FLIPFEST! PRODUCTION TEAM Execut ive Producer…..…...Bonnie Sue Stein/GOH Product ions P roduc t i on S tage Manage r……………………….. .J ay We iss man House Manage r……………………Lynn Kab le /GOH Produc t i ons T e c h n i c a l D i r e c t o r ……… . . ……………………………… . W i l l K n a p p L i g h t i n g D e s i g n e r …………………………………… . . … . J a n e S h a w Sound Des igne r and Eng inee r……………………….. Ma t t Yohn Emcees……………………..…. . . .Sasha Suvorkov and Ví t Ho ře jš Documenta t ion…………………………Melan ie E inz ig , Mi lda Ku l la W r a n g l e r C a p t a i n ………………………………………… J u l i a B r o w n Stage Hands………………………..Serge i D iyanov , Kami l Hore jš Special Attachés…………………..….Ananda Grant, Maura Sheldon

Ed Woodham, Jenneth Webster

CEC ARTSLINK STAFF E x e c u t i v e D i r e c t o r ………………………………… . . . . F r i t z i e B r o w n Communicat ions and Events Manager…….….. .Zhenia Stadnik O f f i c e M a n a g e r ………………………………… . … . S a s h a S u v o r k o v Program Di rector , Open Wor ld…………….….. Masha Pyshk ina Program Director , Ar tsL ink Awards……..……… Tamalyn Mi l ler Program Manager , Open Wor ld………………….. Lena Ryabova Pro ject Coordinator , Open Wor ld………... Cassandra Hartb lay Project Coordinator , Ar tsLink Awards……... . .…Chelsey Morel l Program Di rec tor (Sa in t Petersburg)…………….….Susan Katz Program Manager (Sa in t Petersburg)………….….Anna B i tk ina Program Manager (Sa in t Petersburg)……….. .Nastya Tols taya I n t e r n ………………………………………………… . . … D a H y u n L e e

A Celebration of the 15th Anniversary of ArtsLink Awards

Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 7:00pm The Angel Orensanz Foundation, 172 Norfolk Street, New York, NY

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Welcome to FlipFest!:

Tonight’s festival celebrates the 15th year of ArtsLink Awards – a unique program of two-way exchange between the U.S. and the 30 countries that, under Soviet influence, were not accessible. Whether you call it international exchange, cultural diplomacy or a network for fostering friendship and creative collaboration, during the span of these 15 years the ArtsLink Programs have brought together and helped support over 1000 creative individuals - including the extraordinarily diverse, innovative, entertaining, and thought-provoking international artists performing tonight.

Following the momentous political changes of the late 1980’s, CEC International Partners, as the organization was then called, with public and private funders who shared the goal of putting mistrust behind, created a mechanism for creative people to exchange ideas, work together and thereby to profoundly understand one another’s cultures. Like success in art-making, intercultural understanding is not easy and impossible to guarantee, but like good art, comes unexpectedly and is as golden as a perfect performance. Fifteen years of hard work and 4 million dollars have been channeled to that end through ArtsLink Awards, and we regularly see that it has worked. Artists now routinely partner with their peers from Eastern and Central Europe and Russia, dialogue is free and unrestricted, and the creative climate in the U.S. is better, livelier for it.

In 2004, CEC ArtsLink mounted the visual exhibition FlipSide, tonight’s FlipFest! mini-festival realizes our aspiration to present exciting performing work as well. The wide-ranging group of over 40 artists was curated with the help of co-producer Bonnie Sue Stein and GOH Productions who deserve loud public thanks, as does the generous and exceptionally adaptable Jay Weissman and his crew. Without the resources provide by the industry, humor and genius of the staff at CEC ArtsLink, without the vision of our funders, without the dedication of our Board of Directors, and finally, without the talent and sacrifice of the artists involved, this evening could not have been actualized. Holding tonight’s event at the stunning Angel Orensanz Foundation on the Lower East side - a home to émigrés from East and Central Europe and Russia for generations - is a special pleasure.

In celebration of the past; in anticipation of a utopian future, enjoy the show! Fritzie Brown Executive Director CEC ArtsLink

Letter from the Executive Director

The use of flash photography and cell phones is strictly prohibited.

