 2006 under the direction ofproducer Thomas O. Kriegsmann to support the finest in emergingand established international artists in the strategic development,production and touring of innovative new work. ArKtype’s workhas grown to encompass renowned artists from ten differentcountries, multiple genres and commercial and non-profit supportstructures resulting in new work for a variety of spaces. Realizingthe infrastructural demands of the artist in an environment oflimited funding and financial support for creative endeavors,ArKtype aims to balance infrastructural support with creativegrowth, allowing the artist a long-term relationship with aproducorial entity based in establishing the artist’s continuedpresence in the international arts presenters community.££¬]]¢0¬]]¢0No. 001No. 002No. 003No. 004No. 005No. 006No. 007No. 008No. 009World/Inferno Friendship Society’s ADDICTED TO BAD IDEAS:PETER LORRE’S 20th CENTURY, Directed by Jay ScheibThe Farber Foundry’s MoLoRa, Adapted and Directed by Yael FarberPhantom Limb’s 69°S., Co-Conceived by David Harrington / KronosQuartet, Directed by Sophie HunterThe Farber Foundry’s LEAR, Adapted and Directed by Yael FarberPhantom Limb’s LEMONY SNICKET’S THE COMPOSER IS DEAD,Directed by Tony TacconeJay Scheib’s WORLD OF WIRES, Adapted and Directed by Scheibafter the film by Rainer Werner FassbinderMAN IN A CASE, Adapted from the short story by Anton Chekhovand Directed by Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar / Big Dance Theater,featuring Mikhail BaryshnikovTHE FALSE PEACH, A machine-made Hamlet by Annie DorsenDayna Hanson’s THE CLAY DUKENo. 010No. 011Jay Scheib’s PLATONOV, OR THE DISINHERITED, based on theunfinished fragment ‘Platonov’ by Anton ChekhovThe Farber Foundry’s RAM: THE ABDUCTION OF SITA, from‘The Ramayana,’ Adapted and Directed by Yael FarberP.O. Box 180241, Brooklyn, NY 11218p 917 386 5468 f 347 889 5031 arktype.orgThomas O. Kriegsmann, Presidenttommy@arktype.orgAlexandra Rosenberg, Associate Produceralex@arktype.orgHannah J Barth, Booking Associatehannah@arktype.org

ø £ ¬ ]] ¢ 0ARK ROSTER2013/14681012141618Mikhail Baryshnikov / Big Dance Theater | New York, NYMan in a Case øNalaga’at Theater for the Deaf-Blind | Tel Aviv, IsraelNot by Bread Alone £ / ]]Luna Park £ / ]]Rude Mechs | Austin, TXNOW NOW OH NOW ¬Decameron Day 3: Revolution! ¬Field Guide ¬Circa | Brisbane, AustraliaWunderkammer £Circa £ / ]]S £ / ]]How Like An Angel £ / ]]Theatre for a New Audience | New York, NYThe Taymor Project ¬Othello ¬Jay Scheib | New York, NY / Cambridge, MAWorld of Wires[Part III of the Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems Trilogy] ¬Platonov, or the Disinherited øCompagnia TPO | Prato, ItalyFarfalle £ / ]] / ¢Saltbush £ / ]] / ¢Babayaga £ / ]] / ¢Blue! The Mediterranean Sea £ / ]] / ¢24262829303234363839Aurélia Thierrée & Victoria Thierrée Chaplin | FranceMurmurs £Aurélia’s Oratorio £ / ]]Denis O’Hare & Lisa Peterson | New York, NYAn Iliad ¬ / 0Dayna Hanson | Seattle, WAThe Clay Duke øJessica Blank & Erik Jensen | New York, NYHow to Be a Rock Critic ø / 0Marrugeku | Sydney/Broome, AustraliaGudirr Gudirr £ / 0The Farber Foundry | Johannesburg, South AfricaMies Julie £KADMOS £Phantom Limb | New York, NY69ºS. ø / ¬ / ]]The Joshua Light Show | New York, NYThe Joshua Light Show: Festival ¬Fulldome ¬Jack Hitt | New Haven, CTMaking Up the Truth ¬ / 0Ethan Lipton + His Orchestra | New York, NYNo Place To Go ¬ / 020Erth | Sydney, AustraliaDinosaur Petting Zoo £ / ]] / ¢22 Annie Dorsen | New York, NYThe False Peach øMagical ¬Hello Hi There ¬4 5

‘Yevan Ivanych repa crowded, stuffy townobody really needs, playing carthe same as being in some kind of cd spending our whole lives withidlers, litigants, stupid ladies ofleisure, talking and hearingall kinds of rubbishisn’t that‘Yes, that’s just my point,’ living in a case?’Ivan Ivanych repeated. ‘Isn’t living innobodya crowded, really stuffy needs, town, playing writing cards,documentsthe same as being‘Yes,inthat’ssomejustkindmyofpoint,’case?And spending ourIvanwholeIvanychlives withrepeated. ‘Isn’tlivingidlers,inlitigants, stupid ladies ofleisure, talking anda crowded,hearingstuffy town,writingall kindsdocumentsnobodyof rubbishisn’treallythatneeds, playingcards,the sameliving asin beinga case?’ insome kind of case?And spending our whole liveswithidlers, litigants,stupid ladies ofleisure, talking andhearingall kinds ofrubbishisn’t thatMikhail Baryshnikov / Big Dance TheaterNew York, NY‘Yes, that’s just my point,Ivan Ivanych repeated. ‘Isn’t living ina crowded, stuffy town, writing documentsnobody really needs, playing cards,the same as being in some kind of case?And spending our whole lives withidlers, litigants, stupid ladies ofleisure, talking and hearingall kinds of rubbishisn’t thatliving in a case?’Man In a CaseAdapted from the story by Anton ChekhovDirected by Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson / Big Dance TheaterChoreography by Annie-B ParsonFeaturing Mikhail BaryshnikovA co-production of Baryshnikov Productionsand ArKtype / Thomas O. KriegsmannMAN INA CASEAnnie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, the team behind the internationallyacclaimed Big Dance Theater, bring their signature style fusing theaterand movement to this World Premiere adaptation of Anton Chekov’s6 7living in a case?’1898 short story, Man in a Case. In a tale both witty and haunting, ashy, reclusive man’s courtship of a carefree young woman forces himto stare down his own rigid nature./ / / / / / / / / / / / Capacity: 350–800Stage: Proscenium / Black Box/ / / / / / / / / / Personnel: 12 / / / / / /Availability: Worldwide 2013 –14World PremiereFebruary 21–March 24, 2013Hartford Stage CompanyHartford, CT

