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Trickster Theater presents VORTEX! Opening this Friday and Saturday!

2011-08-16T13:11:24Z

Trickster Theater presents "The Vortex" and "Confessions of the Face" premiering Friday, August 19, 2011

2011-08-05T11:25:23Z

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Aimee Chan-Lindquist
212-966-7745 ext 13/ aimee@exitart.org

Trickster Theater Performances are free and open to the public. �Theater is free, because art should be free� -Papo Colo, Artistic Director

Trickster Theater programs are free to the public thanks to the generous support from the Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation.

NEW YORK �Exit Art in-residence Trickster Theater is pleased to premiere a new original work and a special late night performance event directed and conceived by Artistic Director, Papo Colo this August.

Trickster Theater is creating new works that reflect the diverse audiences and influences of New York City. Trickster�s mission is to produce experimental performance theater works that challenge the formal canon and expand the audience�s notion of contemporary theatre.

VORTEX is a view of the Americas via the lens of two iconic poets, Pablo Neruda and Walt Whitman. Crisscrossing historical and geographical landscapes, wrapped in Pablo Casals� Bach suites, Whitman and Neruda find the most supreme versions of themselves as they interconnect between English and Spanish, and North and South America in a dance-theatre conversation about where we�ve been as a continent. The VORTEX attempts to re-imagine what modern Americana means: a stage that represents the complexity and diversity of contemporary America with a new use of poetry in a context of dramatic texts and extraordinary set design.

CONFESSIONS OF THE FACE is an intimate, late-night theatrical experience presenting Trickster actors, playing themselves, confessing to an audience. These confessions are given dramatic context by the ceremonial process enacted in this unique performance event. Actors are guided to embrace the musicality of language and the performative religiosity of confessing. These late night Confessions will produce volition on the part of the actor, creating a space for the performers to intimately share with their audience.

THE VORTEX PERFORMERS: Mauricio Leyton*, Ernesto Nodal, Elinor Thompson

CONFESSIONS OF THE FACE PERFORMERS: Shannon Altner, Megan Branch, Cara Loften,
Siobhan O�Loughlin, Alexa Thorson, and Hannah Scott

THE VORTEX and CONFESSIONS OF THE FACE conceived and directed by Papo Colo.

* This actor is appearing courtesy of Actor�s Equity Association

ABOUT EXIT ART
Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture. We are prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 29-year-old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and artist Papo Colo, that has grown from a pioneering alternative art space, into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always changing.

Escape the heat and enjoy these performances in Trickster Theater�s fully air conditioned space!

ABOUT TRICKSTER THEATER
Papo Colo founded Trickster Theater in 1998. Since its inception, an important aspect of the Trickster Theater is its role as a multilingual and multinational theater, creating theater as global and local as its audience. Trickster Theater investigates the American language and the relationship of different accents and tonalities. The theater has a history of bilingual productions that tackle issues of translation in the dramatic arts. Trickster has produced a range of shows including Praying Project, Wild Nights, Tropical Area, Cannon Dialogues, Confessions of the Face, Somehow, Still Life, and Distant Sex, which can be viewed on Exit Media and Trickster Theater's website.

To view last year�s performance of Distant Sex, please click HERE.

EXIT ART AND TRICKSTER THEATER SUPPORT
Exit Art and Trickster Theater programming support provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Ford Foundation�s Good Neighbor Committee, Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn; and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

EXIT ART 475 Tenth Ave at 36th St NYC / 212-966-7745 / www.exitart.org
Open Tu�Th, 10am�6pm; Fr, 10am�8pm; Sa, 12�6pm. $5 suggested donation.

New Trickster Theater performance next weekend!

2010-11-06T12:48:53Z

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Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 28-year-old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and artist Papo Colo. It has grown from a pioneering alternative art space into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always changing.

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Papo Colo / Trickster Theater announce a new channel on YouTube for theater

2010-03-19T14:49:44Z

A NEW CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE FOR THEATER

Papo Colo / Trickster Theater creates a channel on YouTube to present theater produced exclusively for the web

Written and Directed by Papo Colo

Log on to
youtube.com/trickstertheater

Contact: Daniel Schaeffer / 212-966-7745 ex. 33 / daniel@exitart.org

NEW YORK (March 2010) � Trickster Theater, a New York-based theater company, announces the launch of Digitheater, a project dedicated to presenting and producing theatrical works exclusively for the web. Digitheater uses YouTube as a medium to produce original theater for the international Internet community. TricksterTheater on YouTube has produced over one hundred short dramatic segments, or cantos, each running between one and five minutes long. New cantos are added weekly and can be accessed through the TricksterTheater channel on YouTube.