Pre-Show: BLIND.NESS, a variation (Balcony and center) A play directed by Ivan Talijancic/WaxFactory Co-written by Simona Semenic in collaboration with performers Melody Bates, Gillian Chadsey, Erika Latta and Breeda Wool. Costumes by Haans Nicholas Mott. A co-production of Performance Space 122 and Cankarjev Dom (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Welcome from Fritzie Brown and Al Orensanz (Stage) Solos and Duets (Stage) Music and performance by Viktor Tóth (saxophone) and Jeff Zielinski (drums) JOHN, a solo dance performance (Center) Created and performed by Goran Bogdanovski Directed by Tomi Janezic With music and sound by Tomaz Grom. JOHN is a coproduction of Fico Balet, Studio for Research on the Art of Acting, and Theatre Glej, and was made possible by MOSKVA Ballet Co., New Dance Alliance Inc., The Slovenian Ministry of

Culture, and the city of Ljubljana.

Program Emcees Vít Hořejš and Sasha Suvorkov host the festivities and introduce each act. The artists will perform in various parts of the space, indicated below (for a map of the venue, please see page 10 of this program). Artists whose names are listed in bold below are included in the artist bios, (page 11).

Gang of Seven, an excerpt from the new play by Jim Neu (Stage)

A new comedy by that rips the lid off the dynamics, delusions, and dangers of the focus group movement sweeping across America. Performers: Mary Shultz, Tony Nunziata, Chris Maresca, John Costelloe, Byron Thomas, Kristine Lee, and Jim Neu. The play will run from December 4-21 at La MaMa, Thursday through Sunday at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 2:30.

Vocalize (Balcony) Music and performance by Sylwia Gorak Contemporary Sakha Folk Songs (Stage)

By Klavdia and German Khatylaev CHABYRGHAKH, A Composition about a horse with traditional instruments khomus, aiaan, and the dungur. KYTALYK, a song about the white crane, a sacred bird in Sakha culture, that uses the traditional nasal singing technique “khongsuo”. Instruments – khomus, kyryympa. Followed by vocal imitations of Sakha nature, birds and animals, and a demonstration of khomus playing.

The Helen Keller Case, an excerpt from the play (Balcony and stage)

Written and performed by Dah Theater Directed by Dijana Milosevic, with Maja Mitic as Annie Sullivan and Kathy Randels as Black Lady (a role she first played during a 1998 ArtsLink Project). Through the biography of Helen Keller, the famous deaf and blind American writer and activist, a story is told about the need for communication, the need for the touch of the OTHER. From different levels of time, the imaginary and real characters meet, and with a gaze of hope directed towards the oncoming century, they dance with the darkness to the song/cry of the Black Lady, the one that brings and takes away. This piece was last performed in March 1999, when NATO began its bombing campaign against Serbia in an effort to halt hostilities in Kosovo.

POUCHA DASS (Stage) Music by François Rabbath, performed by Robert Black of Bang on a Can (double bass)

MONOLOGUE (Stage) Performed by Yoshiko Chuma of The School of Hard Knocks DUO [1992-present] (Stage) Featuring Yoshiko Chuma (dance) and Robert Black

This collaborative piece premiered at La MaMa in 1992, and was performed in Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, Latvia, Hungary, Czech Republic, USA and Japan on a tour supported in part by ArtsLink.

My Fair Lady-Cassandra (Balcony) A soliloquy in Lithuanian and English based on the poem by Wisława Szymborska (see text in back of program)

Performed by Dalia Michelevicuite with music by Evelina Sasenko and costumes by Irina Kozutova

What Makes A Man A Man (Stage) A performance by John Kelly Music and lyrics by Charles Aznavour That's How I Dance (Center) Choreographed and performed by Ilya Belenkov Music by Alva Noto

Lisa Karrer & David Simons perform original compositions (Stage) KUI MINA a national poem from Estonia by Josef Lev (translation by Pille Katrin Seelmann), set to music by Lisa Karrer, voice, with David Simons on Thai mouth organ. GRANDMA text by Mark Leyner from the piece Leyner Suite, music by David Simons, jaw harp, Lisa Karrer, voice.

The Very Sad Story of Ethel & Julius, Lovers and Spyes and about Their Untymelie End while Sitting in a Small Room at the Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. (Center and Stage)

Songs & excerpts from a new play written and directed by Vít Horejš and performed by the Czechoslovak-American Theatre. Performers: Deborah Beshaw, Brian P. Glover, Vít Horejš, Theresa Linnihan, Valois Mickens, Alan Barnes Netherton, Steven Ryan, Ronny Wasserstrom, with Carmen Staaf on the accordion. The play will run from November 28-December 14 at Theater for the New City, Thursday through Saturday at 8:00PM and Sundays at 3:00 PM.