Nalaga’at Theater for the Deaf-BlindTel Aviv, IsraelThe Nalaga’at ensemble reflects the daily activityat the company’s own Nalaga’at Center for theDeaf-Blind in Tel Aviv. A unique, immersive residencyexperience is available, including a local versionof their acclaimed BlackOut Restaurant, operatedin complete darkness by Nalaga’at company members,and the sign language-only Café Kapish.Not By Bread AloneDirected by Adina Tal“It’s a test of theater itself, the way good work can communicate across theboundaries of darkness and silence.” Lyn Gardner, The GuardianIn Not by Bread Alone – hailed as one of the world’s most inspiring theatricalexperiences – the world’s only professional deaf-blind acting company takesthe audience on a captivating and magical tour of their inner world. As breadis kneaded, formed, and baked on stage, these marvelous storytellers conveytheir memories and dreams, mixing reality with fantasy, grandeur with ridicule,in a journey that will ignite your senses, titillate your taste buds and fireyour imagination.US Premiere: January 16–February 3, 2013 | NYU SkirballCenter for the Performing Arts, New York, NYProduced by ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann in Associationwith Orin Wolf////////////////////Capacity: 350–1000///////Stage: Proscenium (audience accessible)/////////////Personnel: 25–40//////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14Luna ParkDirected by Adina TalTonight, just like every other night, come the night workers at the Luna Parkto create the next day’s celebration, faithfully serving the dream of the daypeople. But tonight, they are joined by an uninvited guest, a stranger to them,a stranger to herself. She dreams of celebrating her birthday, for once in herlife surrounded by friends. Through her, the night workers at the Luna Parkdream that tonight everything has to change, tonight everything can change,because their night joins our day. The Luna Park is a childhood memory –at times real, at others imagined, a yearning for a different time, for lostinnocence. In the no-man’s-land of the Luna Park that belongs to all of usyet belongs to no one, the special world of the actors unfolds as they meetthemselves, each other, and the audience in this highly anticipated follow-upto ‘Not by Bread Alone’ featuring a cast of Palestinian and Israeli artists.9/////////////Capacity: 350– 500/////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box/////////////Personnel: 25 –40///////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14

Since 1995, Rude Mechs has created a mercurial slate oforiginal theatrical productions that represents a genredefyingcocktail of big ideas, cheap laughs, and dizzyingspectacle. What these works hold in common is the use ofplay to make performance, the use of theaters as meetingplaces for audiences and artists, and the use of humor asA tool for intellectual investigation. Fifteen years strongand getting younger by the season, the company has evolvedto become the foremost purveyors of devised work in the US.}}}}NOW NOW OH NOWCreated by Rude MechsConcept, Structure, and Content development by Madge Darlington,Thomas Graves, Hannah Kenah, and Shawn SidesStaging by Shawn SidesWriting by Hannah KenahPerformers: Robert S. Fisher, Thomas Graves, Hannah Kenah, Lana Lesley,E. Jason Liebrecht, and Shawn Sides“A mind-blowing role of the die...” The Austin ChronicleInspired by evolutionary biology, the Brontës and LARP communities,NOW NOW OH NOW invites you to enter into an interactive puzzle for thestage about the importance and impermanence of selecting for pleasureover survival.NOW NOW OH NOW was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation forthe Arts’ National Theater Pilot, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;and The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke CharitableFoundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation./////////////Capacity: 30– 50 (multiple shows per evening)/////Stage: site specific / collaboration with presenter//////////////////////////////////Personnel: 10 //////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14Rude MechsAustin, TXDecameron Day 3: Revolution!World Premiere – Fall 2013Decameron Day 3: Revolution! (DD3) is the second of the Rude’s DecameronSeries which aims to collect contemporary narratives about sex, death, religion,and politics and embed them in capsules of pop culture á la Boccaccio’s original.In DD3 contemporary Texan housemates commit their lives to the recreationof this continent’s revolutionary spirit, committing to studying a specificrevolution and trying to bring its power to bear in his or her own personal life,from the American Revolutionary War to Pancho Villa to Women’s Liberationto the Stonewall Riots. Marvel at the training, timing, and technique the Rudesuse to choreograph a beautiful ballet of shoplifting goods to give to the poor.Is it real? Is it reasonable? Is it reproducible?Decameron Day 3: Revolution! is a commission of LCT3.//////////////////////////Capacity: 350 –850///////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box//////////////////////////Personnel: 7 ////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14Field GuideWorld Premiere – Fall 2013An evening of physical performance presenting radical interpretations of our10 collective’s individual daily experience, Field Guide attempts to turn those 11moments into art – all while addressing one of the oldest questions: how bestto live?Field Guide is a commission of Yale Repertory Theater.///////Capacity: 350– 850//////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box////////Personnel: 7–10 //////////////////////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14

