2018 Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts

These are the ones you remember forever

SEPTEMBER 21 – NOVEMBER 11, 2018 TRUSTARTS.ORG/FIRSTS

Welcome to the 2018 Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts

These are the ones that change you

It’s our most diverse Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts ever­—an expanded showcase of never-before-seen performing and visual arts attractions.

For eight weeks this fall, September 21 – November 11, the Cultural District will be a hub for United States, North American, and World Premieres. More than 30 international companies and artists will be featured, hailing from over 20 countries across six continents, including representation from Pittsburgh’s own arts community.

As you browse this brochure, take notice of the breadth of world-class entertainment, from Broadway’s biggest hits and innovative theater to must-see visual art, casual cabaret, educational excellence, and more. The Festival welcomes you with diverse arts experiences from around the world that are easy to access and hard to resist.

Planning for this Festival began 18 months ago when the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s 12-member curatorial team was joined by Quantum Theatre’s Artistic Director Karla Boos, who serves as Guest Curator. This diverse team traveled the globe to discover the “state of the art” in 2018, finding that artists’ work was connecting people across physical borders through the universal language of art.

Everyone here at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust looks forward to seeing you in the Cultural District!

Scott Shiller

Vice President of Artistic Planning Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

Karla Boos

Guest Curator, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts Artistic Director, Quantum Theatre

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A note from Guest Curator Karla Boos Having made work with international artists for nearly 30 years, this Festival since its inception has been crucial to my belief in Pittsburgh and influenced that work itself. I see it’s a different world from the one that birthed this Festival originally; borders have been breached by artists.

I see that the Cultural Trust itself is different and has embraced the potential of its role as a presenter of incredible diversity and depth.

Murray Horne

This Festival says art is for everyone.

J. Kevin McMahon

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Curator, Wood Street Galleries Pittsburgh Cultural Trust President & CEO Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

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Ultimately, we hope that each of you will recognize and relate to the stories that exist in the art we are presenting, but also experience those stories in new ways and see them through different lenses. This Festival celebrates the idea that “there is more that unites us than divides us.”

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This is the one that paints you into history

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CHATTERTON BASED ON THE BOOK BY PETER ACKROYD QUANTUM THE ATRE

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Recommended for ages 13+ | Tickets start at $68 Country of Origin: United States

SEPTEMBER 14–OCTOBER 28 TRINITY CATHEDRAL

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A new play adapted from Sir Peter Ackroyd’s award-winning book and directed by Quantum Theatre founder Karla Boos, Chatterton spreads out in three dimensions, immersing its mobile audiences in the haunting spaces of Trinity Cathedral.

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Chatterton’s plot takes inspiration from historical character Thomas Chatteron, the Romantic era’s most famous suicide, an 18th century poet who took his young life and was immortalized 100 years later by a very famous painting.

Modeling for that painting was Victorian poet George Meredith, whose own dramatic life also features in Ackroyd’s story. And in the present, poet Charles Wychwood goes on a hunt to solve mysterious puzzles from the past — is what we believe about Thomas Chatterton truth or fiction?

‘authentic’ in the intertwining worlds of art and commerce?

In the manner of Quantum’s 2014 production TAMARA, the audience moves through masterfully dressed spaces in a stunning historic landmark. The experience begins with preshow drinks in Pittsburgh’s oldest churchyard and includes a full intermission dinner by the celebrity chef of the week.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for all ages | FREE Country of Origin: International

SEPTEMBER 21 | 5:30 - 10PM CULTURAL DISTRICT Clear your calendar now. The Festival’s eight-week run in downtown Pittsburgh officially launches with the biggest celebration of the year. The spectacular World Premiere of Manifold and US Premiere of Beyond will electrify the Cultural District while a one-night-only World Market readies us for two months of international arts experiences. Surprises will be around every corner, literally, as alleyways burgeon with performance art, food trucks, and art installations. Thirty more galleries, storefronts, and stages offer free arts and entertainment including four more World Premieres at Wood Street Galleries, SPACE, 707 Penn, and 937 Liberty Ave. Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is presented by UPMC and UPMC Health Plan.

A NOTE FROM THE FESTIVAL CURATORIAL TEAM: We are excited to present the fall Gallery Crawl in conjunction with the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts. The Gallery Crawl will showcase dozens of pop-up arts experiences curated by our neighborhood partners throughout the Cultural District.

