HOWL ! ARTS PROJECT 2009: PERFORMANCE ART

Announcing
The HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: PERFORMANCE ART
PRESENTED at
45 BLEECKER STREET THEATER
45 BLEECKER STREET NYC
(JUST EAST OF LAFAYETTE AT MULBERRY STREET)

Thursday September 3rd, 11 PM- 1 AM
HOWL! Offsite Kick-off!
Culture Shock Marketing Presents
A Video, Music & Performance Event starring
The Fantastic Nobodies
45 Bleecker Street Theater
Lobby Theater
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

This late night HOWL! Festival kick-off event will commence with a short video installation, featuring films by various artists including Hugh McGrory, Keith Olwell, and Glenn Marshall. Following the installation, the fine art of two UK-based artists, Kev Largey and Daniel Lumbini will be auctioned for charity. Following the auction, there will be performances by Das Witness and The NYC/Berlin-based art collective, the Fantastic Nobodies.
http://www.thefantasticnobodies.com

Wednesday September 9th 11PM
Michael Formika Jones'
Formika’s East Village Revue
45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10 Advance Tickets www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79355
Cash only Tickets at door 9pm to showtime.
Racy, raucous and irreverent, Formika blows the house down with his fun-filled revue of old and new faces from the East Village’s evolving landscape: drag, burlesque, vaudeville and sheer outrageous entertainment. With DJ’s Lina and Kindbud. Performers include: Busted, Felcity Stardust. Featuring Kelvin’s Kinky Kitchen, and erotic massages by James Orona. Hosted by: Michael T, Joey Israel, Cazwell, and (of course) Michael Formika Jones.

Tonight's proceeds will benefit HOWL! HELP, administered by The Actor's Fund, which provides emergency assistance to qualified performing artists in crisis.

Friday September 11th 11PM
HOWL-e-LULIAH The Official Dance Party Of the 2009 HOWL! Festival
45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
HOWL-e-LULIAH The Official Dance Party Of the 2009 HOWL! Festival
$5
Sing "Howl-e-luliah!" at The Official Dance Party of the 2009 Howl! Festival and
shake out the kinks with DJ Hill, spinning everything 80’s to the 21st century. Tennessee provides the visuals and Howlin' Hattie Hathaway is the hostess.


Saturday September 12th, 3 PM
The Lisa Jackson Documentary
45 Bleecker Street Theater
Lobby Theater
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10.

A young Georgia boy's life is forever altered by the awaking realization that he is, in fact, a she. Moving to New York City, and confronting her new identity with courage, humor and determination, she becomes Lisa Jackson, a talented songwriter and musician capable of moving Straight, Gay and Lesbian and Transgendered audiences alike, determined to live her life with integrity. Featuring interviews with Oscar-nominee Rosie Perez, Punk legend Jayne County, SNL's Darrell Hammond and others.
http://www.lisajacksonrocks.com/documentary/

Sunday September 13th 11pm
The Lucy Show
45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10
Hosted by The Factress, aka Lucy Sexton and Vendetta K Starr aka Mike Iveson

It's a talk show, it's a variety show, it's a sickness. Get your fill of politics and performance and the best of what's coming up on stages near you this fall. Prepare yourself for a special appearance by the godfather of downtown performance, Alien Comic, aka Tom Murrin. Co-host Nurse 'Baby Asparagus' Vendetta K Starr aka Mike Iveson, will offer handmade songs, homemade faux austrian singing, and plenty of advice on the use of your private parts in public.


Tuesday September 15th, 8 PM
"In back of the real" Marjan Moghaddam and Adam Caine
Live Guitar with Computer Animation
45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

Marjan Moghaddam & Adam Caine take the audience through an exciting and groundbreaking multimedia journey with dazzling computer animation and special effects. The live animations range from the hypnotic dance of materially ambiguous fluid forms to roaming explorations of dazzling architectural structures, mesmerizing psychedelic patterns and stunning visuals.
Marjan and Adams’ award winning and pioneering visual music projects have been the official selections of dozens of international film, video and animation festivals and their state-of-the-arts multimedia shows have packed theaters throughout New York City.

