HERE's TRADE PRACTICES Postponed; BOTCH to Open 2013-14 Season, 11/12

The HERE production Trade Practices will not take place October 18-November 3, as previously announced. As indicated, Trade Practices was aimed at a location in the Financial District, which did not materialize timed to production dates. HERE will open its 2013-14 season with the Resident Artist production BOTCH, a sound & visual installation performed live, created by Joe Diebes, which runs November 12-23 at HERE.

Trade Practices is an immersive site-specific theater experience that examines the notion of "value" against the backdrop of the booms and busts of the past decade. This new work follows the fictional currency company Tender, Inc. on its journey from family business to publicly traded corporation, through original texts presented simultaneously in competing episodes. Each episode centers on the same period in the life of the company, told from the perspective of a specific group: Owners, Managers, Marketers and Workers. Using a fictional currency, audience members buy '"shares" in one of these four storylines, granting them admission to that perspective's episodes. Periodic trading rounds present opportunities for swapping shares, or selling them for a profit that can be used to buy additional stock. Throughout, audience members don't just watch - they get to choose which story to follow at a given moment - exploring how we decide what something is worth, and what we value.

Kristin Marting (Co-Creator / Director) has constructed 25 works for the stage, including 12 original hybrid works, 8 adaptations of novels and short stories and 5 classic plays. She works in a collaborative, process-driven way to fuse different disciplines into a cohesive whole. Projects include Lush Valley, a live art participatory performance; Orpheus, an alt-musical co-created with David Evans Morris; and James Scruggs's Disposable Men. She directed Sounding and Dead Tech, both of which received MAP Fund awards. Her works have toured the US. She has collaborated on several large-scale political action art events, including The Line (2004). For over 20 years, she has been developing a unique hybrid directorial/choreographic form that features a "gestural vocabulary" as an emotional signifier & as a choreographic element. She was named Person on the Year by nytheatre.com (2011) and honored with a BAX10 Award. She is a co-founder and Artistic Director of HERE, where she cultivates artists and programs for two performance spaces-including 18 OBIE-award winners - for an annual audience of 35,000. She created and co-curates HERE's Artist Residency Program. For 19 years, she curated The American Living Room, an annual summer festival featuring works by emerging artists; and for 8 years, QUEER@HERE, an annual festival of LGBT work. She serves on panels for NEA, NYSCA, DCA, and TCG. Previously, Marting co-founded and served as co-artistic director of Tiny Mythic Theatre Company. She served as Robert Wilson's assistant for HAMLETMACHINE and Salome. She graduated from NYU with honors in 1988. She teaches at NYU and lectures at Harvard, Columbia, Brown and Williams College, among others.

David Evans Morris (Co-Creator / Set Design) makes original performance work and scenographic environments for the theater. He works regularly with Young Jean Lee (scenic design for Untitled Feminist Show, Lear, and The Shipment, US and European tours of Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Church), Taylor Mac and Target Margin Theater. He co-conceived, with Kristin Marting, and designed scenery for Orpheus - an alt-rock opera based on the Classical myth, the design of which was included in the United States pavilion at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial. Also with Ms. Marting: Erendira, Dead Tech and Possessed. With Les Freres Corbusier (Associate Artist) he co-created and designed the Off-Broadway hit Boozy: The Life, Death, And Subsequent Vilification Of Le Corbusier And, More Importantly, Robert Moses, as well as designing the scenery for the Obie-winning A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, The Franklin Thesis and President Harding Is A Rock Star, all directed by Alex Timbers. As an Affiliated Artist with Clubbed Thumb he designed scenery for Quail (directed by Kip Fagan), Demon Baby (directed by Ken Rus Schmoll), The Typographer's Dream and The Train Play. He holds degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle and Williams College, where he teaches design. He has received a Princess Grace Fellowship, been nominated for a Henry Hewes design award, and was a previous HARP artist when he began developing Exercises for the Body Politic, an ongoing series of theatrical events about American civic life.