One of the highlights of the evening is the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts World Market. This market will feature one-of-a-kind original art from more than twenty of the region’s finest artisans who represent the African Diaspora, and some of the region’s diverse immigrant communities.

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This is the one that bends reality

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MANIFOLD PROJECTION MAPPING BY FILIP ROCA ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED BY WANG LU 30+ PIT TSBURGH MUSICIANS CONDUCTED BY DANIEL NESTA CURTIS

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for all ages | FREE Countries of Origin: Spain, Montenegro, China, United States

SEPTEMBER 21 & 22 | 8:15 & 10:15 PM BENEDUM CENTER FAÇADE (OUTDOORS) Millions of guests have enjoyed thousands of performances at the Benedum Center since its opening as the Stanley Theatre in 1928, but this is a first.

Pittsburgh welcomes artists working in 3D animation technique, particle and liquid simulations, and audio-reactive image generation.

For two days only and four total outdoor performances, the exterior façade of the Benedum Center becomes the canvas for Filip Roca’s World Premiere projection mapping spectacle, Manifold. In the foreground, near the intersection of Penn Avenue and 7th Street, acclaimed Chinese composer Wang Lu’s original score, written specifically for Manifold, will be brought to life by an ensemble comprised of outstanding Pittsburgh musicians from many worlds. Our great symphonic and new-music players are joined by masters from our jazz heritage, other traditional forms, and young players crossing musical barriers. Expect to hear echoes of hip-hop, ragtime-influenced banjo, flamenco guitar, and brass band from a non-traditional orchestra as diverse as Pittsburgh itself, under the baton of Daniel Nesta Curtis. The eight-minute performance is a must-see!

Roca’s abstract audiovisual narrative will wrap around the Benedum Center along Penn Avenue and 7th Street, generating space distortions and optical illusions, bending and lighting the many intricate parts of the façade. The projection mapping piece studies matter as a physical substance, creating spaces on the façade that reflect our human perception of physical laws governing energy, gravity, time, and state of being. Each of these spaces affects the geometry of the Benedum Center differently.

Light, sound, and matter come together in a single moment.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for ages 10+ | FREE Timed Reservation Required Country of Origin: Spain

SEPTEMBER 21–OCTOBER 26 CULTURAL DISTRICT Beyond is an immersive, audiovisual installation by Barcelonabased research studio Playmodes that explores relationships between space, time, and perception. A geometrical architecture transforms space into a container for the abstract language of light and sound.

Beyond is also a study on visual and auditory perspective. Inside a long tunnel, vanishing points are made visible, creating an effect of endless depth and monumental scale. This perspective is enhanced through sound, as Playmodes invites us to “travel without moving” in a collision between inner and outer, darkness and light, death and life.

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This is the one that stops you in your tracks

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for all ages | FREE Country of Origin: France

SEPTEMBER 21–DECEMBER 31 WOOD STREET GALLERIES Nonotak will present two installations at Wood Street Galleries, including a new version of narrow V.3 created specifically for the venue and the US premiere of Daydream V.5.

Nonotak studio is the collaboration between visual artist Noemi Schipfer and the architect / musician Takami Nakamoto. In early 2013, they started to work on light and sound installations, creating an ethereal, immersive and dreamlike environment meant to envelop the viewer, capitalizing on Takami Nakamoto’s approach to space and sound, and Noemi Schipfer’s experience in kinetic art. They presented their first audiovisual installation at the Mapping Festival in May 2013 and in a relatively short amount of time, the pair has become renowned for creating ethereal, immersive, and dreamlike sound and light environments meant to envelop viewers.

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This is the one that questions our creations

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for all ages | FREE Country of Origin: International

SEPTEMBER 21–DECEMBER 31 SPACE

The development of contemporary art is intertwined with that of the machine, technically and conceptually. One of its highlights was the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely’s Homage to New York, a 1960 performance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It involved a self-constructing and self-destroying mechanism with remains that the audience could take home, alluding to an urban cycle of energy that entails perpetual rebuilding.

