MADE HERE News/Articles Table of Contents

New York Times (June 21, 2010) ………………………………………………………………………………. 2

By: Melena Ryzik

The Made Here Project: Looking at Artists’ Lives

American Theatre Magazine (July/August Issue) …………………………………………………………….. 3

By: Randy Gener

Time Out New NY (May 28, 2010) ………………………………………………………………….…………. 5

By: Helen Shaw

Memorial day Weekend: Splashy New Vids for Your Sun-Dazed Brain

WNYC Culture (June 23, 2010) ………………………………………………………………………………... 6

By: Julia Furlan

MadeHERE Asks Artists How They Survive

NY Post Blog (June 8, 2010) ……………………………………………………………………………………. 7

By: Elisabeth Vincent

Depressing Depression Show

The L Magazine (August 4, 2010) …………………………………………………………………………… 8

By: Alexis Clements

In Their Natural Habitat

Bitchmedia (June 26, 2010) ……………………………………………………………………………...……... 9

Sm{art}: The Reality of a Performance Artist

Art Info (June 25, 2010) ………………………………………………………………………………………. 10

Filming A Cross Section of the Arts, from Genius Grantees to the Boylesque

Staten Island Live (June 18, 2010) ………………………………………………………………………...…. 11

By: Michael J. Fessola

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The Made Here Project: Looking at Artists’ Lives

By MELENA RYZIK

What does it take to make it as an artist in New York? Talent, gumption, luck, and, perhaps most of all, cheap rent. (A little

rehearsal never hurt either.) A new documentary video and interactive web series, the Made Here Project, explores how the

creative class functions in the city, from finding spaces to making ends meet. In this month’s episode, artists including the

theater performer Taylor Mac, the burlesque star Julie Atlas Muz, the b-girl Rokafella and the choreographer Elizabeth Streb

talk about their day jobs (cleaning toilets, temping, making donuts) and how they made the transition to full-time creative

careers.

“Sometimes I’ll go to a restaurant and someone my age will come up and take my order, and I’ll go, oh man, that could’ve been

me,” Ms. Streb, who now owns her own warehouse performance space in Williamsburg, says.

The series, sponsored in part by the HERE arts center in Soho, and directed by Chiara Clemente, daughter of the painter

Francesco Clemente, evolved as a way “to offer the audience an intimate look at artists and how they survive,” Tanya

Selvaratnam, a producer, wrote in an email. She added that she hoped that Made Here would drive interest in supporting the

arts, especially at a time when public funding is drying up. (Made Here is itself looking for funding and partners for its second

season.)

Each month’s episode – available online – will also be shown at public events in arts spaces in each borough, with some of the

contributors present for a discussion about the issues. Last month’s gathering sparked a lively debate about angel landlords

and creating and maintaining alternative spaces like Cave, a studio operated out of one couple’s Brooklyn apartment. Tonight,

the day and night job episode will be presented at a particularly ambitious space, the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City,

Queens. It’s free and open to the public, with free snacks and drinks as artist bait.

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Think of it as “Alive from HERE Arts Center.” The online documentary series Made Here—now on view at www.madehereproject.org—peers into the working lives of New York–based performing artists with a strong independent streak. Patterned after the renowned PBS series “Alive from Off Center,” Made Here offers film shorts,

user-generated videos, live screenings, even panel discussions, all of which reflect on both soup-to-nuts day-to-day issues about how art is created.

According to , co-producer

with , this

series “is meant to be a useful tool for artists to be in dialogue with one another, but it is also an opportunity for general

audiences to learn about some of the profound deci-sions and risk-intensive commitments that artists regularly undertake.”

Made possible by the

and trig-gered by the

, the series encompasses a wide swathe of disciplines, and such themes as “cre-ative real estate,” “family balance” and “activism.”

The first batch includes ,

founder ,

, story-teller/puppeteer , burlesque stars

and ,

artistic direc-tor and company member

, artistic producer

, chore-

— —

—

ographers and and com-

poser/performer (aka ).

directs.Adds Selvaratnam, “We

have almost enough fund-ing to cover two seasons, but the series could and should go on for many more. The sustainability of the performing arts com-munity is a crucial political issue, and I hope this series increases its visibility.”

