Odd Heart Productions
raw art now
(formerly of (a)muse collective)
Every Tues
9pm
$3
UNDER St. Marks Theater
Odd Heart Things
Odd Heart Friends
Members
mike milazzo
musical director
penny pollak
artistic director
marsha
business director
Odd Heart Productions is a fledgling organization that grew out of a working partnership with (a)muse collective. We spent the past year honing our skills and the three of us found a vision of art, it's creation and dissmeination, that is supported by a community. We sum it up in our tag line, Raw Art Now.
We saw it on the streets of nyc 9/11/2001. People were in shock, spiritually wounded, reaching out towards each other. Words came out of mouths eloquent, tragic and free. The gravity and loss of the situation stripped away the ego and turned us all into poets and heroes, standing thousands strong on street corners waiting to be able to help.
That's Raw Art: from the ugliest of sitations that is the art that is meaningful, the art that is the core of one person speaking to another, the art that keeps us in this struggle to survive.This is the art we encourage and suport at our weekly flagship show, Penny's Open Mic, where artists are encouraged to bring 7 minutes of work to share, practice, polish and workshop. Out of this supportive community night all of (a)muse's first season, Six Deadly Miracles, was born. The 7th show, Michael Birch's "One Man Hamlet" was run 7 minutes at a time, tuesday after tuesday, before he went on stage with the entire show for a three night run. It was truly amazing and a testament to what artist's can do with the space to play out their most passionate ideas.
Penny Pollak, the host of Penny's Open Mic, developed her solo show, "No Traveler" from short monologues perfomed at her open mic. As it grew, and developed with Co-Creator Samantha Jones, The Frigid Festival, one of the most fun festivals in NYC, produced by Horsetrade Theater Group, drew No Traveler out of a hat and she had a 5 performance run, getting the attention, collaboration and performance time a show needs. By the end of this run she had solidified her show into a brilliant statement on the nature of suicide and it contained one of the cleverest bits of slapstick clowning, while "stuck" inside a washtub bucket, ever performed.Watching this show develop through the fesitval experience threw in to clear relief that the process involved in creating art needs many performances, many venues and a lot of exposure to criticism and acclaim. These needs call for an organization to fund artisict development. So Odd Heart Productions was created by Penny Pollak, marsha, and Mike Milazzo.
Be sure to check back in this space as Odd Heart Productions creates a logo, solidifies it's next season of shows and offers information on how to work with us or to hire the amazing creative people we collaborate with on a regular basis.
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