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Revolutionary Voices: Performing Arts in Central & Eastern Europe in the 1980s

From November 18, 2009 through March 20, 2010
Vincent Astor Gallery
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498 (directions)
Hours: Tues, Wed & Fri: 11 to 6; Mon, Thurs: 12 to 8; Sat: 10 to 6

A performing arts festival marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in partnership with key New York City cultural organizations and academic institutions, November 2009-March 2010. www.performingrevolution.org To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in the countries of the Czech Republic, Former GDR, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will collaborate with creative artists and scholars from those nations on a major exhibition and performing arts festival. The exhibition will focus on theatre performances and other art events, which through their form and/or content contested the prevailing totalitarian regime and anticipated the forthcoming political/social changes. The exhibition will argue that as the revolution in most countries of the Soviet bloc did not take place in form of a violent overthrowing of power, art was one the main arenas where “the revolutionary” started to happen. The exhibition will illustrate the different ways in which performances attempted to break the boundaries set by the Communist state’s culture politicians, aesthetes and censors: Audience and Stage, Barriers: Censorship and other power-games, Theatre outside the theatre, Western aesthetic tradition of absurd, punk, etc… permeates into the aesthetic of official communist art, social realism, and Breaking Taboos.

Related Programs:

Date	Day	Time	Library	Title	Description
11/19/09	THU	6:00 PM	LPA	The Velvet Oratorio	Libretto by Edward Einhorn, music and staging by Henry Akona. Produced by Untitled Theater Company #61.
11/23/09	MON	6:00 PM	LPA	NY Thru an Immigrant I or (r)evolution (Flagstories and other personal histories)	Performative lecture by Saviana Stanescu. Produced in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute, New York.

Programs take place in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Admission to all programs is free and generally first come, first served, although tickets are occasionally required. When tickets are required, it will be noted in the individual listings. For information, call (212) 642-0142 or e-mail lpaprog@nypl.org. Programs are subject to change or cancellation without notice. For Monday programs, use Library entrance at 111 Amsterdam Avenue, just south of 65th Street.

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