SEGAL TALKS with Ana Ablamonova and Dr  Goraparasit on Wednesday 19 May 2021
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2021-05-19

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents SEGAL TALKS with Ana Ablamonova and Dr. Goraparasit (Lithuania) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 19 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

Ana Ablamonova is founder and producer of Operomanija, a production house in Lithuania, dedicated to creation and promotion of new music theatre through diverse cross-disciplinary artistic collaborations. Since 2008, she has produced around 50 contemporary operas and various multidisciplinary art projects, including opera Have a Good Day! (2013), spatial opera in the dark Confessions (2015), performance of Baroque theatre noise machines Bad Weather (2017), comic strip opera Alpha (2018), sonic experience at the Vilna Ghetto The Filler (2019), etc. Ana runs Contemporary opera festival NOA (New Opera Action) – one of the leading international new music theatre events in the Baltic region. Since 2012, she also serves as Head of the Art Centre at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.

Dr. Goraparasit is a female digital theatre, performance and experimental film and music video director, lecturer, methodologist and designer. A member of WIF (Women In film, USA) and Lithuanian interdisciplinary artists’ association (LETMEKOO, LIAA). Her Conceptual esthetical interests lies in the depths of the net, the act of browsing in itself is an infinite cognitive journey of collecting and identifying audio-visual experiences by which one learns about the world and through which they recreate a sense of self ind collective identity, almost directly illustrated by the performances/films such as Electric Dreams (Israel), Psycho (Lithuania). La Psycho (Los Angeles), Elf-fles (Rome, Italy) and many others where cognitive, digital sciences & faking becomes a tool for creativity and continues performative acts. Artists orchestrates a visual shows with a collage Of re-enactments and fragments repeated/giffed by actors with maximum precision using a bodily “lip-sync” technique which all the actors skillfully acquire; her shows are like a Youtube-browsing experience where you would go from one clip to another; sometimes without going too deep into its content; you would recognize some things while other things would slip into the digital abyss without leaving traces. Dr. Goraparasit’s works tend to combine performance, cinema, theatre, neuroscience and digital culture its expressive aesthetical language is screaming for attention; as our daily lives visually overloaded digital reality.

About SEGAL TALKS:
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is proud to announce the new line-up of its new global series, SEGAL TALKS. Since the beginning of March the series featured close to 100 talks with 150 artists from 50 countries. New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers, and academics will talk daily during the week for one hour with Segal Center’s director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona and speak about challenges, sorrows, and hopes for the new Weltzustand— the State of the World. After a break in August the series will now also focus on Theatre, Performance and The Political, highlighting the Segal Center's 2022 New York International Festival of the Arts Project and the Center's Public Park Project. The Segal Center is the only theatre institution in NYC and the US creating new, original, daily content for the global field of theater and performance. The series was conceived, created and curated by Frank Hentschker in March 2020.

SEGAL TALKS are free, open access, without ads will be live-streamed in English from Monday to Friday on HowlRound Theatre Commons and on the Segal Center Facebook. This program is presented in collaboration with HowlRound Theatre Commons, based at Emerson College. All SEGAL TALKS are archived on HowlRound, and on the Segal Center YouTube Channel.

The work of the Segal Center has been supported in the past by Susan and Jack Rudin(†), the Hearst Foundation and currently by, Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Chair, The Graduate Center CUNY.

Segal Team:
Executive Director: Frank Hentschker

Next Generation Fellow: Andie Lerner


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