PRISM Quartet

Hailed by Chamber Music magazine for “pioneering achievements of the highest order,” the PRISM Quartet partners with 3-Legged Dog to co-present Breath Beneath, a pilot project that explores the intersection of music, interactive technology, and durational visual art.

Breath Beneath is the first phase—and first public presentation—of a multi-year “Discovery” initiative. Reaching across disciplines, the PRISM Quartet (saxophones) joins forces with two intrepid creative teams to investigate how saxophonists’ movements and sounds can be used to generate images—and how those images shape musical interpretation. Including new work by Pulitzer Prize Winning composer Julia Wolfe, filmmaker Bill Morrison and digital artist Ryan Holsapple.

At 3-Legged Dog

80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10006

September 15, 2017

8:00 PM. ORDER TICKETS EARLY, LIMITED SEATING! Tickets available starting 8/14.

General Admission $25

Breath Beneath is co-presented by PRISM Quartet, Inc. and 3-Legged Dog.

Support for the research and development of Breath Beneath has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support comes from New Music USA, the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Conn-Selmer, Inc. The New York program receives additional support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

(Visit www.prismquartet.com for Breath Beneath audio and video, and to see how the project unfolds.)

Studio A: Development for SHIFT Hackathon

3LD is one of the leading arts and technology centers in the US, spearheading the development, incubation and presentation of experimental high-tech artwork for over two decades. This fall, we have been invited to the Shanghai Interactive Festival of Theatre (SHIFT), the flagship event of the Shanghai International Arts Festival, as co-presenters of the very first Sino-US Arts and Technology Hackathon.

The mission of the Hackathon is to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations between artists with backgrounds in the performing arts, coding and digital design from both China and the US. We’ll be inviting artists to collectively generate new creative applications of motion capture systems, integrated sensors, image and audio mapping, AR and VR, for both live performance and installation environments.

In the lead up to the Hackathon, which will take place between the 23rd and 26th of October, we’ll be doing intensive technical development at 3LD Art & Technology Center.

Studio A: Lysistrata by Aristophanes

A production of the Pace School of Performing Arts

In collaboration with 3LD

Directed by Cosmin Chivu

October 27- November 5, 2017

Performances: Wednesday- Saturday @8pm, Saturday & Sunday @ 3pm, Sunday @7pm

The year is 2069. In a country dominated by men and devastated by its leaders' obsession with an endless war, Lysistrata unites the women of Greece by persuading them not to have sex with their husbands until a peace treaty can be reached. This modern adaptation of Aristophanes' classic comedy about gender and politics is a visually striking reimagination, and features an original score by John Coyne.

Creative Team

Set Design: Ryan Goff

Costume Design: Sammy Mainzer

Lighting Design: Griffin Proctor

Projection Design: Steven Medina

Sound Design: Jordan Porch

Production Stage Manager: Stephen Stanec

Associate Director: Holly Wright

Assistant Director: Borna Ben Barzin

About the Pace School of Performing Arts

The Pace School of Performing Arts is one of the most sought-after undergraduate training destinations in the United States. Dedicated to providing the finest possible pre-professional education, our groundbreaking programs re-imagine how young artists are trained for today’s industry. In addition, Dyson College’s strong liberal arts curriculum provides students with a solid educational foundation that enriches their professional development as artists, giving students a deeper understanding of themselves and the world.

Studio B: "3-Fifths: Trapped in a Traveling Minstrel Show"
James Scruggs In Residence

James Scruggs, a writer, performer and arts administrator was recently awarded a 2016 New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowship for Artistic Excellence, a 2016 Creative Capital Grant and a 2015 MAP Grant from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew Mellon Foundation to work with 3LD Art & Technology Center to write and produce 3/Fifths which premiered at 3LD Art & Technology Center for 4 weeks in May 2017. We’re excited to welcome James Scruggs back to 3LD, to develop 3/Fifths for a wider audience.

ABOUT 3/Fifths

3/Fifths is a theatrical work exploring race and racism today; informed by the history that is sometimes deemed too disturbing to explore. It transformed the 10,000 square feet of 3LD Art & Technology Center into a dystopian theme park called SuprmemacyLand.

3/Fifths was one of four New York Times "Must See" productions in May 2017

"Immersive theater routinely makes audience members uncomfortable, but Mr. Scruggs is on a level all his own with “3/Fifths." NY Times May 2017

3/Fifths was a four star Recommended theatrical production

"The insidious brilliance of SupremacyLand lies in the way that Scruggs, along with directors Tamilla Woodard and Kareem Fahmy, co-opt the conventions of immersive theater to deliver a powerful message." Timeout NYC May 2017

Studio A: Counting Sheep
An Immersive Guerrilla Folk Opera

November 28th - December 17th, 2017
At 3LD Art and Technology Center
80 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10006

After taking the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe and then the world by storm, COUNTING SHEEP, the groundbreaking and award-winning immersive guerrilla folk-opera, has its New York premiere November 28th - December 17th at 3LD. Sung entirely in breathtaking traditional Ukrainian polyphony and enhanced by first-hand video footage from the streets of Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine during the protests, Counting Sheep invites audience members to participate fully in this electrifying performance. Patrons are encouraged to dance, sing, eat, hurl foam bricks, dodge men with guns, witness violence, and join in the rituals of public mourning as part of a dramatized experience of the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine. The protests in Kyiv were fueled by disenchantment with the political system, and led to the deaths of over 780 people and the displacement of more than one million others. Mark and Marichka Marczyk, the creators of Counting Sheep, were in the streets during the uprising, and they re-create their experience as part of the performance, addressing themes of national pride and human rights, and navigating the tipping point between street party and revolt.

Out the Window: The Window Collective in Residence

Out The Window is a documentary project that investigates memory, policing, witnessing, accountability, perspective, mental health, law and theatre. The show integrates verbatim court transcripts, sound, video and text derived from interviews with top lawyers from both sides of the bench, as well as with journalists, activists, artists, police force members, a police psychologist, mental health experts and family members of the deceased.

Out The Window began as a solo performance installation at Factory Theatre’s Lab Cab Festival. This showing lead to an invitation to develop the project as a Resident Artist at The Theatre Centre in Toronto.  We’re excited to invite writer and director Liza Balkan and The Window Collective to 3LD in November 2017 to develop this highly charged and provocative work.

Pace University’s Actors Studio Drama Program:

The Third-Year Repertory Season of the Actors Studio Drama School presents its graduating students to the professional world and the public in fully-realized productions of the work they have created during their three years in the MFA program. The seven-week Repertory Season will consist of a series of one-act and full-length plays, some of them written by third-year playwrights and all of them acted and directed by third-year actors and directors. In addition, the entire supporting staff for these productions will consist of a design and production team

drawn from the professional New York theater community. The 2018 Repertory Season will be significantly enhanced by its new residence in the award-winning and critically-praised theatrical environment of 3LD.

About Dyson College of Arts and Sciences:

Pace University’s liberal arts college, Dyson College, offers more than 50 programs, spanning the arts and humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and pre-professional programs (including pre-medicine, pre-veterinary, and pre-law), as well as numerous courses that fulfill core curriculum requirements.  The College offers access to numerous opportunities for internships, cooperative education and other hands-on learning experiences that complement in-class learning in preparing graduates for career and graduate/professional education choices.

About Pace University

Pace University is a comprehensive, independent University with campuses in New York City and Westchester County. Nearly 13,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, School of Education, and College of Health Professions. http://www.pace.edu