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FREESTYLE: BOND STREET THEATRE (USA) PRESENTS MOON CYCLES

15 Feb 16

YARAT Contemproary Art Space and US Embassy in Azerbaijan presents on February 15, 2016 we will host a premiere of “Moon Cycles’’, a production created by a group of students from the University of Arts and Culture who were trained and coached by professional actors from Bond Street Theatre. This collaboration takes place for the first time under the “Community Drama for Peace” Program.


The project is supported by the U.S. Embassy’s Cultural Envoys Program and implemented in partnership with Azerbaijan University of Culture and Fine Arts. 


Representatives from Bond Street Theatre:
Michael McGuigan-Managing Director; Joanna Sherman, Artistic Director; Ilanna Saltzman actor; Meghan Frank

Participants from Azerbaijan:
Nuri Alimurad; Murad Allahverdiyev; Abdulla Ismayil; Kamran Aliyev; Saadat Mirzabayova; Konul Alakbarova; Albina Sadigova; Ulviyya Huseynova


FreeStyle is a programme, designed to provide a platform for talented emerging actors, dancers and singers for their unobstructed self-expression and creative experiments.


Bond Street Theatre was founded in 1976 by Joanna Sherman and Patrick Sciarratta, and a group of physically skilled, socially concerned actors dedicated to innovative theatre and motivated by a passion to be useful in the world.  A resident company at LaMama Theatre in its early years, the ensemble created both indoor works and large street theatre productions that toured throughout New York and nationally.

The company has trained extensively in the physical and gestural arts of many traditions to develop a theatrical language that communicates across cultural borders. The ensemble selects the gestures, rituals, and symbols that give life its shape and dynamics, and complements them with striking theatrical forms such as acrobatics, martial arts, masks, stilts, dance, puppetry, many types of music, and performance styles from many cultures. The ensemble utilizes forum theatre, playback, and other interactive theatre forms.

Today, Bond Street Theatre spends much of its time working internationally, collaborating with local theatre artists throughout the world, and initiating community-based arts projects.  The company is committed to furthering peace and cross-cultural understanding through creative associations with artists worldwide, creating theatre-based projects for education, healing, and empowerment in critical areas, and training trainers in these techniques to insure the sustainability of its artistic-humanitarian programs. 

To date, the company has worked in China, Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), Singapore, Thailand, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Israel, Palestine, Haiti, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, and across Europe, Canada, and the USA, performing, teaching and creating theatre projects. 


Date: February 15, 2016

Time: 19.00

Venue: YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Multifunctional Room

Contact phone: +99412 505 1414

Admission: FREE


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