Nov 1- Nov 3, 2012
in the Goodson Yard Performance Hall
at The Goat Farm Arts Center
1200 Foster Street
Atlanta GA 30318
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ARTISTS:

Theatre du Reve (Atlanta) Re-member/Re-membre’: Premiere

Micah Stansell (Atlanta) Presynaptic Potential: the Theatrical Version

Zoetic Dance Ensemble (Atlanta) What’s Under There: Preview of New Work

North Carolina Dance Theatre (Charlotte) Existing Work (Saturday Only)

Eliza Rickman (LA) Concert Performance (Saturday Only)

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TICKETS:
$15 General Admisssion $10 Artists/Students

Season subscription: All 4 Performances

$80 General Admission $40 Artists/Students

To reserve your Season Pass at the Goodson Yard box office, please email us at info@tanzfarm.com, call 404-964-3210 or purchase at the door.

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SCHEDULE:

Thursday, November 1st at 8pm
Theatre du R’eve/ Filmmaker Micah Stansell / Zoetic Dance Ensemble

Saturday, November 3rd at 8pm
Theatre du R’eve/ Filmmaker Micah Stansell / Zoetic Dance Ensemble / North Carolina Dance Theatre

Eliza Rickman 930pm

Artists’ Biographies:

Theatre du Reve:

Atlanta’s Theatre du Reve is the city’s unique French-language theatre company that brings French culture to the American stage. The company strives to bring classical and contemporary plays to the theater, using bilingual performances and community workshops to integrate wider audiences throughout Atlanta.
With a team of highly professional, bilingual theater artists, the company has performed classical and contemporary plays and company-created productions, playing to sold out houses and to crowded museum theaters. They have served over 8,000 students from across the Southeast United States in recent years through their workshops, student matinee performances and educational programming for the High Museum of Art.

 

Eliza Rickman:

There is always a hint of menace and reservoirs of force haunting the corners of Eliza Rickman’s voice, whatever register it occupies. Her presence on stage—whether she wears flowers in her hair, or stuffed birds; whether she plays a toy piano or a grand piano—is an enveloping, soft darkness, impossible to ignore. It is quite a surprise that Rickman didn’t even realize she could sing until after she earned a degree in orchestration from Azusa Pacific University, because her voice is the most enthralling and salient feature of any on the tracks from her new album ‘O, You Sinners’.

And this is saying something, considering her deftness as a pianist and her subtlety as a composer. Like Kate Bush’s work, or like PJ Harvey’s album White Chalk, the arrangements on O, You Sinners are edged with dissonance. Like Andrew Bird, she favors pizzicato strings over junkyard percussion and complex lyrical melodies. Indeed, Rickman’s co-producer Mark Greenberg is a frequent contributor to Bird’s albums (as well as to Wilco’s ‘The Whole Love’ and to the Grammy Award-winning Mavis Staples’s album ‘You Are Not Alone’).

Religious themes pervade Rickman’s work—her album is, after all, titled ‘O, You Sinners’. She is the daughter of a pastor, and started playing piano in church at the age of 13. But like one of her great influences- Nick Cave- her writing belies ambivalence about religion. Good and evil; love, both God’s love and carnal love; sinners and saints; desire and repentance, all find a place in Rickman’s songs. They lurk behind the scrim- whatever stage she sets. The coin of her realm is stamped with the will of God, and whether you are a doubter or a believer you must deal in her currency if you want her to ferry you ashore. “O, you sinners” she sings, “hear me.” And how could we not listen?

Eliza Rickman – Cinnamon Bone from Damon Stea on Vimeo.

Filmmaker Micah Stansell:

Micah Stansell is an Atlanta-based video/filmmaker and installation artist. He received an MFA in Digital Filmmaking and the Arts from Georgia State University. His work has screened in galleries and film festivals across the Unites States and internationally. Stansell has received several awards for his work, most recently a 2011 Artadia Award, 2010 Working Artist Project Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, a Special Jury Prize for Innovative Filmmaking at the 2009 Atlanta Film Festival, and a 2008 Student Academy Award Nomination for his graduate work. Stansell’s work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Art in America, Moviemaker Magazine, Atlanta Art Now: Noplacencess (book) and The Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Zoetic Dance Ensemble:

Zoetic Dance Ensemble is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting the quality of the human spirit through the athleticism and artistry of dance to a wide audience by creating and producing innovative and accessible choreographic works.

Zoetic Dance Ensemble was created to give voice to the extraordinary potential of the human body and spirit. Coming from the Greek word zoe, zoetic means living, vital and animated which accurately describes the company’s approach to movement. Zoetic is committed to performance, dance education, mentoring and advocacy.

Zoetic has been recognized as the Best of Atlanta, Creative Loafing (2009, 2005, and 2004), Best of Atlanta, Atlanta Magazine, 2007, Top 5 Best Dance Performances, Creative Loafing, Year in Culture, 2002 and 2005 and Best New Arts Organization, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, 2002.

North Carolina Dance Theatre:

The artists of North Carolina Dance Theatre are known for their high energy, precision and speed, as well as their ability to perform a versatile repertoire ranging from full-length classical ballets to innovative contemporary works. NC Dance Theatre’s breathtaking beauty, boundless energy and amazing athleticism have dazzled audiences and critics the world over.