Tiny Kushner, the collec-tion of short plays by

, is crossing the pond. The

production, directed by

artistic director , will make

its U.K. debut at London’s (pro-

ducer of The Great Game: Afghanistan) in September.

The Minneapolis–based cast includes ,

, and .

“It’s enormously gratify-ing to us,” says Guthrie’s artistic director

, “that our theatre is becoming the birthplace for exciting new work, showcasing the Guthrie as a center for thea tre arts in this country.”

This past May, the

(LORT) reluctantly went ahead with a planned semi-annual meeting in Tucson—despite the controversial passing of SB1070, a bill signed into Arizona law that lets state police perform checks on a “reasonable suspicion” that a person might be an ille-gal immigrant and make arrests for not carrying ID papers. The new law has been attacked for giving the police broad power to commit racial profil-ing, especially toward the numerous Latino immi-grants living in the state.

The LORT officials’ preferred response to what they have condemned as an “anti-immigration law” would have been to cancel the meeting. Unfor-tunately, “a cancellation would have left one of our member theatres,

, wholly liable for the contract they had signed” with a Tucson resort, where the meeting was held, stated LORT president in a May 17 letter to Arizona governor . Still, representatives from the LORT member theatres, which number 77 compa-nies in 29 states and D.C., collectively agreed that future LORT meetings “will not take place in Ari-zona again as long as this law is in place.”

Amid the negative spotlight on Arizona, a timely new play from

of Tucson, titled Arizona: No Roosters in the Desert, is set to premiere July 23, in Spanish, at

in Mexico City, before it receives a U.S. production at of Chicago in February 2011. The commissioned play, which has received grants from the and

, is based on 134 interviews given by expatriated women in the detention center in Nogales, Sonora. Says Borderlands founding artistic director

, “The inter-views were conducted by

, a anthropologist, and the play has been written by

, an attor-ney/playwright who works with these women as they face deportation hearings with the U. S. Justice Sys-tem.”

Billed as “a collab-orative bi-national produc-tion” (because the creative team includes artists from both the U.S. and Mexico City), the play, says Gold-smith, “is a human-interest play; it is designed to see these women with a human face. It is not overtly politi-cal, but it is, we hope, polit-ical in a subtle way. We are planning to tour readings of it in Spanish to neigh-

borhoods with populations of recent immigrants.” See www.borderlandstheater.org.

Whether or not

brought home a Tony for best featured actor in the Broadway revival of ’sFences—a verdict not yet announced at press time—he has, in a profound way, made the truest mark: Having appeared in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and King Hedley II on Broad-way; Jitney Off-Broadway; and several resident-theatre productions of Fences, he’s made the slam dunk as one of the country’s premier interpreters of the work of August Wilson. Even the reviews Henderson got for ’s cur-rent Broadway revival of Fences have taken astute notice: The late A.P. critic

called him “indispensable.”

“Oh, a Tony nomi-nation doesn’t redeem everything you did,” says Henderson, a professor at the

. “But it helps me pay back debts to folks who did so much for me and

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updated their cyberpresence, and the new site is worth a look. Gone is the sweet, handwritten

look, replaced with a staggering amount of information, gracefully arranged. Normally, I don’t

go all googly-eyed over a well-designed website, but HERE is also premiering its Made HERE

documentary project, an exhaustive, multimonth investigation into facets of theater artists’

existence. I got to watch the production team in action a few months ago while they were

shooting an interview with Elizabeth Streb: Producer Tanya Selvaratnam and soft-voiced

director Chiara Clemente listened attentively as Streb talked about everything from her days

as a doughnut maker to her struggles to make a space truly integrated with its community to

her addiction to high thread count. (Her suit did gleam softly; quality matters, people.) The

current episode deals with arts and real estate, and while you’re lolling about on this three-day

weekend, it would be worth checking out. The team threw out a wide net—everyone from

established artists like Kate Valk and Anne Bogart to younger actors and designers only now

trying to start families, find homes and make work. HERE has always been interested in the

intersection of multimedia and performance, but this appears to be the most successful

marriage yet.

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It's never been easy to be a working artist. Now, a web-based project called MadeHERE asks how forty New York performing

artists manage to pay rent, raise families and make art.

