TeAdaWorks: a unique opportunity for artists and audience to engage in the development process of new performance works. Audiences are encouraged to see & give feedback as these artists develop new works that will push both artistic form and cultural understanding.
TeAda Works exists to enrich the repertoire of contemporary works created & performed by people of color through creation, development, presentation, and touring of indterdisciplinary perofrmance/theater projects. TeAda Productions is dedicated to providing innovative theatrical experiences that educate audiences about multi-cultural issues and empower underserved communities.
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TEADAWORKS Summer Master Class Series |
photos by Rosheila Robles
Parking and location for all
workshops:
All Master Classes will take
place at
TeAda Studio B
located behind the building
with the address
6071 Comey Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90034
It is a white triplex building
with black trim. Once you
enter the property walk up
the driveway on the right
side of the building to the
back, and Studio B is the
second set of doors on the
left, the only studio with
double doors.
Street parking on Comey Ave & Venice Bl.
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10 weeks. 10 Master Classes. 10 Teaching Artists.
Come join emerging and established artists practice and create their craft this summer. Each Saturday class is $25, or register for the whole series for $200.
TEADAWORKS Summer Master Class Schedule:
June 19 - Ova Saopeng (performance)
June 26 - John Fleck (performance)
July 3 - Jude Narita (writing & performance)
July 10 - Alice Tuan (writing)
July 17-Roger Guenveur Smith (writing & performance)
July 24 - Shyamala Moorty (movement)
July 31 - Kristina Wong (writing & performance)
August 7 - Alison De La Cruz (writing & performance)
August 14 - Dom Magwili (performance)
August 21 - Adriana Sevan (writing & performance)
To make a reservation, call 310-998-8765 or e-mail classes@teada.org
THE TEADAWORKS NEW PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL is an annual festival of works from bold and revolutionary community-based artists. Over the last 8 years artists who have developed work through TEADAWORKS have gone on to complete full length shows and tour nationally. Venturesome audience members have come to recognize this festival as an opportunity to witness the development of new work from the performance underground.
for more information on the Summer 2010 TEADAWORKS Master Class Series, visit our Classes Page |
Master Class Descriptions
(Will be updated weekly, please check back again for more details!) |
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Aug 21: Adriana Sevan Master Class
SHAKING THE STORY LOOSE
Ok, so you've got a great story on the page, now what?? This workshop will engage you in the exciting exploration and adventure of finding the art of telling YOUR story in YOUR OWN unique way. You will discover the tools needed to theatricalize and invigorate your text, and performance, to bring your audience right into the heart of your message.
ADRIANA SEVAHN NICHOLS is an award winning actress and playwright. She has developed her work and/or performed at the Goodman Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, the Public Theatre, Yale Rep, San Diego Rep etc. Her one woman show, TAKING FLIGHT, was developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, The Lark, premiered at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and was recently published by Samuel French. She has guest at taught CalArts and UCSB. Her new play, NIGHT OVER ERZINGA, will have its world premiere, in 2011, at Golden Thread Productions, and the Silk Road Theatre Project. www.adrianasevahnnichols.com |
PAST TEADAWORKS PERFORMANCES
8th Annual TEADAWORKS New Performance Festival |
L.A.nguage by Shameka Cunningham, photo by Janine Christiano
Ser by Karen Anzoategui, photo Janine Christiano
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Ebony Repertory Theatre and TeAda Productions present
The 8th Annual
TEADAWORKS New Performance Festival
Directed by Alison M. De La Cruz & Dom Magwili
Featuring new work by:
Karen Anzoategui, Ching-In Chen, Shameka Cunningham, Serena Lin, Felicia Montes, Marie-Francoise Theodore, and Carla Vega
TeAda presents our annual festival of works from up and coming artists. Come join us in this unique opportunity to engage in the development of new and promising works. This year, TEADAWORKS will bring you two different programs of solo and ensemble work focusing on social justice from different perspectives and cultures.
At the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center
4708 W Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Tickets: Sliding scale $10-$15
Reservations 310-998-8765 or email teada@teada.org
TEADAWORKS is supported in part by grants from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the California Arts Council, and the James Irvine Foundation. |
Descriptions of Indivudual Performances
in the TEADAWORKS Festival
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Universal Breath by Carla Vega, photo by Janine Christiano
Director Dom Magwili working with artist with Marie-Francoise Theodore, photo by Rosheila Robles
Loteria Xicana by Felicia Montes, photo by Rosheila Robles
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Program #1
Saturday March 20, 2010 at 2 & 7pm
In SER, follow Karen Anzoategui's soccer journey from Los Angeles to Buenos Aires along with her zany family as she tries to see Diego Maradona, her soccer God, while at the same time encountering many unexpected situations.
