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Mabou Mines Announces New Members on the Eve of its 51st Season
These new appointments fortify, for the future, the cornerstones of Mabou Mines’ half-century of history.by BWW News Desk
Mabou Mines today has announced a group of multidisciplinary artists whose work affirms the company s 51-year history of collaboration and experimentation. Co-Artistic Directors Karen Kandel, Sharon Ann Fogarty, Mallory Catlett, and Carl Hancock Rux welcome new Associate Artists and members in a new category: Senior Artistic Associates. Together, they exemplify Mabou Mines intergenerational model.
These new appointments fortify, for the future, the cornerstones of Mabou Mines half-century of history: a wide network of artists and a commitment to cross-disciplinary collaboration. The new Associate Artists are media designer and performer Tei Blow; interdisciplinary artist Perel; performing artist David Thomson; and MacArthur Fellowship-winning multidisciplinary artist Carrie Mae Weems. Each bri
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No sector of the performing arts has been unscathed by the COVID-19 pandemic. But I’ve been especially concerned about the plight of theater stalwarts, those pioneers and purists who haven’t been biding their time in rehearsal rooms, waiting for their Netflix closeups. For directors, playwrights and performance artists whose canvas is the three-dimensional stage, the situation has been unimaginably dire.
How have they been getting by, creatively and financially? I feared tales of Dickensian hardship, but I came away from my conversations with director Daniel Fish, the performance troupe Culture Clash, playwright and performer Dael Orlandersmith, director and visual artist Lars Jan, director Annie Dorsen and playwright and director Richard Maxwell heartened by their tenacity and resilience.
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