Machine Culture introduces a group of young artists equally fascinated by the mechanical. The kinetic qualities of gears in motion and motorized moving parts produce both ironic and amusing results, operating with varying degrees of autonomy and control, function and dysfunction, and sometimes generating unpredictable results. Like Tinguely’s absorption with building up and breaking down, these artists orchestrate and transform bits and pieces of discarded industrial objects and post-consumer technology, reconfiguring them into “objects of fascination.”

Artists: Henrik Menne, Zoro Feigl, Kausik Mukhopadhyay, Samuel St Aubin, Kristoffer Myskja, Ali Miharbi, Oz Malul, Keny Marshall, Ujoo & Limhee Young and Peter Flemming This exhibition is generously supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

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This is the one that pushes our buttons

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for all ages | FREE Country of Origin: United States

SEPTEMBER 21–DECEMBER 9 707 PENN GALLERY Artist Keny Marshall builds kinetic and sculptural works as an alternative to the invisible “blackbox” world that popular technology inhabits. Using found objects and hand-built devices, he constructs mechanisms that are often ridiculous parodies of technology. Models of natural systems and collections of objects re-combined with transparent inner workings oppose the idea that the things you own should be controlled by someone else.

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50 CITIES – 50 TRACES INTERNATIONAL ART & PE ACE PROJECT (2018 – 2020) 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

Presented by Remembering Hiroshima Imagining Peace, Mayors for Peace, City of Asylum, and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for all ages | FREE Country of Origin: International

SEPTEMBER 21–DECEMBER 9 937 LIBERTY This international art and peace project commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons signed by the nuclear-weapon states USA, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain in 1968.

The artistic concept behind 50 Cities – 50 Traces is to juxtapose individual traces from 50 Mayors for Peace cities, highlighting the diversity and beauty of these cities and the daily life taking place therein. The exhibition is conceived as an invitation to respect and preserve the world’s visible remainders, which are bearers of memory. It is an appeal against the destruction of our cities, against the deployment of nuclear weapons – thus supporting the core idea behind the Mayors for Peace movement: “Cities are not targets.”

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This is the one you see with your eyes closed

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of Multiple Choice Events Recommended for ages 16+ | Tickets start at $25 Countries of Origin: United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany

SEPTEMBER 22 HARRIS THEATER In the darkness of a movie theater, audience members sit blindfolded. Behind each row of audience members sits a row of children. In hushed voices, these children describe a film only they can see. Accompanied by the film’s dialoguefree soundtrack, the whispered descriptions are a fragile, fragmentary, sometimes struggling, courageous attempt by the seeing children to make sense of what they see projected on the screen.

Over the course of this shared experience, adults recall their own experiences of trying to find the right words and recall that early struggle to articulate new ideas to an older, larger, wiser world. Blind Cinema seeks to discover language’s potential and limits.

Each performance features a unique group of children participating in the show, ages 9-11, whose experience is preceded by a workshop.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh Recommended for ages 8+ | Tickets start at $26 Country of Origin: Canada

SEPTEMBER 25–30 BENEDUM CENTER For its 25th anniversary, Cirque Éloize presents a touching, poetic, one-of-a-kind creation. HOTEL is the story of a place, and the travelers who pass through it—a stopover where lives intersect, collide, and juxtapose for a brief time to generate tales and memories.

Acrobatics, theater, dance, and live music draw spectators into a colorful, timeless world. Avant-garde stage design, inspired by the elegance of the great hotels, carries the narrative. All that remains is to enter through the lobby door and be swept away by the grandeur and poetry of HOTEL.

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CIRQUE ÉLOIZE HOTEL KNOW THE SHOW BEFORE YOU GO SEPTEMBER 26 | 6:30 – 7:00 PM

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This is the one that makes your heart sing

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of the Trust Cabaret Series Recommended for all ages | Tickets start at $45 Country of Origin: United States

OCTOBER 1 | 7 & 9:30 PM GREER CABARET THEATER International star Eva Noblezada makes her Pittsburgh concert debut after starring on the West End of London and on Broadway in the title role of Cameron Mackintosh’s epic revival of Miss Saigon. She received a 2017 Tony Award® nomination at age 21 for her first Broadway role, and she was awarded the prestigious WhatsOnStage Award in London for Best Actress in a Musical. Eva also played Eponine in the recent West End revival of the legendary musical Les Misérables.