In this online format, the camera focuses tightly on the actors� face � their essential expressive tool � to give the actor immediacy as they interpret, often bilingually, the director�s narratives. Rather than using the web as a site solely for documentation, these online theater performances investigate the nature of the computer frame as a theatrical proscenium. This new approach rewrites formal conventions and, because of the accessibility of the Internet, creates a new cross-cultural platform for actors. Trickster Theater on Youtube provides a great service for the actor and acts as a permanent archive.

Since its inception, one of the most important aspects of the Trickster Theater is its role as a multilingual and multinational theater, creating a theater as global as its audience. The Trickster Theater has a history of bilingual productions, tackling the issue of translation in dramatic arts and reflecting the multi-lingual community of the Americas. The Trickster Theater�s website, http://trickstertheater.org, contains a repository of select past performance works. Since 2002, the Trickster Theater has been innovating online productions such as M Play, a bilingual web series telling the story of three women reflecting on life in the modern metropolis.

Digitheater uses a diverse cast of actors from around the world, each one bringing a unique cultural perspective and collectively representing the many voices of the modern city. The multi-lingual texts of the Trickster Theater incorporate Urdu, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Portuguese, Swedish, Greek and Japanese, among other languages. The actors explore the words as sounds and reference an internal Trickster notation system, which cues gesture and intonation. The inflection of the actor�s speech, the musicality of foreign accents, and the immersion into the sounds of other languages explore the rich possibilities of what can be heard when many different cultural bodies are brought together. These videos feature a diverse range of actors and languages spanning different cultures and continents.

Digitheater videos utilize intimate compositions and a striking minimal aesthetic. All texts will ultimately become part of live performance works, recombined each night in a different order, creating different meanings and contexts for ever-changing plays.

Digitheater currently encompasses four different projects � Venus Erotica, The Adventures of ZigZag, Change of Skin, and I Want To Be A Painting � and will continue to grow. Venus Erotica juxtaposes the erotic relationship between words and gestures. The Adventures of ZigZag introduces the viewer to the characters and actors of ZigZag and exists as an independent companion piece to an eventual theatrical production. Videos establish the universe of ZigZag, creating a distinct mythology around the show prior to its live production. Change of Skin and I Want To Be A Painting explore the differences of race, gender, and language.

Digitheater is an ongoing project. New series will be added over time, creating a diverse theater experience viewable on the internet � a theater for one. This virtual theater exists solely online.

�Every room is the center of the world.� � Papo Colo

http://www.youtube.com/trickstertheater
http://www.trickstertheater.org
http://vimeo.com/user3108340

CURRENT DIGITHEATER PERFORMERS
Carmel Amit, Rena Anakwe, Zoe Anastassiou, Mia Anderson, Amanda Broomel, Oni Brown, Jenn Dees, Pascal Escriout, Aizzah Fatima, Ellie Foumbi, Manuel Fihman, Andrea Goldman, Rebecca Hirota, Barbara Klaaysen, Arooj Majid, Ashley Martinsen, Ampora McLean, Miriam Mintz, Soleil Nikki, Saoko Okano, Belen Oyola-Rebez, Martina Potratz, Jorge Rubio, Eugene Santiago, David Speer, Ashley Spivak, Laryn Stout, Malin Tybahl

HISTORY
Trickster Theater was founded in 1998 by Papo Colo. An artist who has always worked in multiple mediums, Colo has been involved in theater since 1991 when he founded the First World Theater which presented
Zygmunt and Stolen Kisses at The Cultural Space in 1992. In 1995 Colo produced Imaginary Beings, combining a theatrical and visual art exhibition about invented characters from Jorge Luis Borges� text of the same name. In 1996 he produced Resonances, a play of simultaneous texts and overlapping narratives that took place on two stages concurrently. Since moving to its current location in Hell�s Kitchen, the Trickster Theater has produced a diverse range of shows such as Praying Project, Water Project, Wild Nights, Tropical Area, Cannon Dialogues, Confessions of the Face, Somehow, and Still Life available as DVDs on the Exit Art and Trickster Theater websites.

Since 1984, Colo has been the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Exit Art, a multi-disciplinary cultural space located in Hell�s Kitchen. At Exit Art he integrated performance and theater with the visual arts in projects such as Terra Bomba (1997) and Let the Artist Live (1995). The theater, performance and visual arts awards he has received are: Franklin Furnace Fund Award for Performance Art (1987); Guggenheim Award in Painting (1991), Bessie Award (1995) for his innovative conception of the Exit Art project Let the Artist Live; an Individual Artist Grant in Theater from the New York State Council on the Arts (2001); awards from the National Endowment for the Arts in the Visual Arts (1981, 1983); and a New York Foundation for the Arts award in Painting (1991), among others.

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Exit Art / Trickster Theater launch channel on YouTube for web theater!

