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International Festival of Arts & Ideas Announces Cornerstone Artists

A scene from Chautauqua!
(© Justin Bernhaut)
A scene from Chautauqua!
(© Justin Bernhaut)

The cornerstone artists for the 15th annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas have been announced. Additional programming for the festival, to play multiple venues in New Haven, Connecticut, June 12-26, will be revealed at a later date.

Among the theater-related highlights are Conor Lovett’s one-man stage adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick at Long Wharf Theatre; the National Theater of the United States of America’s vaudeville spectacle Chautauqua! at Long Wharf; Big Dance Theater’s deconstruction of Agnes Varda’s 1962 French New Wave film Cleo From 5 To 7, entitled Comme Toujours Here I Stand, at Frederick Iseman Theater; and David Leddy’s Susurrus, which is part radio play, part avant-garde sonic art, and part stroll in the park, presented at Edgerton Park.

Additional programming will include dance pieces by Lucinda Childs and Khmeropédies I & II, as well as performances by musicians Amir ElSaffar, Bassekou Kouyate, Christopher Rouse, and Joyce Moreno.

For more information, visit artidea.org.