Boomtown is Back - Be on the lookout for Monkeyhouse

by Karen Krolak

Yikes, in all the excitement about our 10th anniversary season, we forgot to mention that Monkeyhouse will be returning to the Boomtown festival in Cambridge, MA. Thank goodness, the Boston Globe remembered to get the word out for us. They featured a charming picture of Julia Marx and Gaby Mervis in Centanni Courtyard during the first Boomtown Festival in 2008. The photo of Princess Pamplemousse to the right is from the same year.

This time, Monkeyhouse will be presenting a dance intervention that explores the choreographic concept of accumulation starting at 5:30 on Thrusday, July 8th and Thursday, July 15th. We are sandwiched in between a Blues Jam Session for Kids with the Jeff Robinson Trio and the DCR Organ Trio. The event is kid-friendly and FREE so slather on some sunscreen, pack up some water bottles, and join us.

I am thrilled to announce that we will have a new dancer, Courtney Wagner, cavorting with us in heart shaped goggles (Don't tell Nicole that I "borrowed" them from her anti-ossification costume. Hmmm...I wonder if she will notice when she subs in for Nikki next week?). Courtney has been a regular at our recent spate of Musings and I am quite certain that you will be thoroughly charmed by her.

First Night 2009 Online Program

At the end of our three previous performances at First Night Boston, there have been hundreds of programs left littering the theater. So, this year as part of our ongoing efforts to improve our enviromental impact and to focus our financial resources on programming, we are posting out program online.

366
- Inspired by adventures in Iceland, Italy, and England

Presented by Monkeyhouse
at First Night 2009
at John Hancock Hall in the Back Bay Events Center
December 31, 2008

Lighting design by Jason Ries
Costume Design by Karen Krolak

Pochemuchka (premiere)*
Created and performed by Karen Krolak and Jason Ries
Sound design by Karen Krolak

Zizz (premiere)*
Choreographed by Karen Krolak in collaboration with Caitlin Meehan and Nikki Sao Pedro
Performed by Caitlin Meehan and Nikki Sao Pedro
Music: Go! by Uncle Monsterface

Firk II (2005)
Premiered at First Night 2006
Choreographed and performed by Karen Krolak and Nicole Harris
Music: I'm Beginning to See the Light by Ron Surace

Knosp (2001)
Choreographed by Karen Krolak
Performed by Nicole Harris
Music: Mr Pushkin Came to Shove by Combustible Edison

Ingeniculation (premiere)*
Choreographed by Karen Krolak in collaboration with Julia Marx, Caitlin Meehan, Nikki Sao Pedro
Music: Cornelius by Boston Typewriter Orchestra and a sound design by Karen Krolak featuring Marty Allen and audience members from Monkeyhouse's concert, And, What Do YOU Want? in July 2007 at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center

* Pieces were developed with partial funding from Monkeyhouse's Bernie Wightman Dance Building Fund

Special Thanks to...
First Night Boston
WBZ
College Planners LLC
Impulse Dance Center
Arlington Center for the Arts
Google
Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
GoodSearch
Exit Theater
Marquette Associates
Uncle Monsterface
Boston Typewriter Orchestra
Jacob's Pillow Choreographers' Lab

Pat and Rita Krolak
Steve Wightman and Peggy Wacks

Freya Bernstein and Dr. Martin Broff

Joan and Robert Parker
Richard Miner and Corinne Nagy

Tim Losch and Brandi Brooks

Susan and Gib Hammond

Tom and Viz Ries

Nicky Felix

Dot and Tom Christian

Joan and Roger Panek
LuAnn and Jim Pagella

Kathryn Stieber

Dr. and Mrs. Owen Bernstein

Jon Schaffrath

Drs. Carlos Estrada and Bita Tabesh

Paul Feiss and Margaret McKenna
Pat and Lizzie Krolak
Michael and Carly Krolak

Dr. Michael Shannon
Dave Pavkovic and Becca Rossen

Stephen, Meera and Cody Werther

Christina Augello
Pam and Steve Harris

Marjorie Freeman

Gillian Brecker and Seth Mason

Donna and James Rosenberg
Mike and Judy Panaro
Penny Penniston and Jeremy Wechsler
Tom and Dot Christian

Karen and Mark Slutsky
Amelia O'Dowd and Brian Eastman
Beth McGuire and Nathaniel Panek
Gail and Rick Fine
Adele Traub
Marty Allen
Eric Phelps
Margaret Hagemeister
Anne Howarth and Rick Frank
Martha Christensen and Neal Smyth
Michael Wissner
Julia Blatt
Suzanne Jenkins
Joanne Dougan
Mark Zuroff
Zach Galvin
Shelley Neill
John Aceto and Natalie Pino
Mara Blumenfeld
Irene Gaetani
Gaby Mervis
Sarah Friswell
Sarah Feinberg
Ashley Chandler
Janine Harrington
Leah Sakala
Michael Maggio
...and of course,
Lynne Anne Blom
Timothy O’Slynne

Please feel free to email us at MonkeyhouseLovesME@gmail.com with any questions or comments, if you don't want to post them here.