Live Arts Bard 2012-13

Live Arts Bard

Bard College’s new residency and commissioning program for the performing arts

Live Arts Bard (LAB) is a laboratory where professional artists in theater, dance, and performance test ideas and develop new projects, many of which will be premiered at The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Each year, LAB will invite a number of leading artists and companies from the United States and abroad to Bard’s campus. As our audience, you will have special access to sneak previews, artist talks, and work-in-progress showings.

NOTES!!! and SWAN!!!

Jack Ferver and QWAN Company 

A double bill of sexy, scary, spectacular, salacious, stunning, and startling works that took the downtown New York theater scene by storm. LAB visiting artist Jack Ferver presents his QWAN (Quality Without a Name) Company in the incredibly dramatic parodied readings of two well-loved screenplays, Notes from a Scandal and Black Swan. Suitable for mature and immature audiences, 15 years and older. Presented in partnership with the Center for Curatorial Studies.

Wednesday, April 3 at 7 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: $20; $5 for the Bard community 

An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer

An intimate night of spoken word, songs, stories, chats with the audience, and more than a few surprises with author Neil Gaiman (Coraline; The Graveyard Book) and musician/cult figure Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls; Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra). 

Saturday, April 6 at 8 pm
Sosnoff Theater
Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40

All of a Sudden

By Jack Ferver

All of a Sudden is a new collaboration between choreographer Jack Ferver and writer/performer Joshua Lubin-Levy. This work-in-progress performance is based on the film version of Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer, about a young girl driven insane after witnessing her cousin’s murder and the doctor who attempts to help her.

Wednesday, April 17 at 6:30 pm
Theater Two
Tickets: Free, reservation required

The Music Tapes

The Traveling Imaginary

The Traveling Imaginary is an invitation into The Music Tapes’ world. Touring the United States in a circus tent, The Music Tapes transform spaces into cozy, dreamlike environments for evenings’ worth of music, games, stories, films, and amusements.

Monday, April 29 at 7 pm
Sosnoff Theater Stage Right
Tickets: $15