photo Frank Walsh
2014 GLUE FACTORY PROJECT
RECIPES
OUR MOTHERS
GAVE US
JANUARY 15 - 19, 2014
THE NEW HAZLETT THEATER
Created & performed by
Maria Cheng, Beth Corning & Francoise Fournier
3 seasoned performers --- an Asian, an American, and a French/Swede explore societal stories that season one's life.
The lines we were fed, the words we imbibed, the recipes tried …
RECIPES for success, for failure, for nutrition, for starvation —
the world intrudes, the ingredients reinterpreted!
A complimentary “TASTING EVENT” will follow each performance hosted by a local guest celebrity chef --
Wed 7pm
performance followed by an ARTIST CONVERSATION led by
Post Gazette Columnist TONY NORMAN
GUEST CHEF Jamilka Borges & CHEF Sarah Thomas BAR MARCO
Thurs Fri Sat 8pm
THURS: GUEST CHEF David Russo – International Culinary School
FRI: GUEST CHEF Michael Chen – Tamari Restaurants
SAT: GUEST CHEF Chaz – The Culinary Artist
Sun 2pm
PAY-WHAT-YOU CAN ADMISSION (available only at the door)
GUEST CHEFS Roger Levine & Brittany Kerr – International Culinary School
For TICKETS CLICK HERE
CLICK TO READ ARTICLE IN NOVEMBER'S DANCE MAGAZINE
by Karen Dacko
Guest Artists:
Maria Cheng
(performer/ collaborator) is a playwright, actor and choreographer. Her dance/theatre works have been presented to critical acclaim across four continents, including the Beijing Dance Association, Nordrhein-Westfalen Tanzfestival, Green River Festival of Australia, Djakarta International Dance Festival and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, among others. She was the choreographer for artistic director Liviu Ciulei’s productions at the Guthrie Theatre. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guthrie, Harkness, Jerome, McKnight and Rockefeller Foundations, she's played leading and featured roles at Theater Mu, Mixed Blood, Park Square and Penumbra Theatres in Minnesota and Lake Dillon, Backstage and Vintage Theatres in Colorado. Plays she has authored include Antecedents, AWSOMMM!, Spirit & Sworded Treks, Wok-up American Dream and Fermata. Retired from dance performance, she chaired the Dance Program at the University of Minnesota to national prominence. In 2012, she co-founded TEA – Theatre Esprit Asia in Denver, the southwest’s first and only Asian-Western theatre company.
(performer/ collaborator) is a playwright, actor and choreographer. Her dance/theatre works have been presented to critical acclaim across four continents, including the Beijing Dance Association, Nordrhein-Westfalen Tanzfestival, Green River Festival of Australia, Djakarta International Dance Festival and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, among others. She was the choreographer for artistic director Liviu Ciulei’s productions at the Guthrie Theatre. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guthrie, Harkness, Jerome, McKnight and Rockefeller Foundations, she's played leading and featured roles at Theater Mu, Mixed Blood, Park Square and Penumbra Theatres in Minnesota and Lake Dillon, Backstage and Vintage Theatres in Colorado. Plays she has authored include Antecedents, AWSOMMM!, Spirit & Sworded Treks, Wok-up American Dream and Fermata. Retired from dance performance, she chaired the Dance Program at the University of Minnesota to national prominence. In 2012, she co-founded TEA – Theatre Esprit Asia in Denver, the southwest’s first and only Asian-Western theatre company.
Francoise Fournier
(performer/ collaborator) began her dance training at the Academie de Dance de Vitry sur Seine, outside Paris, France, before moving to Stockholm Sweden in 1977 where she continued her dance education, at Stockholm’s Dans Högskolan. Her performance career has spanned over three decades, beginning in 1985 when she began dancing for the renowned Swedish choreographer Per Jonsson, creating roles in many of his works including his iconic The Smiling Dog. Francoise has been engaged by, and danced for most of the top established Swedish choreographer’s including Björn Elisson, Kenneth Kvarnström, Suzanne Jaresand, Kajsa Giert, Margaretha Åsberg and Måns Erlandsson. As well, she has performed in many works by the critically acclaimed dancetheater choreographer/director Birgitta Egerbladh, and as an “actress” in numerous plays presented at Dramaten (the Royal Dramatic Theater) and Stadsteatern (The City Theater) of Stockholm, as well as several films. She recently starred with Henrik Dahl, in a two-person play AFTER RAOUL - IF THIS FEELING WE ALSO TELL, by Jenny Norbeck, at Teater Tribunalen in Stockholm. This spring she will begin touring a theater/dance production throughout Sweden called “Mams and Dads” by Måns Erlandsson, and My Areskoug.