CIRCABrisbane, Australia“C!RCA have reinvented circus the wayCirque du Soleil did decades ago... but theyoung company is way cooler.” The Mirror12CircaFrom Brisbane comes a bold new vision of contemporarycircus...A celebration of the expressive possibilitiesof the human body at its extremes. Since 2006 Circa hastoured to acclaim around the world…and there’s nostopping them yet!Wunderkammer £Created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa EnsembleDirected by Yaron Lifschitz“…faster, stronger, more extravagant and dangerous… jaw-dropping momentsthat stand out sharply.” The Australian, SydneyIn Circa’s edgy and poetic Wunderkammer, the company channels cabaretand vaudeville in a moving, beautiful and haunting testament to the illusionsmade possible by the human body at its threshold. The work is sexy, funny andexplosive, a breathless cocktail of bold new circus and exquisite and unfeasiblephysical feats.///////////////Capacity: 600–1600+////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box/////////Personnel: 10////////////Availability: United States Spring 2014Spring 2013 US Tour (selected dates)March 20–24 NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts,New York, NY [Wunderkammer]April 10–13April 21–22April 27May 2– 4White Bird, Portland, OR [Circa]Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA [61 Circus Actsin 60 Minutes/31 Circus Acts in 30 Minutes]Texas Performing Arts, UT Austin, TX [Circa]Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts,Philadelphia, PA [46 Circus Acts in 45 Minutes]Circa is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Councilfor the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.Circa £ / ]]Created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa EnsembleDirected by Yaron Lifschitz“In its sheer force of daring and corporeal ingenuity… it mightbecome one of the Wonders of the World.”James Woodall, The Arts Desk, UKCirca is a large-scale creation for seven performers, remixed from three ofthe Company’s most acclaimed works. Circa’s most accessible and engagingmainstage work is flexible, scalable and the perfect show to bring Circa’ssophisticated sensibility to wider audiences everywhere.//////////////////////////////Capacity: 350–1600+//////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box////////////////////////Personnel: 10////////////Availability: United States Spring 2014S £ / ]]Created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa EnsembleS is sinuous, sophisticated, sensual and savage. S is a seductive world inspiredby the shape, grammatical functions and sounds of the 19th letter of thealphabet, filling the stage with a beautiful mélange of bodies and intoxicatingmusic. S will play with your emotions, reveal the unknown and explore thepossibilities of human strength and flexibility.World Premiere – September 8–15, 2012,Brisbane Festival, Australia////////////Capacity: 200–1500+////////////////////////Stage: Black Box////////////Personnel: 10////////////Availability: United States Spring 2014How Like An Angel £ / ]]Created and performed by Circa and I FagioliniFusing Circa’s exhilarating brand of contemporary circus with the exquisitesound of vocal ensemble I Fagiolini, How Like An Angel celebrates the beautyand grandeur of four stunning English cathedrals. A visceral journey throughsacred spaces of historical and architectural wonder, intensely beautiful musicand feats of astonishing acrobatics draw audiences deep into a world ofphysical daring and soaring sound.‘How Like An Angel’ premiered as part of the London 2012 Festival, produced byNorfolk & Norwich Festival in association with Perth International Arts Festival.////////////Capacity: FLexible////////////////////////Stage: Cathedral or similar////////////Personnel: 12////////////Availability: United States 2013–14

Jay Scheib“Mixing multimedia with deadpan-cool (and very sexy)actors, Scheib is forging new ways of seeing drama.”Helen Shaw, Time Out NYJay ScheibNew York, NY / Cambridge, MAWorld of Wires ¬Part III of the Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems TrilogyAdapted and Directed by Jay Scheib after the TV series by Rainer Werner FassbinderScreenplay by Rainer Werner FassbinderBased on the novel ‘Simulacron-3’ by Daniel F. Galouye“For Scheib mixing media is as much a socio-philosophical statement asan aesthetic one.… equal measures of wonder and anxiety and humor.”Ben Brantley, The New York TimesThe final part of Scheib’s interdisciplinary performance trilogy adapts ‘Welt amDraht,’ filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 science-fiction televisionseries. Following a scientist who discovers his participation in a simulated realityprogram he helped design, World of Wires is a startling and sexy homage to thepossibility that you too might be ones and zeroes in someone else’s immaculatelyprogrammed world.‘World of Wires’ was commissioned by The Kitchen, and developed, in part, at The PerformingGarage and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2012September 20–21November 8–10November 13–17November 20ICA Boston, MALe Lieu Unique, Scéne National de Nantes, FranceFestival D’Automne, Paris, FranceLe Manège, Maubeuge, France////////Capacity: 150–850//////////////////STAGE: Proscenium / Black Box////////Personnel: 12 //////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14Platonov, or the Disinherited ¬ / øDirected and Adapted by Jay ScheibBased on the unfinished fragment ‘Platonov’ by Anton ChekhovProduced in partnership with La Jolla PlayhouseWorld Premiere – Fall 2013Found after his death in a safe deposit box, Chekhov’s unfinished ‘Platonov’ isabout an emotionally bankrupt group of anti-heroes who are, less hilariously,also losing their homes. Scheib’s adaptation in Platonov, or the Disinheritedis tailor-made for a generation directly affected by runaway foreclosures. Itspremiere installment will be staged in the parking lot of a makeshift drive-inmovie theater complete with a small house, a small café/bar/snack-bar, aRussian sauna, a one-room school house, a small swimming pool, and a ‘$1KHouse,’ a paradigm of energy efficiency and sustainability in housing.16A 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and 2012 OBIE Award-winnerfor Best Director, Jay Scheib is an acclaimed writer,director and designer of plays, operas, and installations.An Associate Professor of theatre and musicat MIT, Scheib is among the foremost innovatorsworking in theater today, forecasting the futureof the medium in a unique and ingenious form.///////Capacity: 200 –1000 ////////////////////////////////////STAGE: Environmental / Blackbox / Proscenium///////Personnel: 8 –15 ////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–1417

