Company SoGoNo's ART OF MEMORY Plays At 3LD Art & Technology Center 7/16-8/2

Company SoGoNo Presents Revised Version of Acclaimed New Work ART OF MEMORY July 16 - August 2 at 3LD Art & Technology Center

After its 2007 premiere at the Ontological Hysteric Theatre Incubator, Company SoGoNo will present a newly re-worked version of ART OF MEMORY beginning previews July 16th at 3LD Art and Technology Center. Directed by Tanya Calamoneri and written by Lisa Ramirez (Exit Cuckoo), The New York Innovative Theater Awards honored the original production of ART OF MEMORY with Best Set and nominations for Best Ensemble, Best Performance, Best Sound Design, and Best Costumes. This new version features live music, a fairytale house up on stilts with hinged walls that open up to reveal a beautiful library within, and tiny video images projected onto the books inside. Opening night of the new production is set for July 20th.

In ART OF MEMORY, four librarians create an elaborately braided narrative about forbidden knowledge and transgressed boundaries. They seamlessly inhabit various roles, including handless maidens, the Brontë sisters, an ill wind, and minor deities. Comedic and dark by turns, the piece employs books, children's games, and alchemy as it traverses internal landscapes of memory. Towers of books topple, the best-laid curse goes awry, knowledge confuses rather than instructs, and hearts are twisted for this quartet of "researchers" in search of the mind's body of knowledge

ART OF MEMORY is performed by Tanya Calamoneri, Lisa Ramirez, Cassie Terman, and Heather Harpham, with set by Sean Breault, lighting by Bruce Steinberg, costumes by Mioko Mochizuki, live music by Miguel Frasconi, and video design by Jim Short and Matt Tennie.

Tanya Calamoneri founded Company SoGoNo in New York in 2003, after seven years of producing her own work in San Francisco. Her work combines Butoh, physical theater, contemporary dance, and original text. For the past six years, the company has been steadily gathering credentials in New York City and nationally, including performances in Ontological Hysteric Theater's Incubator, Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival, SWEAT Showcase, CRS's Tribute to Butoh, CAVE Artspace's NY International Butoh Festival, Studio 111's Undone Series, WAX's Bridge Series at University Settlement, 92nd Street Y, Solar One Festival, Grounds for Sculpture Outlet Festival, and the LES Howl Festival, as well in Chicago at Links Hall, and in Philadelphia at Temple University's Conwell Theater. For more info visit www.sogono.org.

Originally from San Francisco, Lisa Ramirez was a founding member of The Actor's Theatre of San Francisco and was Literary Director for Brava! For Women in the Arts. Lisa was a Playwright in Residence with The New York Theatre Workshop at Dartmouth College in August 2006. She is currently a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop. Lisa's solo-play Exit Cuckoo was performed this spring by The Working Theater at the Clurman as well as at Bewley's Café Theatre and the Feile-Na-Bealtine literary festival in Ireland.

Miguel Frasconi has created over three dozen dance scores including a work with Alonzo King for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He has performed with modern dance pioneer Anna Halprin at Centre Pompidou in Paris and with the Tibetan songwriter Techung in concerts throughout India. Frasconi's early work includes nine years as a founding member of The Glass Orchestra, the internationally acclaimed new music ensemble featuring all glass instruments. His recent activities include a new score for Mr. King, performances with electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick, a newly commissioned work for Gamelan Son of Lion, concerts with the composers collective Ne(x)tworks, and a residency at Harvestworks electronic media studios. The New York Times has called his work "lyrical and stormy".

3LD Art & Technology Center creates and supports challenging large-scale art within a financially sustainable environment. Its goals are to create viable growth oriented business models for experimental art production, revitalize the experimental tradition in New York by improving the working conditions and quality of production, and foster a community of artists who work cooperatively and aggressively to address their own barriers. In order to achieve these goals, 3LD creates, re-distributes and re-imagines resources that drive core cost reduction while increasing capacity and revenue.

ART OF MEMORY runs July 16 - August 2, Thurs-Sat at 8pm and Sun at 2pm with an added performance Monday, July 20 at 8pm. (Note: no show on Sunday, July 19). 3LD Art & Technology Center is located at 80 Greenwich Street (at Rector Street -- accessible from the 1/R/W trains at Rector Street). Tickets are $20, available at 212-352-3101 or www.3LDNYC.org.

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