David Levine, Carlos Murillo, Steve Reker, et al. Part of Watermill Center’s Spring Season

The Watermill Center has announced its spring season of artist residences, which will include public performances.

Among the offerings will be a performance by Theatercombinat, Inc., from Austria which will be developing a new piece on vampires. The group will offer an open rehearsal of the piece on February 10.

The Watermill will also offer an open rehearsal on March 5 of Carlos Murillo’s A Thick Description of Harry Smith (Volume 1), or Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the Law, which will explore the life of Smith, a seminal filmmaker, musicologist, occultist and alchemist. On May 7, a new Faustian opera by David Levine, inspired by the lives and career of Milli Vanilli, will be presented.

Two open rehearsals will be presented on June 18. From Megan Whitmarsh, working with Matthew Salata and the Los Angeles-based LAZERJAZZ, will come a futuristic fantasy that combines video and live performance work; and Sasha Petrenko will offer a public presentation of Me and You-topia or You and Me-topia, an investigation of the Constructivist aim of bringing art into everyday life.

Other presentations will feature a new work for dancers and musicians from Steven Recker, a performance-installation by Davide Balliano, a re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Red Shoes by Degenerate Art Ensemble, a new pop opera entitled What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, and a cross-disciplinary piece from Chile’s Los Constructores. All of the public performances for these works will be announced at a later date.

The open rehearsal events are free, but require reservations.

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