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Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese // Sundays @ 10:30-11:30am // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

If you’ve always wanted to try ballet, this class is for you. In this fundamentals-based class, students develop basic ballet vocabulary, strength and coordination. Stephanie’s deep knowledge of her craft combines with a warm, good-humored manner to create a comfortable yet challenging learning environment. This is the perfect class for people who have little or no ballet experience. Stephanie Albanese is a graduate of The School of American Ballet where she studied with teachers Alexandra Danilova, Helen Dudin, Suki Shorer and Stanley Williams. She danced in a repertory company created by former New York City Ballet member Wilhelmina Frankurt. Stephanie has also danced with choreographers Matthew Brokoff, Marcus Galante, Mary Miller and Felice Lesser and also worked in Cabaret, performing at The Lido in Paris and Jubliee in Las Vegas.

Intermediate Ballet with Stephanie Albanese // Sundays @ 12:00-1:30pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

This ballet class makes classical dance a joy! The class focuses on fundamentals, beginning with a thorough warm up at the barre and progressing to the center for choreographed combinations.  Students build muscle as they refine body alignment and learn weight placement to develop coordination. Stephanie’s deep knowledge of her craft combines with a warm, good-humored manner to create a comfortable yet challenging learning environment. This is the perfect class for people who have some prior ballet experience. Stephanie Albanese is a graduate of The School of American Ballet where she studied with teachers Alexandra Danilova, Helen Dudin, Suki Shorer and Stanley Williams. She danced in a repertory company created by former New York City Ballet member Wilhelmina Frankurt. Stephanie has also danced with choreographers Matthew Brokoff, Marcus Galante, Mary Miller and Felice Lesser and also worked in Cabaret, performing at The Lido in Paris and Jubliee in Las Vegas.

Doble Filo, or “double-edged” in English, is described as experimental hip-hop with a feel-good vibe. Members rap over a backdrop that shifts from drum and bass to techno. They have been compared to Dilated Peoples, and The Amorphous. Despite their hip-hop orientation, Doble Filo’s fan base is not limited to a hip-hop audience. Although not all members originate from the Alamar area of Havana, the epicentre of Cuban hip-hop, their presence there is significant. The group shares credit with fellow Cuban hip-hop pioneers Obsesion for starting the multidisciplinary art collective La Fabrik.

They won the grand prize at the 1996 Alamar Rap Festival, after which they decided to make Alamar their headquarters. Many of their songs are composed in an Alamar building called “Laboratorio 675”. Through its music, Doble Filo also aims to improve social conditions by encouraging listeners to find themselves. The members veer away from lyrics that advocate violence or belittle women. Their main philosophy is avoiding negativity.

Medusah Black

Soulful Providence hip hop featuring Anjelly Nice:

Music: Medusa Black
Track: Guilty Pleasure
Photos: Miguel Rosario
Video: Eric Garcia

A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Intermediate/Advanced Modern Dance with Katie McNamara // Mondays @ 7-8:30pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes 

This modern dance based class embraces technique, improvisation and composition skills. Participants learn to embody a state of presence and grace. We will focus on moving with efficiency while testing endurance and increasing stamina. This dance practice moves in and out of the floor, upside down to right side up, and from the inside out.

Tuesday, May 21st, 6-9pm

Print your own labels using the letterpress for canning and home-brewing beer.  Then head over to the Labs to use the laser cutter to cut an elaborate frame.

This class will offer a brief introduction to both the letterpress and the laser cutter and how they can work together to make decorative labels.  In order to be signed off to use one or both of these resources, you will need to take an Intro to Letterpress and/or Intro to the Laser Cutter workshop, or schedule a one-on-one session.  If you already have experience with laser cutting or letterpress you can also show a portfolio of work to be signed off on the machines.

Open Life Drawing – Drop -in
$6
Bring your own drawing materials, we supply seats and model.

This will be Terveet Kadet’s first USA tour.

