PRESS & MEDIA COVERAGE
Vineyard Arts Project welcomes contemporary ballet company
09 September 2010 |
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Morphoses dancers in rehearsal at Vineyard |
The Martha's Vineyard Times
By Sam McCoy
Published: September 9, 2010
The Vineyard Arts Project, whose cutting edge studio is nestled on Upper Main Street in Edgartown, is an impressive Island residency program initiated to foster new work. The local organization boasts in-studio performances that enable the public to experience firsthand the development of each new production alongside its creators. For five weeks, thanks to a collaboration with Works & Process at the Guggenheim, the Vineyard Arts Project is excited to welcome a choreographic residency with the internationally acclaimed contemporary ballet company Morphoses.
Curving Around Classical Ballet’s Free Revolution
03 September 2010
By REMY TUMIN
Ballerinas dance with their feet, balancing on pointe shoes with their limbs elongated to expose the intricate workings of muscles, or leaping across stage, leaving only a slight noise on the floor. But this week at the Vineyard Arts Project, they were dancing with their hands. Wrists became entangled, thumbs circled other digits, and knuckles discovered unexplored crevices.
Play-by-Play at Art’s Cutting Edge
02 July 2010 |
| Writer and composer worked on location in Uganda before intensive time in Edgartown. |
By MEGAN DOOLEY
The folks responsible for the musical Witness Uganda were seated in a circle of folding chairs in a large mirrored Vineyard Arts Project studio Tuesday afternoon, taking a needed break from their rehearsal schedule to talk about the origins of their project. Writer and director team Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews offered tales of their travels to Africa, shared stories of the Ugandan university students around whom the script is based, and introduced two of their star actors, Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson.
Theater: Vineyard Arts Project play festival
01 July 2010 |
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The cast of "Witness Uganda" rehearse for their |
The Martha's Vineyard Times
By Naomi Pallas
Published: July 1, 2010
Contrary to polished and rehearsed performances that many people go to the theater for, the upcoming theatre festival, New Writers, New Plays, gives the audience power to shape the works that they will see this Thursday through Saturday.
Dance: Wild, Wonderful and World Class - Vineyard Gazette
28 May 2010
By WENDY ARNELL BROPHY
“My dad has a barn,” chirped a wide-eyed, hyperactive Mickey Rooney. “And my mom can sew the costumes,” the pigtailed, pinafore-bedecked Judy Garland replied. And off they went, hand in hand, singing and dancing their way across the barnyard.
View full articleSeason of First Looks Lays Bare The Creative Process of Theatre - Vineyard Gazette
28 May 2010
By LAUREN MARTIN
Story will be fending for itself this summer on the stages of Martha’s Vineyard. Stripped like the economy (and because of it), this season promises something much more seductive than blockbuster pretense, jaw-dropping set design, or celebrity leads: a glimpse at the so-called creative process.
Christopher Wheeldon, Unbowed - New York Times
25 October 2009
By ROSLYN SULCAS
CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON wasn’t feeling cheerful. As he sat in a restaurant in Lower Manhattan in April, his usual store of ebullience seemed spent as he offered a startlingly frank assessment of his ballet company, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, which he started with much fanfare almost three years ago. “I intend to give it everything I’ve got,” he said. “But I have to be realistic. I don’t know whether we will make it.”
Morphoses at Vineyard Arts Project
22 October 2009
Christopher Wheeldon's dance company spent six weeks creating and rehearsing on Martha's Vineyard. Video by Benjamin Pierce
Everything Is Happening for Millepied - New York Observer
30 September 2009
By ERIC HERSCHTHAL
Days before President Obama arrived on Martha’s Vineyard this August, Benjamin Millepied was in a house not far from where the president would stay. “What’s that smell?” Mr. Millepied pricked his nose in the air, muttering to himself. “Shit. They were smoking in here, weren’t they?” He was sitting upstairs in a stately white home, a summer residency for dancers, where he and his company were workshopping a ballet to premiere in Europe this fall.
Vineyard Arts Project: Dancers at work - The Martha's Vineyard Times
10 September 2009
By BROOKS ROBARDS
The dance troupe Morphoses is hard at work this month in a sparkling new studio at the Vineyard Arts Project (VAP) on Upper Main Street in Edgartown. The world-class company is rehearsing for a 2009 fall season that will take it to New York City Center, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, London's Sadler Wells Theatre, and Amsterdam's Het Musiektheater. Vineyarders will have the opportunity to see the 17 dancers perform in an open rehearsal on Saturday, Sept. 19.