LANGUAGE, by Shameka Cunningham, tells a story of a monolingual African American woman’s friendship with a Deaf eight-year-old boy from Sweden.
UNIVERSAL BREATH, Carla Vega's solo performance, is a multi-disciplinary exploration of love, addiction, and the healing journey to one's sense of center, purpose, and inner peace.
Program #2
Saturday March 27, 2010 at 2 & 7pm
Ching-In Chen and Serena Lin's TWO RUMORS IN A BUCKET choreopoem examines the history of “coolies” in the tradition of Sharon Bridgforth's "jazz theater" aesthetic, incorporating movement, poetry and found text.
In LOTERIA XICANA Felicia Montes uses Indigenous & Mexican music and dance along with remixed versions of "MexSheCan" Lotería cards to weave together the varied identities and experiences of a modern-day Xicana.
NOT A PROPER HATIAN GIRL is Marie-Francoise Theodore’s piece that charts the journey of a young woman whose true identity is hidden throughout her childhood and the discovery of her true self.
Two Rumors in a Bucket by Ching-In Chen and Serena Lin, photo by Rosheila Robles
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TEADAWORKS 2009: Healing Aloud |
photos by Jen Cleary
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TEADAWORKS NEW PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL SERIES
HEALING ALOUD
Performance dates and locations:
June 26-28, 2009
Friday & Saturday at 8:30pm, Sunday at 2pm
Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Purchase Tickets Online
Featuring
Breakfast with my Mother by Maria G. Martinez
Mami Mami Quien Soy? You Know Who You Are by Raquel Salinas
July 3-5, 2009
Friday at 8:30pm, Sunday at 2pm and 7pm
(no show July 4)
Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Purchase Tickets Online
Featuring
Carrie's Web by Shyamala Moorty
Healing Mars by Marcella Pabros-Clark
HEALING ALOUD is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles Immigrant Funders Collaborative, the California Arts Council, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission |
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Descriptions of HEALING ALOUD Shows:
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MAMI, MAMI, QUIEN SOY?
written and performed by Raquel Salinas
directed by D'Lo
While facing a mother’s dementia, a mother/daughter relationship goes from adversary to love. Through the power of forgiveness, a woman finds herself the keeper of her mother’s stories. Veteran solo performer Raquel Salinas crafts a magnificent multi-character tale of caregiving, the process of letting go what was, and embracing what is.
Performance Dates:
May 15-17 at The Imagined Life Studios
June 26-28 at the Miles Memorial Playhouse
photos by Jen Cleary
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photos by Jen Cleary
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CARRIE’S WEB
written and performed by Shyamala Moorty
directed by D'Lo
A young South Asian woman struggles to untangle herself from cultural and familial webs. She looks for empowerment to stop cycle of violence only to find help from an extremely unlikely source. Can facing her deepest fears change her future? A fantastical tale is woven with contemporary Indian dance, theater and a high-heel-wearing spider. Come join the healing through laughter, tears and hope.
Performance Dates:
May 15-17 at The Imagined Life Studios
July 3-5 at Miles Memorial Playhouse
CARRIE'S WEB is supported in part by a grant from the Arts Council for Long Beach and the City of Long Beach.
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photo by Jen Cleary
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BREAKFAST WITH MY MOTHER
written
by Maria G. Martinez
Directed by Elizabeth Otero
Starring Kikey Castillo, Sheila Korsi, and Maria G. Martinez
A play about three generations of Chicana women and the role reversal of their lives as dementia enters the isolated world of retirement, gardens, and Spanish-language television.
Performance Dates:
March 3-6 at CASA 0101
June 26-28 at Miles Memorial Playhouse
Sheila Korsi, Maria G. Martinez, and Kikey Castillo in Breakfast With My Mother
Photos by Jen Cleary |
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HEALING MARS
written and performed by Marcella Pabros-Clark
Directed by John Clark
“Healing Mars” delves into the world of going against Doctor’s orders. Taking a holistic approach to Rheumatoid Arthritis, Marcella Pabros-Clark challenges the monsters of prescription drugs and health insurance. Creating theatrical dance through multimedia, she reclaims her body, mind, and soul.
Performance Dates:
March 3-6 at CASA 0101
July 3-5 at Miles Memorial Playhouse
photos by Jen Cleary
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Maria Martinez and Marcella Pabros-Clark
photo by Jen Cleary
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TeAda Productions and CASA 0101 present
HEALING ALOUD, Part One
March 6-8, 2008
Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm
$20
CASA 0101
2009 E. First Street
Los Angeles, CA 90033
BREAKFAST WITH MY MOTHER
written
by Maria Martinez
A play about three generations of Chicana women and the role reversal of their lives as dementia enters the isolated world of retirement, gardens, and Spanish-language television.
