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LONG DISTANCE AFFAIR
(make possible an impossible trip)
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Long Distance Affair will be presented in The Rough Draft Festival on April 12. Read more here!
WHAT When theatre meets technology possibilities become endless. In Long Distance Affair, someone across the globe is reaching out exclusively to you. What will be the result when you and a perfect stranger meet with only a computer screen between you? WHERE LaGuardia Performing Arts Center The Mainstage Theatre 31-10 Thomson Ave. Long Island City, NY 11101 Directions: Take the 7 train to 33rd/Rawson or the E,G,V,R trains to Queens Plaza 10 minutes from Grand Central Station HOW In this one-on-one Skype show each audience member checks in with a PopUp receptionist at the LPAC and is guided to a computer station. On the other side of the screen, awaits a performance in another part of the world just for you. Each audience experiences 3 affairs a ticket. Only 15 audience members each night can be accommodated. Tickets FREE! Reservations required at rsvp-lpac@lagcc.cuny.edu. WHO Over 30 artists from 5 continents have united to create a virtual adventure just for you. Long Distance Affair, conceived by Ana Margineanu and developed with Tamilla Woodard, is a PopUp Theatrics international collaboration between the following outstanding theatre artists: Playwrights: Mariano Tenconi Blanco (Buenos Aires, Argentina),Beatriz Cabur (Milan Italy/Madrid, Spain) John Freedman (Moscow, Russia), Ella Greenhill (Liverpool, England) Garret Groenveld (San Francisco, US) , Zainabu Jallo (Lagos, Nigeria) Matthew McVarish (Glasgow, Scotland), Matthew Olmos (NYC, US), Lisa Parry ( Cardiff, Wales), Mariana Hartasánchez (Querétaro, Mexico) Peca Stefan (Bucharest, Romania) Directors: Michael Carnow (Chicago, USA) Doug Howe (NYC, US) Ana Margineanu (Bucharest Romania/US) Michel Melmed (Rio de Janiero,Brazil) Lucia Rodríguez Miranda (Madrid, Spain) Benjamin Mosse (USA) Enrico Stolzenburg (Berlin, Germany) Tamilla Woodard (Brookyn, NYC) Actors: Monina Bonelli (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Victoria Chen (Singapore, Singapore), Toma Danila (Bucharest Romania), Daniela Fortes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Aimee Horne (Sydney Australian) Miguel Loyola (Querétaro, Mexico) Laura Méndez (Querétaro, Mexico) Oksana Mysina (Moscow, Russia) Katia Pascariu (Bucharest, Romania) Andreea Paduraru (London, England) Eric Robertson (Edinburgh, Scotland) Choreographers: Andreea Duta (Bucharest, Romania) |
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New York City, US
When theatre meets technology possibilities become endless.
In Long Distance Affair, someone across the globe is reaching out exclusively to you. What will be the result when you and a perfect stranger meet with only a computer screen between you?
LONG DISTANCE AFFAIR performed at The Gershwin Hotel between 5-28 February, 2013. 33 artists from 6 continents participated.
When theatre meets technology possibilities become endless.
In Long Distance Affair, someone across the globe is reaching out exclusively to you. What will be the result when you and a perfect stranger meet with only a computer screen between you?
LONG DISTANCE AFFAIR performed at The Gershwin Hotel between 5-28 February, 2013. 33 artists from 6 continents participated.
QUERÉTARO, MEXICO
What level of intimacy can you aspire to when all the information you receive comes through a computer screen? 18 artists from 6 countries decide to take this virtual adventure and bring it to an audience of 48 participants in Querétaro Mexico. Each virtual "affair" is performed for (and with) only one audience member at a time.
Long Distance Affair: Querétaro is possible through the partnership with El Centauro Mecánico and at the invitation of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and the 7° Festival Cultural Universitario Tecnología-Exceso de Presente.
THE COUNTRIES: Romania, US, Germany, Spain, Australia, Mexico.
What level of intimacy can you aspire to when all the information you receive comes through a computer screen? 18 artists from 6 countries decide to take this virtual adventure and bring it to an audience of 48 participants in Querétaro Mexico. Each virtual "affair" is performed for (and with) only one audience member at a time.
Long Distance Affair: Querétaro is possible through the partnership with El Centauro Mecánico and at the invitation of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and the 7° Festival Cultural Universitario Tecnología-Exceso de Presente.
THE COUNTRIES: Romania, US, Germany, Spain, Australia, Mexico.
NEW YORK CITY, US
Long Distance Affair was first presented in November 2011 at "Around the World in 24 hours," an Internationalists Directors Collective Annual Festival of independent global theatre makers. Participation artists included: Ana Margineanu, (US), Doug Howe (US), Jeremy Lydic (US), Andreea Duta (Romania), Alfonso Carcamo (Mexico), Ella Greenhill (England), Stacey Gregg (Ireland), Diane Lefer (US), Sigtryggur Magnasson (Iceland), Lisa Parry (England), Monica Raymond (US), Peca Stefan (Romania), David L. Williams (US), Radu Campean (Romania), Svandis Dora Einarsdottir (Iceland), Fatih Genckal (Turkey), Aimée Horne (Australia), Miguel Loyola (Mexico), Martina Marti (Finland), Lorenzo Montanini (Italy), Oksana Mysina (Russia) and Anastasia Papatheodorou (Greece).
Long Distance Affair was first presented in November 2011 at "Around the World in 24 hours," an Internationalists Directors Collective Annual Festival of independent global theatre makers. Participation artists included: Ana Margineanu, (US), Doug Howe (US), Jeremy Lydic (US), Andreea Duta (Romania), Alfonso Carcamo (Mexico), Ella Greenhill (England), Stacey Gregg (Ireland), Diane Lefer (US), Sigtryggur Magnasson (Iceland), Lisa Parry (England), Monica Raymond (US), Peca Stefan (Romania), David L. Williams (US), Radu Campean (Romania), Svandis Dora Einarsdottir (Iceland), Fatih Genckal (Turkey), Aimée Horne (Australia), Miguel Loyola (Mexico), Martina Marti (Finland), Lorenzo Montanini (Italy), Oksana Mysina (Russia) and Anastasia Papatheodorou (Greece).
