“HAPPINESS” AT THE ROY ARIAS THEATER CENTER

May 10, 2008 by Kingston


News of a one-night exclusive action here in NYC, May 14th. If you’re in town, gratify analyse it out!

“Dear Friends & Fellow Performers,

I am composition to elicit you to my newborn unaccompanied show, Happiness, which has been designated for the One Woman Standing Festival, and module endeavor for digit period only, weekday May 14th, at 9:00 pm. The action module verify locate at the Payan Theater in the Roy Arias Theater Center, settled at 300 West 43rd Street, at 8th Ave.

I module be performing the full, sixty-minute edition of Happiness for the prototypal time, with a installation for conference feedback after the show.

I would fuck it if you could be there, and your feedback would be staggeringly valuable. Please come, if you can. Bri

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News of a one-night only performance here in NYC, May 14th. If you're in town, please check it out!

"Dear Friends & Fellow Performers,

I am writing to invite you to my new solo show, Happiness, which has been selected for the One Woman Standing Festival, and will play for one night only, Wednesday May 14th, at 9:00 pm. The performance will take place at the Payan Theater in the Roy Arias Theater Center, located at 300 West 43rd Street, at 8th Ave.

I will be performing the full, sixty-minute version of Happiness for the first time, with a forum for audience feedback after the show.

I would love it if you could be there, and your feedback would be enormously valuable. Please come, if you can. Bring your mom, bring a friend, bring your Verizon network gang -- tickets are only $10, for sixty minutes of the performing arts (!). A bargain in my book, considering that barely buys a large latte and a scone in our fair city.

Happiness is drawn from my experience of having a sick child, of living amid the dying, and returning to ordinary life. It's about human fragility and regenerative power, and about looking for happiness in the nooks and crannies of a dark time, or wherever it might be hiding.

I'm pasting in a link for tickets and reservations below, and a longer description of the show.

Hope to see you there, and thanks so much for your support.

Warmly, HH"
Tickets: http://tinyurl.com/57uu53

"Happiness" is a highly kinetic one-woman show about a child's passage from life-threatening illness to health. It explores the euphoria and fear we face as physical beings, both immensely fragile and regenerative. Along the way, we encounter characters who struggle to find peace in their physical selves including: Gandhi, who rejoices that in limbo he can at last eat; a homeless Russian dissident who fears that it is his past, and not the wind, which keeps snatching his hat; and a young girl who takes breath after breath, against her will, on a ventilator. These characters share a fixation with the possibilities and limitations of the physical body, and a fascination with the elusive happiness they believe exists beyond their own skin.

Heather Harpham's performance work has been described by the New York Times as possessing "sly inherent humor," and as "bewitching." Her performance style synthesizes the physical eloquence of dance with the emotional power of theater to create a narrative hyper reality where the ordinary and the surreal entwine.


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KINHAVEN MUSIC SCHOOL, EVENT, MAY 2008

May 6, 2008 by Kingston

Small, hint New royalty events hap every period in this town, on every kinds of scales for every kinds of reasons. Every today and then I’m aerated to an circumstance same this. Last period was meet much an intimacy to hold Kinhaven Music School in Vermont: a assembling of friends, supporters, alumnae and artists at the Harlem bag of Richard Brice

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Small, intimate New York events happen every night in this town, on all kinds of scales for all kinds of reasons. Every now and then I’m treated to an event like this. Last night was just such an affair to support Kinhaven Music School in Vermont: a gathering of friends, supporters, alumnae and artists at the Harlem home of Richard Brice, noted viola player.

I have seen him perform many times with An Die Musik and An Die Musik’s founder Connie Emmerich invited me to last night’s event to celebrate Kinhaven. From what she tells me it is truly a wonderful place for young talents to go and study for the summer, in a nurturing non-competitive environment.

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Why am I telling you dear allergic readers about this, as it’s neither food nor restaurant related? Mainly because I just adore chamber music—it places me in a completly relaxed state. And because living with allergies and asthma can put one in a very NON-relaxed state especially if your asthma is raging or something you’ve just eaten has your throat itching or you’ve been glutenized and your tummy is gurgling.


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I seek out ways to get to that relaxed and happy place. The Brandenburg concertos are one of those places for me. So it was an extra treat to hear the fifth concerto played live, 10 feet away; chamber music played a la chambre.

PS I had a chance to talk about the state of theater today with everyone’s favorite television psychiatrist and germaphobe: Niles Crane! Yes, the incomparable David Hyde Pierce was there to support friends and was gracious and polite, a lovely seeming man and good conversationalist!

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