Dear Every Body,
Thank you for coming to see the premiere production of Kate Soper’s The Hunt last week. It was thrilling to finally be in an audience experiencing the big little thing we managed to put together. And really grateful for an absolutely wonderful design, performance and production team making impossible things happen.
And like that, it’s gone.
N E X T
Later today a bunch of ephemera workers are presenting a brief excerpt of Jerry Lieblich’s Fecund Error as a part of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Prelude Festival. It’s a total dream to be a part of the Prelude Fam Fam again this year. In true Preludian fashion I lied to Frank upon receiving the out-of-the-blue “have you got anything you’re working on?” email.“Totally” is a great excuse to plant the seed of an idea. I read Jerry’s script about 5 years ago and since then, well… a lot has happened. Some of what has happened includes a Berlin encounter between Jerry and Robert M. Johanson where over a beer in a biergarten Rob & Jerry agreed that Rob should set Jerry’s text to music. I know Rob as a carpenter. We were carpenters together. And now we’re building a thing that might be a Lynchy, Jodorowoskian Ritualistic Musical. And it’s sung by six fabulous and frighteningly game singers.
So if you happen to be in midtown on 10.21 around 4:30pm come on up to the Tank and spend thirty minutes with us. And then - not to organize your Saturday - but you could stick around and see Jerry’s Mehinerator which just appeared on New York Mag’s approval matrix in the High Brow/Brilliant quadrant.
Fecund Error
Saturday, October 21st
4:30pm-5pm
The Tank
312 West 36th Street
By Jerry Lieblich
Music by Robert M. Johanson
Directed by Ashley Kelly Tata
Music Direction by Nathaniel Granor
Sung by:
Justine Aronson
Nathaniel Granor
Leni Kreienberg
Brian Mummert
Emma Orme
Rachel Towne
More info here
BUT WAIT ! THERE’S MORE !
Tatatober To Do List:
Commemorate 22 years in NYC ☑️
Develop a habit of riding the NYC Ferry ☑️
Premiere The Hunt ☑️
Turn 41 ☑️
Get pic in local paper ☑️
Learn Tai Chi from Laurie Anderson ☑️
See the NY Liberty play the final game in the WNBA Finals ☑️
Send email to list on time ☑️
Work in process showing at Prelude 🟪
Collaborate again with the fabulous Ted Hearne and a “crack band” 🟪
They call it a “crack band” accompanying this piece. It is so. And a beautiful design team.
Please join us at Carnegie’s Zenkal Hall (it still takes practice) on Friday, 10.27 at 7:30pm to hear settings of Dorothea Lasky’s poems the way that only Ted Hearne can generate.
DOROTHEA
Friday, October 27th
7:30pm
Zankel Hall
Seventh Ave bet. 56th and 57th Streets
By Ted Hearne
Text by Dorothea Lasky
Feat.
Ted Hearne, Vocals and Electronics
Eliza Bagg, Vocals and Electronics
Rohan Chander, Keyboard and Electronics
Solomon Dorsey, Bass
Taylor Levine, Guitar
Nathan Koci, Piano and Keyboard
Ron Wiltrout, Drums
Diana Wade, Viola
Ashley Bathgate, Cello
Ashley Kelly Tata, Director
Thomas Dunn and Josh Higgason, Video Design
Rachel Perry, Visual Art
More info here
Thank you, as always for your time and attention. I am more than ever grateful for the privilege of knowing each of you and being a part of this community: a maker among makers. Fierce, defiant and healing love to every single body, our collective bodies, and a hope for a hug in our near future.
In making,
Tata