Festival 2012 Announcement

Welcome to Festival 2012: June 16-30

Announcing a festival of Serious Fun!

We're thrilled to announce the artists and thinkers who will be joining us in New Haven this June. This year's festival is filled with SERIOUS FUN: It's a festival packed with seriously good performances and dialogues that are also a whole lot of fun. The Festival is a place to tickle your senses, engage your mind, find inspiration, and take off on an adventure. We invite you to come play: come see where your wits take you. Come have some serious fun!

Scroll down to see the list of this year's Festival events, or click here to download a season preview guide. To receive our full ticket brochure in the mail, call us at 888.ART.IDEA.

• Read the New Haven Register article about the new season.
• Read the Hartford Courant articles about the free concerts on the Green, and about the theater & dance performances.

TICKETS GO ON SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON APRIL 16

MEMBER TICKETS AVAILALBE NOW AT SPECIAL PRE-SALE PRICES: Click here to find out more about the benefits of membership and to join today! *Note: Purchasing member tickets online (links below) requires the Member Password, which will be emailed to you in a special Members-Only Email.

Headline Concerts on the New Haven Green

SING THE TRUTH!
ANGELIQUE KIDJO, DIANNE REEVES & LIZZ WRIGHT
JUNE 16 (7PM) FREE

A dazzling evening of song that honors the music and spirit of great women in jazz, folk, r&b, gospel, and the blues. Featuring the music of Miriam Makeba, Odetta, Billy Holiday, and Lauryn Hill, as well as original music by Kidjo, Reeves, and Wright.

ASPHALT ORCHESTRA
JUNE 17 (7PM) FREE

A one-of-a-kind street marching band that brings ambitious music to the masses in an exciting, take-over-the-crowd performance. Featuring music from the likes of Frank Zappa and Björk, with choreography by Susan Marshall.

THE CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS
JUNE 23 (7PM) FREE

The Grammy-nominated Carolina Chocolate Drops are the newest and youngest players in a long line of Black string bands. Rolling Stone Magazine says, “The Carolina Chocolate Drops are…revisiting, with a joyful vengeance, black string-band and jugband music of the ’20s and ’30s—the dirt-floor dance electricity of the Mississippi Sheiks and Cannon’s Jug Stompers.” Opening act: Caravan of Thieves.

RED BARAAT & NOORI
JUNE 24 (7PM) FREE

A sensational double bill concert that crosses boundaries: Red Baraat melds the infectious North Indian rhythm Bhangra with a host of sounds—funk, go-go, Latin, and jazz. Noori is known as one of the most energetic and entertaining live acts on the Pakistani music scene—a rocking rush of adrenaline that comes straight from the heart!

ROSANNE CASH
JUNE 30 (7PM) FREE

Rosanne Cash is an icon of country rock whose earthy sound is both magical and real: it is gritty and powerful, yet intimate and honest. She has recorded eleven No. 1 singles, blurring the lines between country, rock, roots, and pop. Her performance of The List—in the open air on the closing night of the Festival—shows her considerable talent and appeal. The List is a deeply personal album: a paean to her father, Johnny Cash.

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Theater & Dance

MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP
A LAKE / JESU, MEINE FREUDE / GLORIA
JUNE 21 & 22 (8PM), Shubert Theater

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Mark Morris is one of the most popular and acclaimed choreographers working today, known for witty, inventive dances that are infused with humor and brimming with musicality. The Festival presents a rare performance of this program with the magnificent sound of a live orchestra and full chorus.

NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND:
THE STRANGE UNDOING OF PRUDENCIA HART
JUNE 20-30, Wicked Wolf Tavern
(TU-SAT 7PM, SAT & SUN 1PM, plus WED JUNE 27 1PM)

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The Festival presents the American premiere of this heartfelt and whimsical new production from the National Theatre of Scotland (Black Watch), staged inside New Haven’s Wicked Wolf Tavern. You—the audience—observe a peculiar merriment while enjoying yourselves at the bar. Created by David Greig, directed by Wils Wilson. Food and drinks available for purchase at the performance ($15 minimum).

THE RADIO SHOW
KYLE ABRAHAM/ ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION
JUNE 19–23, Iseman Theater
(TU-FRI 8PM, SAT 4PM)

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Kyle Abraham and his 7-member company Abraham.In. Motion dance with a highly engaging, larger-than-life style that combines influences from hip-hop to ballet. The Radio Show is an exploration of cultural identity and personal history, set to recordings of hip-hop, soul, and contemporary classical music.

