Since then, the relationship between WMPAC and The Crossing has grown into a successful annual program that allows the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based choir to experience southwest Montana, and work alongside the community. “There’s nothing more freeing than working on new art in the mountains,” he said. Zirkle wanted to bring artists working on new projects to find reprieve and inspiration-like many-in the mountains. The residency program with The Crossing began as an idea in 2014 and a reality in 2015. “There’s a simplicity of just being back in a room-that part really does feel like the awakening and the reminder.” “The main thing is being in the room all together, that’s the new feeling,” Zirkle said. It’s an experience that brought many of the choir members to tears during rehearsal. Although the performing arts center worked hard to keep people connected during the pandemic, he says there’s no replacement to being in a room experiencing something with a group of people-without all of the technology issues virtual performances inevitably run into. In addition to “Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet,” The Crossing also performed the first live version of “in nature/I feel,” a project that was forced into a hybrid format last year that included poetic lines of ones reflections as they experience nature’s offerings, as well as “SHIFT,” a new, three-part song that utilized a Black Liberation chant, channeling feelings of strength and catharsis.Ĭatharsis is exactly what WMPAC Executive Director John Zirkle says he felt joining The Crossing as not only a producer and host of their residency program, but also a performer. And it’s so big, it’s made for big things.” “I think they come across as kind of a blank canvas, as opposed to a space that really screams what it is. “We’ve really found that the artists respond so positively to working in sort of, big, industrial spaces,” Ridgway said. Eli Ridgway, Tinworks’ co-director along with Melissa Ragain, says the connection is no accident-that artists often feel drawn to roughened, historic spaces as a theater in which to present their craft. Mark’s recent book about birds, Life List: Poems, is a runner-up for the Montana Book of the Year award.The performance was a part of the group’s weeklong residency program in Big Sky and produced through a unique and new partnership between the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center and Tinworks Art in Bozeman. I have examples of my art and my work at my webpage here: John’s album of original songs, "Wide Open Door" is available on iTunes, Spotify and all other digital outlets. Please support our performers by visiting their websites:Īctor, musician, writer, and visual artist John Hosking: In 1890, a Shakespeare-lover living in New York City wanted to recreate Shakespeare in some way, so he imported many of Shakespeare’s birds to New York City, which introduced several invasive species to the United States. His love of birds is reflected in his plays and poetry, including over 64 different species of birds referred to 606 times in his plays and poetry. Growing up in a small rural town in England, Shakespeare spent many hours surrounded by nature. “The lark or the nightingale?” (Romeo & Juliet, with Merchant of Venice and Sonnet 29). “A hawk from a handsaw” (Hamlet and “Heron” by Theodore Roethke). “Swan songs” (a compilation from Romeo & Juliet, As You Like It, Merry Wives of Windsor, King John, and Othello). “The cuckoo then on every tree” (Love’s Labours Lost). “The rise of a tyrant” (a compilation from Macbeth, Henry VI, and Venus & Adonis). “I’ll have a starling” (Henry IV, Part 1) and the story of Eugene Schieffelin. “The thrush and the jay” (Winter’s Tale). Shakespeare for the Birds performers and poems Audience members will be guided to these performance locations in small pods of 10-12 people in each, as they enjoy the sounds and sights of birds in nature, while at the same time listening to 400-year-old thoughts about these species. Nine actors will be strategically placed along walking paths in the bird sanctuary portion of Story Mill Park, performing scenes and singing songs from Shakespeare related to birds.
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