tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42686488323356694262024-03-07T21:16:39.328-08:00From Sydney to Sillitoe: An Unsual Cabaretvangelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333515883714391505noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4268648832335669426.post-86994841375639935372010-11-01T18:47:00.000-07:002010-11-08T19:48:47.070-08:00an Unusual Cabaret December 4th at the Bowery Poetry ClubThis December, Vangeline Theater has invited artists from all walks of Life to take part in a very special performance project...We asked comedians, performance artists, Butoh dancers, a contortionist, a fusion dancer to pick one piece of writing from a literary author ranging from Philip Sydney (1554- 1586) to Allan Sillitoe (1928-2010).<br />The performers will choose what to perform, but they will also pick one quote from one writer which either inspires them, is relevant to their performance on December 4th , or not at all!!!!!<br />Therefore we called the show: " From Sydney to Sillitoe: an Unusual Cabaret".<br />The evening will feature Butoh dancer Stacy Lynn Smith, Contortionist Jonathan Nosan, Fusion Dancer Extraordinaire Davey, post modern performance artists Raquel Almazan and Katherine Adamenko, Tangoh dancer Laurence Martin, and Margherita Tisato with the Vangeline Theater.<br />Contortion+ comedy+ post feminist discourse+ butoh + fusion danse and classic literature= what's not to love?<br />All our performers : can choose from the following authors:<br /><br />Sir Philip Sidney<br />Edmund Spenser<br />Christopher Marlowe<br />William Shakespeare<br />Ben Johnson<br />John Donne<br />Andrew Marvell<br />John Milton<br />Samuel Pepys<br />John Bunyan<br />John Dryden<br />Alexander Pope<br />Jonathan Swift<br />William Congreve<br />Daniel Defoe<br />Samuel Richardson<br />Henry Fielding<br />Laurence Sterne<br />William Collins<br />William Blake<br />William Wordsworth<br />Samuel Coleridge<br />Lord Byron<br />Percy Shelley<br />John Keats<br />Jane Austen<br />Emily Bronte<br />Robert Browning<br />Charles Dickens<br />George Eliot<br />Thomas Hardy<br />Henry James<br />Oscar Wilde<br />Dylan Thomas<br />James Joyce<br />Virginia Woolf<br />George Orwell<br />Graham Greene<br />Samuel Beckett<br />Laurence Durrell<br />William Golding<br />Alan Sillitoe<br /><br />On this blog we invite all the performers to share with us their literary journey as they look for an author or a quote which inspires them....<br />As they get ready for their performance...<br />Let's share away!<br /><br />And I hope you may discover some great writers!<br />And we can discover something about your process as an artist as well...<div><br /></div><div>http://www.bowerypoetry.com/?#Event/95338</div><div>www.vangeline.com</div>vangelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03333515883714391505noreply@blogger.com11