Theatre, dance, and arts companies seeking space for rehearsal, meetings, and performance can apply to become a Space on White Resident. Benefits include free space, space discounts, promotional support, and opportunities to network with like-minded artists. To find out more about the Space on White Residency program, click here. Our 2012 Residents are Bending Threads Cabaret Company, DanceDrama, Mind the Gap Theatre, Momentum Repertory Theatre, The Movement Theatre Company, Rising Sun Performance Company, and Tenement Street Workshop. Check them out and support their work!
BENDING THREADS CABARET COMPANY |
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Bending Threads is an innovative collective consisting of four artists in pursuit of a new vision for cabaret. Through live musical performance themed with African-American literature they create an atmosphere to entertain, educate and inspire audiences. Since their inception in 2009, they have been making their mark on New York City by mounting nine original concert-style shows – including collaborations with Broadway artists, children’s theaters and several professional singers and spoken word artists in NYC. Bending Threads has advocated for donations towards charities, community events, and taught workshops to youth on the genre of cabaret. In 2011 alone, the company was invited by the New York Institute of Technology to give a concert for the student body in celebration of Black History month; and they successfully pioneered the first ever three-night Cabaret mini-series, entitled “Dreamscape”.
For more information visit: www.bendingthreads.com
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DANCEDRAMA |
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Anabella Lenzu /DanceDrama breaks down the wall that separating the artist from the audience & explores themes of collective memory, individual identity, and social awareness. Both the dancers and the audience fuse in a psychological and emotional experience. The repertory is an uncommon blend of modern dance, theater, ballet and ethnographic folk traditions. Lenzu reconstructs physical drama using contemporary movement and character development. Lenzu’s movement vocabulary originates from folk traditions using rustic primal gestures with accents of sweeping lyrical action that transports the audience to a vibrant physical and emotional space.
For more information visit: www.AnabellaLenzu.com
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MIND THE GAP THEATRE |
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Mind The Gap Theatre is NYC’s premiere British theatre company dedicated to producing new plays by native UK writers. With our Anglo-American repertory of actors we bring the best new works from the UK to NYC audiences and strive to create an exchange of new works between US/UK artists.
For more information visit: www.mindthegaptheatre.com
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RISING SUN PERFORMANCE COMPANY |
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Rising Sun Performance Company’s (RSP) established reputation for its talented ensemble in a strong selection of original works balanced by revivals of offbeat published works. We are a collaborative theatre ensemble of actors, directors, designers and playwrights with shared theatrical values. We value mutual respect, hard work, & the acceptance of occasional “failure” by traditional standards in order to have freedom for creative discovery, collaboration, play and learning. Rising Sun does not aim to limit or define itself in any way. RSP focuses on the journey of present, what passions, voices, visions and talents of the ensemble in its present form. The work chosen is representative of the given time and make up of our company. Each ensemble member is considered a part of the production team and has direct involvement at all levels of the process. We encourage our members in cross-disciplinary experimentation and learning, and find that our genre free mission allows for optimum collaboration and exploration in all types of theatrical work.
For more information visit: www.risingsunnyc.com
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MOMENTUM REPERTORY THEATRE |
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MRC is a non-profit corporation with the goal of offering developing theater artists, (no matter if their craft is acting, choreography, producing, directing, or stage managing) the opportunity to perform in an environment that mirrors the professional stage enough to encourage growth and foster challenge, while maintaining the qualities of warmth and community building that make those smaller theaters feel, for many, like home. Our group derived its name because MRC utilizes serious aspiring New York City artists, offering them the opportunity to perform, direct, and produce various productions during the course of a season, while allowing them the room for growth and the momentum that is necessary in taking those leaps into the professional theater world. At the same time, it is the distinct and foremost goal of MRC not to succumb to the commercialism of the larger market, but rather to produce aesthetic, evocative productions that appeal to the life of each moment, offering both its artists and its audiences experiences that are both challenging and emotionally engaging. For more information visit: www.momentumrep.org |
THE MOVEMENT THEATRE COMPANY |
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Founded in 2007, The Movement Theatre Company [TMTC] is an arts organization whose mission is to develop new works by artists of color and produce work that highlights both the collective and diverse human experience. Through TMTC’s programming over 100 new artists of diverse cultural backgrounds have been provided the opportunity to present their work on stage. In the stories they create, TMTC artists examine and tackle the underrepresented cultural and social issues that surround communities of color in today’s world and bring them to the forefront.For more information visit: www.themovementtheatrecompany.org |
TENEMENT STREET WORKSHOP |
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Founded in 2008 by New York State Summer School of the Arts graduates, Tenement Street Workshop was originally conceived as a theatre company but has since expanded production into music, film, and visual art on both coasts. Tenement Street is an organization that recognizes the fact that the world has changed and arts organizations have to change with it. In that respect, strong emphasis is put on content creation across all mediums. Noted work includes: Rubble by Rebecca Berkman-Rivera at the Hudson Theatres, Los Angeles; I Love You Sadie Mae by Patrick Letterii at Adelphi University/NYSCA; God On The Roof by John MacDonald & Patrick Letterii at Carnegie Mellon University/Playground; Dust by John MacDonald at the Irondale Center/Brooklyn Emerging Artists Grant; The Conqueror Worm by Graham Swindoll at the Irondale Center; the short film Oh Adelaide! Written and Directed by Daphne Gardner.
For more information visit: www.tenementstreet.org
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