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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cleveland
Public Theatre announces an exciting opportunity for artists to be involved in
a unique project! </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><em><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;font-weight:bold'>What is a city? Michel de Certeau once said that
what appears to be a city to the outsider is not its architecture but the
sedimentation of its inhabitants' emotional trajectories through time. </span></font></i></b></em><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>CPT
is proud to have Natasha Lushetich, an interdisciplinary artist from EU, in
ArtsLink residence at the theatre. Natasha has been meeting with local
artists across disciplines to explore some of the topographical, aesthetic,
emotional and philosophical connotations of the word 'city'. In specific, she
asked a number of people to take her on a personal tour of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:City></st1:place>. On Sunday, November 4th at
6:00pm, Natasha will be presenting her ideas for a site specific and context
specific multi-sensory performance project that will take place throughout
Cleveland in the summer of 2008. </span></font><font size=2><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Natasha
is currently looking for talented area performance artists, dancers, poets,
theatre artists, musicians, spoken word artists, visual and fine artists,
sound designers, filmmakers, composers and visionaries who are
interested in collaborating on this unique performance project that will take
audiences out of the world of traditional theatre and introduce them to an
entirely different illustration of the city of Cleveland. <br>
<br>
Interested artists and collaborators are invited to join Natasha and
artists currently on-board with the project for a unique chance to meet her,
listen to a resident artist's take on the identity of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:place></st1:City>, offer insights and
contribute ideas for the project and ask questions. Although Natasha
will be the driving force behind the project, the group of artists working
together will define the event through this collaborative creative
process.</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sunday,
November 6th<br>
6:00pm</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Cleveland Public Theatre<br>
Free and open to the public</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If
you have any questions about the presentation, please email Mindy Herman,
Communications Director, at <a href="mailto:mherman@cptonline.org"
target="_blank" title="blocked::mailto:mherman@cptonline.org">mherman@cptonline.org</a>.
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<p><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>About the artist: </span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Natasha Lushetich
is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in theatre. Her site-specific
and context-specific performances mix visual, video and performance art with
theatre and theory. After her graduation from East 15 Drama School in London
and the Jacques Lecoq School for Physical Theatre in Paris in 1992, Natasha
went on to create devised work throughout Europe and has since collaborated
with numerous internationally renowned artists and groups across disciplines
such as Jen Michele Bruyere (performance, mixed media, France), Gritheater
(site specific physical theatre, Ther Netherlands), Nicole Hewitt (experimental
film, Great Britain) and Aernout Mik (video art, The Netherlands). <font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>In 2002, Natasha
founded an Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary group Sub Rosa (lat. intimate, in
four eyes) dedicated to creating one-to-one performances on location. Her work
has toured widely in Europe, Africa, Asia and <st1:place w:st="on">South
America</st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></font><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>About ArtsLink: </span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> CEC ARTSLINK is international
arts service organizations, whose programs encourage and support exchange of
artists and cultural managers between the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> and Central Europe, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>
and <st1:place w:st="on">Eurasia</st1:place>. They believe that the arts are a
society's most deliberate and complex means of communication, and that artists
and those who work in the arts can help nations overcome long histories of
reciprocal distrust, insularity and conflict. With solid expertise and
lasting partnerships in 27 countries, CEC ArtsLink promotes communication and
understanding through collaborative, innovative projects for mutual benefit.
CEC was founded in 1962 to enable citizens of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> and the <st1:place w:st="on">Soviet Union</st1:place>
to accomplish what their governments could not – opening doors, sharing
ideas and building mutual trust. In today's transformed and complex world,
citizen diplomacy is still urgently needed. </span></font><font size=2><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mindy Herman</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Communications Director</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:mherman@cptonline.org">mherman@cptonline.org</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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