Sarah Coleman, Manager of Performing Arts and Business Center and Associate Producer for the Source Festival on Mash-ups, auditions and all things festival.
It’s official – all the work for the Source Festival is fully announced! We’ve made our final decisions regarding the Interdisciplinary Projects which will run July 1 – 6th. We selected three works through the open call process; Going Against the Flow: Improvised Lives (acting and dance improv), created by members of Washington Improv Theater and Daniel Phoenix Singh/Dakshina Dance; What’s A Little Death? (acting, music, mask and dance), created by Leslie Felbain and Juanita Rockwell; and The Letting (spoken word poetry and dance) created by Annie Johnstone and Diana Tokaji.
And, Jeremy’s made four fabulous mash-ups. Mash-ups are the paring together of people from at least two different disciplines each with the goal of creating, in under three month’s time, a new interdisciplinary performance piece that is 15 to 30 minutes long. I’m a big fan of the term mash-up, although I can’t take credit for it as it was suggested by Anne (via Patricia Martin’s RenGen). It’s very fitting to the festival and all that we do here at Cultural Development Corporation. This year’s mash-up will be conceived and created by Austin Elston, Emily Gallagher and Kelly Mayfield who will combine the disciplines of film and dance; photographer Tiffany KB and playwright Gwydion Suilebhan; Dancers Stephen Clapp, Laura Schandelmeier will collaborate with composer Jonathan Morris; and Lisa Pegram and Kitty Victorian will create a spoken work poetry and burlesque piece.
One more tidbit. Final auditions for the 10-minute plays were held on Tuesday, May 13th so we’ll have all our talented actors on board, and in the rehearsal room, in no time.
For more information on the schedule check us out online.
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