Tonight, experimental guitar virtuoso Adam Caine performs a live improvisational set with mindblowing computer animation by Marjan Moghaddam. Part avant-jazz, part experimental art-rock, part new indie guitar virtuosity, Caine explores sonic terrain reminiscent of New York's art rock heydays.
Marjan Moghaddam, ex-video diva of the Pyramid Club, will be projecting her award winning computer animations, most recently featured on the Art Disk DVD for Art Basel-Miami, during the live set.

"Being blindsided by newcomers is one of our favorite sensations, and the latest to smack us upside the ears is guitarist Adam Caine. He's clearly his own man, and one to watch." Michael Iannantuono, Time Out NY

http://www.caine.tv
http://www.dandy-job.com
http://www.marjan.com

Wednesday September 16th, 8 PM
Legends Of the Lower East Side:
Joey Arias, Basil Twist, Psychotica (Featuring Patrick Briggs) and Lavinia Co-op
45 Bleecker Street Theater
Lobby Theater
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10

From the 1970's on, each of the performers featured this evening paved the way for today's incredible performance renaissance on the Lower East Side, and each is still presenting valid, thought-provoking work today.
From his performances with Klaus Nomi, backing David Bowie on 'Saturday Night Live' and the seminal, grand-scale 'Mermaids On Heroin,' to his Billy Holiday-isms, 'Zoo-manity' in Las Vegas, and the triumphantly spectacular 'Arias With A Twist,' Joey Arias has written the book on how to retain one's integrity and crediblity while crossing over into the (somewhat) mainstream flow of Popular Culture.
With a score of interweaving influences, Basil Twist has taken the ancient art of puppetry into whole new realms as evidenced by his work on Shakespeare-In-the-Park's 'Hamlet', his collaboration with Joey Arias in 'Arias With A Twist,' as well as Broadway's upcoming 'The Addams Family" musical.
His soaring signature vocals have highlighted the oeuvre of the indy Pop/metal bands he has been in. Tonight, 'Psychotica' takes Patrick Briggs well-beyond the 21st century with his quirky, hook-laden, and stellar songwriting.
A charter member of the legendary performance troupe, Bloo-lips, and whose one-person monthly, 'Chez Lavinia' has been packin' them in at the East Village's Brit-Pub, Telephone, Lavinia Co-op hosts the evening' festivities with his own colorful brand of Music Hall, slapstick, and tongue-in-cheek Vaudeville.

Saturday September 19th, 11 PM
The Mystery Of Claywoman - Screening and Lecture
45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$15

THE MYSTERY OF CLAYWOMAN - SCREENING AND LECTURE is written and performed by MICHAEL CAVADIAS and directed by ROB ROTH. Utilizing live performance and film, the piece combines the forms of a documentary screening and lecture to actualize the story of Claywoman, a 500-million year old enigma who, legend has it, can cure anyone of their deepest pain. Described by PAPER MAGAZINE as "Funny, uncomfortable and depressing - in that order" and by MICHAEL MUSTO as "wildly witty", this next incarnation of the mystery that is Claywoman should be eye opening for all.
New York City-born director and visual artist Rob Roth has been called the mad man incarnate. A persistent and influential presence in the citys downtown art and culture since the early 1990s, his work draws from photography, video, painting, dramaturgy and theater to create experiences that transcend the limits of media and performance. Roths work has been exhibited at a variety of venues including the New Museum for Contemporary Art, Performance Space122, Abrons Art Center, Galapagos Art Space, and Deitch Projects as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the 1990's Roth co-founded Click + Drag, the infamous nightclub weekly, which incorporated fashion and atmosphere and blended computer-age references with a theatrical sensibility, sexual ambiguity and a strict dress code.
Actor/writer Michael Cavadias is an active film, theatre and TV performer as well as a singer. He starred in Paramount Motion Pictures WONDER BOYS opposite Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr.
Michael received his B.F.A. from NYUs experimental theatre wing. He has been a Resident Artist with Mabou Mines, starred in Ruth Maleczechs The Bribe and in Fassbinders Brmen Freedom, and worked with Blacklips Performance Cult and the Ontological Theatre Company.

http://www.rob-roth.com/works/clay.htm

A portion of tonight's proceeds will benefit HOWL! HELP, administered by the Actor's Fund, which provides emergency assistance to qualified performing artists in crisis.

