http://www.53rdstatepress.org 53rd State Press Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:04:54 +0000 http://www.53rdstatepress.org en http://53rdstatepress.org/Dance-Pamphlets-Call-for-Submissions-1 http://53rdstatepress.org/following/53rdstatepress.org/Dance-Pamphlets-Call-for-Submissions-1 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:04:54 +0000 53rd State Press 4696784 53rd State DANCE PAMPHLETS Call for submissions to a new project dedicated to efforts to represent choreographic thinking on the page in a new series of pamphlets: short 2-d pieces that employ language, image, and typography to get at a sense of what goes on in composing, improvising, performing, moving. Interpret as you will. This is not a call for academic essays, although ideas sprung from academic contexts may have their place here. Pamphlets will be published in short print runs, and will available as print-and-bind-your-own downloads. Small honorarium available. Email Karinne at 53rdstatepress@gmail.com with submissions, pitches, or questions. Ongoing submissions accepted. <img src="http://payload119.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/4696784/pamphlets-web.jpg" width="400" height="513" width_o="400" height_o="513" src_o="http://payload119.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/4696784/pamphlets-web_o.jpg" data-mid="25033815" border="0" align="left"/> 53rd State DANCE PAMPHLETS Call for submissions to a new project dedicated to efforts to represent choreographic thinking on the page in a new series of pamphlets:... http://53rdstatepress.org/Nature-Theater-of-Oklahoma-Life-and-Times-Episode-1 http://53rdstatepress.org/following/53rdstatepress.org/Nature-Theater-of-Oklahoma-Life-and-Times-Episode-1 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:48:28 +0000 53rd State Press 3663657 $12 Episode 1: January 2013 Episodes 2, 3&4 May 2013 53rd State is delighted to be working with Nature Theater of Oklahoma to create a box set of their current epic in progress, LIFE AND TIMES. All subscribers will automatically receive each episode. Episode 1 will be available January 16, 2013, concurrent with their performances at Under the Radar in NYC. Episode 2, and a combined Episodes 3&4 will be available in May 2013. There are a projected ten volumes, published alongside the creation of the performances. At the end, we'll make the box itself. About LIFE AND TIMES, Episode 1: A musical based on the life story of one of their own company members, Life and Times is the last in a series of works which were all generated from recorded telephone conversations. (No Dice, Rambo Solo, Romeo and Juliet). Using a verbatim transcript of the over 16 hours of recorded audio as libretto, the company have, with heroic effort, created their first original musical extravaganza – the tale generated from the single simple question, asked of a friend: “can you tell me your life story?”. A performance that will eventually stretch 24 hours when complete, Life and Times - Episode 1 is but the start of a planned series of 10, each episode derived from a separate phone call. The first episode is but the beginning of the saga – covering the early years of childhood, from birth to age 8. Far from resembling the traditional arching narrative with dramatic structure and tension, the source text for Life and Times resembles instead a patchwork quilt or spider’s web – the wanderings and digressions of a single person considering the entirety of their whole life. Filled with simple moments of insight, flashes of half-forgotten friends, the subject of this musical saga stops her life to consider all the moments that made her who she is. Since her life is quite normal and unexceptional, her story contains many bits of our own. You remember the toy you couldn’t live without – the next door neighbor who had a better house – a father who was mysteriously quiet – the friend whose mother let you stay up all night – the grandmother who served tea with honey in the good china cups – the sister who never wore shoes… It is a portrait of an unremarkable life, an epic narrative along the lines of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past – a deep map of memory which takes us on a subterranean plunge into the layers of our own forgotten history. <img src="http://payload68.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3663657/life-web.jpg" width="398" height="547" width_o="398" height_o="547" src_o="http://payload68.