HERE
Arts Center
 Previews:
March 10-15, 2009
Opening Night: March 17, 2009
The Run: March 17-April 12
Since 1993, HERE has been one of New York's
most prolific producing organizations, and today, it
stands at the forefront of the city's presenters of daring
new hybrid art. HERE supports multidisciplinary work
that does not fit into a conventional programming agenda.
HERE’s aesthetic represents the independent, the innovative,
and the experimental: HERE has developed such acclaimed
works as Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues; Basil
Twist's Symphonie Fantastique; Hazelle Goodman's On
Edge; Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle's all wear
bowlers; and original musical and dance works created
and directed by HERE Co-Founder and Artistic Director
Kristin Marting.
The New York Times has called HERE
“one of the most unusual arts spaces in New York and
possibly the model for the cutting-edge arts spaces of
tomorrow.” Indeed, HERE has become successful at creating
a new kind of arts enterprise—the collaborative multiarts
center. In 13 years, we've supported over 11,100 artists
and attracted over 850,000 arts patrons. We aim to integrate
art into daily life and engage our community's needs
and interests on as many different levels as possible
in order to ensure our regular presence in their lives.
HERE supports the work of artists at all stages in their
careers through fully-produced works, commissions and
subsidized performance and rehearsal space. In addition,
HERE's staff provides marketing, technical and administrative
support. All work at HERE is curated based on the strength
and uniqueness of the artist's vision. Over the last
13 years, HERE and the work presented HERE have garnered
10 OBIE awards, an OBIE grant for artistic achievement,
a 2006 Edward Booth Award (“for Outstanding Contribution
to NY Theatre”) from the CUNY Graduate Center, three
Drama Desk nominations, two Berrilla Kerr Awards, two
NY Innovative Theatre Awards and a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
HERE believes that our multidisciplinary approach is
the way to engage the audiences of tomorrow, ensuring
a healthy and productive future for the performing arts
field at large. HERE's core annual audience consists
of approximately 50,000 ethnically diverse, urban 20-30
something's— an audience base that many in the field
attempt to engage. HERE produces work that is affordable,
challenging and alternative—offering our audiences the
opportunity to feel that they are part of something new
and fresh. Key elements of our performance programming
are designed to allow the public to have as many access
points to the development of original art as possible
through work-in-progress showings, workshop productions,
post show artist talkbacks, informal discussions in our
café and full productions.
The HERE Supported Artist Program HERE
accepts applications from artists all over the world
for the opportunity to show their work in HERE’s Performance
Spaces. If accepted into the Supported Artist Program,
HERE provides the artist with subsidized space and technical
and administrative support. We are proud to announce
that First Light’s initial production, it’s adaptation
of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem, Christabel,
was accepted into HERE’s Supported Artist Program and
will be producing its show in HERE’s Dorothy B. Williams
Theatre. The Dorothy B Williams Theater is a fixed
seating performance space with a raised stage which measures
14' x 38' and seats up to 70 patrons. This theatre has
60 dimmers and a complete sound system.
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