(performer/ collaborator) began her dance training at the Academie de Dance de Vitry sur Seine, outside Paris, France, before moving to Stockholm Sweden in 1977 where she continued her dance education, at Stockholm’s Dans Högskolan. Her performance career has spanned over three decades, beginning in 1985 when she began dancing for the renowned Swedish choreographer Per Jonsson, creating roles in many of his works including his iconic The Smiling Dog. Francoise has been engaged by, and danced for most of the top established Swedish choreographer’s including Björn Elisson, Kenneth Kvarnström, Suzanne Jaresand, Kajsa Giert, Margaretha Åsberg and Måns Erlandsson. As well, she has performed in many works by the critically acclaimed dancetheater choreographer/director Birgitta Egerbladh, and as an “actress” in numerous plays presented at Dramaten (the Royal Dramatic Theater) and Stadsteatern (The City Theater) of Stockholm, as well as several films. She recently starred with Henrik Dahl, in a two-person play AFTER RAOUL - IF THIS FEELING WE ALSO TELL, by Jenny Norbeck, at Teater Tribunalen in Stockholm. This spring she will begin touring a theater/dance production throughout Sweden called “Mams and Dads” by Måns Erlandsson, and My Areskoug.
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RECENT 2013 GLUE FACTORY PROJECT
REMAINS — a one woman show
"... a powerful exploration of experiences that will come to all of us if we live long enough… boldly conceived, emotionally varied and deeply personal… a tour de force… The coda is a theatrically bold gesture, but also inevitable and characteristic of Corning's aesthetic orientation."
— Mark Kanny, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
MORE RAVE REVIEWS
premiered JUNE 5 - 9, 2013, PIttsburgh, PA
upcoming tours:
O'Shaughnessy Theater, St. Paul, MN. March 22, 2014
Directed by award-winning Theater Director
Dominique Serrand
Choreography & performance by Beth Corning
After loss,
after dinner, after youth -
the ever-changing geography of one's life.
Dominique Serrand
Choreography & performance by Beth Corning
After loss,
after dinner, after youth -
the ever-changing geography of one's life.
CORNINGWORKS and the New Hazlett Theater present ... Pittsburgh’s 4th annual GLUE FACTORY PROJECT - the world premiere of REMAINS, a multi-disciplinary dancetheater one-woman show, created in collaboration with, and directed by, DOMINIQUE SERRAND director of the TONY award-winning theater company Theatre de la Jeune Lune, and currently THE MOVING COMPANY. Co-presented by & performed at, The New Hazlett Theater June 5 - 9, 2013.
Pulitzer prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson once wrote, “It seems to me that what perished need not also be lost”. Perhaps, but how easy is that? What does one have to do to keep a memory alive? Does saving memorabilia help hang on to one’s past? From the smallest daily gesture to a seemingly monumental life event… when it’s past, what remains?
THE GLUE FACTORY PROJECT typically challenges audience assumptions on aging.
REMAINS takes that mission to new heights — literally confronting our end-time issues of memory and mortality, loss and legacy. Through a series of poignant, moving, and theatrically inventive vignettes, Corning traverses shifting landscapes … an empty home? one’s imagination? … stumbling on moments of memory, what had been and what is. REMAINS aims to take audiences on an honest and intimate journey exploring life’s lingering stages in all its relative joys and pains, humor and humility, and yes, stubborn and unfathomable remnants.
This work was made possible in part by generous support from BAR MARCO, CORNINGWORKS Board of Directors, The Fine Foundation, First Commonwealth Bank,The Heinz Endowments, The Hillman Foundation, Individual Donors, The New Hazlett Theater, The Pittsburgh Foundation & Heinz Endowments Professional Artist Grant, PA Council on the Arts – Project Stream, The Priory Hotel, Port Authority of Allegheny County, WYEP 91.3 FM.
Pulitzer prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson once wrote, “It seems to me that what perished need not also be lost”. Perhaps, but how easy is that? What does one have to do to keep a memory alive? Does saving memorabilia help hang on to one’s past? From the smallest daily gesture to a seemingly monumental life event… when it’s past, what remains?
THE GLUE FACTORY PROJECT typically challenges audience assumptions on aging.
REMAINS takes that mission to new heights — literally confronting our end-time issues of memory and mortality, loss and legacy. Through a series of poignant, moving, and theatrically inventive vignettes, Corning traverses shifting landscapes … an empty home? one’s imagination? … stumbling on moments of memory, what had been and what is. REMAINS aims to take audiences on an honest and intimate journey exploring life’s lingering stages in all its relative joys and pains, humor and humility, and yes, stubborn and unfathomable remnants.
This work was made possible in part by generous support from BAR MARCO, CORNINGWORKS Board of Directors, The Fine Foundation, First Commonwealth Bank,The Heinz Endowments, The Hillman Foundation, Individual Donors, The New Hazlett Theater, The Pittsburgh Foundation & Heinz Endowments Professional Artist Grant, PA Council on the Arts – Project Stream, The Priory Hotel, Port Authority of Allegheny County, WYEP 91.3 FM.