HEALING MARS
written and performed by Marcella Pabros-Clark
“Healing Mars” delves into the world of going against Doctor’s orders. Taking a holistic approach to Rheumatoid Arthritis, Marcella Pabros-Clark challenges the monsters of prescription drugs and health insurance. Creating theatrical dance through multimedia, she reclaims her body, mind, and soul.
HEALING ALOUD, PARTS ONE AND TWO is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles Immigrant Funders Collaborative, the California Arts Council, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. |
Marcella Pabros-Clark in "Healing Mars"
Jaqueline Calderon-Guido and Teresita Cuadrado in "Breakfast with my Mother" by Maria Martinez
Corky Dominguez reads from "Weapon of Mass Destruction"
Shyamala Moorty in "Carrie's Web"
Photos by Sandra Chattergee
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TEADAWORKS 2008: HEALING ALOUD
TeAda Productions presented a one-day festival of workshop performances by local artists who are participating in TeAda Productions’ new program called HEALING ALOUD.
Are we really taking care of ourselves? How many of us are active in our healing processes? How do we gain and maintain physical, emotional, and mental health? These questions are asked and explored in the new multi-disciplinary theater and performance works by Los Angeles artists Corky Dominguez, D’Lo, Maria Martinez, Shyamala Moorty, Marcella Pabros-Clark, and Raquel Salinas on the issues of dementia, degenerative diseases, fear, sexuality, and prescription drugs in today’s environment.
HEALING ALOUD was created to develop opportunities for its artists to collaborate with local health organizations and create original performances addressing health issues of immigrants and refugees. The project aims to increase awareness of health issues facing immigrants and refugees—such as body image, caregiving for our elders, and ways to approach holistic health practices—and provide the partnering organizations with a creative strategy for reaching their target audiences. Each artist has spent the last couple months conducting various workshops and community engagement activities with the clients of their partnered health organizations, which include the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center, Unión de Mujeres Oaxaqueñas, and Satrang.
TEADAWORKS 2008: HEALING ALOUD
Baldwin Hills Branch Library
2906 La Brea Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90016.
Saturday, June 21st at 2pm.
This program was funded in part by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
D'Lo in "The Backdoor"
Raquel Salinas in "Mami Mami Quien Soy?"
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TEADAWORKS NEW PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL SERIES
(May 18-27, 2007) Moving forward in its dedication to new play development, the 2007 TEADAWORKS New Performance Festival presents a staged reading, a workshop performance, and a finished production. The festival series features local artists Kristina Wong, Leilani Chan, Ova Saopeng, and Peter Harris in their latest work, serving up multi-cultural performance and pushing the boundaries of performance art and theatre.
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Details of TeAdaWorks 2007 Performances:
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WONG FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
Written and performed by Kristina Wong
Incisive writer and performer Kristina Wong mixes sharp humor and psychology in Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a semi-autobiographical, serio-comic portrayal of anxiety, depression and incidence of mental illness among Asian American women. Tangling, spinning, and mixing yarns, she asks: Which came first? The chicken or the egg? The suicides of Asian American women or the maddening world? Wong's irreverent and provocative work has given her a national cult following for "politically charged art with unapologetic humor. " Knitters-cuckoo and not-are invited to knit in the audience during the shows.
Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project commissioned by Asian Arts Initiative and La Peña Cultural Center. Funding for Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, and La Peña's New Works Fund supported by The James Irvine Foundation. Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is also a Project of Creative Capital.
May 18-19, 2007 • 8pm
2100 Square Feet
5615 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019 |
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THE BLACK MAN OF HAPPINESS
Written by Peter J. Harris
Directed by Tamara Sibley
(Staged Reading)
Happy...not happy-go-lucky!
Embracing the blues…transforming drama …making beauty…sculpting water…
and other sacred pursuits.
In this impressionistic solo meditation which began its development in TeAda's 2006 Workshop, Peter J. Harris employs language, movement and music as he seeks to answer the provocative questions: What is a happy Black man? Who inspires his happiness? Where is his North Star in the night sky?
Harris explores (and pursues) happiness as an antidote to America's historical dehumanization of Black men.
May 19, 2007 • 5pm
2100 Square Feet
5615 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019 |
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TeAda’s First National Community-Based Theater Project
REFUGEE NATION
Written and performed by Leilani Chan and Ova Saopeng
Based on the stories of Laotian Refugees and their descendents
WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE
May 27, 2007
Highways Performance Space • 2pm
1655 18th St, Santa Monica CA, 90404
For reservations call 310-315-1459 or go to www.highwaysperformance.org
Laotians of any age are encouraged to contact the artists at http://myspace.com/refugeenation or refugeenation@gmail.com
Refugee Nation is being developed in collaboration with Legacies of War, a national organization dedicated to raise awareness about the history of the Vietnam War-era bombing in Laos. For more information on how to support this education & advocacy effort go to www.legaciesofwar.org
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This project is supported in part by: the Rockefeller Foundation’s MAP Fund, SPARC,
UCLA’s World Arts And Culture’s 2006 HOTHOUSE, Center Theater Group/TCG-
Roger Gueneveur Smith Writer’s Workshop, CSU Dominguez Hills’ Pat Eliet Lecture Series and:
TEADAWORKS was funded in part by cultural grants from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. TeAda Productions is in residence at Highways Performance Space and Gallery.