A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Wednesdays, May 22nd, 29th, 6-10pm

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Modern Dance For Every Level with Jamie Arnold and Stephanie Turner // Wednesdays @ 6:30-8pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes 

Class begins with a warm-up that incorporates yoga and breathwork with gentle movements of the spine before moving on to phrase material. A series of short phrases will then be explored, where students are encouraged to play and experiment with how his/her individual body prefers to move through the demonstrated movements. The phrases include elements like directional changes, movement through space, spirals, rotation, lines, momentum, energy and floorwork. Movement may carry over from previous classes and blend into the dance material. Each phrase that is developed will lead to a rich and colorful dance toward the end of class.  Jamie Arnold is a certified and licensed Kripalu Yoga guide and dancer working out of Warwick RI and graduate of Rhode Island College with a B.A. in Dance Performance, where she was a member of the Rhode Island College Dance Company. Jamie attended the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC and was in residency at The Dragon’s Egg Studio in Ledyard, CT and has performed in Trisha Brown’s Floor of the Forest at the ICA in Boston and Between Movement Contemporary Dance Company.

Grammy Nominee and TEDx presenter, Linda Chorney
Presents with AS220: “Who The F&#% Is Linda Chorney”

lindachorney.com

Wednesday, May 22nd; 7pm – 10pm

3D printing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital model. It is accessible to all types of people, even those with a minimal understanding of electronics, hardware, or 3D design. This workshop is for anyone interested to learning a new D.I.Y. skill, and an exciting new technology. This technology allows you to prototype any design, and turn it into a real physical product.

Students of this workshop will:

• learn the concept of 3D printing and rapid 3D prototyping.
• learn the software and hardware involved.
• learn how to properly prep files for the machine.
• learn basic machine operations and functionality.
• be trained and certified to use the machine independently.

Register here - http://shop.as220.org/products/intro-to-the-3d-printer

Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen, 2003, 16mm on DVD, 169 min., color, b&w/sound.

Please join us for a screening of this remarkable and rare feature by filmmaker by Thom Andersen (Get Out of the Car, 2010; Eadweard Muybridge: Zoopraxographer, 1974).

“Los Angeles Plays Itself is a video essay about how movies have portrayed the city of Los Angeles.

The first section (The City as Background) is about buildings and places, famous and obscure, and how they get typecast and transformed by movies.

The second section (The City as Character) considers shifting attitudes toward the city expressed in the work of film-makers who have self-consciously made the city an important presence in their films. It begins with Billy Wilder’sDouble Indemnity, about which Richard Schickel wrote,”You could charge L.A. as a co-conspirator in the crimes this movie relates,” and it ends with Jacques Demy’s Model Shop, in which the protagonist declares,”It’s a fabulous city. To think some people claim it’s an ugly city when it’s really pure poetry, it just kills me.” Along the way, it recalls how movies have documented vanished landmarks and neighborhoods.

The third section (The City as Subject) considers movies that take the city itself as their subject, beginning withChinatown in 1974.

Movies about Los Angeles have been, for the most part, period films, set in the past or in the future, and they replace the public history of the city with a secret history, opaque to its citizens. This urban legend is not innocent. It serves to dissuade naive viewers from political engagement by telling them that they are condemned to ignorance and powerlessness, no matter what they do. In fact, the truth is the opposite: the public history is the real history, as the treatments of Chinatown, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and L.A. Confidential demonstrate.