CompagniaTPO“Makes exquisite use of motion-tracking technologywithout compromising the quality of its crispchoreography...the young audience needs no instructionabout how to participate.” The Guardian UKFarfalle (Butterflies)Directed by Francesco Gandi and Davide VenturiniA co-production with Teatro Metastasio Stabile della Toscana“By performance’s end, the butterflies won’t be the only creatures to haveundergone a major transformation. Your tot will have also changed, frompassive theatergoer to spontaneous performer.”Eileen Clarke, Time Out New York KidsTPO’s most popular work uses dance, video, images, music, and interactivetechnologies to trace the biological emergence of a butterfly (in Italian, Farfalle)from its birth as an egg to its progression as a caterpillar to a butterfly.////////Capacity: 80–150//////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box////////Personnel: 5–6 //////////////////////Availability: North & South America 2013–14SALTBUSHA Compagnia TPO & Insite Arts CollaborationA co-production with Teatro Metastasio Stabile della ToscanaCo-Artistic directors: Davide Venturini & Jason CrossDramaturgy: Sasha ZahraComposer/musician: Lou Bennett (Yorta Yorta/Dja Dja Wurrung)Choreographer: Deon Hastie (Tjapukai)“Children’s the atre doesn’t get any bet ter than this… the per fectfusion of dance, art and breath tak ing dig i tal design.”SUn DAy Mail, AdelaideTPO’s collaboration with acclaimed Aboriginal artists, Saltbush is animmer sive and inter ac tive jour ney through the cul ture and land scape ofUnder the direction of Francesco Gandi and DavideVenturini, Italy’s TPO (Teatro di Piazza o d’Occasione)is the world’s foremost pioneer in interactiveperformance media for all ages. Their vision of accessibilityin the arts is unprecedented, simultaneouslyallowing festivals and venues worldwide their mostrewarding audience experiences while redefiningthem from the inside out.Compagnia TPOPrato, ItalyBABAYAGAA co-production with Teatro Metastasio Stabile della ToscanaFreely taken from ‘Babayaga,’ illustrated by Rébecca DautremerFreely inspired by French illustrator Rébecca Dautremer’s intepretation of thetraditional fairy-tale in her best-selling 2003 publication, sumptuous drawingsare the scenery where Babayaga (a witch of Russian folklore) becomes thearchetype of all the sufferings which Michetta (the symbolic incarnation ofinnocence) has to deal with in order to grow. An uncommon alliance betweenfairy tales and technology that makes the young protagonist a symbol of allchildren, yesterday’s and today’s children.////////Capacity: 200–500//////////////////Stage: Black Box / Proscenium////////Personnel: 7 //////////////////////Availability: North & South America Spring 2014BlUE! The Mediterranean SeaArtistic Direction by Davide Venturini and Francesco GandiIn TPO’s long awaited journey to the sea, children accompanied by two dancersembark on an adventure of discovery in the Mediterranean – a cradle of nature,culture, and myths. Blue! begins on the idyllic Greek Islands amongst the stones,sea shells and whispers of ancient legends, wandering through bustling sea ports,and finally diving into the deep blue abyss populated by fish, seaweeds, molluscs,and mysterious ancient ruins of disappeared civilizations.///////Capacity: 150+ ////////////////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box///////Personnel: 6 ////////////////////Availability: North & South America 2014–1518 Abo rig i nal Australia. Their journey is one of discovering the land, the19diversity of one’s country, and learning how it challenges and provokesour personal ancestries.///////Capacity: 140+ //////////////////////////////////////////////////Stage: Black Box///////Personnel: 8 –15 //////////////////// ///////////Availability: North & South America Fall 2013Spring 2013 US TourMarch 14–17 Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ [Kindur]March 19–23 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY [Kindur]April 1–4 McAninch Arts Center, Glen Ellyn, IL [Farfalle]April 9–10 HANCHER, IOWA CITY, IA [Kindur]April 14–15 Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI [Kindur]

ERTHSydney, AustraliaERTH HAS GAINED A REPUTATION WORLDWIDE FORCREATING INNOVATIVE VISUAL AND PHYSICAL THEATREAT THE FOREFRONT of new performance practice.Giant puppetry, stilt-walkers, inflatableenvironments, aerial and flying creatures areonly the beginning of the Erth experience.Since 1990, their vision has brought them all overthe world and continues to spread its distinctappreciation for the audience’s imagination in arealm unprecedented in its boundless ambition.Dinosaur Petting ZooERTH’s awesome prehistoric creatures, from cute baby dinos to teeth-gnashinggiants, live in a petting zoo like no other! These ancient life-like dinosaurscome to life in an eye-popping display in this fun, educational and imaginativeperformance that will thrill and delight audiences of all ages. With heaps ofinteraction for kids and adults as they travel with ERTH’s performers on ajourney through prehistoric ages, audiences feed, water and care for theseprehistoric marvels. Dare you get too close?“It’s a rare and pleasurable work that manages technical brilliance,cultural insight and enchantment all in one go.”Sydney Morning Herald////////////Ages: 5 and up /////////////////////////////////////////////////////Capacity: 100–750+///////////Stage: Outdoor / Proscenium / Gallery / Black Box///////////////////////Personnel: 5–7 ////////////////////Availability: UNITED STATES 2013–14202013 January–July | US Tour (selected dates)January 14–27 ............ The New Victory Theater, New York, NYFebruary 2 ...............Friend Center for the Arts/ JewishCommunity Center of SF, San Francisco, CAFebruary 22–24 ..........Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CAFebruary 28–March 3 ...The Long Center, Austin, TXMarch 14–19..............Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZApril 6 ....................The Bushnell, Hartford, CTApril 21–22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech,Blacksburg, VAMay 7–13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . Tennessee Performing Arts Center,Nashville, TNJune 7–8 .................. Johnson County Community College,Overland Park, KS21

