EMPAC Announces Line-Up for FILAMENT

Filament is a festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media that will be held at EMPAC in Troy, NY from October 1–3, 2010. It highlights EMPAC’s mission to support international and national artists in the creation and production of work via its residency and commissioning programs.

Performances and installations include:

MTAA (NYC):

a barn raising driven by audience participation

Hans Tutschku (Cambridge, MA):

a 24-channel immersive sound installation

BalletLab (Australia):

choreographic hysteria based on cult behavior, embedded in a dense soundscape

Yanira Castro (NYC):

a performance ecosystem where sound and dance environments envelop both audience and artists

Early Morning Opera (Los Angeles):

evangelistic jumbotron diatribe on the dissolution of national borders

Volkmar Klien (Austria):

a 44-channel encore of Start-Ziel-Siege

DANCE MOViES Commission 2009-2010 Premieres:

five projects at the intersection of dance and moving image

Filament will also unveil a program of commissioned short-form performance works across the spectrum of dance, theater, music, and the visual arts. Participating artists include:

• Wally Cardona • SUE-C & Laetitia Sonami • Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford, & Geoff Sobelle • Jen DeNike • Sam Hillmer • MTAA • Miro Dance Theatre •National Theater of the United States of America