Eva divides her work between New York and London, and her cabaret show has recently thrilled audiences in Europe and the United States. She is proud to bring this new concert edition to her fans in Pittsburgh.

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This is the one that teaches you kindness

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of Trust Arts Education Recommended for ages 11+ | Tickets start at $10 Country of Origin: United States

OCTOBER 3–6 PEIRCE STUDIO | TRUST ARTS EDUCATION CENTER

Award-winning Pittsburgh performer Gab Bonesso is thrilled to team with Trust Arts Education as she debuts her new performance project Gab Squad. Known nationally as both a stand-up comic, and renowned children’s/family educator and musical artist, Gab has traveled the US with her unique mix of energetic songs, heartfelt discussion, and interactive comedic lessons—all with a message of tolerance and the celebration of creativity in participants.

Gab Squad is a new interactive musical-comedy performance for middle and high-school age participants, built around curriculum-approved messages of kindness, positive expression, and community engagement. Exploring vital issues of mental health and triumph over both personal and societal obstacles, audiences will be engaged in Gab Squad’s unique and informative mix of programming content: equal parts classroom-style discussion, interactive late-night talk show, pop concert, dance party, and stand-up comedy special.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of Wednesday Wine Flights Must be 21+ | Tickets start at $41.25 Country of Origin: International

OCTOBER 3 | 6:15 PM GREER CABARET THEATER This blind tasting will feature wines from several countries represented in the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts.

Guests will be encouraged to test their senses in determining which wine represents the countries chosen, as well as what variety of wine they are tasting. The presentation will be given

by Jacob Bacharach and Deb Mortilliaro of Dreadnought Wines.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for ages 12+ | Tickets start at $35 Country of Origin: United States

OCTOBER 4–7 AUGUST WILSON CENTER “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Here’s one: It is 1968, and you arrive at a house party. A band is playing, some people are making out. You drink, you mingle, you dance.

The White Album is theater meeting performance art unlike anything Pittsburgh has ever seen. This innovative production brings Joan Didion’s seminal essay to life—performed in its entirety by Obie Award-winning actor Mia Barron—with a glassed-in ‘stage within a stage’ and surprises behind every onstage door. Become a voyeur as you sit in the August Wilson Center auditorium, and watch as social norms and theatrical conventions crumble to the ground.

The White Album episodically traverses the tectonically shifting landscape of the late 1960s in California. Our current era carries eerie shades of the late 60s: the Black Panthers in Black Lives Matter; the Vietnam student protestors and the #NeverAgain movement; Women’s Lib has given way to #MeToo. The struggles continue, amplified through social media feeds, broadcast openly and unfiltered, but there is hope.

Our narrative can change, grow, and mature as we find fresh resonance in the stories we tell ourselves again and again.

The White Album is commissioned by Center Theatre Group with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, BAM for the 2018 Next Wave Festival, the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, and Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. The White Album received generous development support from CalArts Center for New Performance.

A NOTE FROM THE FESTIVAL CURATORIAL TEAM: We’ve been fans of Lars Jan’s interdisciplinary work for almost ten years. Walking the line between visual art and performance art, we always knew that Lars would be a natural theater maker.

This piece uses Joan Didion’s seminal essay to explore the intersection of observation, storytelling, audience participation, choreography, and architecture.

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This is the one for which hope is a choice

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for ages 13+ | Mature subject matter Tickets start at $35 Country of Origin: Israel

OCTOBER 11–13 AUGUST WILSON CENTER We are taught to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel, but in this tunnel, if there’s light at the end, you’ll need a gun to find it. The acclaimed Gesher Theater’s stunning new production is hailed by the Israeli press as “an extraordinary production—stunning for right and left, Arabs and Jews, natives and immigrants, soldiers and civilians, religious and secular.”

This gripping dark comedy finds two Israeli soldiers face to face with two Palestinians trapped in an underground tunnel. Enemies in a mousetrap, they must confront their greatest fears in order to escape; will they kill or save each other? While life and death are at stake underground, on the streets above them a TV morning show is running live, playing out the customary political carnival.