Wednesday September 30th 11pm
Clown Kong's Panic Attack: A Coulrophobic Telethon
45 Bleecker Street Theater
Downstairs Green Room
45 Bleecker Street (Just East of Lafayette at Mulberry Street)
$10
DJ Hill and company recreate the hustle, bustle and tragedy of a television fundraiser for people who are actually terrified by what makes most of humankind roar with laughter-- the hilarious antics of clowns. Sandwiched between two large and extravagant production numbers Clown Kong's Panic Attack includes performances by Lower East Side musical mainstays, Southside Slim, Christy D, and, of course, Clown Kong himself-- an actual sideshow clown!



Selected bio's as of 8/15/2009:

New York born Brian Butterick (AKA HATTIE HATHAWAY) has been a performer, writer, producer and personality working in Downtown art, theatre, film and nightlife for over thirty years. Most recently (2007-08), Butterick co-curated the East Village cafe, bookstore and performance space, Rapture Cafe and Books. He appeared in Steven Schainberg's Fur, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. and made his Broadway debut in The Roundabout Theatre's production The Threepenny Opera, newly translated by Wallace Shawn, directed by Scott Elliot and starring Alan Cumming and Cyndi Lauper.
In the 1990's, Butterick co-produced the famed New York Meat Market Tuesday-night-only boite, Jackie 60, and still presents Night Of a Thousand Stevies, the world-famous annual tribute to Stevie Nicks, now in its 20th year, From 1991-95, he produced, directed and acted in the underground theatrical ensemble, BlackLips, which created performance installations in venues as diverse as a SoHo gallery, Pridefest, a run down Chelsea theatre, and Barney's New York.
In the 1980's,. Butterick co-founded The Pyramid Club, a venue that melded the perfoming arts with music and drag and gave rise to such performers as The "Lady" Bunny, RuPaul, the chart-topping dance act Dee-lite, and produced the first area appearances of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gwar, Psychic TV, and Nirvana. From 1985-89, he co-founded and produced Wigstock, Tompkins Square Park's outdoor festival of drag performance, which was later immortalized in the Goldwyn film of the same name. During this time, Butterick also appeared in numerous independent films, most notably Charles Atlas' Son Of Sam & Delilah, for PBS, as well as composing and performing with the post-punk band, 3 Teens Kill 4.
Hattie has also performed, written and produced a variety of theatrical pieces for many Off-off Broadway venues such as La Mama ETC and PS 122, as well as appearing in works by Penny Arcade, John Kelly, Richard Move, Helen Stratford, Kestutis Nakas, and the late Ethyl Eichelberger. In addition to theatrical pieces, Butterick has also written for TimeOut NY, Verbal Abuse Magazine, Fag Rag, and Mouth Of the Dragon. He is currentl;y at work on several literary projects: a memoir of his life with the late artist David Wojnarowicz, and, with co-author Kestutis Nakas, a history of the 1980's seminal nightclub, The Pyramid. (Co-Curator)

BECCA GOLDSTEIN began filming this documentary at the age of sixteen and has been pursuing it for the past five years. Growing up she was inspired by films such as Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Tarnation. When she discovered New York’s downtown music scene she was drawn to its energy and wanted to exhibit it in some way. This documentary is a culmination of that. She is currently an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College with a major in art history.
She lives in New York City.(Director:The Lisa Jackson Documentary)

LISA JACKSON was a staple in New York’s downtown music scene from 2001-2007. She was a headlining act at CBGBs and The Knitting Factory as well as many other great New York clubs. Additionally she toured the U.S. and appeared with such great acts as Sandra Bernhard, Psychedelic Furs, Pat Benetar, and the Motels. In 2004 she was nominated for Out Musician of the Year and in 2006 her self-titled album (along with her band, Girl Friday) reached the top 10 on Sirius OutQ.
She is currently pursuing her college degree and lives in New York City.

