ART OF MEMORY Opens At 3LD Art & Technology Center 7/16, Runs To 8/2

Company SoNoGo invites you to World Premiere of ART OF MEMORY at 3LD Art & Technology Center (80 Greenwich Street at Rector -- accessible from the 1/R/W trains at Rector Street). After an acclaimed 2007 debut at the Ontological Hysteric Theatre Incubator, The New York Innovative Theater Awards honored the original production with Best Set and nominations for Best Ensemble, Best Performance, Best Sound Design, and Best Costumes. 

Not content to rest on their laurels, director Tanya Calamoneri and writer Lisa Ramirez (Exit Cuckoo) have continued to develop and re-work the piece for its official World Premiere. The new production includes live music, a fairytale house up on stilts with hinged walls that open up to reveal a beautiful library within, and tiny video images projected onto the books inside. The production runs July 16 - August 2.

In ART OF MEMORY, four librarians create an elaborately braided narrative about forbidden knowledge and transgressed boundaries. They seamlessly inhabit various roles, including handless maidens, the Brontë sisters, an ill wind, and minor deities. Comedic and dark by turns, the piece employs books, children's games, and alchemy as it traverses internal landscapes of memory. Towers of books topple, the best-laid curse goes awry, knowledge confuses rather than instructs, and hearts are twisted for this quartet of "researchers" in search of the mind's body of knowledge

ART OF MEMORY is performed by Tanya Calamoneri, Lisa Ramirez, Cassie Terman, and Heather Harpham, with set by Sean Breault, lighting by Bruce Steinberg, costumes by Mioko Mochizuki, live music by Miguel Frasconi, and video design by Jim Short and Matt Tennie.

Tanya Calamoneri founded Company SoGoNo in New York in 2003, after seven years of producing her own work in San Francisco. Her work combines Butoh, physical theater, contemporary dance, and original text. For the past six years, The company has been steadily gathering credentials in New York City and nationally, including performances in Ontological Hysteric Theater's Incubator, Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival, SWEAT Showcase, CRS's Tribute to Butoh, CAVE Artspace's NY International Butoh Festival, Studio 111's Undone Series, WAX's Bridge Series at University Settlement, 92nd Street Y, Solar One Festival, Grounds for Sculpture Outlet Festival, and the LES Howl Festival, as well in Chicago at Links Hall, and in Philadelphia at Temple University's Conwell Theater. For more info visit www.sogono.org.

Originally from San Francisco, Lisa Ramirez was a founding member of The Actor's Theatre of San Francisco and was Literary Director for Brava! For Women in the Arts. Lisa was a Playwright in Residence with The New York Theatre Workshop at Dartmouth College in August 2006. She is currently a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop. Lisa's solo-play Exit Cuckoo was performed this spring by The Working Theater at the Clurman as well as at Bewley's Café Theatre and the Feile-Na-Bealtine literary festival in Ireland.

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