The notable exceptions to this pattern are some low-budget independent films about ethnic minorities made in the tradition of neorealism, and it is with these that Los Angeles Plays Itself concludes.”
– Thom Andersen

“It may be difficult to detect upon first viewing that Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Plays Itself is in fact a manifesto, but not every manifesto is written in a torrent of typefaces, categorical statements and exclamation points… By examining the storied history of shooting on location in what may be “the most photographed city in the world,” Los Angeles Plays Itself reveals not only the various attitudes that filmmakers and their films project upon their hometown, but the ideologies contained within each mode of looking. Andersen argues that the most celebrated “films about LA,” including Chinatown, Blade Runner and LA Confidential, are in fact cynical visions of the futility of resistance. Against this entrenched myth of a fallen city forever paying for the sins of its city fathers, he posits an alternative history, one that the movies themselves recorded, if sometimes inadvertently.”
– Madison Brookshire

** Magic Lantern is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies at Brown University.

Thursday, May 23rd, 30th, 6-10pm

This course provides a two week introduction to silkscreen. Participants will learn the basics of the photo-emulsion process, a variety of making ways to make positives, in addition to registration, and printing methods.

Arkham Film Society: “Where the Dead Go to Die” with Jimmy Screamerclauz

TOR JOHNSON RECORDS PRESENTS:

Friday, May 24th, 6-10pm

This class introduces the concepts of monoprinting, by drawing from the human figure. A monoprint is a unique single print made from a drawing or painting on a smooth surface or matrix (such as Plexiglass) that is offset onto a sheet of paper.

Register here - http://shop.as220.org/products/monotype-drawing-from-life

Saturdays, May 25th, June 1st; 10am – 1pm

Learn how to use this tool to cut or etch wood, plastics, papers or textiles! This class will cover the basics of using the laser cutter safely, techniques for working with different materials, and the software tools for preparing work for the cutter. This is a hands-on workshop; bring a project if you like! We have an Epilog 35 watt laser cutter. The work area is 24″ x 12″, and it can hold items up to 8″ tall. We also have a cylindrical attachment that allows you to etch cylinders such as glassware. Students will be certified to use the lab’s laser cutter after taking the course.

Register here - http://shop.as220.org/products/intro-to-the-laser-cutter

Saturday, May 25th, 10am-6pm

Students will learn how to make paper from pulp, and several ways to transform the fresh sheets into pieces of art. Learn the technique of basic sheet formation with a vat of pulp and a mould and deckle, and options for pressing and drying your paper. Pigmented paper pulp can also make imagery that is actually part of the paper. Experiment with pulp painting methods such as direct painting, collage inclusions, stencils, and other techniques.

Make as many pulp paintings and sheets as there is time for. No papermaking experience required. Bring gallon ziplock bags to bring home your work.

Date: May 25, 1-3pm

The class will be taught by Danielle Spurge–owner, operator and chief executive crafter at The Merriweather Council – a very small business that specializes in custom hand embroidery. For 2.5 years she has been selling her creative products on Etsy.com and has maintained a bran presence and built a reputation within that community. She was recently trained at Etsy HQ to teach this Etsy 101 class which will empower artists to overcome intimidation and get started selling on Etsy.

Register online: http://shop.as220.org/products/etsy201

Saturdays, May 25th, June 1st; 2pm – 5pm

This workshop is for anyone interested in using a CNC Router for digital fabrication, specifically the ShopBot machine for computer-controlled cutting and routing.

The folks from Devine’s Diner will host this popular session at AS220 on Saturdays from 4-7 pm. Come downtown for dinner at the cafe or just grab a drink and listen to the tunes… All ages welcome!

Caroline Smith & The Good Night Sleeps are back! Caroline began playing music at an early age, learning guitar from her father. At 16 she started performing publicly in her hometown and opened for B.B. King as well as releasing a self-titled album. Caroline has been quoted saying she prefers the guitar, more than other instruments, because of her ability to control the dynamics. She describes her voice as a “conglomerate” with countless influences ranging from Billie Holiday to Peter, Paul and Mary among others.^[4]

In 2006, at 18 she moved to Minneapolis to study at the University of Minnesota. She quickly began a weekly solo gig at Minneapolis‘ West Bank 400 Bar, a venue famous for acts such as Elliot Smith, Conor Oberst and Mason Jennings.^[5] In 2007, the club’s owner, Tom Sullivan, introduced her to drummer Arlen Peiffer who is known for his work in the band Cloud Cult. A year later, bassist Jesse Schuster joined the band. Then in March 2011, Caroline joined forces with multi-instrumentalist Alex Ramsey expanding into the Good Night Sleeps.