ADAM CAINE is a guitarist, improvisor and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. Adam's two Trio CDs have received rave reviews in the Wire, Cadence, All About Jazz and on international blogs. As a composer for video art, Adam's music has been featured in over 20 international festivals since 2006, and in 2008 Adam was awarded a grant from the Brooklyn Arts council for improvised performance. Adam has performed with Connie Crothers, Paul Smoker, Glenn Branca's Guitar Orchestra, and the New York Soundpainting Ensemble.

MARJAN MOGHADDAM is a New York City based artist and animator who works primarily with 3d CG and digital media for print, video art, performance and installations. Her work has received awards, and been exhibited extensively at various galleries, museums and festivals internationally. She resides in New York City.

New York City-born director and visual artist ROB ROTH has been called “the mad man incarnate”. A persistent and influential presence in the city’s downtown art and culture since the early 1990’s, his work draws from photography, video, painting, dramaturgy and theater to create experiences that transcend the limits of media and performance. Roth’s work uses innovative, multi-disciplinary techniques such as projecting video on the live bodies of actors and dancers to represent the 'inside' of a performance, its essence and soul. Technology is more than a backdrop or superficial projection in Roth’s performances. It functions as a character, a performance enhancer, or instrument with which to amplify the experience. Scent is just one of the many inventive techniques Roth uses to communicate with participants sensually, outside the human constructs of language or image. His use of sensory communication offers a direct link to the more primal elements of existence. His work has been exhibited at a variety of venues including the New Museum for Contemporary Art, Performance Space122, Abrons Art Center, Galapagos Art Space, and Deitch Projects as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art.
After receiving his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1991, Roth co-founded ‘Click + Drag’, the infamous Saturday night at the legendary nightclub Mother, run by nightlife royalty Chi Chi Valenti and Johnny Dynell. ‘Click + Drag’, an amalgamation of art, fashion and atmosphere, blended computer-age references with a theatrical sensibility, sexual ambiguity and a strict dress code (future, cyber, fetish, gothic, post-apocalyptic, glam-nerd, gender-hacking and full period costume)- to create a hedonistic and simultaneous dystopia/utopia. At this weekly epic happening, Roth combined photography, design, and performance with live video feeds and projections, helping define a new aesthetic for the new millennium. The event has now been rebooted as a yearly gathering with the next installment, “Click + Drag 3.1”. The Second Coming”, scheduled for October 17th, 2009 at Santos Party House in NYC.
Roth has worked constantly since the closing of Mother in 2001, creating a variety of work for such artists as Deborah Harry/Blondie, Theo Kogan (Lunachicks) Justin Bond (Kiki and Herb), Big Art Group and acclaimed performance artist Julie Tolentino. Commercially Rob has designed visual effects and movie title sequences for such films as “El Cantante” (director: Leon Ichaso) and “The Brave One” (director: Neil Jordan). Roth’s most recent work includes ‘Ascension No1’, which premiered at Arena Studios May, 2009, and is the first of 3 durational performance pieces which explore ritual, endurance and stamina. Previously, Rob Roth directed ‘The Mystery of Claywoman – Screening and Lecture’, a mockumentary/performance piece written and performed by Michael Cavadias, featuring performances by Amy Poehler, Alan Cumming and Edgar Oliver, which premiered at The New Museum of Contemporary Art. ‘Claywoman’ follows Roth's “rocket opera”, ‘Screen Test’, starring Theo and the Skyscrapers and choreographed by Vangeline Theater, which won the LiveDesign Magazine Excellence Award for Theater in 2009.