Performed in Hebrew with English supertitles projected above the stage. In the Tunnel is supported by the Genesis Foundation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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POST SHOW TALKS OCTOBER 11 & 13 In Partnership with Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh A NOTE FROM THE FESTIVAL CURATORIAL TEAM: Danger is inherent in the tunnels being dug by Hamas from Gaza into Israeli territory. Playwright Roy Chen, director Irad Rubinstein, and the artists at the Gesher Theater are the first to exploit the tunnel on stage as a powerful theatrical image for Israeli lives, as well as the basis for a theatrical happening that is masterful, absurd, infuriating, and (very) funny.

The company’s name “Gesher” means “Bridge” and has come to be reflective of the work of this incredible group of theater artists who have been recognized for excellence around the world. The actors in this production are some of the best actors in the Middle East, and we are proud to host them in our city.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for ages 15+ | Tickets start at $25 Country of Origin: Ukraine

OCTOBER 12 & 13 | 8 PM PEIRCE STUDIO | TRUST ARTS EDUCATION CENTER Internet trolls prowl and conflicts rage in online propaganda.

People force themselves across borders, creating an icy hot international stalemate. Thousands take to the streets demanding transparency and change.

This is the context for TseSho? / What’s That?, a super-charged puppet cabaret of real time events and Facebook feeds, iconic Ukrainian poetry, catchy vamps, and improvised action. Rambunctious and audacious, the piece asks its questions through the intense lens of childhood. How do we understand? Who are we in a time of sensationalized information and deceptive surfaces? Where is our place in our world and in history? What’s That?

A production of the breakthrough Teatr-Pralnia (Laundry Theater) with Ukraine’s leading contemporary hub, CCA Dakh, directed by theatrical disruptor, Vlad Troitsky.

The presentation of Teatr-Pralnia with CCA Dakh is part of Center Stage, a public diplomacy initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts in cooperation with the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations, with support from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. General management is provided by Lisa Booth Management, Inc.

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Presented by the August Wilson Center–African American Cultural Center Recommended for all ages | FREE Country of Origin: Nigeria

OCTOBER 12–MARCH 24 AUGUST WILSON CENTER The art installation Flying Girls by Peju Alatise debuts in North America at the August Wilson Center. The work is based on the story of Sim, written by Alatise. Sim, a little Yoruba girl, lives in two alternate worlds. In one world, she is a nine-year-old who is rented out as a domestic servant in the city of Lagos. In the dream world, she can fly at will in a magical environment filled with talking birds and butterflies, where shadows are friends, and a moonlit world of escapism. Alatise dedicates Flying Girls to girls in Nigeria—a little safe space where they can be children.

Peju Alatise is a widely recognized contemporary artist living and working in Lagos. The exquisite nature of her technique produces an encounter between what is sensed and what is known—as a material means to examine Nigeria’s shifting order of visibility within the global landscape. Crafting alternative social imageries and challenging patriarchal narratives in politics and media, Alatise’s trajectory sharply illustrates how artists in Africa are filling in the gaps left by official histories.

Supported by The Fine Foundation; Arts, Equity, & Education Fund; The Heinz Endowments; Eden Hall Foundation; and Richard King Mellon Foundation

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This is the one that can raise a community

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of the Pittsburgh Dance Council Recommended for ages 13+ | Tickets start at $10 Country of Origin: Brazil

OCTOBER 13 | 8 PM BYHAM THEATER Rio de Janeiro choreographer Deborah Colker has redefined the rules for what can be done in dance. She catapulted to the world stage with her visual spectacle dance at the Rio 2016 Olympics, and later won a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance. She has since received international acclaim for her choreography of Cirque du Soleil’s Ovo. The company’s newest work takes inspiration from a poem by Brazilian writer João Cabral de Melo Neto. Cão sem Plumas, or Dog Without Feathers, is set in the beautiful yet impoverished Capibaribe River region of Brazil. Tension between the elite and the river people comes to a head as the dancers cover themselves with mud. Projections by critically-acclaimed filmmaker Cláudio Assis were filmed over a month when the entire company traveled to the river.

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This is the one that raises your spirit

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of Craft Beer School Must be 21+ | Tickets start at $31.25 Country of Origin: International

OCTOBER 16 | 6:15 PM GREER CABARET THEATER This class will take us around the world, sampling beers from countries represented in the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts. Gene Ribnicky will host. A ticket includes light appetizer fare, a Q&A session, and great beer-related giveaways.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of the Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents Series Recommended for ages 10+ | Tickets start at $26 Countries of Origin: India, New Zealand

OCTOBER 17–21 4TH FLOOR STUDIO TRUST ARTS EDUCATION CENTER Indians throw the best parties. Heard of Diwali? A million lamps floating on a river and fireworks to wake the dead.

Heard of Holi? An explosion of color and joy and massive dry cleaning bills. How about Onam? No? It’s the harvest festival, and this one could be the craziest of them all!

Mrs. Krishnan is renting an apartment to the overzealous wannabe DJ, James. James has invited a few friends into the back room of Mrs. Krishnan’s dairy to celebrate Onam and the special surprise that her son has returned home for the holiday.

But when 100 strangers turn up (you, the audience) and settle in, Mrs. K has no choice but to throw the party of her life! An immersive experience like no other, join the party with music, dancing and vegetarian dahl prepared live each performance.

Come as you are or break out that festive sari.

A NOTE FROM THE FESTIVAL CURATORIAL TEAM: We love immersive theater. For the uninitiated, Mrs. Krishnan’s Party is part of a hit immersive play series based on the lovable and amiable character, Mrs. Krishnan, created by the founders of the India Ink Theatre Company—Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis.

The ‘Mrs. Krishnan plays’ have been running continually for over 20 years, touring the length and breadth of New Zealand, India, Europe and beyond. We knew Pittsburgh audiences would want to experience this theatrical phenomenon for themselves.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of the Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents Series Recommended for all ages | Tickets start at $25 Country of Origin: South Korea

OCTOBER 18 | 8 PM BYHAM THEATER

“Sheer joyous exuberance and skill! This showcase of the best in traditional and modern Korean percussion has something for everyone.” —The List

Exciting, extreme, and exhilarating, Tago is the ultimate drumming performance from the East. The show features a breathtaking mixture of Korean traditional instruments, from gigantic drums to small percussion, spiced up with a hint of martial arts. While the instruments may be traditional, this music is intense and sophisticated. “Tago” means “lighting up the world by beating drums,” and this show does not disappoint. Be amazed by the dexterity of these performers in ‘a colorful fusion of drumming and dance’ (BroadwayBaby. com), ‘a must-see show’ (Stage), and experience ‘highenergy entertainment that commands the full attention of the audience’ (EdinburghGuide.com).

A NOTE FROM THE FESTIVAL CURATORIAL TEAM: Pittsburgh is a changing city—a city struggling to honor our past, while embracing a radically changing future. This is not unique to Pittsburgh. Tago’s performances around the globe embody the mix of the old and the new—and may well help us embrace what is unique about our rapidly-changing city.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for ages 13+ | Mature subject matter Tickets start at $35 Country of Origin: South Africa

OCTOBER 25–28 PEIRCE STUDIO TRUST ARTS EDUCATION CENTER Karoo Moose – No Fathers takes place in a remote and impoverished village in the Karoo, South Africa, where the inhabitants are struggling to survive. A young girl kills a moose, but what is the moose doing there and how did it get there?

The multi-award-winning story about the disintegration of the family unit and the violation of innocence endured by so many South African children is the focus of the play that cleverly and creatively combines African story-telling and magical realism.

“It’s the sort of thing everyone should see at least once in their lives... it will change you forever.” —City Press, South Africa Karoo Moose – No Fathers is the winner of 18 top theater awards. It has received overwhelming praise from critics and audiences alike, including South Africa, London, and at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

The Baxter Theatre Centre is a world-class institution dating from 1976, when it was created as a pillar of hope during the apartheid era, leveraging its relationship with the University of Cape Town to present multi-racial, progressive work in a time of complete censorship.

The show is performed in English with some isiXhosa.

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Hanut31 Theater and Bricolage Production Company Recommended for ages 13+ | Tickets start at $35 Countries of Origin: United States & Israel

OCTOBER 25–27 BRICOLAGE | 937 LIBERTY AVE

Fictional worlds collide when larger-than-life stories of Frankenstein and Karate Man Patrick Kim are told in oldfashioned radio play style. Pittsburgh’s own Bricolage Production Company pairs with Tel-Aviv’s Hanut31 to present this two-part limited-run engagement using Foley sound effects in front of a “live” studio audience.

