Prelude Festival 2023
October across New York City
At the Segal Center: Oct 11-14, 16, 19
PRELUDE 2023 20th Anniversary!
The annual PRELUDE festival is dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre, dance, interdisciplinary and mediatized performance. PRELUDE offers an array of short performances, readings, and screenings — a completely free survey of the current New York moment and the work being prepared for the next season and beyond—as well as new commissions and panel discussions with artists, scholars, and performers. PRELUDE is a place to discover what voices are shaping the future of theatre and performance in NYC, to observe, engage, commune, and critique. Since 2003, The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center has presented the PRELUDE Festival.
Performances
David Michalek and Ensemble
Forms Of Restraint
Anh Vo
Chicken Sister
Eagle Project
Please Do Not Touch the Indians
Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself.
Murder Room - Day 4
Aaron Landsman
Instagram: A Performance
Marissa Ghavami, Montgomery Sutton, Kimi Ramírez
The Little Pony
Petra Zanki Dance Company
AUTUMN Prelude in the Garden: Study for Prophecy for 22nd Century
Fritz Donnelly
FRITZ: Play Time
Erin Landers & Movers
other sights/other sites
Opalanietet
This Play is Native Made
Richard Maxwell and New York City Players
Richard Maxwell and New York City Players
Jess Barbagallo / Half Straddle
ANALOG INTIMACY (Second Showing)
Carl Hancock Rux, Mabou Mines
Etudes
Maya Sharpe
Mud & Blood
PRELUDE Award Celebration
Farm Arts Collective
(Cancelled) Dream on the Farm: The More Things Change
IV Castellanos
Leche Hervida
Josie Bettman
open dance figure
Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself.
Murder Room - Day 2
Alaina Ferris, Karinne Keithley Syers, Katy Pyle, Meghan Finn
The Lydian Gale Parr
Ashley Kelly Tata, Jerry Lieblich, Robert M. Johanson
Fecund Error
Al Límite Collective
Brooklyn is Not a Sacrifice Zone (Day 1)
Temporary Distortion
STANDING ON THE UNSEEN SPIRALS OF THE VORTEX
Open Studios at The Watermill Center
In Process
Elevator Repair Service
Ulysses (excerpt)
Radiohole
Exposure
Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey
READINGS BY PETER AND JULIA
Melissa Moschitto/The Anthropologists
axes, herbs and satchels
Friend of Friend
Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone
The SuperGeographics
Helen.
Kemiyondo Coutinho, Dennis Allen II, Hayley Spivey, and Keith Josef Adkins
The New Black Fest
Ilana Khanin & Eric Marlin
What a World! What a World!
Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself.
Murder Room - Day 1
James La Bella
The Curator
Will Eno
New Work In Progress
Al Límite Collective
Brooklyn is Not a Sacrifice Zone (Day 2)
Shan Y. Chuang
Love Distance
Jess Barbagallo / Half Straddle
ANALOG INTIMACY
Eric Dyer/Radiohole
Faust (The Broken Show)
Lisa Fagan/Lena Engelstein/Marianne Rendón
Untitled
Stanley Love Performance Group
Excerpt from Meow Love Werk, Hinny from Love to Love You, Stanley Love: A Memorial Celebration
Fernando Vieira
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?
William Burke
How Do I?
Guy Yair Beider
Sound Ceremony
Taiwo Aloba
EYO
Sauda Aziza Jackson
& April Sweeney
I DIGRESS: The Intimate Insights of a Childhood Weirdo
Anne Washburn, Many Others including, perhaps, yourself.
Murder Room - Day 3
Nancy Ma
Sweatshop Melody
The Goat Exchange
Salome, or the Cult of the Clitoris: A Historical Phallusy
Michal Gamily/ No Visa Production
Fire / Escape (Work In Progress)
Anne Gridley
Watch Me Walk
Immersive Cinematic Art Installation Directed by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger Music and Sound Design by Nana Simopoulos With the participation of Catherine Correa
QUALIA – You Matter to Me
Ciro Chonik Itsaj, Maria Litvan, and Edy Soto
Indio Espinosa: A Multitemporal Charrúa Legend
Theresa Buchheister, The Brick, Karuna Shinsho
VISA - Mon Amour
Dan Safer/Tony Torn
Spider Rabbit
Alison Clancy
So Brutal It Feels Like Home
Everyone
PRELUDE Party
Artist Talks
Panel Discussions
Gallery
All images by Anthony Turner
Tuesday October 10
Wednesday October 11
Thursday October 12
Friday October 13
Saturday October 14
PERFORMANCE
EYO
Taiwo Aloba
3:00PM EST
Sunday
Oct 15, 2023
Culture Lab LIC, 46th Avenue, Queens, NY, USA
PERFORMANCE
open dance figure
Josie Bettman
3:00PM EST
Sunday
Oct 15, 2023
Plank Road Public Shoreline, 58th Road, Maspeth, Queens, NY, USA
Sunday October 15
Monday October 16
Tuesday October 17
Thursday October 19
Friday October 20
Saturday October 21
Friday October 27
*Check event listings for rain dates