Special thanks to 2100 Square Feet.
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TEADAWORKS 2003
HIGH VOLTAGE FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS
BY ARTISTS THAT GO BEYOND THE HYBRID in
2nd ANNUAL TEADA WORKS FESTIVAL
WARNING: May contain apparitions of myth, delusions of identity and body based dualities.
Santa Monica, CA – August 28TH through August 31ST, TeAda Productions presents TEADA WORKS 2003: SECOND ANNUAL NEW PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT LAB AND FESTIVAL. TEADA WORKS is a festival showcasing new multi/interdisciplinary performances by distinguished artists in two LABS. The CORE ARTIST LAB includes well-crafted 15-25 minute interdisciplinary new works by actors, performance artists and dancers: Bonnie Lee, Yi Lin, Shymala Moorty, Albert Wong and Monica Sanchez. The COMMUNITY ARTIST LAB will be 5-10 minute raw and wild multi-genre evolving new works by Wynee Hu, Erica Jean, Sachi Kikuchi, Gabriella Lopez, Maria G. Martinez, Sherie Mateo, Marcella Pabros-Clark, Mychele Sims and Maria Mami Turnmeyer. Festival performances will be presented at Highways Performance Space at 1651 18th Street in Santa Monica. CORE ARTIST LAB Performances - August 28-30 @ 8:30PM, tickets are $16. COMMUNITY ARTIST LAB Performances – August 30 & 31 @ 2PM, tickets are $12. For Reservations call 310/315-1459.
In addition, Saturday and Sunday, August 16th and 17th, there will be OPEN REHEARSALS by TeAda's Core Artist Lab at 3PM and Community Artist Lab at NOON, which will be presented in Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, 3601 South Gaffey Street, Building H, San Pedro. Reservations for Open Rehearsals are not required. These are pay-what-you-can events. For artists’ biographies and performance descriptions, please request TeAdaWorks Brochure, Press Packet or connect to our web page www.teada.org
The TeAda Works Artist Manifesto:
1) Reckless experimentation and miscegenation of multiple art forms
2) Fearless tackling of personal, political, global and diasporic issues
3) Collaboration and commitment to challenging each other as artists and audience members.
TEADA WORKS is about the artistic process. This annual festival offers artists a rare opportunity to work intensively and collaboratively to develop new performance works through workshops, rehearsals and labs (performance workout sessions). Audiences are also encouraged to engage in the development process in order to enhance both artistic form and cultural understanding. Audiences can participate by attending the Open Rehearsals and Talk-Back sessions at Angel’s Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, and then attend culminating performances at the Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica. Launched in August of 2002, the TeAda Works Festival successfully earned TeAda Productions its second consecutive “Best Bet” recommendations from the Los Angeles Times. In 2002, TeAda Productions was also awarded a “Best of LA” recognition from the LA Weekly. The 2003 TeAda Works Festival will be a continuation of this provocative artistic event informing the audiences about multi-cultural issues while pushing the boundaries of performance art, dance, theater and both cultural and artistic hybridity. TeAda Works artists are the ones to watch!
Founded by Artistic Director Leilani Chan in 1995, TEADA PRODUCTIONS is a multi-cultural non-profit organization whose mission is to enrich the repertoire of contemporary work created and performed by artists of color through creation, development, presentation, and touring of interdisciplinary performance/theatre projects. It serves as a channel to educate audiences about controversial multi-cultural issues and recognize the importance of underserved communities. All artistic presentations deal with cultural and political issues most urgent to their communities. Issues previously explored include: multi-racial identity, sexual orientation/homophobia, struggles with immigrant and non-immigrant communities of color and much more.
TeAda Productions is supported by the California Arts Council, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division. TeAda Productions is in residence at the 18th Street Arts Complex in Santa Monica. |
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TEADAWORKS 2002: LIVE MUTANT ART
A festival of boundary breaking performances that blow off the cutting edge!
Featuring "Self (The Remix)" by Robert Karimi and DJ Special K
New Works by:
Pat Payne
Ova Saopeng
Kristina Sheryl Wong
Special Appearances:
Tanantzín Carmelo
Alfie Ebojo
Bonnie Lee
Yi Lin
Shyamala Moorty
Uili Ryder
Raquel Salinas
Felicia Taylor E. |
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