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3663657/life-web_o.jpg" data-mid="25033233" border="0" align="left"/> $12 Episode 1: January 2013 Episodes 2, 3&4 May 2013 53rd State is delighted to be working with Nature Theater of Oklahoma to create a box set of their current... http://53rdstatepress.org/Erik-Ehn-Soulographie http://53rdstatepress.org/following/53rdstatepress.org/Erik-Ehn-Soulographie Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:09:53 +0000 53rd State Press 4246181 $20 Buy Now This epic volume presents the 17 plays of Erik Ehn's SOULOGRAPHIE: OUR GENOCIDES. Ehn's approach is through "the marriage of heaven and hell," creating a ceremonial and even beautiful space to face and absorb this seam of human behavior. The result is an uncommon kind of art: both deeply ethical and aesthetically free. The book will be released on Nov. 11 in conjunction with the production of the full cycle at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City. "Soulographie is an audacious and devastating achievement, sustained by Erik Ehn’s commitment to lyricism in the face of brutality. The strongest characters in his cycle—signaling through the flames from Rwanda, El Salvador, Tulsa, and many other ruined landscapes—resist pain and shame with their inviolate imaginations. In metaphor they achieve grace. Their dialogue, each line a koan opening onto marvelous new worlds, demands patience—what Ehn once called “slow hearing.” The spectator who practices it models an attentiveness that itself protests a culture of indifference." -- Marc Robinson, Yale University <img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/4246181/soulographie-web.jpg" width="400" height="519" width_o="400" height_o="519" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/4246181/soulographie-web_o.jpg" data-mid="22464170" border="0" align="left"/> $20 Buy Now This epic volume presents the 17 plays of Erik Ehn's SOULOGRAPHIE: OUR GENOCIDES. Ehn's approach is through "the marriage of heaven and hell," creating... http://53rdstatepress.org/Sibyl-Kempson-Ich-KurbisGeist-Secret-Death-of-Puppets http://53rdstatepress.org/following/53rdstatepress.org/Sibyl-Kempson-Ich-KurbisGeist-Secret-Death-of-Puppets Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:06:17 +0000 53rd State Press 4246062 $18 Buy Now Ich, KürbisGeist and The Secret Death of Puppets by Sibyl Kempson illustrated by Amanda Villalobos In a special volume illustrated and designed by Amanda Villalobos come two of Sibyl Kempson's forays into the damp, weird soil of ghosts, curses, and the roots and cousins of American language. ICH, KÜRBISGEIST, an agricultural vengeance play for Hallowe'en, is written in a variant of Amer-English so oolde and wheeurd that you need to train your tongue and ear to read it. The three paranormal playlets of THE SECRET DEATH OF PUPPETS are composed in "Fraunch", English, and some kind of Nordic-Latin homonculus language of the undead. You'll want to read this to your children. Further reading: * Sibyl Kempson, Annie-B Parson and Aaron Mattocks in Critical Correspondence * Interview with Sibyl Kempson in the Brooklyn Rail. This book was published in conjunction with Big Dance Theater's staging of Ich, KürbisGeist at the Chocolate Factory in New York City. <img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/4246062/kurbis.jpg" width="600" height="421" width_o="600" height_o="421" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/4246062/kurbis_o.jpg" data-mid="22379986" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/4246062/kurbis2-web.jpg" width="400" height="320" width_o="400" height_o="320" src_o="http://payload97.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/4246062/kurbis2-web_o.jpg" data-mid="22462525" border="0" align="left"/> $18 Buy Now Ich, KürbisGeist and The Secret Death of Puppets by Sibyl Kempson illustrated by Amanda Villalobos In a special volume illustrated and designed by... http://53rdstatepress.org/2012-13-Catalog http://53rdstatepress.org/following/53rdstatepress.org/2012-13-Catalog Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:44:21 +0000 53rd State Press 4119270 2012-13 catalog Subscribe now Be an early subscriber to the 2012-13 catalog and get a discount rate of $50 for all four books plus shipping. Price goes up to $60 on Dec. 1st. Ich, KurbisGeist and The Secret Death of Puppets by Sibyl Kempson illustrated by Amanda Villalobos $18 October 2012 In a special volume illustrated and designed by Amanda Villalobos come two of Sibyl Kempson's forays into the damp, weird soil of ghosts, curses, and the roots and cousins of American language. ICH, KÜRBISGEIST, an agricultural vengeance play for Hallowe'en, is written in a variant of Amer-English so oolde and wheeurd that you need to train your tongue and ear to read it. The three paranormal playlets of THE SECRET DEATH OF PUPPETS are composed in "Fraunch", English, and some kind of Nordic-Latin homonculus language of the undead. You'll want to read this to your children. Soulographie by Erik Ehn $20 November 2012 This epic volume presents the 17 plays of Erik Ehn's SOULOGRAPHIE: OUR GENOCIDES. Ehn's approach is through "the marriage of heaven and hell," creating a ceremonial and even beautiful space to face and absorb this seam of human behavior. The result is an uncommon kind of art: both deeply ethical and aesthetically free. Life and Times, Episodes 1-4 by Nature Theater of Oklahoma $20 January 2013 LIFE AND TIMES is a performance based on the life story of one of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's own company members, built from a verbatim transcript of over 16 hours of recorded telephone interviews. Generated from the simple question —“can you tell me your life story?”— this is a portrait of an unremarkable life as a deep map of memory, a contemporary analog to Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Episodes 1-4 encompass childhood, adolescence, and the beginning of young adulthood. The 53rd State Occasional No. 1 Guest Editor Mac Wellman $10 April 2013 The occasion of the Occasional is a question about the state of theater. In this opening volume, that question is posed by Mac Wellman, self-described damnable scribbler and agitator against the well-made play and all other forms of "Geezer Theater." 50 responses from the performance community, ranging across disciplines and locations, are gathered together into a volume that will fit in your pocket and agitate your mind. <img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/4119270/combo2012-web.jpg" width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/4119270/combo2012-web_o.jpg" data-mid="22549890" border="0" align="left"/> 2012-13 catalog Subscribe now Be an early subscriber to the 2012-13 catalog and get a discount rate of $50 for all four books plus shipping. Price goes up to $60... http://53rdstatepress.org/Kristen-Kosmas-The-Mayor-of-Baltimore http://53rdstatepress.org/following/53rdstatepress.org/Kristen-Kosmas-The-Mayor-of-Baltimore Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:13:49 +0000 53rd State Press 3972683 September 2012 $12 Buy Now At a party in a forgotten American city, a coterie of friends and strangers gather to celebrate a modest electoral victory. Oblique poetry alternates with the syncopated clatter of small talk. A broken-hearted refrain of disappointment underscores, and a tiny aria of self-revelation hangs in the empty space after the guests depart. Then comes ANTHEM, companion piece to THE MAYOR OF BALTIMORE, the strangely empathetic and gentle monologue of a transient manufacturer of erotic blindfolds. Like a bird’s nest built from bottle caps and scrap plastic, Kristen Kosmas’s writing invents its poetry from the blunt, the found, the discarded, creating a plane of ordinary life that’s tilted, almost singing. “I saw it and I was transformed. I had never seen or heard anything like it, like her. Her cadences, her tone, her rhythm, her physicality, her stunning poetry and passion, her incisive ability to dissect pedestrian language and passing conversations into little slices of astonishing revelation, little windows into the profundity, tragedy and giddy nervous existential hilarity immanent in everyday life.” — from the introduction by Andrew Horwitz <img src="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3972683/mayor-img.jpg" width="300" height="388" width_o="300" height_o="388" src_o="http://payload83.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3972683/mayor-img_o.jpg" data-mid="20769443" border="0" align="left"/> September 2012 $12 Buy Now At a party in a forgotten American city, a coterie of friends and strangers gather to celebrate a modest electoral victory. Oblique... http://53rdstatepress.org/Nature-Theater-of-Oklahoma-Rambo-Solo http://53rdstatepress.org/following/53rdstatepress.org/Nature-Theater-of-Oklahoma-Rambo-Solo Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:21:28 +0000 53rd State Press 3663644 $15 2008 Buy Now RAMBO SOLO continues Nature Theater of Oklahoma's investigation into transcription as epic theater. Zachary Oberzan's exhaustive retelling of David Morrell's First Blood unfurls along a vein of spectacular psychic charge. Simultaneously giving John Rambo's life Homeric form, performing Oberzan's own relationship to the book, and anticipating his planned solo remake of the movie, Rambo Solo obliterates distinctions between the ridiculous and the redemptive. <img src="http://payload68.