THE BOOK OF DANIEL (Stage)

Directed by Tea Alagic, written by Daniel Alexander Jones Performers: Daniel Alexander Jones and Sonja Perryman This performance premiered at the University of Texas/Austin in 2007.

Romanian-American Jazz Suite, excerpts (Stage) Excerpts composed and performed by Sam Newsome (soprano saxophone) and Lucian Ban (piano). This project is supported in part by the Romanian Cultural Institute.

František Skála (Stage) Performance

ArtsLink 15th Birthday Mix

DJ Joro-Boro spins a mix of compositions and performances supported by ArtsLink projects, 1996 to the present, featuring: Artur Avanesov, Charming Hostess, Duo Violon Cellissimo (Olga Veselina and Vadim Larchikov), German and Klavdia Khatylaev, Jasna Jovicevic, Lampo, Lucian Ban, Ryan Ingebritsen, Sam Newsome and Viktor Toth.

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DAH Theater (Serbia; 2003 ArtsLink Independent Project awardee) performs The Helen Keller Case. Photo by Vincent Abbey.

Robert Black (US; 1996 ArtsLink Projects awardee) and Yoshiko Chuma (US; ArtsLink host and four-time ArtsLink Projects awardee) perform DUO.

Sylwia Gorak (Poland; 2008 ArtsLink Fellow), solo video performance.

Victor Toth (Hungary; 2007 ArtsLink Fellow).

Goran Bogdanovski (Slovenia; 2001 ArtsLink Fellow) performing JOHN.

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Tea Alagic (2004 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is a director, writer, and actor. Her recent directing credits include St. Joan by George Bernard Shaw (New York University), Zero Hour by Tea Alagic (Yale University Theater), The Brothers Size by Tarrell Alvin McCraney (The Public Theater, NY, The Studio Theater, Washington D.C, The Abbey Theater, Dublin), Book of Daniel by Daniel Alexander Jones (University of Texas/Austin) and Chiang Kai Chek by Charles Mee (Yale Cabaret). As associate artistic director of the Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts, Alagic directed Woyzeck by George Buchner and Self-Accusation by Peter Handke. She has acted with Theatre du Soleil, Robert Lepage, Richard Foreman and Yoshiko Chuma. Alagic received a BFA in acting from Charles University in Prague, and an MFA in directing from Yale School of Drama, where she received the Julian Milton Kaufman Prize for Best Director. She has received awards from the Cairo International Festival and the Edinburgh International Fringe Fest among others. She is currently at work writing Zero Hour, commissioned by the Public Theater; its first reading will be at The Abbey Theatre, December 2008. Pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger Lucian Ban (2004 ArtsLink Projects collaboration with Sam Newsome) is originally from Cluj, Romania. He currently lives in New York City where he is at the forefront of contemporary modern jazz. He performs and tours regularly with his own projects and as a sideman, and was nominated in 2005 and 2006 for the prestigious Hans Koller Best European Jazz Musician Preis in Austria. Ban has written music for theater, film and ballet, including for the New York City Symphony Orchestra. His compositions are frequently performed and recorded, and include a commission for the Machito Orchestra, performed at the 2002 Super Bowl, among others. New York-based projects include original music for Philosopher Fox produced by East River Comedia, nominated for the prestigious IT Award; and music for the Paul Auster play Timbuktu directed by Richard Schechner. www.lucianban.com Dancer and choreographer Ilya Belenkov (2007 ArtsLink Fellow) was born in 1980 in Kazakhstan and currently lives in Moscow, where he works with two dance companies, Ohne Zucker and Po.V.S.Tanze. After discovering dance in 1999, he has immersed himself in numerous workshops and art labs and participated in collaborative projects nationally and internationally, focusing on release techniques. He was an ArtsLink fellow with Maryland’s Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 2007, and has worked in the US with TRYST Downtown (Paul Benney, Clarinda Mac Low and Alejandra Martorell’s series of free outdoor performances in Lower Manhattan, supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) and his duo System of Units with Katerina Basalaeva.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES ( In alphabetical order )

