the 109th Bead

Oops.  I've been a bad blogger Bad Blogger!  On the other hand, you didn't write either.  

In December, Cynthia was is in San Francisco performing her '109th Bead' premiere at the Chime main headquarters (Margeret Jenkins space).  Things went swimmingly.  It was very nice to be home again, we haven't quite moved in our minds yet to our new space in the midwest.  

Since then, we have put a piece onto the Li Chiao Ping Dance company called 'Unmoored' (see previous comment) and Cynthia will be again performing her '109th Bead'.  If you happen to live anywhere near Madison WI, come to the Overture Center on March 5,6, and 7th, come see the show!

 In other news Leo is no longer a baby. Gonna be 2 soon.

Ken Performs in the Art in Odd Places festival

Hey fans in New York! OK any everywhere...
I will be in New York on the 25th - umm... pulling a log across Manhattan. on 14th street. I'll start at 10 am so be there or be square. Why you ask? The Art in Odd Places Festival! http://www.artinoddplaces.org/ is putting on a show. Me too. Paul Benney may be pulling also. Paul Fu**ing Benney!! It just doesn't get better than this.

Anyone with access to a log in NYC let me know. This is the sticking point so far... darn those cities.

much love
Ken

West Wave Festival 2008

Hey everyone, we are performing wednesday the 20th and Friday the 22nd at 7 pm at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. See us on the main stage doing... stuff and things! Kimm E Ward and Andrea Weber are coming out of FTPG hibernation for this! Shawn Oda is back and we are introducing Fiona McCann to the FTPG world.

We will be featuring one of Lawrence Labianca's brilliant sculptures also.

Come out and see a whole pile of what the Bay Area has to offer and, of course, Fellow Travelers!

Info: dancersgroup.org
tickets: ybca.org

FTPG updating things

Hello Campers!

It has been a while, but we are still plugging away at the dance thing. In fact, things are going very well. Lets talk about Leo. He walks, he runs, he goes camping in the Sierras! Very proud we are.

Ken received a CA$H for the creation and performance of more body installations - so keep an eye out in the streets. For those who haven't seen them, body installations are labor related (and often nature related). They tend to be simple, and are created to try to get people to see their world a bit differently. In order to see them you have to be in the right place at the right time. They are unannounced and could happen any time.

Ken and Cynthia are co-creating a piece in the West Wave Festival at the Yerba Buena Center in August. August 20 and 22 to be exact. 7 pm. If you come to the 22nd there are rumors of a reception afterwards.

Cynthia and Deborah Slater are still working on the 109th Bead. Douglas Rosenberg will be shooting new footage sometime in the next few months.

Ken and Matthew Antaky have been brainstorming heavily for a new installation trio that can go anywhere. There is much talk of animating the lights onto video projectors.

FTPG has met its match

As you know from your previous reading, the East Bay Community Fund gave us an $8,000 matching grant in September. Well, thanks to the generosity of all of you, we made our match!!! This means that 'Intersecting Stories' has the money to pay all the artists who are working on the project .

We will keep you posted as to how everything is going and how the piece is shaping up! stay tuned...

Upcoming performances in the Wrecking Ball performance at ODC Theater, Jan. 19th (the last before the theater is rebuilt) and in the Dance IS show on March 8th.

Cynthia Gets A Chime!

Cynthia and Deborah Slater are one of five pairs of dance artists who were selected to receive the coveted Chime (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) Awards. These awards were established to formalize the exchange and feedback mechanisms between established and emerging California choreographers. The awards supports the artists with grants and studio space (up to 500 hours!) for a year.

Deborah Slater will be working with Cynthia to push forward in her work and reexamine her modes of working.

This is exciting, folks!


In other news, we are more than half way to reaching our fundraising goal for the East Bay Community Foundation matching grant we received earlier this fall. We still need about $3000 so please consider donating to support artist fees for a new innovative work coming out in 2008! More information about Intersecting Stories and how to donate can be found on the website at www.ftpg.org.

Updates and pushing to new things

You NEED to go to the Cartoon Art Museum in SF as soon as possible. Not only is there an Edward Gorey exhibit, but also Lark Pien has an exhibit. Lark is the artist who worked with Chris Black and Myself on the Adventures of Cunning & Guile and she is the best. You don't want to miss this.




FTPG updates:
I am going to be an OHIO ARTS COUNCIL INDIVIDUAL CREATIVITYEXCELLENCE AWARDS PANELIST in December. I will be in Columbus OH to watch artists work and help fund it. Very exciting.

Having recieved a very generous grant from the East Bay Community Foundation, we are in fundraising mode. The $8,000 grant is for artist fees for my new piece scheduled to come out in 2008. This one will be an installaiton piece - dance is small spaces and outside of theaters. We are hoping to be able to move it easily to galleries, studios or any space we can perform in. In order to recieve the grant, we have to match it, so if you have liked the work you've seen in the past - you can have a huge impact on helping create this new one. anything you send doubles! yeee-haw! like public radio on a smal scale.

That is about it for today. this is the last weekend of PASTIME and it is in Golden Gate Park. Free and fun - if you miss this you will kick yourself. also, Circ Zero is at Theater Artaud with sol niger -