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7 January 2012 PO Box 15392 Washington, DC 20003 | 202.261.6612 | info@taffetypunk.com |
You rule!
We reached our goal!
Thank you all so much.
Now we can get back to shows and fun!
Welcome back, Erin Mitchell
Co-founder, and choreographer Erin Mitchell is back in town and back in the band! Long time T-Punk fans will remember her work in The Phoenix and Turtle in 2006, and her stunning contributions to last year's Dance Craze.
Erin received a BFA in Dance/Choreography from VCU. While living in Richmond, VA, she danced, choreographed, and taught for the Latin Ballet of Virginia. In D.C. she worked at the Kennedy Center, and jumpstarted the Taffety Punks. After leaving D.C she wandered around for a bit before landing in Kalamazoo where she choreographed and danced with Wellspring. While there, she founded and managed the Rad Fest (the Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival). She also taught at Western Michigan University's Department of Dance. We are very excited to have her back.
New Saucy Lackeys
While Taffety Punk's focus is on the well-being and artistic development of our core company members, we are delighted to collaborate with other artists. Sometimes we like and admire the work of these artists so much we want to make them part of the family. These are our Saucy Lackeys. Joining the company of Richard Byrne, Amy Carr, Kathy Cashel, Chad Clark, Kris Holodak, Liz Maestri, Sean Peoples and Josh Taylor, please Welcome Chris Curtis, and Kelsey Mesa...
Chris Curtis is a director and light and sound designer, and he continually blows our minds with his smarts and ingenuity. He worked as Joel's assistant director on resident playwright Gwydion Suilebhan's Car Play "Buggy & Tyler" while designing lights for the show. Recent designs for Taffety Punk also include Owl Moon, Riot Grrrls: Julius Caesar, and the last couple Bootleg Shakespeare shows at the Folger. Other area designs include columbinus and The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? at Silver Spring Stage, where he also recently directed Rabbit Hole, and has occasionally even acted.
Kelsey Mesa directed the third of our Car Plays, dREAMtRIPPIN' by Thomas Michael Campbell. She has served as assistant director to Lise on Owl Moon, and on the last three Riot Grrrls plays (Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, and Measure for Measure.) Other productions in various cities include Brooklyn Boy, Into the Woods, On the Town, and Oliver! She is a native of Miami, FL, a graduate of Northwestern University and a staff member of the Kennedy Center. She also serves as our minister of propaganda.
This year...
Wondering what we've got planned? Here's a little peak. Dates, space and times to be announced very soon.
Oxygen
Company member Esther Williamson reunites with Car Plays collaborator Mark Krawczyk in a play that dares to be a concept album. Russian playwright Ivan Vyrypaev sets up two actors and a DJ to take on ten language intense tracks about love and suffocating, and suffocating in love. Directed by Lise! Opens Valentine's Day. More info, wicked soon.
Enter Ophelia, Distracted
Company member Kimberly Gilbert immerses Ophelia into a sonic landscape that frames and follows her descent into madness. Expanding on one of our earliest experiments at the Black Cat (And Then It Faster Rock'd 2005), we add more bodies, more verse, and more noise in a fascinating culmination of classical punk. Spring 2012.
Bootleg Shakespeare:
Hamlet, the Bad Quarto
The all-too-often ignored 1st printing of the world's most famous play. Half as long, with language more drunk than poetic, this strange, taut and surprising script still tells the story of Hamlet. What is it? The work of pirates, an early version, a touring copy, a memorial reconstruction? Whatever the answer, it makes for a perfect bootleg. Summer 2012.
The Rape of Lucrece, remixed.
A pure Taffety Punk show: the loud coalescence of actors, dancers, and musicians bending Shakespeare's epic poem to their will. Lucrece's shockingly resonant story cries to be heard. This punk dance theatre concert is the answer. Fall 2012.
Plus more Riot Grrrls, more dance, more music, experiments, readings and all sorts of trouble.
Oh yeah... and records. YAY!
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It's tax deductible, and helps us a WHOLE lot.
Donations are totally cool and punk rock.
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Look, See:
• Esther and Mark Krawczyk (who formerly teamed up for the Car Plays) reunite for a stab at Ivan Vyrypaev's Oxygen. Opens Valentine's day! Directed by Lise!
• Kimberly opens The Religion Thing at Theater J on January 9th. Go see! Later in the year look for her in Mr. Burns at Woolly Mammoth.
• Beauty Pill's "Immersive Ideal" installation opens Tonight at Artisphere and runs for two weeks in the Black Box Theater. You can hear the new album in surround-sound and peruse a user-controlled, multi-screen photo array of the making-of the process, which took place in Artisphere.
• Tonya and Marcus will join the cast of The Gaming Table at the Folger Theatre. It will be directed by Riot Grrrl newcomer Eleanor Holdridge. The show opens January 30th.
• Erin will be choreographing a new solo that will premiere at Wellspring Dance in Kalamazoo, Michigan this winter.
• Joel's script for Mirror Image was winner of 2011 DC Shorts Screenwriting Competition. He begins shooting in January. He was also featured in a DC Luxury Magazine Article.
Post production for Bare Knuckle is close to complete.
• Esther will be teaching a scene study class at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. If you are interested in studying with her contact STC.
• In March Lise will be in Shaw's Heartbreak House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
• Marcus will join the cast of The Taming of the Shrew at the Folger Theatre this spring. He will apparently play lots of guitar. It will be directed by Aaron Posner.
• T-Punk co-founder, Christopher Marino, has been enjoying some great praise out in Chicago for his recent work on "Balcony of Two" by Ruth Magraff in the Steppenwolf Garage, and for his direction of Comedy of Errors at the Evanston Arts Depot.
A very awesome thing you can do is donate here to improve the life of our dear friend Callum Robbins.
Company Members
Tonya Beckman Ross
Lise Bruneau
David Polk
Daniel Flint
Kimberly Gilbert
Paulina Guerrero
Erin Mitchell
Marcus Kyd
Christopher Marino
Joel David Santner
Esther Williamson
Saucy Lackeys
Richard Byrne
Amy Carr-Taylor
Chad Clark
Chris Curtis
Kristin Holodak
Liz Maestri
Kelsey Mesa
Sean Peoples
Josh Taylor
Artistic Director
Marcus Kyd
Jack the Lad
Scott Hammar
Resident Playwright
Gwydion Suilebhan
Web Master
Kim Carlyle
Board of Trustees
Ian Armstrong
William Colgrove
Jeanette Gunderson
Gregg Henry
Philippa Hughes
Cara Pomponio
Gwydion Suilebhan
First Ten
These fine folks donated $1,000 each when we were just a wee lass. They have our eternal gratitude.
Philippa Hughes
Sam Fleming
Christine Farley
Anthony Nelson
Cathleen Nelson
Ryan Nelson
Merribel Ayres
Anne Mayerson
One Anonymous
Two Anonymous
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Dischord Records
Lovitt Records
Sockets Records
Beauty Pill
Mich-Mash Productions
Minutes
Happenstance
Faction of Fools
Factory 449
Folger
Round House
Dog and Pony
Constellation
Pink Line
Corner Store
Fatback DJ Collective
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