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Revolutionary Voices: Performing Arts in Central & Eastern Europe in the 1980s 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. A Literary Christmas Miscellany from the Berg Collection  Special Display: This holiday display features Charles Dickens's prompt copy of A Christmas Carol, from which he gave his public readings; a book with a Christmas theme by T.S. Eliot; Christmas greetings by James Joyce, Sean O'Casey, E.E. Cummings, and Maurice Sendak; and a Christmas letter from Jack Kerouac to his future wife, Stella Sampas. About the photograph: Harry Burnett, the son of Charles Dickens’s eldest sister, Fanny Burnett, is said to have been the model for both Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol and Paul Dombey in Dombey and Son. He died in January 1849, only a few months after his mother. “Harry was a singular child,” Fanny’s pastor recalled, “meditative and quaint in a remarkable degree.” This photograph once belonged to Elizabeth Dickens, Charles Dickens’s mother. Image: Photograph of the original Tiny Tim, ca. 1848. NYPL, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |