
About this project
Art scenes come and art scenes go. What then remains? New York City and its Burroughs have long been a place for the aspiring to enter and the famous to exploit. Each new art neighborhood shifts according its own the economic status. When one neighborhood’s art scene explodes, so does its real estate. For instance, West Village turns to Soho turns to Williamsburg turns to East Williamsburg turns to Bushwick. When a scene is brought to a neighborhood hype grows, there becomes a pressure, an obligation to be cutting edge; an obligation of hip.
Associations of Hip takes place during a demolition party. This party models itself off a party I attended the summer of 2008 in the Lower East Side where the entire building was being torn down to build condos so the tenants decided to throw a party and make as much noise as they’d like, spray paint the walls, kick holes through partitions and plenty of drugs. Associations is a tribute to the underground art scene and asks the question; are these artists, or are these kids trying to be cool?
Incorporating multi-media and live stream video to explore the power of a camera and the vogue of celebrity. An allure and curiosity we all carry with us. Laura Fitch is a young photographer turned video-blogger who is dealing with the loss of her first great love and left to face the reality of her current job. She’s making money and doing her art, but is that enough? Through avoidance, drugs, liquor, friends, and an underground party, she learns to jump out of her own pain and discover self-expression.
There are many movements towards giving our artists a place to play, let this be another.
http://www.overturnensemble.org http://associationsofhip.vox.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/Associations-of-Hip/342034880194... http://twitter.com/assofhip
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Diana Stahl (playwright), received her BFA in acting from SUNY Purchase. She also completed BADA’s mid-summer in Oxford program and a liberal arts studies at San Francisco State. While training at Purchase, she helped launch a workshop of the New York premiere production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with the LARK while Kristy was serving as an assistant to the Artistic Director. New York Credits include work with Tenement Street, TurtleShell Productions, 45th Street Theater, and The Signature. She is a founding member of the Glass Bandits Theater company. For more information go to www.gbtheater.com. As a casting intern for Judy Bowman, she worked on casting for ART's The Seagull, LAByrnth's Philip Roth in Khartoum, and Rattlestick's Geometry of Fire and That Pretty Pretty or The Rape Play. Diana produced her one act play The Plane Ride at Bushwick's AdHoc art gallery. The Plane Ride was the first play shown at the installation gallery. She most recently finished a reading for Associations of Hip (previously Mirror of the Night) at the 45th Street Theater.
Kristy Dodson (director), is a NYC based director/ producer. Kristy & Diana met while earning their BFA's at the SUNY Purchase Acting Conservatory and recently started a lifelong collaboration in the theatre. Kristy's passion lies in directing and producing new, immediate, and necessary works of theatre. She is the Artistic Director and co-founder of The Overturn Theatre Ensemble. And has directed and produced at The Public Theatre, The McCarter, The Signature, Labyrinth, Rattlestick, The Lark, Access Theatre, The Actor's Theatre of America, Center Stage NYC, amoung others. Kristy most recentally was the Assistant Director on Have You Seen Us by Athol Fugard starring Sam Waterston that is currently playing at The Longwharf Theatre.