HERE Presents Culturemart Beginning January 5

HERE Arts Center will present its annual Culturemart festival from January 5 through 16, 2005 on its Main Stage, located at 145 Sixth Avenue in SoHo. The festival features six multidisciplinary works-in-progress developed by the company’s nine resident artists, plus three visual art exhibitions.

The HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) commissions and develops new works over a one-to-three-year period; the workshop productions of Culturemart are the first step toward the fully realized shows that become the core of the company’s season. Past HARP artists have included Richard Caliban, Collision Theory, Troika Ranch, Will Pomerantz and Peculiar Works. The schedule for this year’s festival is as follows:

Wednesday and Thursday, January 5 and 6 at 8:30pm
Kim Mayhorn’s afrocentric dance-theater piece Zong (5-15 minutes) and Joshua Fried’s radiowave performance piece Radio Wonderland (20-30 min.)

Friday and Saturday, January 7 and 8 at 8:30pm
Mallory Catlett’s new music-theater play The Littlewood Project (20-30 min.) and Freefall’s (Lynn Brown and Lynn Marie Ruse) multidimensional physical theater work Clever Hans (20-30 min.)

Sunday, January 9 at 8:30pm
Kate Brehm’s experimental puppetry piece A Seemingly Unified Spectacle (30-35 min.) and Lake Simons’s puppet musical version of Alice in Wonderland (25 min.)

Monday and Tuesday, January 10 and 11 at 8:30pm
NERVE’S (Alyse Rothman) imagery theater PHENOMENON (over 45 min.)

Wednesday and Thursday, January 12 and 13 at 8:30pm
Thalia Field/Jamie Jewett’s poetry and dance piece REST/LESS (over 45 min.)

Friday and Saturday, January 14 and 15 at 9pm
Ruth Margraff’s and Nikos Brisco’s Mediterranean opera Café Antarsia (over 45 min.)

For further information on HERE Arts Center and this year’s Culturemart, visit the website www.here.org or phone 212-868-4444.