CIRCA
JUNE 26 – 30, Theater at the Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School
(TU-FRI 8PM, SAT 2PM)

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Circus meets theater meets dance in Circa, a thrilling, vibrant circus arts troupe from Australia that has been captivating audiences around the world with performances that mix high-flying acrobatics, dance, and theatrical staging.

KING LEAR
CONTEMPORARY LEGEND THEATER (TAIWAN)
JUNE 28 & 29, University Theatre
(8PM)

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This is King Lear as you have never seen it before: Wu Hsing-Kuo, director of Taiwan’s Contemporary Legend Theater, has created a tour-de-force solo performance that has been praised around the world for its blend of Eastern and Western theatrical forms, and for its revealing insight into one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated tragedies.

ERTH’S DINOSAUR PETTING ZOO
JUNE 16 & 17, New Haven Green FREE
(3PM & 5PM)

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Dinosaurs are coming to town! The artists of Australian theater and visual arts company ERTH have created awesome prehistoric creatures, from cute baby dinos to teeth-gnashing giants that live in a petting zoo like no other. Dare you get too close?

LOVE FAIL
JUNE 29 & 30, Yale Repertory Theatre
(FRI 8PM, SAT 4PM)

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love fail is the newest evening-length theater work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. Sung by the unearthly voices of legendary vocal ensemble Anonymous 4, love fail is a tour de force of storytelling, weaving together snippets of medieval courtly love narratives, short stories by MacArthur Fellowship Award-winning author Lydia Davis, scraps from the libretto of Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde, and text by Lang himself. Presented in association with Yale Repertory Theatre.

YALE INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC THEATRE
JUNE 16 & 17, Off-Broadway Theatre
(1PM & 5PM)

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This is an exciting chance for theatre and music lovers to get a behind- the-scenes glimpse at the creation of new piece of music theatre. Festival audiences have the opportunity to attend a reading of two new music theater works, the culmination of a two-week residency at the Yale Institute for Music Theater, a program of Yale School of Drama.

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Music at Dusk

Intimate concerts featuring sounds from around the world, in the elegant, light-filled surroundings of Morse Recital Hall.

34 PUÑALADAS
JUNE 26 (8PM), Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall

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A new Argentine tango guitar quartet with vocalist, 34 Puñaladas brings to life a series of songs from the 1920s and ’30s that are drawn from the secret life of Buenos Aires: where drugs, women without options, thieves and violence flourished.

THE BEN ALLISON BAND WITH POET ROBERT PINSKY
JUNE 27 (8PM), Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall

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Robert Pinsky, a poet whose words are elegant, tough, full of wild musical energy, meets Ben Allison, a musician who draws from the jazz tradition and a range of influences from rock and folk to classical and world music.

THE YUVAL RON ENSEMBLE
JUNE 28 (8PM), Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall

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The Yuval Ron Ensemble unites the sacred music traditions of Judaism, Sufism, and the Armenian Church into an unusual mystical, spiritual and inspiring musical celebration. The ensemble of musicians and dancers includes Arabic, Jewish and Christian artists. Presented in association with the Global Conference of Chaplains in Higher Education.

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Yale International Choral Festival

Six outstanding choirs from around the world gather in New Haven this summer at the Yale International Choral Festival, which will explore the connections that choral music fosters between people around the world. Presented in association with the Yale Glee Club, Yale School of Music, and the Yale Alumni Chorus Foundation.

JUNE 19-23, Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall

FEATURING:

Yale Choral Artists (United States)
JUNE 19, 8PM - BUY MEMBER TICKETS*

Manado State University Choir (Indonesia)
JUNE 20, 5PM - BUY MEMBER TICKETS*

Central Conservatory of Music Choir (China)
JUNE 20, 8PM - BUY MEMBER TICKETS*

Imilonji Kantu Choral Society (South Africa)
JUNE 21, 5PM - BUY MEMBER TICKETS*

Cambridge University Consort of Voices (United Kingdom)
JUNE 22, 8PM - BUY MEMBER TICKETS*

Yale Alumni Chorus (United States)
with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Russell Thomas, tenor
performing Verdi's Hymn of the Nations
JUNE 23, 6PM FREE

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Ideas: Lectures & Conversations

PHILLIPPE PETIT
Nothing Is Impossible
JUNE 16 (3PM), Yale University Art Gallery FREE

Join Philippe Petit—the universal poet laureate of the high wire—as he reflects on risk, motivation, and the unexpected, and talks about magic, lock-picking, street juggling, and his approach to opening up the world’s imagination, one step at a time.

A screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary about Petit, Man on Wire, will precede the Ideas lecture at the Yale University Art Gallery at 11AM.

TAMAR GENDLER
Five Ancient Secrets to Happiness and the Good Life
JUNE 17 (3PM), Yale University Art Gallery) FREE

Yale philosophy and cognitive science professor Tamar Gendler explores how we can learn from 2,500 years of thought to make life more meaningful and fulfilling, shares the insights of ancient Greek and Roman thinkers such as Socrates, Plato, and Cicero, along with contemporary discoveries from psychology and neuroscience.

BRENDA DIXON GOTTSCHILD
African-American Dance and the Measure of Culture
JUNE 19 (5:30 PM), Yale Center for British Art FREE

Guided by the premise that dance is a barometer of society, Brenda Dixon Gottschild gauges the pulse of contemporary American performance: using dance as the focus and race the parameter, she reveals Africanisms in modern and postmodern dance and in American ballet.

GRAHAM SHEFFIELD, C.B.E.
From Soft Power to Global Connectivity—The International Birds-Eye View
JUNE 20 (5:30PM), Yale Center for British Art FREE

On the eve of the London 2012 Olympics and its associated cultural festivals, Graham Sheffield CBE, of the British Council, shares stories and insights about the power of art and culture to connect the global to the local.

SCIENTIFIC INSIGHTS INTO COOPERATION & EVOLUTION
JUNE 21 (5:30PM), Yale University Art Gallery FREE

Scientists David Lynn and Martha Grover from the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution share facts and patterns from the natural world. They will discuss how genome sequencing over the last several years has revealed a vast and dynamic molecular world where the molecular cooperation and intelligence behavior drives selection and physical change to give birth to living systems.

SING THE TRUTH!:
Reflections on Justice and Freedom’s Journey with Rev. Bernard Lafayette
JUNE 23 (3PM), Yale University Art Gallery FREE

Our Festival opening night concert, Sing the Truth!, gives voice to the legacy of the civil rights journey here in Connecticut – in this Ideas program, Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr., a civil rights activist and an authority on nonviolent social change, will give a keynote address and share his journey with Judge Constance Baker Motley.

SING THE TRUTH!:
Reflections on Art & Freedom’s Journey with Winfred Rembert
JUNE 24 (3PM), Yale University Art Gallery FREE

Explore the links from the civil rights era to the present, and understand the cultural and artistic context that informs the practice and journey of New Haven’s own Winfred Rembert. The program will begin with the screening of the documentary film All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert, followed by discussion with Rembert moderated by Yale University Art Gallery directory Jock Reynolds.

MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE:
Artists Talk about Music Inspiring Change
JUNE 26 (5:30PM), Yale Center for British Art FREE

Siddhartha Mitter, a noted cultural critic, is joined by artists from the bands Noori and Red Baraat (performing at the Festival on June 24) and Asphalt Orchestra (performing at the Festival on Sun, June 17) for a conversation about music as a tool for radical transformation in today’s changing worlds, both in the United States and around the globe. Sociologist and scholar of cultural politics Sujatha Fernandes joins the discussion.

SLATE'S POLITICAL GABFEST
JUNE 27 (5:30PM), Yale Center for British Art FREE

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz, eminent editors of the online magazine Slate, bring their acclaimed weekly political podcast to the Festival for a session recorded live in New Haven. They will discuss the upcoming November elections and summer conventions, President Obama, and other hot political stories of the week.

HA JIN & DAVID HENRY HWANG:
The US-China Literary Landscape
JUNE 28 (5:30PM), Yale University Art Gallery FREE

David Henry Hwang is the Tony Award-winning playwright of M. Butterfly, whose acclaimed new play Chinglish (2011) was the first Broadway play to be performed in both Mandarin and English. Ha Jin is the winner of the National Book Award for Waiting, twice winner of the PEN/Faulkner award, and celebrated author of short stories, poetry and fiction, most recently of Nanjing Requiem. Both will read from their current work and talk about the intersection of contemporary writing, artistic diaspora and cultural perspectives on China.