2009-10-15T16:53:32Z

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 15, 2009
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Jeanette Ingberman
212-966-7745 x 11 / jeanette@exitart.org

A NEW CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE FOR THEATER

Papo Colo/Trickster Theater create the Trickster Theater channel on YouTube to present theater produced exclusively for the web

Written and Directed by Papo Colo

Log on to
http://www.youtube.com/trickstertheater

NEW YORK � Trickster Theater, a New York-based theater company, announces the launch of Digitheater, a project dedicated to presenting and producing theatrical works exclusively for the web. Digitheater is theater not for a live audience, but for an international Internet community, using YouTube as a medium to create original theater. Trickster Theater on YouTube has already produced approximately ninety short dramatic segments, or cantos, each running approximately one to five minutes. New cantos can be accessed through the Trickster Theater channel on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/trickstertheater

Digitheater uses a diverse cast of actors from around the world, each one bringing a unique cultural perspective and collectively representing the many voices of the modern city. The multi-lingual texts of the Trickster Theater incorporate Urdu, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Swedish, Greek and Japanese, among other languages. The actors explore the words as sounds and reference an internal Trickster notation system, which cues gesture and intonation. The inflection of the actor�s speech, the musicality of foreign accents, and the immersion into the sounds of other languages explore the rich possibilities of what can be heard when many different cultural bodies are brought together.

Since its inception, one of the most important aspects of the Trickster Theater is its role as a multilingual and multinational theater, creating a theater as global as its audience. The Trickster Theater has a history of bilingual productions, tackling the issue of translation in dramatic arts and reflecting the multi-lingual community of the Americas. Trickster Theater�s website contains a repository of select past performance works. Since 2002, Trickster Theater has been innovating online productions such as M Play, a bilingual web series telling the story of three women reflecting on life in the modern metropolis.

Digitheater videos utilize intimate compositions and a striking minimal aesthetic in order to evoke a wide variety of moods in the viewer. All texts will ultimately become part of live performance works, recombined each night in a different order, creating different meanings and contexts for ever-changing plays.

Digitheater currently encompasses three different projects � Venus Erotica, The Adventures of ZigZag and Change of Skin � and is expected to continue growing. The Venus Erotica series juxtaposes the erotic relationship between words and gestures. The Adventures of ZigZag introduces the viewer to the characters and actors of Zigzag and exists as an independent companion piece to the theatrical production. Videos establish the universe of ZigZag, creating a distinct mythology around the show prior to its live production. Change of Skin and I Want To Be A Painting will be the first of Trickster Theater�s live performances beginning in Winter 2010 and will explore the differences of race, gender, and language. These videos feature a diverse range of actors and languages spanning different cultures and continents.

Digitheater is an ongoing project. New series will be added over time, creating a diverse theater experience viewable from home on the internet. This virtual theater exists solely online, as theater produced for the individual, creating a web presence.

As Papo Colo says, �Every room is the center of the world.�

Trickster Theater founded and directed by Papo Colo.

CURRENT DIGITHEATER PERFORMERS
Carmel Amit, Rena Anakwe, Zoe Anastassiou, Mia Anderson, Amanda Broomel, Oni Brown, Jenn Dees, Pascal Escriout, Aizzah Fatima, Ellie Foumbi, Manuel Fihman, Rebecca Hirota, Barbara Klaaysen, Arooj Majid, Ashley Martinsen, Ampora McLean, Miriam Mintz, Soleil Nikki, Saoko Okano, Belen Oyola-Rebez,
Martina Potratz, Jorge Rubio, Eugene "Mikey" Santiago, David Speer, Laryn Stout, Malin Tybahl

HISTORY
Trickster Theater was founded in 1998 by Papo Colo. An artist who has always worked in multiple mediums, Colo has been involved in theater since 1991 when he founded the First World Theater which presented Zygmunt and Stolen Kisses at The Cultural Space in 1992. In 1995 Colo produced Imaginary Beings, combining a theatrical and visual art exhibition about invented characters from Jorge Luis Borges� text of the same name. In 1996 he produced Resonances, a play of simultaneous texts and overlapping narratives that took place on two stages concurrently and could be viewed from different perspectives. Since moving to its current location in Hell�s Kitchen, the Trickster Theater has produced a diverse range of shows such as Praying Project, Water Project, Wild Nights, Tropical Area, Cannon Dialogues, Confessions of the Face, Somehow, and Still Life available as DVDs on the Exit Art and Trickster Theater websites.

Since 1984, Colo has been the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Exit Art, a multi-disciplinary cultural space located in Hell�s Kitchen. At Exit Art he integrated performance and theater with the visual arts in projects such as Terra Bomba (1997) and Let the Artist Live (1995). The theater, performance and visual arts awards he has received are: Franklin Furnace Fund Award for Performance Art (1987); Guggenheim Award in Painting (1991), Bessie Award (1995) for his innovative conception of the Exit Art project Let the Artist Live; an Individual Artist Grant in Theater from the New York State Council on the Arts (2001); awards from the National Endowment for the Arts in the Visual Arts (1981, 1983); and a New York Foundation for the Arts award in Painting (1991), among others.

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