AnnieDorsenVisionary, OBIE Award–winning director andwriter Annie Dorsenworks in theatre,film, dance and, as of2010, digital performance.She co-created the2008 Broadwaymusical phenomenon‘Passing Strange,’and her work has beenpraised worldwide.Magical ¬Realization by Annie Dorsen and Anne JurenPerformed by Anne JurenMagician: Steve CuiffoMusic: Christophe DemartheStage Design: Roland RauschmeierLighting Design: Bruno Pocheron with Ruth WaldeyerCostumes: Miriam DraxlAnnie DorsenNew York, NYMagical is a solo performed by choreographer and dancer Anne Juren, directedby Annie Dorsen, using the canon of feminist performance art and the ritualsof a magic show to play with illusion, trickery and transformation. Dorsen andJuren work with five iconic and influential performances from between 1965and 1975 – by Abramovic, Ono, Rosler, and Schneeman – subjecting each to aprocess of inversion.January 15–19, 2013 – New York Live Arts, New York, NY///////Capacity: 350 – 500 //////////////////////////////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box///////Personnel: 7 //////////////////////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14Hello Hi There ¬Created and Directed by Annie Dorsen“This is not just more digital formalism on stage: ‘Hello Hi There’ is a genuineexperiment with many currents coursing through its post-Socratic dialogue.”Tom Sellar, The Village Voice22The False Peach øA machine-made Hamlet by Annie DorsenScenography by Jim FindlayLighting by Bruno Pocheron/Ruth WaldeyerSound/Voices by Grégory BellerSystems Designer/Programmer Mark HansenPerformance by Scott ShepherdThe False Peach is a computer play based on ‘Hamlet’ – a literal “hamletmachine.”Mixing human performance with artificial intelligence computersoftware, The False Peach is live, digital theatre for a post-humanist age.Collaborating with computers as equal creative partners, Dorsen stages asharp inquiry into the nature of theatre itself, probing issues of reproducibilityand mortality, flow and interruption, and the pleasure we as humans take inregarding the decay of others.A co-production of Brooklyn Academy of Music, Théâtre de la Villette (Paris), brut (Vienna),BlackBox Teater (Oslo), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), and On the Boards (Seattle).Summer 2012: Developmental Residency, Bard CollegeWorld Premiere & Residency: February 2013 – On the Boards, Seattle, WANYC Premiere: Fall 2013 – BAM Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn, NY//////////////////////////Capacity: 350–500////////////////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box////////Personnel: 7 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14Language is meaningless, thought is pointless, and we’re all gonna die. Hello,hi there! Dorsen takes the famous television debate between the philosopherMichel Foucault and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky from the Seventiesas inspiration and material for a dialogue between two specially developedchatbots: every evening, these computer programs designed to mimic humanconversations perform a newly improvised live text.Co-produced by Steirischer Herbst Festival (Graz), Black Box Teater (Oslo), BIT Teatergarasjen(Bergen), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin) and Performance Space 122.////////Capacity: 100 – 650//////////////////Stage: Black Box / Proscenium////////Personnel: 2 //////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14Spoken Karaoke ¬Created and Directed by Annie DorsenSpoken Karaoke is a participatory event that invites people to ‘perform’speeches drawn from various forms of public address: political speeches,theatrical monologues, philosophical or scientific lectures, eulogies, etc.,as they would ordinarily perform songs in a karaoke bar.World Premiere: September 2012 , Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria///////////////////Capacity: Flexible ////////////////////////Stage: Flexible – theater, night club, gallery, lounge///////Personnel: 1 + MC hired at each venue ////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14/////////////23

Aurélia Thierrée &“It makes you wonder what you’ve just seen: illusion, or perfect balance?Either way, it’s miraculous.” Zoë Anderson, The Independent, UKVictoria Thierrée ChaplinAurélia Thierrée & Victoria Thierrée ChaplinFranceMurmursStarring Aurélia ThierréeCreated by Victoria Thierrée ChaplinFeaturing Jaime D. Martinez & Magnus Jacobsson“… anything might happen - wallpaper forces alive, wigs talkand bubble wrap has a life of its own.”Liz Arratoon, The Stage, UKAn abandoned city comes to life around a woman on the run, ina puzzle that slowly pieces itself together to reveal the memories,illusions and truths contained within its labyrinthine walls. Hermost psychologically complex and resonant performance to date,Murmurs navigates a haunting and beautiful world in whichnothing is what it seems and everything becomes possible./////////////Capacity: 250–1000/////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box/////////////Personnel: 10 / / / / / / / / / / ////Availability: North & South America Summer 2013 / Fall 2013The third generation of theater-makers fromone of the world’s most acclaimed theatricallineages brings a remarkable display of stageillusion created by Victoria Thierrée Chaplinespecially for and with daughter AuréliaThierrée. The indomitable spirit of thesemasterworks speaks to unique traditions,master craftsmanship and unbound imaginationthat redefines theatricality at every turn.Aurélia’s OratorioStarring Aurélia ThierréeConceived and Directed by Victoria Thierrée Chaplin24“It is a bewitching 70 minutes in which the nightmarish andthe dreamy meet and disintegrate in a puff of smoke and thewhistle of a train.” The GuardianAn inexplicable masterpiece, Aurélia’s Oratorio has seenseven world tours and played to wild acclaim across Europe andAsia, with a season of sold out multi-week engagementsat Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theater andAmerican Repertory Theatre./////////////////Capacity: 250–1000/////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium///////////////////Personnel: 9 / / / / / / / / / / //////////Availability: North America 2013–1425