thegoodnightsleeps.com

Brother Moon   is a three piece rock/folk band looking for more mates to fill out their original sound,while playing and performing in todays growing market and expanding local music scenes.
All together, Brother Moon meet to create high energy rock music.

facebook.com/BrotherMoonMusic

Loveday 

facebook.com/ladyloveday

The best improv comedy you can find.
Saturdays at 10:00.
95 Empire
Downtown Providence Rhode Island.
Tickets available at the door for only $5.00.

Nymphidels are an original guitar/drums two-piece from Providence formed in January 2012. They live for the live show and travel easy. Their recently released EP, “A band in places”, is the first of more to come.

facebook.com/pages/Nymphidels/252981008106616

Vundabar is a band that started only last summer, and has picked up considerabe speed since then. After gaining attention of local heroes Streight Angular, they partnered with Polk Records. They have gained the attention of multiple media outlets in Massachusetts such as the Boston Hassle and the Phoenix, here are a couple quotes: “yearning, bouncy pop-rock jangles with just enough alt-rock gravel to keep it earnest.”- The Boston Hassle
“Perhaps the best thing to come out of Scituate since Ted Donato laced up the skates for the Bruins in the early ’90s, fresh-faced garage rock dudes. they’ll hardly be finished with sludgy jam “Greenland” before you’re hooked.”-The Boston Phoenix
Vundabar is in the midst of planning their first North-east tour this summer, and hopes to continue their growth at the same rate they have until this point

facebook.com/Vundabar

A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Open Life Drawing – Drop -in
$6
Bring your own drawing materials, we supply seats and model.

“Eyeball” by Umberto Lenzi.

A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Modern Dance For Every Level with Jamie Arnold and Stephanie Turner // Wednesdays @ 6:30-8pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes 

Class begins with a warm-up that incorporates yoga and breathwork with gentle movements of the spine before moving on to phrase material. A series of short phrases will then be explored, where students are encouraged to play and experiment with how his/her individual body prefers to move through the demonstrated movements. The phrases include elements like directional changes, movement through space, spirals, rotation, lines, momentum, energy and floorwork. Movement may carry over from previous classes and blend into the dance material. Each phrase that is developed will lead to a rich and colorful dance toward the end of class.  Jamie Arnold is a certified and licensed Kripalu Yoga guide and dancer working out of Warwick RI and graduate of Rhode Island College with a B.A. in Dance Performance, where she was a member of the Rhode Island College Dance Company. Jamie attended the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC and was in residency at The Dragon’s Egg Studio in Ledyard, CT and has performed in Trisha Brown’s Floor of the Forest at the ICA in Boston and Between Movement Contemporary Dance Company.

Students from Paul Cuffee High School will be displaying their artist books they created inspired by modern poets and spoken word artists.  In addition to viewing the books, students will be reading poems from their poets as well as talking about their experiences studying poetry, working with poets, and creating their books with book artist Lara Henderson.  Free and open to the public.  Doors open at 6:30, reading at 7:00pm.

Flinching Eye Collective is a group of interdisciplinary media artists who’s enclave of work, while disparate, concurrently explores sound-based, interactive performances and video art. The F.E.C. formed in Colorado in 2011. Since June of 2012 we have migrated to different parts of the US. We utilize a touring structure similar to bands, but within the performance art context.  Through this distinctive format we are able to gather interest and excitement from communities, in turn creating an atmosphere of curiosity and enthusiasm as opposed to assumption and apathy. Our exhibitions are multi-faceted, whether they are differing live performances, video, sound pieces, or some hybrid. The presentation of our performance group takes the shape of both collaborative combinations as well as individual works.

