La Mama And Culturehub, Its Pioneering Art-and-technology Incubator, Announce 2013 Season Programming

La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, which for over 50 years has produced a uniquely global array of experimental theater, dance, performance art, and music, launched CultureHub in 2009 with its longtime partner the Seoul Institute of the Arts. La MaMa founder Ellen Stewart was a pioneering force in the movement behind the now-commonplace black box theater, an architectural shift that revolutionized the performing arts. CultureHub builds upon Stewart's legacy of innovation, implementing state-of-the-art telepresence technology to transform the black box for a new century and bring artists and audiences from various international locations together in performance, without having to be in the same physical space.

Today La MaMa announces CultureHub's first-ever full season.The programming spans four areas: Art + Technology-public presentations and performances exploring emerging mediums; Education-workshops and live streaming performances for classrooms; R+D-tools and support for artists to develop new works; and Community-a digital network supporting local and global collaboration. CultureHub's exciting 2013-14 season will convene artists and audiences from diverse cultures for open source art education and multi-location events where live and live streamed performances converge on stage and on screen.

The centerpiece of the season is CultureHub's RE/FEST. The three-day extravaganza (November 29-December 1) features acclaimed artists DJ Spooky, John Jesurun, and others in performances, interactive installations, and talks at CultureHub's NYC studio. The festival's curators-CultureHub's Artistic Director Billy Clark, and collaborators Lindsey Medeiros, and Jesse Ricke-have chosen works that reveal how new technologies are changing performance practices; how networked screens and communications technologies are changing the way artists collaborate and create; what the exhibition/performance venue of tomorrow might look like; and how the nature of storytelling is becoming cross-media, multi-modal, and multi-locational. Formerly known as "Media Circus," RE/FEST will take audiences on an electrifying tour of "regeneration" and its many landmarks.

Throughout the season, La MaMa and CultureHub will also livestream upcoming La MaMa stage productions for a student audience via CultureHub's Virtual Field Trips [VFT]program: Pascal Rambert's A (Micro) History of World Economics, Danced (Oct. 11); Maureen Fleming's B. Madonna (Oct. 25); and Roman Paska's Echo In Camera (Nov. 15). An online Q&A will follow each performance.

Fall season programming details and additional information will be posted toculturehub.org.

VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS [VFT]

Watch radical New York City theater expand and contract right before your eyes ... even if you're thousands of miles away. Live streaming is the subway line students of world theater can travel to experience cutting edge performances from La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the Lower East Side. After watching the multi-camera HD broadcasts from the Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa, the live stream audience is invited to post questions to the artists after each show via chat or Twitter. Performances marked by "VFT" can be streamed to your school or organization-join in the virtual field trips atwww.culturehub.org/live1 For more information, on hosting your own viewing party, visithttp://www.culturehub.org/host-a-livestream-party.

B. MADONNA [VFT]

Presented by LaMama

October 25th / 7:30PM EST

For tickets, visit lamama.org

Livestream [www.culturehub.org/live1] / Followed by live Q & A

Maureen Fleming's B. MADONNA gives Persephone a creative makeover, with text by David Henry Hwang and music by Philip Glass (performed live by pianist Bruce Brubaker). In this meditation on 'miracles,' Fleming juxtaposes new and repertory works with 3D video projections designed by longtime collaborator Christopher Odo.

AUDIOVISUAL MEDITATIONS

GRAPHIC SHIPS TO SONIC SHORES

November 8th / 7PM EST

47 Great Jones St / 3rd Floor

New York, New York 10012

$5 / RSVP [www.culturehub.org/events1]

Livestream [www.culturehub.org/live1]

Audiovisual Meditations delivers an exciting mashup of improvisation between musicians and visualists in multiple locations. Special guests include Ezekiel Honig,Joshue Ott, and John King, who will be joined by performers from the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Graphic Ships is a unique experiment in emergent connectivity, with performer, audience, and venue merging to create an intimate and playful landscape. Remote musicians and sound artists perform from a graphic score generated by changes in the performance environment. Performers include Jesse Ricke, Lisa Lee, and Scott Wollschleger from NYC,Andre D. from France, Hervé Perez from the United Kingdom, and Frank Wilke from Germany.

FREESTYLE MONUMENT

HIP HOP RE:EDUCATION, NYC + YOUTH SPEAKS, OAKLAND

November 11th / 7PM-9PM EST

47 Great Jones St / 3rd Floor

New York, New York 10012

RSVP / [www.culturehub.org/events1]

Live spoken word, beatbox, and movement collide in this multi-media, inter-disciplinary Hip Hop art exhibit, showcasing the work of Fabian "Farbeon" Saucedo and the young artists of the Hip Hop Re:Education Project in NYC. A highlight of the evening will be a cyber cypher between East Coast and West Coast MCs who will riff off of each other in a telematic loop.

ECHO IN CAMERA [VFT]

Presented by LaMama

November 15th / 7:30 PM EST

For tickets, visit lamama.org

[www.culturehub.org/live1] / Followed by live Q & A

Internationally acclaimed artist Roman Paska returns to the New York stage with Echo in Camera. The work explores the relationships between hearing, understanding and identity in a "little mental drama" that recasts the Orpheus legend as an interior journey, tracing the descent of a divided puppet protagonist through a netherworld of his own imagination to retrieve a missing other.

RE/FEST

November 29th - December 1st

47 Great Jones St /3rd Floor

New York, New York 10012

Our annual extravaganza of interactive games, sculptures, and multi-media works will take you on an electrifying tour of "regeneration" and its many landmarks. Acclaimed artists DJ Spooky, John Jesurun ,and others will navigate the terrain between the striking and the sublime. Check www.culturehub.org for event listings. Suitable for all ages.

FRAGMENTS LISTS AND LACUNAE

December 12th & 13th / 7:30PM EST

CultureHub

47 Great Jones St / 3rd Floor

FREE / RSVP [www.culturehub.org/events1]

Three students publish leaves of hope and despair in the margins of their notebooks and on screen in this fascinating piece that re-forms the audience as a living diary. The fragments, lists and lacunae belonging to these students are tucked in between class notes taken during a series of quirky college lectures about absence, silence, and other gaps. Written by Alexandre Chasin, directed by Zishan Ugurlu, with multi-media by CultureHub.