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3663644/rambo-web.jpg" width="400" height="590" width_o="400" height_o="590" src_o="http://payload68.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3663644/rambo-web_o.jpg" data-mid="19003729" border="0" align="left"/> $15 2008 Buy Now RAMBO SOLO continues Nature Theater of Oklahoma's investigation into transcription as epic theater. Zachary Oberzan's exhaustive retelling of... http://53rdstatepress.org/Nature-Theater-of-Oklahoma-No-Dice http://53rdstatepress.org/following/53rdstatepress.org/Nature-Theater-of-Oklahoma-No-Dice Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:19:06 +0000 53rd State Press 3663612 $15 2007 Buy Now Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s NO DICE is Kelly Copper's transcription of that company's triumphant 4-hour dinner theater event. The dinner is a bologna sandwich and Dr. Pepper. The theater made of phone conversations reset into a hyper-energetic physical and vocal register. Obsessive, persuasive, and enduring, Nature Theater has remade the epic form into something newly familiar and contemporary. “No Dice is a tour de force. Its limited, deeply human characters express the grandiose desire to engage the ‘universal cosmic murmur.’ Instead, they embody it. Resistance is futile.” – The New York Times <img src="http://payload68.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3663612/nodice-web.jpg" width="400" height="571" width_o="400" height_o="571" src_o="http://payload68.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3663612/nodice-web_o.jpg" data-mid="19003655" border="0" align="left"/> $15 2007 Buy Now Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s NO DICE is Kelly Copper's transcription of that company's triumphant 4-hour dinner theater event. The dinner is a... http://53rdstatepress.org/Miguel-Gutierrez-When-You-Rise-Up http://53rdstatepress.org/following/53rdstatepress.org/Miguel-Gutierrez-When-You-Rise-Up Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:16:15 +0000 53rd State Press 3663594 $10 September 2009 Buy Now WHEN YOU RISE UP collects texts by choreographer Miguel Gutierrez, a relentlessly exploratory figure in the contemporary dance scene. Gutierrez engages artistic community in a radical sense, interrogating physical encounter at all scales, from the collaborating performers to the world where the work takes place. Standing alone from their original contexts, these pieces radiate with the physical urgency of a life committed to art and performance. “These are spacious, hot, lyrical, obsessive poems. Oh I guess you call them performance texts. I love this book.” – Eileen Myles Watch EVERYONE (provenance of some of these texts) by MGPP on Choreography or Else video channel. <img src="http://payload68.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3663594/rise-web.jpg" width="400" height="592" width_o="400" height_o="592" src_o="http://payload68.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3663594/rise-web_o.jpg" data-mid="19003568" border="0" align="left"/> $10 September 2009 Buy Now WHEN YOU RISE UP collects texts by choreographer Miguel Gutierrez, a relentlessly exploratory figure in the contemporary dance scene.... http://53rdstatepress.org/Karinne-Keithley-Montgomery-Park http://53rdstatepress.org/following/53rdstatepress.org/Karinne-Keithley-Montgomery-Park Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:24:21 +0000 53rd State Press 3663203 $10 September 2009 Buy Now MONTGOMERY PARK, or OPULENCE is an essay in the form of a building, a performance text in the form of a series of tales out of the archive of a fictional asylum, stories of combination with forms of consciousness beyond the human varieties. Keithley’s staging won a 2011 BESSIE Award for Outstanding Production. The text hovers between monologue, short story, and prose poem. <img src="http://payload68.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3663203/montgomery-web.jpg" width="400" height="527" width_o="400" height_o="527" src_o="http://payload68.cargocollective.com/1/7/246495/3663203/montgomery-web_o.jpg" data-mid="19001818" border="0" align="left"/> $10 September 2009 Buy Now MONTGOMERY PARK, or OPULENCE is an essay in the form of a building, a performance text in the form of a series of tales out of the...