Robert Black (1996 ArtsLink Projects awardee and frequent CEC ArtsLink VisArt participant) is equally at home on the double bass in classical, contemporary and experimental musical genres and collaborations. He has an active performing career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra player. He has produced over 75 commissioned solo works and his solo tours have taken him throughout the world. He is a founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and a member of School of Hard Knocks since 1988. Black’s recent collaborators include actor Kathryn Walker, Brazilian artist Ige D'Aquino, choreographers Katie Nollet-Stevinson and Yoshiko Chuma, and the Ciompi and Miami String Quartets. He maintains a full teaching schedule at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford, the Festival Eleazar de Carvalho in Brazil and the Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Music Program. He has recorded for Sony Classical, Point/Polygram, Koch, Mode, O.O. Discs, Cantaloupe and others. A recipient of numerous grants, he received a 1998 Bessie Award for his collaborative composition work on Unfinished Symphony with The School of Hard Knocks in NYC. www.robertblack.org Goran Bogdanovski (2001 ArtsLink Fellow) has performed with more than 70 choreographers and directors since 1989 in classical ballet, physical theater, contemporary dance, film and video. Since 2000, when he founded Fičo Balet, he has been developing his own choreography, as well as performing and leading workshops from Moscow to New York. From 2002 to 2008 he ran Kino Šiška, a rehearsal space for contemporary dance and theater in Ljubljana, and in 2003 he helped to launch Gibanica (Moving Cake), the first biannual Slovene dance festival. He is also a co-founder of NOMAD Dance Academy, an educational and artistic research project with partners from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria. www.ficoballet.org Yoshiko Chuma (ArtsLink Host and 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2008 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is a conceptual artist and choreographer and artistic director of The School of Hard Knocks. She has created more than sixty full-length performance works for theaters and site-specific venues with her company and on commission throughout the world. Chuma first worked in Eastern and Central Europe in 1985, and has led workshops, and initiated residencies and collaborations with artists in the region. Her company has performed throughout the world at sites including the Hong Kong harbor, the Eiffel Tower, Newcastle Swing Bridge, Dublin’s Temple Bar district, Tallinn’s Old Town, The Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, City Center and the National Theaters of Sarajevo and Macedonia. Chuma has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for Artists and the Japan Foundation, among others. She is the recipient of a 1984 Bessie Award for

choreography, six Bessie Awards to company artists from 1987-1998, and a 2007 Bessie for Sustained Achievement. www.yoshikochuma.org DJ Joro-Boro (Friend of ArtsLink) was born in Bulgaria. In New York City he was former resident DJ at Mehanata Bulgarian Bar, and instrumental in creating its underground cult following. His music is best described as Ethnotech or EthnoMesh—a cosmopolitan textured knot-work of dance styles including Gypsy speed brass, Arabic dancehall, Angolan kuduro, Punjabi bhangra, Brazilian favela funk, digital cumbia, merengue de la calle, plus sleazy Balkan incarnations of chalga, turbo folk, and manele. As described by Other Music, it is a music of "movement, progressive voice, and diversity. The fast-forward multifarious collective from the 'Eastern Bloc' and beyond, spearheaded by Joro-Boro and Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello, pluralistically exhale out of a trans-cultural osmosis of East meets West, romantically fusing the abundant expressions of a relevant past into a shifting matrix of the now-sound of today's wayward cultural bents. That is, an unorthodox real deal identity stamp to destroy and forge through all barriers that are political, social, and musical." He currently has a bi-weekly residency with radio New York WNYE as a host of a show called MoGlo. www.myspace.com/joroboro Sylwia Gorak (2008 ArtsLink Fellow) is a vocal performer and painter, and has participated in exhibitions, concerts, and vocal and video performances worldwide, from New York and London to Poland and Japan. Integrating landscape painting with environmental science, Gorak rearranges man-made structures and landmarks that surround her from their utilitarian contexts. As a performer, Gorak is also interested in acoustics and the material properties of sound. In 2001 she was a soprano with The Paderewski Festival Singers in a concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in Poland, Gorak graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan and studied Voice in Krakow. Vít Hořejš (1994 ArtsLink Projects awardee) moved to New York from Prague in 1979. He is the Artistic Director of the Czechoslovak-American [Marionette] Theatre and has written, adapted and directed more than a dozen plays for the company. The Theatre is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of traditional and not-so-traditional puppetry. The company has played to great acclaim in twenty-seven states in the US and at international festivals in Poland, Turkey, Pakistan, and the Czech Republic. As an author and solo performer, Hořejš has published stories and plays and toured extensively in the US, Asia, and Europe. He was Krojak in Woody Allen’s Don’t Drink the Water. www.czechmarionettes.org

Daniel Alexander Jones (Friend of ArtsLink) is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and the actor/writer of Book of Daniel. American Theatre Magazine named him one of fifteen artists whose work would "change American stages for decades to come." He is the recipient of the prestigious Alpert Award in the Arts in Theatre (2006) and the 2007 McKnight National Theatre Artist Residency and Commission at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. His theater pieces include Phoenix Fabrik, Bel Canto, Earthbirths, Blood:Shock:Boogie and Hera Bright. This year Jones joins the faculty at Fordham University as an Assistant Professor of Theater and will also launch his online theater initiative, Round House Arts. His current projects include Qualities of Light, an interactive performance installation created with acclaimed musician, Helga Davis. A native of Massachusetts, Jones lives in New York City.