Video: http://flinchingeyecollective.com/video

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Written & performed by R. Jim Stahl
Directed by Kate  Lohman

In 90 minutes, a funny look at a boy-man’s earnest search for connection and identity. It follows his parents’ breakup in Boston and a boyhood prank that takes his left eye the week of his Bar Mitzvah. He adjusts to monocular life, negotiates his parents’ remarriages, fights a redneck, and tracks an art thief into a Chicago alley. He nearly achieves his three-part ambition: to make proud the King (his Harvard-educated, All-American dad); to win the attention of the Queen (his distracted & beautiful mom), and to honor the gentle Wizard (his herring-eating, Yiddish-speaking grandfather).

Grow up long-haired, short-winded, one-eyed, two-fisted, bar-mitzvahed and unlisted in the finest suburbs from Boston to Miami!  A one-man play. Free workshop performance!

http://nutl.wordpress.com/the-experiment/

Crunk Witch, comprised of married couple Brandon Miles and Hannah Collen, is an American Bass-Punk duo from Presque Isle, ME.

“Maine bands just don’t do this sort of thing. Lucky for us, Crunk Witch don’t give a (bleep).”
- Portland Phoenix

“Blissful catchy anthem-like electro-rock”
- Boom Boom Chik

“Beautifully gruesome”
- Musicouch

In early 2012 Crunk Witch released their sophomore full-length, “Faith In The Thief”, and embarked upon their album release tour which ended with the band playing over 150 shows nation wide. The band has been delivering fantasy filled bass music since late 2009. Their quickly sold out debut, ‘The Battle Beyond E.P.’, was soon followed by the full-length record, “The Legends Of Manicorn”. The band generated a heavy youtube buzz when their single, ‘The Battle Beyond’, was featured in a Jenna Marbles video with over 20 million views. After signing a licensing deal with Bunim/Murray (creators of Real World, Road Rules, Project Runway, etc.), the band won the award for ‘Best Electronic Act’ at the 2011 Phoenix Awards.

facebook.com/crunkwitchmusic

Blue Eyed Fools – Formed from the song writing partnership of Rudat/Ryan the band Blue Eyed Fools emerged in 2002 [with songs started as early as 2000] as a new voice of expression for Tristan and Patrick, who had been performing together since 1994 in the Providence/Austin Industrial band 151. Blue Eyed Fools was a way for Tristan and Patrick to explore a more electro / techno sound as well as a chance to expand lyrically and vocally.

Studio contributions from various luminaries of the underground helped shape studio recordings while cutting edge video provides a visual experience that is totally unique to BEF.

In 2003 the song “Water” was featured throughout the season on HBO’s crime drama The WIRE.

facebook.com/BlueEyedFools

plus other occult crap

Contact Improv with Shura Baryshnikov and Stephanie Turner // first and third Saturday of each month // Class @ 10-11am and Open Jam @ 11-12:30pm // $10 – $15; $15 for both, $10 to join the jam

Contact improvisation is a dance technique in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for exploration through movement improvisation. Class will help you learn the basics of the practice, which includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a rolling point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. Then you will be ready to join the open jam!

Read more about the class and watch a video here!

The Rhode Island Performance Exchange (RIPE) is pleased to announce their first general auditions for the Rhode Island performance community on Saturday June 1 from 10am to 6pm. The auditions are open to performers of all kinds who wish to be seen by many of Rhode Island’s thriving theatre companies, including representatives from 2nd Story Theatre, Academy Players, AntiGravity Theatre Project, BarPlays, Cleave, Contemporary Theater Company, Counter-Productions Theatre Company, Elemental Theatre Collective, playwright David Eliet, Epic Theatre Company, Footlights Rep, Four Frogs Productions, Mixed Magic Theatre, Ocean State Theatre Company, the Sandra Feinstein Gamm Theatre, Strange Attractor Theatre, Theatre 82, Trinity Repertory Company, The Rhode Island Shakespeare Theatre, and the Wilbury Group.

At this point the auditions are full, but if you are interested in learning more, watching the auditions or participating in future RIPE events, email us at info@riperformance.org.