Baye & Asa Open Rehearsal: At The Altar
At the Orpheum Performing Arts Center, January 10
HUNTER – Catskill Mountain Foundation, in partnership with Works & Process at the Guggenheim, will present a free open rehearsal of Baye & Asa’s most recent and thought-provoking new work, At the Altar, at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville on January 10 at 7:00 PM.
At the Altar, Baye & Asa’s new evening-length work, is an exploration of cultural, religious, and political deities, and asks these central questions: Who/what do we worship? How do we worship? Who are the righteous? Who are the blasphemers? At the Altar reckons with the pitfalls of extreme idolatry and interrogates our collective struggle for survival and salvation.
Amadi ‘Baye’ Washington and Sam ‘Asa’ Pratt rehearse At the Altar. Photo by Maria Baranova.
In 2024, Catskill Mountain Foundation and Works & Process LaunchPAD provided a technical residency and a well-received showing of Baye & Asa’s Cortege, a contemporary dance piece created for the Martha Graham Dance Company and inspired by Graham’s Cortege of Eagles, at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center.
Baye & Asa is a company creating movement art projects directed & choreographed by Amadi ‘Baye’ Washington & Sam ‘Asa’ Pratt. They’ve presented their work at The Joyce Theater, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, Pioneer Works, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, The American Dance Festival, and more. They were one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" in 2022, and were recipients of Dance Magazine's 2023 Harkness Promise Award. They’ve created works for repertory companies including The Martha Graham Dance Company, BODYTRAFFIC, and Alvin Ailey II. Their choreography has been featured in collaborations with music and theater artists including Laurie Anderson, Zhailon Levingston, Knud Adams, and Dimitry Krymov. Their film work has also won numerous awards and has been presented internationally.
Commissioned and development support provided by The Democracy Cycle, a program of Perelman Performing Arts Center | PAC NYC and Civis Foundation, At the Altar is co-commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works. At the Altar is also made possible through generous support from Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York State Council on the Arts, The Watermill Center, and Jody and John Arnhold.
The open rehearsal of At the Altar will be followed by discussion and held on Saturday, January 10 at 7:00PM at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Street, Tannersville, NY. Arrive early to find available parking in the municipal or other parking lots. Seating is open and admission is free. Reserve seating at https://our.show/baye-and-asa.
About Catskill Mountain Foundation
The Catskill Mountain Foundation’s (CMF) aim is to provide educational opportunities in the arts for youth and lifelong learners, to bring the experience of the arts to the Catskill community, and to support artists and art organizations in the development of their work through residencies. Since its founding in 1998, CMF has presented hundreds of music, dance, and theater performances; screened over 1,000 films to tens of thousands of audience members; provided studio arts classes to thousands of students of all ages; and served thousands of art-loving patrons in the Catskill Mountain Foundation Gift Shop. The Catskill Mountain Foundation operates the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter, the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, and the Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts in Maplecrest, NY.
Since 1998, CMF has raised, generated, and invested close to $16 million in facility development and an excess of $42 million in programming operations, for a total investment in the Catskill community of over $58 million. Catskill Mountain Foundation is supported in part by New York State Council on the Arts, the Greene County Cultural Fund administered by the Greene County Legislature, The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, The Royce Family Foundation, The Samuel and Esther Doctorow Fund, The Orville and Ethel Slutzky Family Foundation, Platte Clove Bruderhof Community, Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation, The Greene County Youth Bureau, Marshall & Sterling Insurance, All Souls’ Church, Stewarts Shops, Windham Foundation, and by private donations. CMF believes that the arts can transform the lives of those touched by it and can transform the community. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
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