THE SEVEN SAGES dance theater with choreographer yin mei and the Hong Kong Dance Company
Hong Kong Dance Company: March 16, 17, 18, 2012 Hong Kong

WORLD OF WIRES after Fassbinder's Welt am Draht
World Premiere: January 6-21, 2012, The Kitchen, New York CIty

UNTITLED PRODUCTION, Norwegian Theater Academy, May 2012

MUTATIONS OF THE AVANT GARDE
2 October 2011: Usine C, Montreal, presentation on SImulated Cities/Simulated Systems

Mixing multimedia with deadpan-cool (and very sexy) actors, Scheib is forging new ways of seeing drama. - Time Out New York

Jay Scheib’s world premiere of WORLD OF WIRES played a sold-out, three week engagement at The Kitchen in New York City. Garnering an array of rave and insightful reviews, interviews and preview articles World of Wires is the final installment of Jay Scheib's Simulated Cities / Simulated System performance trilogy— read David Cote's review in Time Out New York; AndrewAndrew's insta-review Papermag; Ben Brantley's review in the New York Times; Alex Zafiris' interview in BOMB; Scott Macaulay's interview in Filmmaker Magazine; and Carmen García Durazo's review in Guernica among others — and the critical discussions continue—Scott Brown's write-up in New York Magazine and Ben Brantley's essay in the Arts Beat Blog on New Media in the Theater for the New York Times.

A 2011-12 Guggenheim Fellow, Jay Scheib is an acclaimed writer, director and designer of plays, operas, and installations. Scheib's recent works include World of Wires at The Kitchen (NY); a multimedia staging of Evan Ziporyn's new opera A House in Bali as part of BAM's 2010 Next Wave Festival in New York City, and at the Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston; Bellona, Destroyer of Cities premiered at The Kitchen followed by performances at the Maison des Arts Creteil (MAC) Exit Festival in Paris; Bertolt Brecht's Puntila und Sein Knecht Matti at Theater Augsburg, and Beethoven's Fidelio at Saarlandisches Staatstheater. Scheib is an Associate Professor for music and theater arts at MIT, and a regular guest at the Norwegian Theater Academy, The Mozarteum Institute for Acting and Directing.

(Full Biography Here)

SIMULATED CITIES / SIMULATED SYSTEMS

World of Wires, after the SciFi TV Series by Fassbinder
Premiered January 6, 2012 at The Kitchen (World of Wires Press Release Here)

World of Wires Adapted and Directed by Jay Scheib after the film by Fassbinder. Pictured:
Ayesha Ngaujah, Jay Scheib, Laine Rettmer, Sarita Choudhury
Photo by Paula Court, Courtesy of The Kitchen (hi res publicity images here)

In development is a trilogy of hybrid performance works under the banner, Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems. All three have been developed In residence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Untitled Mars (This Title May Change) premiered at Performance Space 122 (April 2008) in New York followed by performances at the Hungarian National Theater, Budapest; Bellona Destroyer of Cities played a sold out run at The Kitchen (April 2010) and was presented as part of the Maison des Arts Cretéil (MAC) Exit Festival in Paris followed by a run at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, (May 2011) ; Part 3, World of Wires will premiere at The Kitchen January 6, 2012. Envisioned as an ongoing series of collaborations across disciplines, Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems flows an exchange of ideas with aerospace and astronautics, architecture and conceptual civil engineering, computer science and artificial intelligence.

(World of Wires Here) (Bellona, Destroyer of Cities Here)

SPONSORSHIP

The Kitchen's presentation of World of Wires is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Additional support provided by the Guggenheim Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Theater Commissioning Program, the Greenwall Foundation, MIT Council for the Arts, a residency at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, and the Südtiroler Künstlerförderung. World of Wires was supported by a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council residency at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island.

We greatly appreciate the support of all the individuals and institutions listed above. Donors are listed in alphabetical order and not separated by amounts. Please consider contributing to the productions of Jay Scheib and Tanya Selvaratnam. Your name will be added to the list above or you may choose to remain anonymous.

If you are interested in being a contributor next season, please contact jayscheib@jayscheib.com

Producer of Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems
Tanya Selvaratnam, 1.917. 754.4179
tselvar@aol.com

Press Contact:
Blake Zidell & Associates
tel: 718.643.9052
fax: 718.643.9502
blake@blakezidell.com

Worldwide Tour Representation:
(Untitled Mars, Addicted to Bad Ideas,and Bellona)
Thomas O. Kriegsmann, President
ArKtype, P.O. Box 1948; New York, NY 10027
http://www.arktype.org, 1.917.386.5468
tommy@arktype.org

for A House in Bali:
Kenny Savelson, Executive Director
Bang on a Can, 80 Hanson Place, Suite 701
Brooklyn, NY 11217 USA, tel: +1 718.852.7755
fx: +1 718.852.7732, kenny@bangonacan.org
www.bangonacan.org

Jay Scheib, jayscheib@jayscheib.com, 1.917.612.2137