Lisa Karrer (1995 and 1997 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is a composer, vocalist, and performance artist who frequently collaborates with other artists. Karrer has created multi-media projects in Estonia that co-produced by Eesti Kontsert and Von Krahli Teater, and was featured at two NYYD International Music Festivals in Tallinn. She has produced CDs for the groups Music For Homemade Instruments and Gamelan Son of Lion, and, recorded a chamber opera The Birth of George with co-composer David Simons (Tellus/Harvestworks). Her new solo work Schismism pt 2: Natural Law premiered at the Living Theatre in October 2008. Two of her compositions appear on Gamelan Son of Lion’s new CD Sonogram on Innova Records. Lisa continues to develop projects such as Mary’s SITE, a video with composition for chamber ensemble, based on the animated sculpture of visual artist Mary Ziegler. www.simonskarrer.com John Kelly (1995 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is a performance and visual artist. His original performances have been presented by The Kitchen, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the Warhol Museum, the Whitney Biennial, PS 122, BAM Next Wave Festival, and the Tate Modern. In 1998 he directed (and sang a leading role in) Ime Na Koncu Jezika (The Name On The Tip Of The Tongue), a chamber opera by Mitja Vhrovnik Smerkar for the Glej Theatre of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has collaborated with David Del Tredici, Laurie Anderson, and The Jazz Passengers; commissioned scores by Richard Einhorn and Richard Peaslee; and performed with Natalie Merchant and Antony and The Johnsons. Kelly is currently writing songs for his recording, The Escape Artist. His acting credits i nc lude James Joyce ’s The Dead , John Cage’s An Alphabet , Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Rinde Eckert’s Orpheus X. He has received numerous awards and fel lowships inc luding two Bess ie Awards, two Obie Awards, an Amer ican Choreographer Award, the 2001 CalArts/ Alpert Award and the 2006-

2007 Rome Prize in Visual Art at The American Academy in Rome. JOHN KELLY, an autobiography was published by the 2wice Arts Foundation. www.johnkellyperformance.org

Husband and wife duo German and Klavdia Khatylaev (2008 ArtsLink Independent Projects awardees) are members of the native Sakha-Yakut tribe of Siberia. Their spiritual folk music expresses a deep connection to the land. The practice and form of the music has ancient roots in nomadic and pagan history. The couple is acclaimed throughout Russia and Europe for their unique folk music, a mix of original and traditional Siberian songs, featuring a specialized style of throat-singing and performance on native instruments including the khomuz (mouth harp) and the kyrympa (a type of string-bowed fiddle). Their music was included on a Smithsonian Folkways CD, Tuva: Among the Spirits: Sound, Music and Nature in Sakha and Tuva. www.khatylaev.sakhaopenworld.org Dalia Michelevicuite (1995 ArtsLink Fellow) has been a company actress with the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, formerly the Lithuanian State Academic Theatre, since 1992. She is also an award-winning ballroom dancer. Michelevicuite has appeared in numerous roles in theater and film, and has toured worldwide. She received great acclaim for roles under directors Eimuntas Nekrošius, Oskaras Koršunovas and others, and for a cameo appearance in Yoshiko Chuma’s Three Stories and a solo performance of an excerpt from Three Sisters at Dixon Place in New York during her ArtsLink residency. Major theatre roles include Marquise de Sad (1992), Rain Seller (1993), Persona (1994), The Stranger (1995), Public (1997), Time and Room (1997), Three Sisters (1996); LIFE, Women's Songs (1998), Roberto Zucco (1998), Carmen (1998), Richard III (1999), Station in N City (2000), Dances of Lugnazade Feast (2001), Testament of Barbora Radvilaite (2002). She has acted in the films Don't Know Who I Am, Fish Day, Awakening, Thrush - Green Bird, Moon's Lithuania, and New Adventures of Robin Hood. She appears in the new film Defiance, with Daniel Craig, to be released in 2009. Dijana Milošević (1997 ArtsLink Fellow and 2003 Independent Projects awardee) is a theater director and co-founder of Belgrade’s DAH Theatre, the first theatre laboratory in Serbia. In 1993, the group became DAH Theatre Research Center. In 1992, she co-founded NATASHA Project, an international theater network, and ANET – Association of Independent Theatre Groups in Belgrade. She is also a contributor to The Magdalena Project, an international network of women in contemporary theater. Milošević is the director of DAH International School for Actors and Directors, and frequently writes about theater, lectures, and leads workshops, as well as touring internationally with her company. Currently

she is working on THE ILIAD PROJECT: DOGSBODY, a project with San Francisco’s Theatre of Yugen in collaboration with Artistic Associate playwright Erik Ehn, set to premiere at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2009. www.dahteatarcentar.com/index_eng.html