Trades Practices is written by Erin Courtney, Eisa Davis, Robert Lyons, Qui Nyguen, KJ Sanchez and Chris Wells. Set Design by David Evans Morris. Original Music and Sound Design by Xander Duell McMahon and Jane Shaw. ?Video Design by Jared Mezzocchi. Costume Design by Liz Bourgeois. ?Lighting Design by Chris Kuhl. Associate Set Design by Cate McCrea. Assistant Direction by Ashley Kelly Tata.

Trade Practices is performed by Teddy Alvaro, Molly Anne Coogan, Annie Henk, Pete McCabe, Mari Newhard, Michael Rosete, Kaneza Schaal, Maria Striar, Dax Valdes and Lauren Young.

Since 1993, the OBIE-winning HERE, Kristin Marting, Artistic Director and Kim Whitener, Producing Director, has been one of New York's premier arts organizations and a leader in the field of producing and presenting new, hybrid performance viewed as a seamless integration of artistic disciplines-theater, dance, music and opera, puppetry, media, visual and installation, spoken word and performance art. Standout productions include Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique and Arias with a Twist, Hazelle Goodman's On Edge, Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle's all wear bowlers, Young Jean Lee's Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, Corey Dargel's Removable Parts, Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge and Yoav Gal's Mosheh, among many others.

The HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) has been HERE's core program since 1998. HARP commissions, develops and premieres new hybrid performances. Productions developed at HERE challenge existing boundaries between disciplines -- theater, dance, music, opera, puppetry, media, visual arts, installation, spoken word and more. Through HARP, the Resident Artists are given the unique opportunity to develop their projects for up to three years through free works-in-progress showings, workshop presentations in HERE's annual CULTUREMART festival, culminating in full-scale productions.

Each season, HERE premieres several of these Resident Artist productions as mainstage works. These innovative projects are grown in a diverse artistic community where artists receive career development resources and hands-on training. HARP has been widely recognized as a unique model for artistic development for the field to emulate. In honoring HERE with the 2009 Ross Wetzsteon Award, the OBIE Committee noted, "it's become increasingly hard for artists to find a place to take risks, a safe haven where they can develop daring new work. One theater has regularly bucked the trend, making its mission to ensure that artists have a home for their research and development, and that theatregoers can sample the exciting results."

HERE is also home to the Dream Music Puppetry Program (Artistic Director, Basil Twist; Producing Director, Barbara Busackino), and the visiting artist programs startHERE: Innovative Theatre for Young People, aimed at young audiences, and hemispHEREs, which brings innovative national and international visiting artists to HERE for a residency and presentation.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has been a leading voice for arts and culture since 1973, presenting cultural events in Manhattan, advocating for artists and the arts, and working in partnerships to improve the quality of life for New York City's workers, residents, and visitors.

HERE's 2013-2014 HARP artists, with productions in development, include new HARP Artists: Composer Matt Marks & Director/Librettist Paul Peers (Mata Hari); Multimedia director Rob Roth & Singer Amelia Zirin-Brown (Soundstage); Puppet Artist Jessica Scott (Ship of Fools); and continuing HARP Artists: Singer Hai-Ting Chinn (Science Fair);?Choreographer Rebecca Davis (Restless Next); Director Yvan Greenberg (Genet Porno); Performer Soomi Kim (Chang(e)); Composer David T. Little (Artaud in the Black Lodge); Choreographer Mei-Yin Ng (Lost Property Unit); Composer/Choreographer Leyna Marika Papach (Glass Mouth); Director/Puppet Artist Joseph Silovsky (Send for the Million Men); Composer Stefan Weisman & Librettist David Cote (The Scarlet Ibis); Composer/Performer Bora Yoon (Sunken Cathedral).

For more information, visit www.here.org.

Photo from BOTCH, which will now open HERE's 2013-14 season.

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