Announcing the 2023 PRELUDE Festival

PRELUDE ‘23 Re: Generation

20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

At The Graduate Center CUNY

+ 17 Locations

60+ Presentations

October 7 – October 22, 2023

 

Curated by Frank Hentschker

Presented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, GC CUNY

 

The 2023 PRELUDE Festival, titled Re: Generation, will bring together artists, thinkers, activists, and presenters from New York City and beyond to explore the many ways in which new forms of theatre and performances are taking place today. PRELUDE ’23 marks the 20^th Anniversary of the festival.

 

After the time of COVID, the New York theatre and performance landscape woke up to a new reality where nearly every aspect of theatre and performance has changed. Theatres are experiencing a collapse of the subscription system, a loss of audiences, and the closure of spaces and festivals. But is it really the doom and gloom we talk and read about? Theatre artists, ensembles and institutions from New York’s vibrant performing arts scene are coming up with radical ideas, new spaces, and inspiring projects. PRELUDE ’23 asks artists and audiences: Do we need a renaissance to get back to where we were before — or do we need a revolution? The festival will feature a wide array of new work created by artists at the forefront of contemporary theatre and performance, as well as a series of artist talks and panels that put artistic practice in conversation with critical discourse while debating tradition, change, and the ethics and politics of making work in response and relation to racial capitalism, climate collapse, and a new environment for the arts in the 21^st Century.

 

View full schedule HERE

 

17 LOCATIONS

Segal Theater Center, The Tank, The Brick, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Collapsable Hole, Prospect Park, Torn Page, Anita’s Way, Mercury Store, Theatrelab, Newtown Creek Nature Walk, Jersey City Theatre Center, PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, CultureLab LIC, Elebash Hall, Park Avenue Armory, The Watermill Center.

 

PRELUDE ARTISTS:

Elevator Repair Service, Nature Theater of Oklahoma/Talk, Richard Maxwell/New York City Players, Kate Valk & Liz LeCompte/Talk/Wooster Group, Jess Barbagallo & Tina Satter, Aaron Landsman, Carl Hancock Rux/Mabou Mines, Stefanie Batten Bland, Anne Washburn, Exposure/Maggie Hoffman/Radiohole/Ilan Bachrach/Alexander Paris/Alex Tatarsky/Kristin Worrall, Dan Safer & Tony Torn, Annie-B Parson, Paul Lazar, Scott Shephard, Eric Dyer & Jim Findley, Raja Feather Kelly, Josie Bettman, Stanley Love Performance Group, David Michalek, Lisa Fagan, Alison Clancy, Aaron Landsman, Kenneth Collins/Temporary Distortion, Peter Mills Weiss/Julia Mounsey, The Anthropologists, Farm Arts Collective, Ashley Kelly Tata & Jerry Lieblich, Will Eno, David Greenspan, Andrew Scoville, Andy Boyd, Anh Vo, Theresa Buchheister/The Brick, Alaina Ferris, Karinne Keithley Syers, Katy Pyle, Meghan Finn/The Tank, Anne Gridley, Anne Hamburger, David Levine, April Sweeney, Al Límite Collective, Ben Holbrook, Cameron Stuart, Catherine Correa, Ciro Chonik Itsaj, Dennis A. Allen II, Eagle Project, Edy Soto, Elena Siyanko, Erin Landers, Esther Neff, Maria Livan, Fernando Vieira, Friend of Friend, Fritz Donnelly, Guy Yair Beider, HanJie Chow, Hayley Spivey, Ilana Khanin, Eric Marlin, Isabelle Duverger, IV Castellanos, James La Bella, Jess Applebaum, John Phillip Faienza, Keith Josef Adkins, Kemiyondo Coutinho, Kimberly del Busto Ramírez, Laia Cabrera, Lena Engelstein, Lianne Elsouki, M. Can Yasar, Maria Litvan, Marissa Ghavami, Marissa Joyce Stamps, Matthew Gasda, Maya Sharpe, Michal Gamily, No Visa Production, Mitchell Polonsky, Montgomery Sutton, Nana Simopoulos, Nancy Ma, New Black Fest, Nic Benacerraf, Opalanietet Ryan Pierce & Ash Marinaccio, Philip Santos Schaffer, Randi Berry, Rawya El Chab, Robert M. Johanson, Sanaz Bita Tennent, Sauda Aziza Jackson, Shan Y. Chuang, Sleth Larson, Steven Cosson, Caitlin George & Violeta Picayo/The SuperGeographics Ensemble Theatre, Syd Island, Taiwo Aloba, The Goat Exchange, Tristan Allen, William Burke, Watermill Open Studios, and others.

 

Panels, talks & selected performances will be live-streamed on: www.HowlRound.com

Schedule subject to radical change: Check out the current PRELUDE lineup here

 

PRELUDE ’23 Re: Generation is curated by Frank Hentschker. Produced by Ann Kreitman and Tayler Everts.

Festival web development provided by Gaurav Singh; Festival graphic design provided by Alison Pascale. General Segal Center Operations Intern: Virginia Muturi.

 

The PRELUDE ’23 Re: Generation is supported by the Lucille Lortel Foundation.

 

For press inquiries or any questions, please email fhentschker@gc.cuny.edu

 

About the PRELUDE Festival

Since 2003, the annual PRELUDE Festival has given audiences a first look at new work and ideas from groundbreaking theatre and performance artists based in New York City. PRELUDE has presented the work of more than three hundred artists including Annie Dorsen, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Half Straddle, Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs Jenkins, Young Jean Lee, Taylor Mac, and Nature Theater of Oklahoma, alongside legendary figures such as Richard Foreman, Marina Abramović, the Living Theatre, and many more.

 

About the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is a nonprofit center for theatre, dance, and film affiliated with CUNY’s PhD program in theatre. The Center’s mission is to bridge the gap between academia and the professional performing arts communities both within the United States and internationally.