Maja Mitic (DAH Theater) has been a core member of DAH Theatre Research Center in Belgrade since 1991 and currently teaches there. She has taken part in several theater, television, radio, and film productions and collaborated on the development of The Helen Case with Kathy Randels. Jim Neu (2000 ArtsLink Projects awardee) has been pushing the envelope of spoken theater since the late 1970s. Whether in plays or dance/text collaborations with choreographers, his language achieves a lyrical, hilarious balance of the familiar and the absurd. His new comedy GANG OF SEVEN explores the world of focus groups, as some normally harmless citizens discover an explosive collective identity. The show opens in December 2008 at La MaMa ETC with cast members Mary Shultz, Tony Nunziata, Chris Maresca, John Costelloe, Byron Thomas, Kristine Lee, and Jim Neu. www.jimneu.com Sam Newsome (2004 ArtsLink Projects awardee) has been active in the New York jazz scene since the 1990s, when he was a member of the Terence Blanchard Quintet, with whom he toured worldwide and released several CDs for Columbia/Sony, including the critically-acclaimed Malcolm X Jazz Suite. Mr. Newsome has since then, emerged as one of the premiere soprano saxophonists, recording and performing music from around he world, incorporating various types of non-Western scales into his musical palette. His group Global Unity released two CDs, Sam Newsome & Global Unity (Columbia/Sony) and Global Unity (Palmetto). He later began exploring solo saxophone works by Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Sonny Rollins, and Anthony Braxton, culminating in the 2007 release of a solo saxophone CD, Monk Abstractions, which was named as one of the 2007 Best Tribute Recordings by Allaboutjazz-New York. Currently, Newsome teaches jazz studies at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, tours with Lucian Ban, among others, and is at work on his second solo saxophone CD, to be released in 2008. www.samnewsome.com

Al Orensanz (Friend of ArtsLink) is a poet, historian, philosopher, and scholar of Social Upheaval Studies with a PhD in Sociology from New York University. Al can currently be found in various capacities as the public face of the Angel Orensanz Foundation. www.orensanz.org Sonja Perryman (Friend of ArtsLink) is an actress/singer who originally hails from Atlanta, GA but now calls New York City home. She received her BFA in drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2004 and since then has worked as both an actress and teaching artist. She was last seen in the cast of Celia! the musical, and as Electra in Theodora Skipitares' world premiere of The Exiles at La MaMa. Kathy Randels (1998 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is the founding artistic director of New Orleans’ ArtSpot Productions. She has written, performed in and directed numerous original solo and group works in Louisiana and beyond. She received a 2008 V-Day Leadership Award, as well as a 2003 Obie Award and a 2007-2009 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors grant. Her recent collaborations include Flight, Lakeviews, and Alternate Roots’ UPROOTED: The Katrina Project. She also collaborated on three Dah Theatre performances from 1997 to 2003. In 1996, Randels founded the Drama Club at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women and has worked with the Students at the Center Program in New Orleans Public Schools since 1998. www.artspotproductions.org David Simons (1995 and 1997 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is a composer and performer specializing in percussion, theremin, electronics, and world music. Recordings of his works include the CDs Prismatic Hearing (Tzadik), Kebyar Leyak, Cool it Wayang, and Naked We Stand for Gamelan Son of Lion, and on albums by God is My Co-Pilot, Stockhausen, Shelley Hirsch, Music For Homemade Instruments, and many others. Simons’ music for theater and dance has brought him to Zagreb and Tallinn, Seoul and Yogyakarta, Munich and Berlin, Guantanamo, Honolulu, and Bali. He has received a Rockefeller Bellagio residency, NYFA fellowships, and commissions from the American Composers Forum, Mary Flagler Cary Trust and Meet the Composer. His composition Odentity for the Newband’s Harry Partch instruments premiered in 2007. A graduate of California Institute of the Arts, he has published writings on music and sound in Radiotexte (Semiotexte#16), EAR magazine, and Soundings . www.simonskarrer.com

