About this project
The Grand Plan Odyssey!
Over the course of approximately 5-7 years, award-winning visual theater-maker Talya Chalef will devise five port cities performance events around the world in collaboration with local and international artists.
Each port cities performance will contain the same elements:
- a non theatre performance space
- a projected video montage sequence depicting ‘movement’ particular to that city
- an exploration into that particular city’s connection with Dutch trade route history (and its own location on the route).
Local myths, legends and folklores will be explored against the backdrop of current contemporary issues affecting each city. The port cities performance events will be available online on a port cities website allowing participating cities to interact and reflect on the project as a whole. At the end of the journey, the sum of the five cities will be compiled into a DVD documentary available for each city's host festival/organisation to keep as a performance in ‘five movements’ like an opera.
port cities - nyc: April 28th-30th, 2011, 7pm, FREE!
We have begun our adventure in Brooklyn, where else?! And we've been given the amazing Waterfont Museum barge to perform in. Over the next five weeks we will continue to devise an original 60 minute theater piece, which will involve:
- incredible film footage by film maker Joe Pickard
- beautiful sound design by Kelly Ryall
- striking lighting design by Greg Goff
- a team of fantastically talented actors
- a journey for the audience across the New York harbor
- and an adventure into Red Hook
The Team...
- Actors: Corey Allen*, Tracy Park & Jeri Silverman
- Director/Deviser: Talya Chalef
- Sound Design: Kelly Ryall
- Lighting Design: Greg Goff
- Dramaturge: Meropi Peponides
- Film Footage: Joe Pickard
- Film Editing: VivianVincho Nchogu
- Producer: Matt Kagen
- Movement Dramaturge Consultant: JK Fowler
- Project Adviser: Anne Bogart
*Actor appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
But we need your help....
Your donations will go towards the costs of hiring out the barge for rehearsals and performances. This is a workshop production where we hope to gather everyone's feedback and ideas towards premiering the work.
Do not miss this environmental event that promises both adventure and an aesthetic journey. Anne Bogart
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on April 23, 2011.
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VIP seating at a Port Cities NYC performance of your choice in on April 28th-30th
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A limited edition Port Cities NYC Poster signed by Talya and the creative team
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A Dutch Trade Route Provisions Package, which includes Fine and Raw sea salt chocolates, McClure pickles fantastic bloody mary mix. You never know when your next meal will be on the high seas... www.fineandraw.com www.mcclurespickles.com
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All of the above, plus a VIP pie date with Talya and the team at Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pie's in Red Hook. We went to Steve's after our first rehearsal, and we can't.stop.eating.them.
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Talya Chalef is an independent theatre-maker working in multidisciplinary visual performance work and is currently based in New York City where she is pursuing her MFA in playwriting within Columbia University's School of the Arts. She grew up in Cape Town but has been based in Melbourne for the past seven years where she devised new performance works site (2006, nominated in the Victorian Green Room awards), In Other Words (2007- Melbourne and 2009, also nominated in the Victorian Green Room awards) and Eyton Rd (2009, Melbourne and Cape Town) She has worked in Australia, South Africa, Argentina and Europe and is a recipient of the Besen Family Foundation arts award, the Australia Business Arts Foundation Cultural Trust award, the Dame Joan Sutherland Award, the Albert Nerkin Scholarship and is a Columbia University Dean's fellow.