It’s Alive! But, what is it? A monster? A mistake? 200 years after it was brought to life, Midnight Radio reanimates Mary Shelly’s masterpiece, Frankenstein, like you’ve never seen or heard it before!

In a separate act, Hanut31 tells the immortal story of secret agent Patrick Kim and his thrilling adventures. Patrick Kim was the fictional secret-agent star of more than 300 books, published by eight different writers in Israel from 1960s through the 1980s.

The pulp fiction work, inspired by James Bond and Bros Li films, combines Cold War drama, Karate fighting, and sex.

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Presented by the August Wilson Center–African American Cultural Center Recommended for ages 13+ | Tickets start at $20 Country of Origin: Haiti

OCTOBER 26–28 AUGUST WILSON CENTER Founded by internationally-renowned, Haitian-born choreographer, dancer, and educator Jeanguy Saintus Riché, Ayikodans is considered to be the premiere professional dance company of Haiti. Saintus has enabled the emergence of a new, contemporary Haitian aesthetic that, while rooted in tradition, reflects a modern Caribbean culture and creativity that would surprise many who associate the country with disaster, poverty, and helplessness.

Cri Des Nago is an invocation to the gods who symbolize strength and power. It is dedicated to the loas (spirits), who accompany us in difficult moments. This performance is a calling to the gods of Nago.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of the EQT Bridge Theater Series Recommended for ages 7+ | Tickets start at $24 Country of Origin: Denmark

NOVEMBER 2–10 4TH FLOOR STUDIO TRUST ARTS EDUCATION CENTER It’s a suspenseful tale as old as time itself. Even if you know the story, this version is a new experience told as the audience reclines in hammocks under a radiant sky. Androcles is a slave who must escape after being accused of theft. He flees into the burning sun of the Libyan desert. In the middle of a pitch-dark night, he hears a roar so loud that his heart freezes. Experience this tale of danger, deception, and kindness in this unexpected and immersive story.

“A beautiful story...­no one else in Danish children’s theatre has such a gentle, authoritative and adventurous voice… Everything —the music, the images and the sounds are attuned to the story” —Teateravisen “… it is not only the room and the unerring authority and presence of Bodil Alling as a narrator who carry this performance, but also a very thorough composition of sound effects and illustrations being projected. In addition, of course —and perhaps most significant—the contact to the audience.”

—Peripeti This engagement is generously supported by an anonymous donor.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of the Pittsburgh Dance Council Recommended for ages 13+ | Tickets start at $10 Country of Origin: China

NOVEMBER 3 | 8 PM BYHAM THEATER Yabin Wang is China’s superstar. One of the most promising and pioneering choreographers in contemporary dance in China, her work has been commissioned by the English National Ballet and was performed by the company at Sadler’s Wells for their prestigious She Said series. Westerners know her best for her incredible dance in the film, House of Flying Daggers.

In her newest work, The Moon Opera, she has collaborated with a multi-disciplinary team of award-winning designers and composers to unveil a dramatic modern-day story of an artist.

Through the lens of Chinese culture, contemporary dance tells the story of a Peking Opera performer struggling between her dreams of artistic stardom and the harsh realities of maintaining her traditional role as a woman in society.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Recommended for ages 12+ | Tickets start at $35 Country of Origin: France

NOVEMBER 2 & 3 | 8 PM AUGUST WILSON CENTER

Along with his Compagnie 111, Aurélien Bory has gained a reputation as a poet of space and a wizard of staging--an artist capable of blending elements of dance, music, magic, and circus in his visual theater.

Created from the essay Species of Space – Espèces d’espace

by French writer Georges Perec, Espæce represents another innovative step on Bory’s artistic path. The presence of acrobats, dancers, actors, and singers correctly signals an unusual approach to the theatrical scene. Bory’s ‘space’ includes a colossal but infinitely flexible wall, paper pages of the famous text, and the manipulation of an arsenal of mathematical tools.

With acrobat Guilhem Benoit, dancer Cochise Césario Le Berre, contortionist Katell Le Brenn, opera singer Claire Lafilliatre, and actor Olivier Martin-Salvan, Bory has composed a tribute to Perec’s unique humor and pathos. Orphaned at a tender age following the death of his father in war and his mother’s deportation to Auschwitz, Perec presents a jigsaw puzzle of faded memories, allusions, voids, and absences.