2012 GLUE FACTORY PROJECT
8 SOLD OUT HOUSES
4 RAVE REVIEWS!
Pittsburgh's 3rd annual
THE GLUE FACTORY PROJECT
The Life & Death Of Little Finn
an adult dancetheater puppet production
created in collaboration with
Canadian COMPANY X — led by critically acclaimed choreographer/designer Marina Harris
3 consummate performers,
6 puppets,
original animation,
& other numerous moving parts,
all combine to tell the story of
an ordinary, little man, made of clay and wood
struggling with love & life's fickle tango
For adults 18 & over.
• Click HERE for Animation Preview!
CORNINGWORKS’ presentation of the world premiere of THE LIFE & DEATH OF LITTLE FINN - a dancetheater/puppet show, for adults 18 years of age and older‑ is a collaboration with the multi-disciplinary Canadian COMPANY X from Nova Scotia, led by Marina Harris. This touching account of the life and death of Finn, one ordinary, mistreated little man, is told through original puppetry, animation, dance, and voice over.
THE LIFE & DEATH OF LITTLE FINN inhabits an intimately scaled multi-dimensional landscape, performed by three live professional dancers:
Beth Corning, artistic director of CORNINGWORKS
Melinda Evans, former principal dancer with Utah Repertory Dance Theater,
Marina Harris, classically trained dancer, award-winning choreographer, costume designer and writer
who partner two traditional 20-inch marionettes, three 15-inch rod puppets, one 11- inch hand manipulated doll, and other various moving objects, all hand made by Marina Harris.
Supporting the “live” action is an innovative use of original animation, also created by Ms. Harris, that runs throughout the hour-long production providing the moving scenery, commentary, and internal monologue for all the “performers”.
The irony of an adult dancetheater/ puppet production, performed after hours in the Children’s Museum, for an intimate audience of 30, promises a provocative, moving, and highly personal theater-going experience. A unique snapshot of memories and emotional ruminations that run the gamut from poignant to sad, funny to cruel — a bouquet of love’s fickle serenade.
This work was made possible in part by generous support from The Heinz Endowments Small Arts Initiative, MAYA Design, Port Authority, WYEP FM, First Commonwealth Bank, individual donations, CORNINGWORKS Board of Directors, City of Asylum, The Priory – A City Inn, & DISH Osteria Bar
8 SOLD OUT HOUSES
4 RAVE REVIEWS!
Pittsburgh's 3rd annual
THE GLUE FACTORY PROJECT
The Life & Death Of Little Finn
an adult dancetheater puppet production
created in collaboration with
Canadian COMPANY X — led by critically acclaimed choreographer/designer Marina Harris
3 consummate performers,
6 puppets,
original animation,
& other numerous moving parts,
all combine to tell the story of
an ordinary, little man, made of clay and wood
struggling with love & life's fickle tango
For adults 18 & over.
• Click HERE for Animation Preview!
CORNINGWORKS’ presentation of the world premiere of THE LIFE & DEATH OF LITTLE FINN - a dancetheater/puppet show, for adults 18 years of age and older‑ is a collaboration with the multi-disciplinary Canadian COMPANY X from Nova Scotia, led by Marina Harris. This touching account of the life and death of Finn, one ordinary, mistreated little man, is told through original puppetry, animation, dance, and voice over.
THE LIFE & DEATH OF LITTLE FINN inhabits an intimately scaled multi-dimensional landscape, performed by three live professional dancers:
Beth Corning, artistic director of CORNINGWORKS
Melinda Evans, former principal dancer with Utah Repertory Dance Theater,
Marina Harris, classically trained dancer, award-winning choreographer, costume designer and writer
who partner two traditional 20-inch marionettes, three 15-inch rod puppets, one 11- inch hand manipulated doll, and other various moving objects, all hand made by Marina Harris.
Supporting the “live” action is an innovative use of original animation, also created by Ms. Harris, that runs throughout the hour-long production providing the moving scenery, commentary, and internal monologue for all the “performers”.
The irony of an adult dancetheater/ puppet production, performed after hours in the Children’s Museum, for an intimate audience of 30, promises a provocative, moving, and highly personal theater-going experience. A unique snapshot of memories and emotional ruminations that run the gamut from poignant to sad, funny to cruel — a bouquet of love’s fickle serenade.
This work was made possible in part by generous support from The Heinz Endowments Small Arts Initiative, MAYA Design, Port Authority, WYEP FM, First Commonwealth Bank, individual donations, CORNINGWORKS Board of Directors, City of Asylum, The Priory – A City Inn, & DISH Osteria Bar