Denis O’Hare & Lisa PetersonNew York, NY}}}}}}}“Pure theatre. Shocking, glorious, primal, anddeeply satisfying...fills the eye with astoundingsights—almost more than our hearts can bear.”David Cote, Time Out NYAn IliadAdapted from Homerby Lisa Peterson and Denis O’HareTranslation by Robert FaglesDirected by Lisa PetersonStarring Denis O’HareOriginally Produced by New York Theatre Workshop, New York, NYVisionary creators Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare craft a sprawlingyarn based on Homer’s epic poem in this acclaimed production fresh offan extended off-Broadway run. An Iliad spins the familiar tale of godsand goddesses, undying love and endless battles told through an originaland immediate voice. Tony Award-winning actor Denis O’Hare (‘TrueBlood,’ ‘Assassins,’ ‘Take Me Out’) stars in this sweeping account ofhumanity’s unshakeable attraction to violence, destruction and chaos.Has anything really changed since the Trojan War?“Virtuosic performance...scales the conflict of the Trojan War downto an intimate solo show illuminating both the heroism and horrorof warfare.” Charles Isherwood, New York Times///////Capacity: 250–1000 ///////////////////////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box///////Personnel: 5–7 ////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013 –14//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////2627

Dayna HansonSeattle, WAThe Clay DukeWorld Premiere–Fall 2013“Enthralling and hilarious and beautiful and confusing inthe certain way that only the best performances are.”The StrangerChoreographer, filmmaker and multidisciplinary artistDayna Hanson has been creating hybrid performanceand dance in Seattle for nearly 25 years. Hanson wasa co-founder of the internationally acclaimed dancetheater company 33 Fainting Spells, and continuesto build some of the most provocative and uniquelycrafted dance-theater hybrids in the contemporaryart scene today.At a school board meeting in Panama City, FL, Clay Duke drewa gun and fired point blank, but killed only himself. The Clay Dukeis a devised theater work in which this school board shooting collideswith Chekhov’s treatment of suicides, the vigilantism of the 1970s‘Death Wish’ crime films and the invasion of Burmese pythons inthe Everglades. Idiosyncratic dance, song, a live Moog synthesizerscore and elliptical performance logic combine in a transcendently,psychedelically ambivalent theater experience that, by trying tounderstand society’s most damaged goods, encourages a hopefulview of humanity./////////////Capacity: 150 –1000+//////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box/////////////Personnel: 10 –12/////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013 –142829

Jessica Blank & Erik JensenNew York, NYMarrugekuSydney/Broome, AustraliaJessica Blank &Erik Jensen30Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen are two of the mostpowerful forces working in the American theatertoday. As activists, writers, actors and directors,they have amassed an extraordinary body of workover a shoRt period of time in theater, film andtv, including ‘Aftermath’ and ‘The Exonerated,’ TheAWARD-WINNING play based on interviews theyconducted with over 40 wrongfully convicteddeath row inmates across the US.How to Be A Rock CriticWritten by Jessica Blank and Erik JensenPerformed by Erik JensenDirected by Jessica BlankWorld Premiere: Spring 2014Blank and Jensen focus their unwavering insights on the evolution of the musicindustry in a project based on the writings of rock critic Lester Bangs. Howto Be a Rock Critic is a new American play that uses the solo form to chartthe life, work, and death of one of the 20th Century’s most groundbreaking,risk-taking, pioneering critics.///////Capacity: 350 –1000 ///////////////////////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box/////////////////////////////////Personnel: 6 ////////////////////Availability: Worldwide Spring 2014MarrugekuGudirr GudirrA new solo by Dalisa PigramDirected & Choreographed by Koen AugustijnenDramaturgy by Rachael SwainWorld Premiere: 2013 –14Gudirr Gudirr is an intimate dance, aerialand multimedia work portraying a seriesof five animal figures explored thoughMarrugeku’s poetic and potent storytellinglanguage to create a work which drawson traditional Aboriginal storytelling andcontemporary social issues in forms accessibleto remote, national and international audiences.///////Capacity: 350–1000 ///////////////////////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box///////Personnel: 5–7 ////////////////////Availability: North America 2013–14Marrugeku is at the leading edge of Australiancontemporary intercultural performance. Foundedin 1994, the company is currently under the artisticdirection of Rachael Swain and Dalisa Pigram. Drawingfrom the lives of people and communities living inremote North Western Australia, Marrugeku shares thememories and traditions of Indigenous culture throughcontemporary dance theatre. Place and identity,migration and misplacement, and the constant shiftingworld of cultural identities and globalized fantasiesconstantly informs the direction of its productions.31

