Brooklyn-based percussion ensemble to host experimental multi-night performance series with VPL
GUILFORD, Vermont (May 9, 2012) -- Vermont Performance Lab welcomes the return of experimental percussionists So Percussion to develop their newest work, Where (we) Live. The group will collaborate with New York-based guitarist Grey McMurray and local Vermont artists to provide new influence for their creative process.
Read more: So Percussion Collaborates With Vermont Artists To Develop “Where (we) Live”
Vermont Performance Lab receives $10,000 challenge grant to support Creation Fund
GUILFORD, VT (December 12, 2011) -- Vermont Performance Lab received news that the Oswald Family Foundation awarded a $10,000 challenge grant to support the VPL Creation Fund. The grant encourages individuals, groups and organizations to match the sum and join Vermont Performance Lab in fostering art in rural Vermont communities.
Read more: Oswald Family Foundation Honors VPL’s Artist-Community Engagement
Writer/Director/Performer Ain Gordon researches local history as Guilford and Marlboro celebrate 250th anniversary.
GUILFORD, Vermont (November 14, 2011) -- Obie award-winning theater artist Ain Gordon will step away from the spotlight of New York City’s stages and dive into the hidden history behind southern Vermont’s forgotten cellar holes and stone walls as he researches and develops his newest work, Not What Happened.
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Tabletop puppetry project brings focus to hunger and food scarcity issues
Guilford, VT (July 19, 2011) — Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) is delighted to welcome Los Angeles-based performance artist Dan Froot and New York-based puppet artist Dan Hurlin to their Guilford studio to develop “Who’s Hungry - Santa Monica” – the newest in an ongoing series of puppet plays based on the life stories of hungry and homeless people in Los Angeles. All proceeds from the local performance will benefit the Guilford Food Pantry.
Read more: Vermont Performance Lab Residency to Benefit Local Food Bank
Vermont Performance Lab takes audience members on unique evening tour
Guilford, VT (May 17, 2011) -- The Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) has a reputation of promoting artistic experimentation and pushing the expectations of music and dance enthusiasts. Their patented Lab Program offers artists in residency the chance to develop new works and share it with small audiences in a retreat-like setting. But on three nights in June, the work of three emerging choreographers will be the focus of an art tour, that really moves.
Read more: Festival Highlights Progressive Approach to Performance
May 24 event to explore collaboration in the creative process
Guilford, VT (May 5, 2011) -- Music and dance have a long and intertwined history. Classically, a performance is centered around a single art form, while the other plays a supportive role; think dancers with a band, or pit ensembles with a ballet. However, the work growing out of a rural studio in southern Vermont urges artists to explore their collaboration as the medium. And one husband and wife team is taking the integration of music and dance to new levels with a music studio and creative residency program, called The Vermont Performance Lab (VPL).
Read more: Vermont Studio Bridges Gap Between Music and Dance
Vermont Performance Lab and Marlboro College to host “lab artists” in Embodied Learning: Practices from East and West
Marlboro, Vermont (March 15, 2011) — Two award-winning, cutting-edge artists will travel to the rolling hills of central Windham County next month to offer their unique perspectives on theater and dance, as Marlboro College and Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) host a week-long symposium on the college campus here.
Read more: Experimental Symposium to Pair Progressive Artists in a Rural Vermont Setting