František Skála (2003 ArtsLink Independent Projects awardee) is a Prague-born sculptor, painter, children's book illustrator, musician and dancer. He is a founding member of the music group Malý taneční orchestr Universal (the Small Dance Band) which performs popular music from the communist era of Czechoslovakia in a humorous fashion, as well as a

founding member of the music trio Tros Sketos. His exhibitions and performances have been seen worldwide, including a notable 2004 solo show of sweeping proportions at The Rudolfinium Gallery in Prague. In visual art, he has created poignant works in wood, clay, plastic and seaweed, among other mediums. Skala describes his own work as an attempt to make "visible the invisible" or to "grasp the ungraspable." Using these abstract terms, he apologizes for his inability to describe the fascinating world that surrounds us.

Ivan Talijancic (2002 ArtsLink Projects awardee) is a director, choreographer, visual and graphic designer and video- and film-maker. He is a co-founder and artistic co-director of the international theater group WaxFactory, for which he has directed LULU , QUARTET V2.0 , LADYFROMTHESEA, Sarah Kane's CLEANSED, …SHE SAID and 39 FRAMES. His site-specific performance, WILD ANIMUS, commissioned by Too Far (San Francisco) in 2006, was performed in over fifty cities in North America, Europe and Australia. Following its premiere at PS 122 in October 2008, BLIND.NESS will also be presented in Slovenia in co-production with Cankarjev dom. Talijancic is a Usual Suspect at the NY Theatre Workshop, a recent fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany) and the current recipient of TCG/New Generations grant. He has taught and been artist-in-residence at several institutions in the United States and abroad including the City University ofNew York and Brown University. www.waxfactory.org Viktor Tóth’s (2007 ArtsLink Fellow) Climbing with Mountains album won best jazz album of 2007 in his native Hungary. He has played saxophone with internationally renowned musicians including Hamid Drake, Henry Franklyn, William Parker, and Mihaly Dresch. He leads the Toth Viktor Tercett, composes, produces music for dance, collects folk music and is always looking to forge ahead in new directions. Jeff Zielinski (2007 ArtsLink Host) has been involved in the arts since 1986. He began gigging as a drummer in central Massachusetts and played and toured with bands in North Carolina. In 1999, he moved to New Orleans to explore different musical genres, broaden his musical vocabulary, and continue to create friendships with people from all over the world.

Bonnie Sue Stein (Executive Producer) is the director and founder of GOH Productions, an arts services organization based in New York focusing on the creation and development of global arts projects. Since 1988, she has produced projects in New York City, Eastern and Central Europe, the former Soviet Union and Asia. Her current projects include The Absolute Ensemble, The School of Hard Knocks, East Village Dance Project, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre and Art In Odd Places. As a writer, she has contributed articles on the performing arts to Dance Magazine, The Village Voice, BAM Next Wave Journal. For GOH she produced three documentary films, Faust on a String about Czech marionettes; Moon Pulse directed by Estonian choreographer Marika Blossfeldt (with Estonian TV), and The Ivye Project directed by Tamar Rogoff (Belarus/Lithuania/US Production). Bonnie was born in Detroit, Michigan. Her grandparents were from Belarus and came to live in the US in early 20th century. www.gohproductions.org. Jay Weissman, production stage manager, is a partner in The Usual Suspects, a New York based production company responsible for many outdoor concerts, festival, and events here in the city including Evening Stars, Culturefest, Fourth of July in Battery Park, and Music at Castle Clinton. Jay has had the pleasure to work with such artists as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Sonic Youth, and Tony Bennett among many others as well as Pope Benedict XVI at the Papal Youth Rally in Yonkers this past year. Jay is very happy to be working with CEC ArtsLink! Jane Shaw, Lighting Designer, and Will Knapp, Technical Director, have worked together on a variety of projects including several seasons as production managers at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. They have also shared duties as the lighting director of Evening Stars in Battery Park, various touring positions for the Baryshinikov Arts Center, the Merce Cunningham Company, and Rebecca Stenn/The Perks. Ms. Shaw's lighting designs include works by Donna Uchizono, Koosil-ja Huang, and Trazana Beverly. Mr. Knapp has worked as a production manager for Meredith Monk, Big Dance Theater, and Elizabeth Streb. Matthew Yohn (Sound Design/Audio Engineer) Matt enjoys a motley career in the performing arts, both backstage and onstage. A lifelong classical singer, he has performed throughout North America and Europe and currently nurtures a growing operatic career. His technical activities began at the University of Rochester where he focused on audio as a natural extension of his penchant for making noise. His audio experience includes credits with groups such as Korn, The Orchestra of Saint Luke’s, George Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars, Absolute Ensemble, and Run-DMC in venues such as Madison Square Garden, Red Rocks, Kennedy Center, The Sporting Club in Monte Carlo and Battery Park, NYC. As sound designer for the Evening Stars Festival he worked with choreographers such as David Parsons, Mark Morris, and Trisha Brown and is a sound designer for the Rebecca Stenn Company.

