WAXworks

WAXworks Applications now available for download. DEADLINE: received by 5 pm July 30th, 2010! Note: our mailing/office address has changed!!!

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Available Fall 2010 Dates: September 19, October 24, November 14, December 19 and January 23.

For more information or if you have questions about the application and booking process, contact WAXworks Production Director, Alexandra Burley via voicemail at: 718.599.7997 or waxworks (at) wax205 (dot) com

About the Program

WAXworks is an inclusive performance showcase that offers new and experienced artists the opportunity to present their work on a professional stage with substantial and versatile lighting, sound and technical systems. Any kind of stage work is welcome - we invite dance, theater, music, video, performance art, poetry, comedy, juggling, singing, puppetry, acrobatics, monologues or anything else that can be performed on a stage. There is no audition process and few technical limitations.

WAXworks is designed to help artists advance their creative process by viewing their work through the objective eyes of a live, enthusiastic audience: guided by the WAX staff, audience members are invited to share their constructive criticisms, reactions and ideas with the artists in an anonymous written format. An involved audience is a supportive audience.

For a nominal fee, artists receive a half hour tech slot and a split bill performance opportunity for work up to 12 minutes in length; in addition to the performance, participants receive the audiences written feedback forms, and a video documenting their performance. In addition to performance services, we are now able to offer constructive criticism on press-kits and artists statements submitted as a part of the WAXworks application. By engaging in this process, artists take part in a "learn-by-doing" method of preparing and refining materials which they will need for other, forward looking opportunities.

New in 2010:

With this season comes a new change to the WAXworks program. Prior to your WAXworks showcase, there will be an artist dinner for all creators at the WAX Production Director's home. At this gathering, participants will be guided through a discussion regarding both their struggles and successes as artists living in NYC or elsewhere. This gathering is meant to foster a fellowship between the artists sharing the program, and to offer them an opportunity to make important connections with peers.

Special Thanks:

Many thanks to colleagues, Abby Bender and Andrew Dickerson, without whom WAXworks would cease to be! WAXworks is held in their Triskelion Arts Theater, located at 118 North 11th Street, 3rd Floor (between Berry and Wythe); L Train to Bedford Avenue

WAXworks is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Additional support is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. In Kings County the Decentralization Program is administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) And lastly, WAXworks continues because of the generous donations of individual patrons.

WAXworks Event Schedule:

Unless otherwise noted, all performances take place at Triskelion Arts

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For a listing of past WAX events, check out our calendar archive