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The CalArts Center for New Performance is the professional producing arm of the California Institute of the Arts. Its mission is to provide an artist and project driven framework for the development and production of original theater, music, dance and interdisciplinary projects. Artists from around the world come to CNP to develop work that expands the language, discourse, and boundaries of contemporary theater and performance. CNP supports the future of live performance by bringing these artists together with the emerging artists of the CalArts community.
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History
The Center for New Performance was founded in 1999 under the name, Center for New Theater at CalArts. The first production was a radiophonic play for electric puppet titled Theater of the Ears, created by Zaven Paré, Gregory Whitehead, Valère Novarina and Allen S. Weiss, along with a team of CalArts designers and technicians. The piece was presented in New York as part of the 2000 Henson International Festival of Puppet Theatre, in Paris at the Biennale Internationale des Arts de la Marionnette and at the 2001 Festival d’Avignon. In the Spring of 2006, the Center for New Performance (CNP) was given its present name in order to better align with its mission of developing interdisciplinary work.
Prometheus Bound
In September 2013, the Getty Museum and CNP, in association with Trans Arts, presented Prometheus Bound, the eighth annual outdoor theater production in the Getty Villa’s Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater. Featuring a newly translated text by noted poet and essayist Joel Agee, Prometheus Bound was directed by Travis Preston and included original music by composer Ellen Reid and jazz multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia (who also performed live onstage). The central element of this original production of the ancient Greek drama was a mammoth steel wheel, twenty-three feet tall that was installed in the outdoor theater. As envisioned by director Preston and scenic designer Efren Delgadillo, Jr., the remote mountaintop is represented by this enormous steel wheel, to which Prometheus is strapped in the opening scene of the play. The production featured 17 cast members, including a Greek chorus of 12, all of whom climb on and off the giant wheel throughout the play.
Leadership
Travis Preston, Artistic Director, Dean/School of Theater Calarts
Leslie Tamaribuchi, Executive Director
David Rosenboom, Dean/The Herb Alpert School of Music Calarts
Staff Emeritus: Carol Bixler (served as Producing Director 2004-2014) Susan Solt (founding Artistic Director/Producer 1999-2003)
Awards and accolades
King Lear (2003)
Brewsie and Willie (2010)
2011 MetLife/TCG A-Ha! Program grant recipient