About this Event
In this workshop from The Perfromance Project at University Settlement Artist-in-Residence Deniz Khateri, participants will share poetry and text from their first language and some of its translations. There will then be discussions on the words that are more challenging to find equivalents for in English and we’ll be exploring how to visualize those concepts as well as the music of the words in the original text.
Workshop participants will be limited to 10. The workshop will also be open to a limited number of observers.
Please note: this workshop will take place on the top floor of the University Settlement building, which is accessed by taking an elevator then going up an additional staircase and a half.
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Deniz Khateri is an Iranian-American multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Her works experiment with form and they focus on memory, grief, immigration and the concept of home. Her plays have been performed in several national and international festivals. She has written and directed experimental music-theatre projects that challenge the status quo and current vernacular of the theatre and modern opera scene. Her performances have been praised as “excellent” (The Boston Globe) , “remarkable on every level”(Ewing Reviewing) and “Fascinating” (Broadway World LA). A former resident artist at Center at West Park and a resident playwright at the New Perspectives theatre women’s play lab, she has also designed and directed international shows, video arts and shadow puppetry visuals for companies such as OperFrankfurt, Guerilla Opera, Dinosaur Annex, and Long Beach Opera.Holding an MA in Theatre from City University of New York,she has trained in master classes and workshops with prominent international artists including Peter Brook,Richard Schechner, Paul Zaloom and Gardzienice theatre company of Poland. She is an adjunct lecturer at Hunter college and Queens borough community college of CUNY. Deniz has performed extensively in her hometown Tehran as well as on stages of prominent theatre companies of Boston and New York.
Deniz is one of the three the recipients of 2024 Al-Bustan award for her solo performance. Awarded by UNIMA-USA for “excellence in writing for the art of puppetry” she has been the recipient of NYSCA award for her new project “Husks from Iran”, as well as the NYFA fund for her Oscar-qualified documentary animated web series, “Diasporan”, for which she is the writer, director, animator and singer and explores the daily struggles of immigrants.
(www.denizkhateri.com)
Deniz Khateri photo: Morteza Delgi
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The Performance Project at University Settlement is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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University Settlement partners with 40,000+ New Yorkers in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn every year to build on our collective strengths as we achieve healthy, stable, and remarkable lives. For nearly 140 years, we’ve fought poverty and systemic inequality by building highly effective social services in collaboration with our neighbors. Established in 1886 as the first Settlement House in the United States, we bring the values of that movement into the 21st century by meeting New Yorkers where they live, listening deeply to all perspectives, and creating space for responsive cooperation.
Since 2007, The Performance Project at University Settlement has been offering local young artists and professional emerging artists opportunities to connect, create and publicly present new work. For more information, please visit us online at: https://www.universitysettlement.org/programs/arts/performance-project/
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University Settlement House, 184 Eldridge Street, New York, United States
USD 0.00