The Farber FoundryJohannesburg, South AfricaThe Farber Foundry encompasses the body of workcreated by Yael Farber in collaboration with SouthAfrican and internationally based artists over thepast ten years. These moving works range from deeplypersonal testimonies to radical re-envisionings ofthe classics through which audiences are offereda rare glimpse into the rich political and culturaltapestry of the pre- and post-Apartheid eras inSouth Africa and the world.KADMOSAn Adaptation of Sophocles’ Theban PlaysAdapted and Directed by Yael FarberUsing extracts from the writings of internationally renowned journalistMark Danner to look at the use of foreign policy, torture and the breaking of acountry’s values and principles in order to protect those very ideals, thesefamous texts are transposed to a contemporary reality. Kadmos is a powerfulnew work that seeks to examine leadership, accountability and the natureof democracy in a contemporary Super Power.////////////////////////////Capacity: 350 – 1000///////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box///////////////////////Personnel: 16 ////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–1432Mies JulieAdapted and Directed by Yael FarberAn explosive new adaptation transposes August Strindberg’s play ‘Miss Julie’to a post-Apartheid kitchen set in the remote Eastern Cape Karoo. Mies Julieis a single night, both brutal and tender, that unfolds between a black farmlabourer,the daughter of the farm owner and the woman who has raised themboth. At once haunting and violent, domestic and epic, this is a ‘Miss Julie’for a world grappling to redefine itself.‘Mies Julie’ was originally presented by The Baxter Theatre Centre and the South AfricanState Theatre in association with National Arts Festival, Grahamstown.////////////////////////////Capacity: 350 – 1000///////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box///////////////////////Personnel: 10 ////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–1433

Phantom LimbNew York, NYFounded by Erik Sanko & Jessica Grindstaff,Phantom Limb has been critically acclaimed forits reinvention of traditional theatrical formsin order to probe issues of contemporary lifeand modern consciousness. Together, they aredefining an unprecedented vision for newcollaborative theatER.69˚S.Created by Phantom LimbDirected by Sophie HunterConceived in Collaboration with David Harrington/Kronos QuartetChoreography by Andrea MillerVideo Design by Shaun Irons & Lauren PettyCostumes by threeASFOUR“A remarkable achievement of multimedia artistry, the spellbinding ‘69˚S.’”is like nothing you’ve ever seen before.”Lisa Jo Sagolla, BackstageUniting the harrowing and heroic tale of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914trans-Antarctic expedition with the realities of a changing environment andthe planet’s uncertain future, Phantom Limb is joined by an extraordinaryteam of multidisciplinary collaborators, melding theater, dance, puppetry,photography, film, original contemporary music and an unconventional acousticpalette to create a stunning and evocative series of tableaux vivants.‘69°S.’ is a project of ArKtype in co-production with Grand Theatre Groningen/NoorderzonPerforming Arts Festival en Noord Nederlands Toneem; and co-commissioned by HopkinsCenter, Dartmouth College; Arts Centre of Melbourne, Australia and Victoria College of theArts; ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage, Boston, MA; and EMPAC / Experimental Mediaand Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.Additional funding provided by The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supportedby the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. The NoorderzonFestival premiere engagement was supported by Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation throughUSArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and theAndrew W. Mellon Foundation.2013April 5– 6 ....Krannert Center for the Performing Arts,Champaign-Urbana, ILApril 17–21 ..Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts,Philadelphia, PAMay 4 ........Scottsdale Center for the Performing ArtsScottsdale, AZ34 35/////////////Capacity: 350–1500+ ////////////////////////////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box/////////////Personnel: 16 ////////////////////////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013 –14

The JoshuaLight ShowThe Joshua Light Show set the stage for musicianssuch as The Who, Jimi Hendrix and The Grateful Dead(among countless others) at the Fillmore East inthe late-1960s, where director and founder JoshuaWhite was hired by famed Rock promoter Bill Grahamto design the resident light show. The effect is alasting, unsurpassed hold on imaginations worldwide,continuing to define an explosive, ephemeral formof artmaking and performance.The Joshua Light ShowNew York, NYThe Joshua Light Show: FestivalSince the reformation of The Joshua Light Show in 2007,Music Director Nick Hallett has paired its iconic imagery withrock bands old and new, experimental and electronic sounds,free jazz and Indian music. The musicians take center stageand the lightshow performs behind, creating an arrestingpicture and a vital audience experience.//////////////////Capacity: 350–1500+///////////////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box////////////////Personnel: 10 /////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14FulldomeFulldome is an original spectacle of pure light and multi-channel sound thatexplores the phenomenon of synesthesia to catch the human mind at theboundaries of perception. The artists of The Joshua Light Show, like a jazz orcontemporary dance ensemble, literally “improvising with light” fill theenvironment with 360-degrees of immersive, abstract imagery to a soundtrackcreated by Nick Hallett, taking the audience on a journey into the inner cosmos./////////////Capacity: Flexible//////STAGE: Planetarium or similar spacE////////////////Personnel: 5–10 /////////////////////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14362012 September 12–16The Joshua Light Show Festival, NYU Skirball Center, New York, NY[w/ MGMT, Evelyn Glennie/Zeena Parkins, Lou Reed/John Zorn/Bill Laswell/Milton Graves, Terry & Gyan Riley, and Globalfest]2013 April 20Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis, Davis, CA[w/ Medeski Martin & Wood]37

Jack HittNew HAVEN, CTEthan Lipton + His OrchestraNew York, NY38Making Up the TruthWritten and Performed by Jack HittDirected by Jessica Bauman“Funny as hell, deeply curious about the world, and such agreat raconteur...” Ira Glass, This American LifeIn his new solo show, This American Life’s Jack Hitt tellsextravagant, almost unbelievable, true stories that takehim from his early childhood in South Carolina (where hisflamboyant neighbor, a British novelist, became global newsas one of the world’s first transsexuals) through his trek toNew York (where his apartment super kept a deadly secretidentity), weaved together with the latest experiments incognitive research. We are all Making Up the Truth, often toshield ourselves from what Jack discovers: the uncanny wondersthat lie just beyond our brain’s notice. And that tale, it turnsout, is another extravagant, almost unbelievable, true story.“Hitt’s on-stage style is confiding and expository, withclever asides on the glorious absurdities of life and acomic timing that would be the envy of many.”BILL THOMPSON, THE POST AND COURIER, CHARLESTON, SC/////////////Capacity: 250–1000///////Stage: Proscenium / Black Box/////////////Personnel: 5///////Availability: Worldwide 2013–14No Place To GoWritten by Ethan LiptonDirected by Leigh SilvermanMusic Composed and Performed by Ethan Lipton + His OrchestraOriginally Produced by Joe’s Pub / The Public Theater“It’s a strange planet we’re living on if someone thistalented even needs a day job.”Miriam Felton-Dansky, The Village VoiceThe company where he’s worked for the past ten years is movingto another planet, and playwright Ethan Lipton doesn’t want to go.Part love letter to his co-workers, part query to the universe, partprotest to his company and country, the OBIE Award-winningNo Place To Go is a freshly conceived, critically acclaimed, hybridmusical delivering a hilarious, timely, irreverent and deeply personalmusical ode to the unemployed.//////////////////////Capacity: 250–800///////Stage: Lounge Club / Proscenium / Gallery / Black Box///////////////////////////////////Personnel: 7///////Availability: Worldwide 2013–1439

