CalArts Center for New Performance
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsCalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) is a place where seminal artists from around the world realize projects that expand the language, discourse and boundaries of contemporary theater and performance.
Our podcast invites you to listen in, as visionary artists lead us into creative dialogue and discuss generous acts of world-making.
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Episodes
Monty Cole with Daniel Alexander Jones
December 14, 2023 16:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBCNP Producing Artist Daniel Alexander Jones hosts a conversation with Monty Cole, director of the CNP world premiere of Adrienne Kennedy’s Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side, which premiered at REDCAT in Downtown Los Angeles in February 2023. Over the project’s three year incubation at CalArts, Cole and his collaborators dug deep into Kennedy’s trademark embrace of symbolism, lyricism, and mythic figures to capture the Black experience in 20th century New York. Hosted by Marissa Chibás, t...
Kaneza Schaal with Daniel Alexander Jones
April 28, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 142 MBKaneza Schaal, recipient of the 2021 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for Theater, joins a conversation with CNP Producing Artist Daniel Alexander Jones. Schaal's performance works function as profound acts of invitation, presented in a wide range of contexts. The two artists, whose friendship has been furthered by their professional collaborations, discuss Schaal’s many fluencies—of language, history, form, cultures, and aesthetics—that have served to build her lexicon as a maker of theater. ...
Pat Cruz and Juli Crockett
March 22, 2022 22:45 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBWe join a conversation between Pat Cruz and Juli Crockett as they discuss the creation of CNP's The George Project: A Liberation Through Hearing, a new seven-part audio play inspired by and adapted from When This War is Over, You’re Going to Get it George, a 1975 meditation on the brutal logics of war by artist Emilio Cruz. Cruz and Crockett share a lively discussion about the inquiries that forged Emilio’s work, and the power of creativity to connect us to multiple planes of the human exper...
Octavio Solis with Chi-wang Yang
February 03, 2022 00:33 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBPlaywright Octavio Solis and CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) Associate Artistic Director Chi-wang Yang sit down together during rehearsals for their latest project, Scene with Cranes, a new play commissioned and produced by CNP. Their conversation recounts Solis’s early days in writing workshops with María Irene Fornés and staging plays in bars in the late 80s, and explores their creative process, touching upon the music of Jean Sibelius and the unarticulated grief of our nation. H...
Nataki Garrett and Andrea LeBlanc
May 04, 2021 21:25 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBOriginally recorded via Zoom for Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s digital platform O!, this special edition of our podcast brings that conversation to you, imbued with excerpts from the CNP world premiere production of The Carolyn Bryant Project. For a full list of creative credits, visit https://centerfornewperformance.org/projects/carolyn-bryant/.
Ron Cephas Jones
March 09, 2021 16:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBRon Cephas Jones reveals his rigorous process of script analysis and answers questions that speak to an actor’s life and practice. As he address questions from the CalArts community — both pre- and mid-pandemic — Ron offers insight into the self-care, self-determination, and commitment of an artist whose accolades have never deterred him from continuing to seek, learn, and grow.
Daniel Alexander Jones
January 22, 2021 22:00 - 57 minutes - 53 MBIn January 2020, CalArts Center for New Performance's 2020-21 Resident Artist Daniel Alexander Jones met up with two next-generation artists and students at CalArts—performer/playwright Sarahjeen François and designer/performance artist Amy Chiao. A critically acclaimed playwright, essayist, performer and musician, Jones goes deep into Black American and Queer Performance traditions, exploring the power of Afromysticism and demonstrating an unwavering commitment to healing, compassionate tr...