APRIL 28-30

Phil Soltanoff is a hybrid artist mixing and colliding dance, theatre, visual art and new technologies in compelling ways that challenge familiar artistic forms and labels.  Recent work includes LA PARTY (featured in UNDER THE RADAR 2009)--in which 6 performers created a live video puppet; SITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN--a site specific movement work in response to a public space commissioned for SITELINES2010 and performed on Governors Island; And I/O--a collaboration with sound artist Joe Diebes featuring a real time interaction between 6 opera singers and a computer. I/O premiered at Theatre Garonne in 2008. In 2002 Mr. Soltanoff began a collaboration with CIE111 of Toulouse, France on a trilogy about space. PLAN B premiered in 2003 and  continues to perform around the globe including Kampnagel(Hamburg); Queen Elizabeth Hall(London); Patra Vadi(Bangkok); Vidy(Lausanne); TNBA(Bordeaux); Eurokaz(Zagreb) and The New Victory Theatre(NYC). Their second collaboration MORE OR LESS, INFINITY premiered in 2005 and also toured worldwide including Theatre de la Ville(Paris); BITEF(Belgrade); TNT(Toulouse) and Pina Bausch's International Dance Festival(Dusseldorf) among many others. Mr. Soltanoff was nominated for a Moliere Award in 2007 for his creation and direction of MORE OR LESS INFINITY. His collaborations with Fusebox Festival and artistic director Ron Berry include the 12nineteen Library, an installation created for the Austin Museum of Art which received a 2009 Austin Critics Table Award. Phil has received grants from the MAP Fund(2003, 2005), Doris Duke Creative Exploration Fund, French American Fund for the Performing Arts, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, and Newman's Own among others. In 2009 The Mellon Foundation awarded the Center Theatre Group a $1-million Grant to support the creation of  original devised work and named Phil Soltanoff its first recipient. Phil and collaborator Jim Findlay will premiere a new work in LA in 2011. In 1999 Phil and performing artist Hanne Tierney created five myles performance/exhibition space which received an Obie Award in 2000.