Culture Project's Women Center Stage 2012 Festival Wrap Party Set for 4/7

Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) today announced that on Saturday April 7th, there will be a wrap party with live music, dancing, and more. Doors open at 9pm.

The Rachel Klein Theater Ensemble will kick off the night with an excerpt of "Symphony of Shadows: A Tale from the Land Beyond the Veil," a circus, movement, and dance production, vividly illustrating the story of a woman combating phantasmagorical night terrors, hypnotic horrors, and other visually stunning conjurings from the depths of her own disturbed mind. The ever-glamorous electro-rock band Heloise and the Savoir Faire will help end the 2012 Festival with a beautiful bang.

The electro-rock Brooklyn based outfit, Heloise & the Savoir Faire has enjoyed a myriad of success in response to their full length debut Trash, Rats, and Microphones as well as their supercharged, artful live performances. Following the release, Heloise & the Savoir Faire continued to build upon their reputation as a band that should be seen as well as heard, rocking notable New York venues, The Bowery Ballroom and the Mercury Lounge. The band also traveled to the UK, booking a series of festival and club dates, as well as making television appearances on “The Graham Norton Show” and “Friday Night Project.” Adding, even still, to their repertoire of notoriety, the single, “Odyle” was selected as the theme to Bravo’s “Rachel Zoe Project,” which premiered in 2008. Presently, Heloise & the Savoir Faire have been hard at work composing new material for an upcoming record tentatively entitled, Diamond Dust. For more information, visit www.heloisemusic.com

The Rachel Klein Theater Ensemble is an award nominated NYC based theatrical dance, movement, and visual story telling company that has been generating original works since 2007. Rachel Klein Productions (RKP) has produced several full-length plays (both movement and text based) including The Tragedy of Maria Macabre, Metro, Sir Sheever, Aenigma, and Go-Go Killers! and co-produced Hound, All Kind of Shifty Villains, and Stage Blood is Never Enough. The Rachel Klein Theater Ensemble’s choreographic work has been presented all over the city at several venues, festivals, art galleries, and nightlife events including the Kitchen, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, DUMBO Dance Festival, Night of 1000 Stevies, the Highline Ballroom, La MaMa Moves! at La Mama E.T.C. in 2009 and 2010, Banzai! at the Red Lotus Room, legendary rock ‘n roll club Don Hill’s, the Hiro Ballroom, the Bushwick Site Fest, Bushwick Open Studios Festival, the World Famous Bob’s Give Thanks!, Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, the House of Yes, HOWL Festival, and Off-Broadway at the Bleecker Street Theater. The Rachel Klein Theater Ensemble will celebrate their 5th year anniversary in June 2012 at Dixon Place with the world premiere of Symphony of Shadows, a tale of night terrors depicted by visions of dance, aerial, circus spectacle, and silent film style movement. For more information, visit www.rachelkleinproductions.com

Launched before the formal incorporation of Culture Project in 1996, Women Center Stage is Culture Project’s longest-running initiative, committed to supporting and promoting the work of women artists and celebrating the unique contributions of women to social justice and human rights. The annual Women Center Stage Festival, presented each March for Women’s History Month, is a dynamic and diverse laboratory for works-in-progress from performing artists at all levels of their careers. Culture Project is committed to providing new artistic forums on wider social justice issues and galvanizing the performing arts community and its audience around supporting the voices and visions of women.

Culture Project Artistic Director Allan Buchman founded the festival in memory of his daughter, Chitra, who passed away 20 years ago. “After suffering the loss of my daughter, I wanted my life to counter the injustices she faced—many of which were gender based. I felt her life was a work in progress, and that this festival could begin to address the disparity of opportunity provided to women in various creative endeavors.”

Over the past 16 years, Women Center Stage has been an important launching pad for the projects of numerous artists, including early iterations of Heather Raffo’s Nine Parts of Desire (2003); Sarah Jones’ bridge and tunnel (2004), which went on to a sold-out Broadway run and garnered a special Tony Award; Staceyann Chin’s Border/Clash (2005); Geraldine Hughes’ Belfast Blues (2005); Lynn Redgrave’s Nightingale (2005); Lenelle Moïse’s Expatriate (2008), and most recently Daphne Rubin-Vega’s memoir-musical FUQs: Frequently Unanswered Questions (2011), which will premiere at LAByrinth Theater Company this Summer.

Tickets are $12 in advance, $18 at the door. VIP tickets are $40 per person, and include table seating (tables seat 4) and a round of drinks on the house. Tickets may be purchased at WomenCenterStage.org or by calling 866/811-4111.

For more information, visit WomenCenterStage.org.