CALENDARUpcoming Tours & Availabilities2012–15Mikhail Baryshnikov / Big Dance TheaterMan in a CaseWorld Premiere: February 21–March 24, 2013Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CTAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14Nalaga’at Theater for the Deaf-BlindNot by Bread AloneUS Premiere: January 16–February 3, 2013NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NYAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14Luna ParkAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14Rude MechsNOW NOW OH NOWAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14Decameron Day 3: Revolution!World Premiere: Fall 2013Availability: Worldwide 2013–14Field GuideWorld Premiere: Fall 2013Availability: Worldwide 2013–14CircaSpring 2013 US Tour | March–May[Wunderkammer, Circa, and 46 Circus Acts in 45 Minutes]WunderkammerAvailability: United States Spring 2014CircaAvailability: United States Spring 2014SAvailability: United States Spring 2014HoW Like AN AngelAvailability: United States 2013–14Theatre for a New AudienceThe Taymor ProjectWorld Premiere: Fall 2013Theatre for a New Audience, Brooklyn, NYAvailability: Worldwide Spring 201440 Availability: Worldwide 2013–1441OthelloAvailability: Worldwide Spring 2014Jay ScheibWorld of WiresAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14September 20–21, 2012 . ICA Boston, MANovember 8–10, 2012 . Le Lieu Unique,Scéne National de Nantes, FranceNovember 13-17, 2012 . Festival D’Automne, Paris, FranceNovember 20, 2012 . Le Manège, Maubeuge, FrancePlatonov, or the DisinheritedWorld Premiere: Fall 2013Availability: Worldwide 2013–14Compagnia TPOSpring 2013 US Tour | March–April[Farfalle and Kindur]FarfalleAvailability: North & South America 2013–14SaltbushAvailability: North & South America Fall 2013BabayagaAvailability: North & South America Spring 2014Blue! The Mediterranean SeaAvailability: North & South America 2014–15ERTH2013 US Tour | January–JulyDinosaur Petting ZooAvailability: United States 2013–14Annie DorsenThe False PeachWorld Premiere: February 2013 . On the Boards, Seattle, WANYC Premiere: Fall 2013 . BAM Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn, NYAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14MagicalJanuary 15–19, 2013 . New York Live Arts, New York, NYAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14Hello Hi ThereSpoken KaraokeWorld Premiere: September 2012 . Steirischer Herbst, Graz, AustriaAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14

CALENDARUpcoming Tours & Availabilities2012–15AUrélia Thierrée & Victoria Thierrée ChaplinMurmursAvailability: North & South AmericaSummer 2013 / Fall 2013Aurélia’s OratorioAvailability: North America 2013–14Denis O’Hare & Lisa PetersonAn IliadAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14The Joshua Light ShowTHE JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW: FestivalSeptember 12–16, 2012 . NYU Skirball Center, New York, NY[w/ MGMT, Evelyn Glennie/Zeena Parkins, Lou Reed/John Zorn/Bill Laswell/Milton Graves, Terry & Gyan Riley, and Globalfest]April 20, 2013 . Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts,UC Davis, Davis, CA [w/ Medeski Martin & Wood]Availability: Worldwide 2013–14FulldomeAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14øDayna HansonThe Clay DukeWorld Premiere: Fall 2013Availability: Worldwide 2013–14Jack HittMaking Up the TruthAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14£Jessica Blank & Erik JensenHow to Be a Rock CriticWorld Premiere: Spring 2014Availability: Worldwide Spring 2014MarrugekuGudirr GudirrAvailability: North America 2013–14Ethan Lipton + His OrchestraNo Place To GoAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14TYPE.ORGfor complete tour details¬]]¢42The Farber FoundryMies JulieAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14KADMOSAvailability: Worldwide 2013–14Phantom Limb69ºS.Availability: Worldwide 2013–14April 5–6, 2013 . Krannert Center for the Performing Arts,Champaign-Urbana, ILApril 17–21, 2013 . Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts,Philadelphia, PAMay 4, 2013 . Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts,Scottsdale, AZp_7p_8p_10p_12 /13p_14p_16p_18 /19p_21p_22p_24p_26p_31p_32 / 33p_34 / 35p_36 / 37p_38p_39PHOTOGRAPHYAnna KartsevaCourtesy of Nalaga’atRude MechsCourtesy of CircaGerry GoodsteinCourtesy of Jay ScheibCourtesy of Compagnia TPOCourtesy of ERTHCourtesy of Annie DorsenRichard HaughtonCourtesy of New York Theatre WorkshopCourtesy of MarrugekuMaxime CôtéPavel AntonovCourtesy of The Joshua Light ShowAaron HarrowCourtesy of Ethan LiptonDESIGNSondra Graff /rpm:projects0