be a part of PLEIADES | 24 Season 5
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The Pleiades Project is hard at work on our fifth and final season of Pleiades 24! Pleiades 24 is a series of short films, based on the canonical “Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias,” but reinterpreted from diverse, contemporary female perspectives.
For the last season, we are engaging composers and arrangers from New York to Singapore to create genre-bending interpretations of these well-known songs. In response to the difficult times we are experiencing, we will focus our story-telling on the impact of COVID-19 on women's daily lives. Throughout this pandemic, we know that there are heroes of all kinds facing illness, loneliness, uncertainty, and the daily grind, but they continue on with courage, resilience, and empathy. We would like to use “Tre giorni son che Nina,” composed by Vincenzo Legrenzo Ciampi (1719–1762), as the musical foundation for this story. What are your personal struggles and daily triumphs? We are looking for video footage of essential workers getting ready for work, examples of patience in the face of illness, coping strategies for life under quarantine, and moments of socially-distanced connection; whatever may feel relevant to you in expressing the difficulties of this unprecedented situation. |
Guidelines for footage |
Content
Length & Audio
Permission
- footage can be of people, or more B-Roll in feel (i.e. hospital equipment, a pan of your uniform laid out, an empty street or park, etc.)
Length & Audio
- 10-30 seconds of footage in landscape orientation
- no sound necessary; it will be overdubbed by the aria
Permission
- please send in only what you are comfortable sharing publicly
- not all footage submitted will be used
- if your footage is used, you will receive credit, as well as your work shared on our social media and website
July 30, 2020
Premiere
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Mizzi represents so many of the women in the paintings whose names and lives are lost to time but whose images are immortalized by the painters - often male painters whose names we still remember. For me, I felt it my duty to help Mizzi reclaim her personhood. |
in Development
A Women’s Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza!
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This show is an original music-theater work, inspired by turn-of-the-century vaudeville, in which our daring Maestra Impresaria guides us through the comedic, tragic, and untold stories of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.
Through unique adaptations of suffrage propaganda, including plays and popular songs, as well as newly commissioned songs from NYC-based composer Lacy Rose, Maestra Impresaria and her troupe lead us on an exhilarating jaunt, as we celebrate, explore, and problematize this historic fight to win the vote. By examining the intersection of the voices of historic women and American women of today, we ask the audience to consider how far we have come in building an equal and just society for all women. |
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A Women's Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza! is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and administered by LMCC.
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Short filmsPerformers, directors, designers, musicians and more come together to create videos that are a theatrical event. Designed to be viewed online, shared and seen over and over again, these projects are our collaborative dreams come true.
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