Compagnie 111 – Aurélien Bory is accredited by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication – The Occitanie / Pyrénées -Méditerranée Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs, The Occitanie / Pyrénées – Méditerranée Region and the City of Toulouse. It is supported by the Departmental Council of the Haute-Garonne.

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Presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust part of BNY Mellon presents JazzLive Recommended for all ages | Tickets start at $20 Country of Origin: United States

NOVEMBER 6 | 8 PM GREER CABARET THEATER The Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra, featuring Sean Jones on trumpet, will perform a variety of pieces written and arranged by its members, including a newly commissioned piece written specifically for this performance and inspired by the work of James Baldwin.

Founded more than 40 years ago by the late educator and saxophonist Nathan Davis, the PJO is an interracial, intergenerational group representing Pittsburgh’s finest jazz musicians.

Come celebrate the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, and be among the first to hear this important new work by the PJO.

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Deepen your experience with the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts with Trust Arts Education workshops and masterclasses.

Audiences with diverse skill levels and ages have the opportunity to explore, create, and learn from internationally renowned artists.

All workshops are held in the Trust Arts Education Center, 807 Liberty Avenue

BLIND CINEMA Audio Description Workshop and Performance

MRS. KRISHNAN’S PARTY Character Development through Mask Performance

SEPTEMBER 20 | 4:30–6:00 PM AND SEPTEMBER 22 | 2:30–5:00 PM (MUST ATTEND BOTH) FOR ALL SKILL LEVELS, AGES 9–11 | FREE

OCTOBER 18 | 4:30–6:00 PM | $15 FOR PRE-PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS, AGES 16+

Children ages 9-11 are invited to perform in this audio description experience with Blind Cinema. On September 20, children will work with the Belgian company on the best methods of audio description.

On September 22, the children will be the performers, describing the film for audience members.

In this workshop, students participate in exercises and games to experience what it is to act “at the level of mask.” The workshop focuses on liberating the body and voice to create characters that amplify human emotion, relationships and truth. Students should wear comfortable clothes they can move in.

MIDNIGHT RADIO PRESENTS

THE WHITE ALBUM Separating Sound and Picture: The White Album Art Lab

LARGER THAN LIFE: FRANKENSTEIN & KARATE MAN PATRICK KIM Sound Exploration in Object Theatre

OCTOBER 5 | 1:00–3:00 PM | $15 FOR PERFORMANCE MAKERS OF ALL DISCIPLINES, AGES 18+

OCTOBER 27 | 11:00 AM–12:30 PM | $15 FOR ALL SKILL LEVELS, AGES 12–16

Inspired by Joan Didion’s seminal essay The White Album, director, visual artist and writer Lars Jan will guide participants through prompts and provocations to create their own visual and performative harmonies with the text.

WHAT’S THAT? Radical Theater Workshop OCTOBER 13 | 1:30–3:00 PM | $15 FOR ASPIRING ARTISTS, AGES 16–20 Teatr-Pralnia and Dakh’s Artistic Director Vlad Troitskyi will introduce the ideas, impulses, and methods of their multi-disciplinary devised theater-making process.

DEBORAH COLKER DANCE MasterClass OCTOBER 14 | 1:00–2:30 PM | $15 FOR PRE-PROFESSIONAL DANCERS, AGES 16+

Company members from Tel Aviv’s Hanut31 will provide an overview of Object Theatre, followed by a hands-on workshop on how sound can serve as a dramatic element within the genre.

ESPÆCE MasterClass with Aurélien Bory OCTOBER 31 | 4:30–6:00 PM | $15 FOR PRE-PROFESSIONAL DANCERS AND ACTORS, AGES 16–21 Join Aurélien Bory of Compagnie 111 for a masterclass reaching new limits of physical theater and dance.

THE MOON OPERA MasterClass with Yabin Wang Dance NOVEMBER 2 | 4:30–6:00 PM | $15 FOR PRE-PROFESSIONAL DANCERS, AGES 16+ Join Yabin Wang Dance company members for this exciting masterclass in the contemporary dance style.

Join dancers from this internationally recognized company for a masterclass in the company’s artistic dance style.

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