DR. DAPHNE MILLER
The Wisdom & Science of Traditional Foods
JUNE 30 (3PM), Yale University Art Gallery FREE

Daphne Miller, MD is the author of The Jungle Effect, a unique travelogue of healthy eating. Her understanding of the interconnectedness of food, the environment and health reveal essential clues to our understanding of diet and lifestyle. She will discuss food cultures from around the world that are still free of modern chronic diseases and to learn what they can teach us as we seek to develop our own healthy habits.

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Even more to do!

GROUP INTELLIGENCE
JUNE 23 & 24, New Haven Green
(SAT 1PM, SUN 2PM) FREE

Group Intelligence is part art, part science experiment, in which the audience joins together with MP3 players: At the designated time, audience members start their MP3 units, each playing a different a soundtrack of music, narration, and instructions for each audience member to perform specific actions. The audience both creates and experiences images of the creation of the world and the emergence of life.

NOON TO NIGHT
Weekday performances at Noon & 6PM on the New Haven Green. Grab your lunch or an evening picnic and join us for an hour!

WEEKEND DAYTIME PERFORMANCES
Great talents from our own community fill weekend afternoons on the New Haven Green.

FAMILY STAGE PERFORMANCES
Weekday performances at 1:15pm for families of all ages on the New Haven Green.

BOX CITY
An interactive activity exploring urban environments, for families of all ages. Participants build a model city of the future with cardboard boxes and art supplies. Noon to 5pm on June 16 & 17, New Haven Green.

WALKING TOURS
Click here for the current tour schedule. Check back in late April for tour descriptions and more information.

BIKE TOURS
Click here for the current tour schedule. Check back in late April for tour descriptions and more information.

FOOD TOURS & FOOD EXPERIENCES
Click here for the current schedule. Check back in late April for descriptions and more information.

MASTER CLASSES WITH FESTIVAL ARTISTS
Click here for the current schedule. Check back in late April for descriptions and more information.

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More information

Check back in late April for the debut of a brand-new ArtIdea.org, with complete descriptions for each event, multimedia, calendars, and more!

Click here to download a season preview guide.

Download a copy of the Ticket Order Form.

If you would like to receive a copy of our season brochure, call us at 888.ART.IDEA.

Join our email list for weekly updates and more! Click here.

Interact with us: Like our page on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for specialized content and updates as the Festival nears!

*Note: Purchasing member tickets requires the Member Password, which will be emailed to you in a special Members-Only Email.

More information

Download a copy of the season preview guide.

Download a copy of the Ticket Order Form.

Coming Soon - A New Website: Check back in late April for the debut of a brand-new ArtIdea.org, with complete descriptions for each event, multimedia, calendars, and more!

Festival Brochure: If you would like to receive a copy of our season brochure in the mail, call us at 888.ART.IDEA.

Join our email list for weekly updates and more! Click here.

Interact with us: Like our page on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for specialized content and updates as the Festival nears!

Tickets

FREE EVENTS

Tickets or reservations are not required for most free events—just show up! Note: Some free events are very popular, and we cannot guarantee admission once the venue reaches capacity. We strongly recommend that you show up early to guarantee a seat.

TICKETED EVENTS

Regular Tickets: General admission seating at most venues.

Premium Tickets: A reserved seat in the best locations at each venue, held until curtain time; regular seating is general admission at most venues.

Member Tickets

Pre-sale: $25 regular / $35 premium

After April 16: $30 regular / $40 premium

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*Note: Purchasing member tickets requires the Member Password, which will be emailed to you in a special Members-Only Email.

General Public Tickets

On sale April 16: $35 regular / $45 premium

Pricing for Mark Morris Dance Group (Shubert Theater):

Section A: $50 / $45 members
Section B: $35 / $30 members
Section C: $20
Note - seating at the Shubert Theater is assigned.

Pricing for Yale Institute of Music Theatre:

$20 all tickets

Student, senior, and youth discounts available. Inquire when purchasing.

HOW TO BUY TICKETS

1. Online: Click here to purchase member tickets online (requires a Member Password, which will be emailed to members in a Members-Only Email). General public tickets on sale on April 16, check back for an active link. Service fees apply.

2. In person: Visit the Shubert Theater Box Office, 247 College street, New Haven. Hours are Mon-Fri 9:30am to 5:30pm, Sat 10am to 2pm, closed Sun.

3. By phone: Call (203) 562-5666 or (888) 736-2663. Service fees apply.