Announcing our season for 2017/18!
This year, we're returning to our roots with two enormous, genre-defying, mind-bending technical smorgasbords by the 3LD team. Along with the world premieres of Esperpento and Intimate Moment in 2018, we've also got exciting new collaborations, residencies, workshops, global connections, and so much more!
View the complete season HERE.
A message from Kevin Cunningham
Since 1994, 3LD has been an artist-run organization, providing a home for talent from across the international experimental arts and technological community. After last year’s award-winning season including the sold-out 3/Fifths, a Drama Desk Nomination for Paper Hat Game and a Pulitzer Prize for Angel's Bone, I’m excited to be returning to our roots in 2017/18.
3-Legged Dog started at the Ontological Theater as part of the Incubator Series curated by Sophie Haviland. We created 3-Legged Dog to try to find a way to produce ambitious experimental works in performance and media in New York City, and to create affordable, flexible technological solutions in a world of declining support for the arts.
This season we are returning to that primary creative mode. The cornerstone of this season is the development of two large-scale, artistically and technologically virtuosic works, which will premiere in the Fall of 2018.
Working in collaboration with award winning playwright Chuck Mee, we will finally create Intimate Moment, an ambitious large-scale performance/installation, which was thrown off track by the recession.
Intimate Moment will explore race, gender, language and culture through multipath narrative and dynamic mapping techniques. allowing audience members and performers to shift fundamental identity markers.
Using a mix of 3D holographic and dynamic video techniques we will profoundly blur the borders between media and reality, making it difficult for people to tell where reality stops and illusion starts.
Following his dazzling Skiff/Faustrol, we’re excited to present the world premiere of Esperpento by 3LD associate artist Victor Moralez, a genre-defying performance about those who are not like US, using digital puppetry inspired by Francis Bacon’s figures, Goya’s Dark Paintings and the theatrical ideas of Ramón del Valle-Inclán.
This season, we’ll also be focusing on the incubation and development of groundbreaking new work. Following the overwhelming response to our 2017 production of 3/Fifths, an immersive spectacle that the New York Times called a “relentlessly provocative, intricately imagined satire,” 3LD Associate Artist James Scruggs will come back into residence at 3LD through January 2018, with the goal of reimagining 3-Fifths for a wider audience. The piece will be presented at 3LD during the annual APAP/ISPA showings here in New York.
I’m also thrilled to announce a series of new partnerships, both here in the US and abroad.
In Spring 2018, 3LD Art & Technology Center will present the Third-Year Repertory Season of The Actors Studio Drama School MFA Program at Pace University’s Dyson College of Arts and Sciences. This multi-year collaboration will provide a new venue for the innovative MFA training program, which was created to train a new generation of actors, directors, and playwrights in the tradition of the famous Actors Studio, founded in 1947 by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, and Robert Lewis.
This year, we’ll also be extending our global connections. In October 2017, the 3LD team is partnering with the SHIFT Festival in Jiading, China to present the first ever SHIFT Hackathon. In November, we’ll be hosting the Window Collective for an intensive technical and design development workshop of Out the Window, a new play based on the police shooting of a mentally ill person in Toronto, in partnership with the Theatre Center in Ontario, Canada and the Luminato Festival.
Thank you for your continued support as we gear up for another year of challenging ambitious new work. We’ll see you at 3LD!
Kevin Cunningham - Artistic Director
