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The OBIE Awarding-winning Chocolate Factory Theater values the process of creation and the spirit of experimentation; is a leading incubator for new developments in experimental performance.
The work of The Chocolate Factory's founding artists emphasises multi-disciplinary collaboration combining movement, music, video and text to devise a means of storytelling that is immediate, collage-like, highly visual, and dependent on new technologies. When successful, the work is not easily categorised as theater, dance, new music, or video art and is rather a thorough intermingling of these disciplines. By extension, their curatorial values when it comes to Visiting Artists leads to work that exists across or between disciplines-work that requires new methods, more time, and a new kind of audience.
Under the leadership of founding artist and Artistic Director Brian Rogers, recent projects include Hot Box (2011-13), Selective Memory (2010-11) - 'its connection of image and movement places it in the forefront of today's many investigations of how video can connect with live performance' - NY Times, and redevelop (death valley) (2009).
The Chocolate Factory provides support to visiting artists in the form of dedicated access to space and technical equipment, substantive creative residency periods, commissioning funds, administrative support, and a guaranteed artist fee. Their curated Visiting Artist program supports the creation of new dance, theater, music and multimedia performances in a variety of settings including early works-in-progress, and full engagement.
THROW is a performance-development series curated and moderated by Sarah Maxfield. It is designed to provide artists with a platform for ideas-in-progress and to give audiences with insight into the investigative process of performance-making.
THROW is curated with a strong emphasis on artists who are investigating form as well as content, artists who are testing ideas and who consider the audience crucial to their developmental process.
THE TEAM
Sheila Lewandowski, Executive Director
Brian Rogers, Artistic Director
Madeline Best, Production Manager
Alexandra Rosenberg, House Manager
Jodi Bender, Bookkeeper
Casey Hayes, Executive Assistant
Stacy Grossfield, Box Office
Michael Reardon, Graphic/Web Design
Sarah Maxfield, THROW Curator
5-49 49th Avenue
L.I.C.,
NY 11101
USA
brian@chocolatefactorytheater.org
http://www.chocolatefactorytheater.org/home.html
Here are few videos reflect some of their work.