Originally from San Francisco, BASIL TWIST is a third generation puppeteer, who lives and works in New York. He became the only American to graduate from the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mezieres, France, one of the world's premiere puppetry training programs.
Twist's work was first spotlighted in New York in 1995 with his creation The Araneidae Show. Later presented in the 1996 International Puppetry Festival at The Public Theater, Twist was awarded a 1997 Bessie Award and a UNIMA Citation of Excellence. The production has toured internationally and most recently The Araneidae Show was seen at Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum. 1998 was a landmark year for Twist with a Drama Desk Award nomination for his work with Theatre Couture's Off-Broadway hit Tell Tale, and the premiere of Symphonie Fantastique at HERE Arts Center. Symphonie Fantastique subsequently has toured to San Francisco, Montreal, Washington DC, France, London and Munich and as a part of Lincoln Center's New Vision's series in New York in 2003. In the fall of 2004 Symphonie Fantastique was the inaugural production for Dodger Stages. For Symphonie Fantastique, Twist received a 1999 Drama Desk Nomination, a UNIMA Citation of Excellence, the Henry Hewes Design Award, and an OBIE Award.
Since 1998, Twist has continually expanded the realm of puppetry by creating and touring new works, focusing especially on work integrated with live music. In 2000, Twist's Lincoln Center commissioned Petrushka premiered in New York and appeared at The Irving J. Gilmore Keyboard Festival in Michigan, The International Festival of Arts and Ideas in Connecticut, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts and at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. The production was awarded a 2000 UNIMA Citation of Excellence. Twist created Master Peter's Puppet Show with Eos Orchestra, which premiered in New York and traveled to Chicago's Ravinia Festival, and to The Cleveland Art Museum. Twist developed the puppetry for Paula Vogel's new play The Long Christmas Ride Home which received it's world premiere at Rhode Island's Trinity Repertory Company in May 2003, then at The Vineyard in November 2003 and The Long Wharf in January 2005. Twist was the underwater puppetry consultant on the third Harry Potter film. With a grant from The Asian Cultural Council and Creative Capital he spent four months in Japan, and through a commission from The Japan Society premiered a new work "Dogugaeshi" in November 2004.
His staging of Respighi's rarely performed "La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco" premiered at Spoleto, USA in May 2005 and subsequently at Lincoln Center Festival in July of 2005. Red Beads, Twist's collaboration with director Lee Breuer and composer Ushio Torikai, premiered at the Skirball Center in New York in September 2005. In September 2006 Twist made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Hall with "Master Peter's Puppet Show" with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Twist was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera and The Atlanta Opera to create a new Hansel & Gretel, which premiered in 2006 and 2007 respectively. He collaborated with the late Lee Nagrin to realize their "Behind The Lid" at The Silver Whale Gallery. Twist is the director of The Dream Music Puppetry Program at HERE Arts Center. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a United States Artists Fellow. www.basiltwist.com


Selected photo's as of 9/04/09:

(Photo credit: Michael Formika Jones. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Michael Formika Jones.)
(Photo credit: Lavinia Co-op by Johnny Dynell. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Johnny Dynell.)
(Photo credit: Basil Twist courtesy the artist.Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Basil Twist.)
(Photo credit: Claywoman by Rob Roth. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Rob Roth.)
(Photo credit: Marjan Moghaddam and Adam Caine courtesy the artists.
Used with permission. All rights reserved.Copyright Marjan Moghaddam and Adam Caine.)
(Photo credit: Adam Caine by Robert Delahanty. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Robert Delahanty.)
(Photo credit: Lisa Jackson at The Knitting Factory by Evan Schwarz.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright Evan Schwarz.)
(Photo credit: Lisa Jackson Music Video by Rob Trauma. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Rob Trauma.)
(Photo credit: Hattie Hathaway by Jackie Factory. Used with permission.
All rights reserved. Copyright Jackie Factory.)
(Photo credit: The Fantastic Nobodies courtesy the artist.
Used with permission. All rights reserved. Copyright The Fantastic Nobodies)