A project of the HERE Arts Center, MadeHERE consists of three monthly episodes give viewers a look at what life is like when the

footlights are off. So far, they've tackled Creative Real Estate and Day and Night Jobs. The interviews -- with established

performers like Elizabeth Streb (of SLAM) or Anne Bogart (of Siti Company), as well as lesser-known names -- are interspersed

with snapshots and footage from past shows.

A screening and discussion of next month's episodes, "Family Balance" will be held at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and

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specific" though the connection between the play, which is about the Great

Depression, and the storefront it's performed in is a stretch. The only link is if you

think of an empty store as a casualty of our current economic conditions. That's

not very much. And this may seem like a small detail but it's a telling one: If the

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shows, including those for En Garde. Oh, how I miss that company! I'll never

forget Bogart's "Marathon Dancing," from 1994. It was staged in the ballroom of

the Masonic Grand Lodge on 23rd St and co-starred a young Victoria Clark. (A

bit of self-promotion here, with an earlier blog post about site-specific shows in

NY.)

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broadest sense of the word) in NYC. And a lot of that involves being

resourceful. The first webisode is about day jobs , for instance. Taylor Mac gets

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In Their Natural Habitat by Alexis Clements

There are a lot of people in New York City waiting for their big break,

hoping not just for the right opportunity, but any opportunity. Where, though, are the ones who are

making work on a regular basis, who have either gotten their break or, more likely, made their own

opportunities? Well, thanks to the MADE HERE Project, you can get up close and personal with a wide

array of these rare breeds from the comfort of your computer screen.

Kristin Marting and Kim Whitener, the Artistic and Producing Directors, respectively, of prominent

downtown performing arts organization HERE, are the originators of the MADE HERE Project. They began

the project, a documentary web series about the lives of performing artists working in the five boroughs,

in part because of the burnout they were seeing among fellow artists. After trying to counteract the

trend on a small scale, through career workshops and discussions within their resident artist program,

they looked for ways to reach more people.

Most of the artists featured in the project come from non-traditional performance, which stems from the

fact that HERE primarily showcases experimental theater, puppetry and performance art. But for this

project, "non-traditional" takes in a much wider swath, including everyone from contemporary downtown

fixtures like Taylor Mac and Julie Atlas Muz to established artists like Anne Bogart (founder of Siti

Company) and Kate Valk of the Wooster Group, to those outside the mainstream, like breakdancer and

hip-hop artist Rokafella, as well as the Chinese Opera company Chinese Theatre Works.

The project's director, Chiara Clemente, has covered similar terrain before with her well-received first

feature, Our City Dreams, which chronicles the lives and work of five NYC-based artists: Nancy Spero,

Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer, and Swoon.

Topics covered in the MADE HERE series cut across every aspect of working and living as a performing

artist in New York, from real estate to side jobs to raising families. As Marting noted, "Sometimes artists

are looked at as elitist or snobby… but they're struggling with the same issues that others in the city

are."

The project is a great example of society's ongoing drift toward total transparency. A similar and equally

successful project focused on a very different NYC industry, Made in Midtown, examines the city's

garment industry. Both projects not only reveal unique urban economies and ecosystems, they also serve

to illustrate the time and effort that goes into things that many New Yorkers interact with casually on a

regular basis, without fully understanding how they came into being.

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This is what reality television should be like. Made Here (http://www.madehereproject.org/) is a new web

documentary series about work and life as a performance artist as told by a variety of artists living in New York

City. Broken up into easily digestible video segments, the series goes beyond "Making It In The Big City" to

explore the real-world challenges of space, family, and the impediments to creativity an artist faces.

The series is split up into "Issues," each of which have three short episodes. The first episode, "Creative Real

Estate" covers an artist's search for space in New York City, whether it's for rehearsal, performance, or in the

case of CAVE (http://www.madehereproject.org/creative-real-estate/artistic-homes/) , an experimental and residential space

for artists. The "Day & Night Jobs" (http://www.madehereproject.org/day-and-night-jobs/my-other-jobs/) Issue focuses on

how artists make ends meet outside of their artist work, whether it's waiting tables or teaching classes. The

episode"Creating Opportunities," (http://www.madehereproject.org/day-and-night-jobs/creating-opportunities/) focuses on

members of Chinese Theater Works (http://www.chinesetheatreworks.org/) , including Ying Zhang, a member of the

Peking Opera Company who now juggles her performances with owning a nail salon. She came up with the idea

of a company-owned nail salon so that the job could be more flexible and understanding to the schedule of

performers...although it's easier said than done.