In addition to the ArtsLink Awards program, which provides grants to artists and arts organizations in the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus by a process of application and panel review, CEC ArtsLink conducts two other major mission-driven programs. The Open World Cultural Leaders Program brings young artists and arts managers to the U.S. for professional residencies. The program is supported by the Open World Leadership at the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts. CEC ArtsLink provides administrative support and hosts groups in partnership with leading arts organizations around the country, presenting exciting public events featuring the visiting artists, including poetry readings, film screenings and concerts. Partner hosts include The American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), The PEN American Center (New York), and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (Hamilton, NY). From our Saint Petersburg office, CEC ArtsLink facilitates the VisArt program, investigating contemporary art issues through collaboration and exchange. VisArt creates opportunities for the exchange of ideas on contemporary issues in the arts by supporting U.S. artists, musicians and arts professionals and their colleagues in Russia and Central Asia to collaborate on exhibitions, seminars, workshops and performances. Program participants from overseas— Arts Leadership Fellows— visit the U.S. for short professional residencies. U.S. arts professionals including Charles Amirkanian, Bang on a Can, Rhys Chatham, Jason Eppink, Kendall Henry and Nancy Zendora, offer workshops and perform in Russia and Central Asia. And a new initiative in Central Asia, Global ArtLab, expands global cultural dialogue by engaging with local communities beyond capital cities. Together, U.S., Tajik and Kygyz art professionals will activate their individual art practices to develop a structure for the circulation of ideas. Visit www.cecartslink.org for more information or to apply for support.

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Soliloquy for Cassandra, a poem by Wisława Szymborska, the 1996 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature. The poem was written in Polish; this evening Dalia Michelevicuite performs her interpretation in English and Lithuanian. The standard Enslish text, below, is translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh.

Here I am, Cassandra. And this is my city under ashes. And these are my prophet's staff and ribbons. And this is my head full of doubts. It's true, I am triumphant. My prophetic words burn like fire in the sky. Only unacknowledged prophets are privy to such prospects. Only those who got off on the wrong foot, whose predictions turned to fact so quickly— it's as if they'd never lived. I remember it so clearly— how people, seeing me, would break off in mid-word. Laughter died. Lovers' hands unclasped. Children ran to their mothers. I didn't even know their short-lived names. And that song about a little green leaf— no one ever finished it near me. I loved them. But I loved them haughtily. From heights beyond life. From the future. Where it's always empty and nothing is easier than seeing death. I'm sorry that my voice was hard. Look down on yourselves from the stars, I cried, look down on yourselves from the stars. They heard me and lowered their eyes. They lived within life. Pierced by that great wind. Condemned. Trapped from birth in departing bodies. But in them they bore a moist hope, a flame fuelled by its own flickering. They really knew what a moment means, oh any moment, any one at all before— It turns out I was right. But nothing has come of it. And this is my robe, slightly singed. And this is my prophet's junk. And this is my twisted face. A face that didn't know it could be beautiful.

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Finally, special thanks to Jane Lombard, Phil Hartman, Sarazina Stein, Ally Aldegasser, Nikola Horejs, Lucia, and the many others whose

generosity has made this event possible.

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CEC ARTSLINK is an international arts organization. Our programs encourage and support exchange of artists and cultural managers between the United States and Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. We believe that the arts are a society’s most deliberate and complex means of communication, and that artists and arts administrators can help nations overcome long histories of reciprocal distrust, insularity and conflict. With solid expertise and lasting partnerships in 30 countries, CEC ArtsLink promotes communication and understanding through collaborative, innovative projects for mutual benefit. CEC was founded in 1962 to enable citizens of the United States and the Soviet Union to accomplish what their governments could not – opening doors, sharing ideas and building mutual trust. In today’s transformed and complex world, citizen diplomacy is still urgently needed. Over the past 15 years, the ArtsLink Awards Program (one of several of CEC ArtsLink’s distinctive programs promoting cultural exchange through the arts) has made over three million dollars in funding available to U.S. artists and arts organizations working with colleagues in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Funding is provided through ArtsLink Projects, ArtsLink Residencies and Independent Projects.

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