At the Firehouse theater for May, Cubist Art, Exit Modern Dance, and Symphony by the Sea.
RON EMMERLING; A NEW PERSPECTIVE
ON EXHIBIT: April 27, 2016 –May 22, 2016
A union of fine art and design where modernist forms are crisply delineated and cast in bold, saturated color.
These geometrically stylized landscapes offer an intimacy of place and a visceral immediacy of the natural elements.
Ron Emmerling, a graduate of Pratt Institute, was a successful industrial designer and founder of Emmerling Designs in Nyack, New Jersey. Over the course of three decades his consultant design business received more than one hundred awards for design projects and B&W photography.
Upon retirement in 2003, Emmerling, an artist all of his adult life, devoted himself wholeheartedly to his photography, sculpture, paper collage, and pen and ink drawings. In 2010, Emmerling experienced a stroke, which paralyzed his right side including the use of his dominant right hand and arm. “Feeling frustrated by my inability to walk, eat or work,” shares Emmerling, “I started to paint.” Exemplifying inner fortitude and perseverance, Emmerling strove to express his creative visions by painting in acrylic with his left hand. Since then, Emmerling’s now significant corpus of amazing paintings has been widely exhibited, celebrated and collected.
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May 13 and 14; Exit Dance Troope will perform an encore of Urashima Taro, which premiered last summer in collaboration with Newburyport Chamber Music Festival.
The twenty minute piece is based on the Japanese myth about a fisherman who saves a tortoise from torture, and is rewarded by a beautiful ocean princess who offers him love, beauty and immortality. The story takes a turn when the fisherman decides to visit his home to see the family and friends he misses so dearly. The original score was composed by award-winning artist Jay Reise.
Many new pieces will premier in the show as well. This performance may prove to be one of Exit’s most bold in many years. All choreography was developed in Exit’s signature way: through collaboration and improvisational exploration. This has proven to work on a multitude of levels, as the movement is more raw, authentic and exciting to view. Universal themes of love, relationships, power and myth run through the dances.
Choreographers are Fontaine Dubus, Cheryl Fisher, Stephen Haley, Erin Staffiere, Julie Pike Edmond, and Jen Steeves in collaboration with Sarah George, Karl Granoth, Wendy Hamel, Damon Jespersen, Courtney Maranda, Patricia Piacentini, Edward Speck, Yori Thomas and Kayla Waldron.
Tickets $19- General, $17-, Members, Students and Seniors
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Saturday May 21, at 1:00pm, Symphony by the Sea’s All Beethoven
Beethoven: Overture to Prometheus, Symphony No. 8, Violin Concerto; Irina Muresanu
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SYMPHONY BY THE SEA
Donald Palma, Artistic Director and Conductor
Symphony by the Sea’s 35th season will again feature treasured orchestral classics as well as some special treats to enhance your listening experience. “Classical” orchestra is different from the typical “symphony orchestra” in that it is configured in size more like the orchestras that date back to the time of the early symphonic masters, e.g. Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, allowing you to experience familiar classical compositions in the style that they were originally performed. You will find the experience different from what you hear in concert halls with considerably larger ensembles.
Music Director and Conductor, Donald Palma, has responded to your enthusiasm last season by arranging programs that once again will feature opera, less familiar classics and very familiar orchestral compositions. To enhance your listening, Maestro Palma will again offer brief commentary from the podium.
Visit the Firehouse to see all upcoming shows.