About this project
“Let mortals rejoice that there has existed so great an ornament of the human race.” These are the words inscribed on the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton, and rejoice is exactly what performers Liza Bielby, Brian Moore, and Richard Newman intend to do. **The Hinterlands and ***(con)temporary works exchange are hosting a party in celebration of Sir Isaac Newton, the world’s greatest mind, most notorious alchemist, and worst lover, on his 366th Birthday. It’s a party, a performance, a night where we dare to ask how the world would have been different if Newton had gotten laid.
What do we need to throw this party? We need your help. We need props, costumes, set, lights, and cake. The show is being built and will debut in Kalamazoo. Next stop Chicago. Finally the party will be brought to Milwaukee and will introduce The Hinterlands to their new hometown. Help get Newton around the horn of Lake Michigan.
If we can get 200 friends and family members to donate just $10 we can get this party started.
**The Hinterlands are an ensemble of Milwaukee based artists who:
- Create original, multidisciplinary performance works
- Explore the art of the performer through explosive and ecstatic training and play
- Engage their community through direct collaboration and exchange
Our Mission
To create essential, immediate, and visceral performances which propel our audience into a landscape of questions, possibilities, and unknowns. To develop training for the 21st century performer which integrates body and voice, content and form, impulse and technique, technology and tradition. To band together with our community to explore the unmapped regions of our culture, our world, and ourselves: the hinterlands.
***Created in September 2008 by Eleni Zaharopoulos and Liza Bielby, (con)temporary works exchange is a multi-disciplinary arts and performance collective that has dug its roots into a variety of communities across the globe. From found object sculpture to sound poetry to parking lot revivals to surprise kazoo concerts in Shanghai parks, (c)twe strives to create dynamic and unexpected partnerships with publics across social, economic, linguistic, and cultural divides.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on January 11, 2010.
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A limited edition, individually numbered "Isaac Newton is Our DJ" woodblock print.
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A limited edition, individually numbered "Isaac Newton is our DJ" woodblock print and a ticket to the big party in Milwaukee.
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Everything above plus a woodblock print biography of Sir Isaac Newton.
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Liza Bielby is a community-based physical theatre artist dedicated to expanding the boundaries of performer-audience exchange. From participatory parking lot revivals to spontaneous science/dance parties to clown kazoo parades in Shanghai to physical storytelling projects with survivors of the Great Depression, she seeks to create performance events that engage and challenge audience and performer alike. Liza is a graduate of Kalamazoo College and received her MFA in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre from Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. She is a founding member of the Glasnost Famigla Marching Band, the Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary arts collective (con)temporary works exchange, and the multi-media duo mv/mp.