They've also got a discussion component for site visitors, which asks questions like "How does real estate impact

your ability to create?" and "What is the oddest job you’ve worked to make ends meet?"

The series has a diverse group of artists and draws from all sorts of performing arts, from puppeteers to DJs to

acrobatics. Although it's focused on New York City, anyone in a creative field can relate to the sacrifices and

risks one takes as an artist and finding a balance between following your calling and paying the bills, and this

series is not only informative, but inspiring in how it shows it's possible. Check back in July and August for the

"Family Balance" and "Activism" issues.

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NEW YORK— Watching the Made Here project — a series of short,

online documentaries directed by Chiara Clemente (daughter of painter

Francesco Clemente) that follow the often unglamorous lives of

performing artists in New York City — is not at all like tuning in for

Bravo’s carefully-plotted and drama-packed Work of Art: The Next

Great Artist. (There are, for instance, no patronizing Jerry Saltz-ian

taskmasters doling out crushing one-liners, stored up over the course of

a decade to ruin someone’s self-esteem in under 60 seconds.)

However, it does certainly seems more likely that a great artist is among

the ranks of this project’s subjects than among the contestants on its

fine-arts, cable-television competitor.

Made Here’s 10 webisodes, which were sponsored in part by SoHo’s

HERE Arts Center, are to be released on a monthly basis. Each deals

with a specific issue that those pursuing the performing arts (from

dance, to opera, to improv comedy, to acting and burlesque) face in this

city. As the project's Web site states, the documentaries form “a collage

of intimate interviews, performances and behind-the-scenes footage,”

which amounts to a candid, sometimes stressful, sometimes funny, and

ultimately hopeful sense of what it means to be an artist today.

The artists range from highly experimental and new on the scene (such

as James Tigger! Furguson, the "stripperformance artist" and

“godfather of boylesque”) to already-established performers who have

by now overcome many of the obstacles that they faced earlier in their

careers. The so-called “Evel Knievel of dance” and inventor of

“PopAction” choreography, Elizabeth Streb, for instance, who won the

MacArthur “genius” award in 1997, is no longer begging family-run

doughnut shops to take her into their fold and hire her. And Charlie

Todd, an Upright Citizens Brigade sweetheart, no longer has to dream

up improv comedy interventions like the Grand Central Freeze and

hilarious No Pants! Subway Ride from the desk at his mindless temp

job.

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The premiere episode, "Creative Real Estate," stayed on the site through May (with surprisingly insightful video

responses posted by fans about their own experiences), and the second “issue” "Day & Night Jobs," was

screened at the Chocolate Factory two days ago at a free event featuring complimentary snacks and

refreshments. Next month’s installment, "Family Balance, will be shown at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center &

Botanical Garden in Staten Island on July 18 (before the season wraps up with episodes called "Activism" and

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A performing artist in the New York not-for-profit sector faces particular

challenges: Develop a repertoire. Find a place to present the repertoire. Pay the rent while

developing the repertoire and finding a place to showcase it. Then do all these things while looking

after a family.

“MADE HERE,” an ongoing video/web series that is investigating these issues throughout the five

boroughs, will stop on Staten Island this weekend to show/discuss how local performers (in

theater, dance, opera, new media, music, puppetry, etc.) do what they do — and have a life.

The docu-series is timed to address the

21st Century economics, when arts

funding from state and city sources

could be cut 30 to 40 percent. Some 40

performers — including

choreographer/filmmaker Gabri Christa and guitarist/composer Vernon Reid of St. George — are

part of the first season.

Among the other participants: director Anne Bogart, Arthur Aviles, Elizabeth Streb, Jennifer Miller

(of Circus Amok), Paul D. Miller (D.J. Spooky) Valda Satterfield (dancer and actress) and Wally

Cardona, choreographer and dancer.

At 2 p.m. July 18 a screening and discussion (“Family Balance” ) will take place in the Snug Harbor

Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terr., Livingston.

Anyone interested in attending is asked to RSVP to rsvp@madehereproject.org. The series is a

project of HERE, the influential new work presenter/producer on Sixth Avenue.

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