CAMP WANATACHI GALLERY SHOW opens at Ramiken Crucible Gallery Thursday August 19th →

August 19th - September 6th, CAMP WANATACHI creator Natalie Weiss will be artist in residence at Ramiken Crucible Gallery. She is moving her home studio into the gallery, where she will prepare for CAMP WANATACHI’s Off-Broadway run.

Natalie has curated a group show full of art that summons CAMP WANATACHI — a chapel, tents, SP 404’s + synthesizers, stories of girls who had lesbian experiences at summer camp, projections of nature, huge angel wings and more. This gallery show, a fine art extension of CAMP WANATACHI, is called Jesus In Our Lives.

Featuring art by Bridget Regan, Jeremy Earhart, Tom Sawyer, Lauren Bahr, Natalie Weiss, Wheat Wurtzburger and Our Community. 

RAMIKEN CRUCIBLE GALLERY IS ON EAST BROADWAY AND CLINTON IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE. ENTRANCE IS A LARGE BLACK BOX. 

THURSDAY AUGUST 19th, 2010  

Jesus In Our Lives: Opening Party!!
7-10pm, performances at 8pm sharp 

Featuring: 

Lauren’s Song of Revenge by Allie Tyspin
Video and performance artist Allie Tyspin gets into teenage rage and banality in this video/performance piece based on a song from the new musical CAMP WANATACHI.

Ironing by Andrew Chadwick
Andrew Chadwick uses record players, microcassettes and radio to create quilted audio collages through broken records and object interference. Magnetic dregs and battered grooves yield a stuttering summertime soundclash.

Together We Are A River by Natalie Weiss
A line of women braid themselves together in a social sculpture about how great it is to touch your friends. Featuring Throat II by Little Women arranged for four female voices by Natalie Weiss.

Pinning Music for Four Trombones by Conrad Winslow
Conrad Winslow explores the sonorities and dynamics of the trombone with an entirely male ensemble!

Unicornicopia by Natalie Weiss
Wielding armfuls of samplers and synthesizers, a costume by riderhood and her little sister, Natalie Weiss will perform as Unicornicopia.


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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1st, 2010 

Youth GroupNight Time Church Girl and Boy
8-10pm, potluck and fellowship to follow.

Featuring:

ZELJKO MCMULLEN - Noise and Meditation Cycle

KAIA WONG - African Imbera Music

CHARLIE LOOKER - Special Performance

ISAAC ROYFEE - Yoko Ono Cut Piece with My Pet Monster 

OUR COMMUNITY - I Had A Lesbian Experience At Camp 

NATALIE WEISS - Acts 2: 1-18 

*Night Time Church Girl and Boy will end with an unthemed potluck. BYOB

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CAMP WANATACHI is going Off-Broadway!

We are thrilled about our upcoming run at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in January. Honored with over thirty Obie Awards and dozens of Drama Desk and Villager Awards, La MaMa has an incredible roster of theater, movie and multi-media luminaries for whom La MaMa was an early artistic home. In fact, Blue Man Group, co-founded by our producer Ian Pai, began at La MaMa ETC!

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CAMP WANATACHI creator Natalie Weiss (aka Unicornicopia)
and beat maker Travis Stewart (aka Machinedrum) throw the sick dance party CASSETTE NYC!

Machinedrum’s new love-step project SEPALCURE is playing! Natalie is hosting! That means dancing with you! 

  ·    Saturday June 26 

·     Public Assembly 70 North 6th St. Brooklyn, NY 11211

·     10PM - 4AM

·     Only $5 if you RSVP to RSVP@CassetteNYC.com

·     $10 @ Door

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CAMP WANATACHI vocodes and auto-tunes the voices of Broadway stars in new musical!

Something has happened since Carolyn Mignini’s days in the original Broadway productions of Fiddler on the Roof and Tintypes — her voice sounds a lot more like T-Pain. 

CAMP WANATACHI, a new musical about two 13 year old girls who fall in love at Christian summer camp, is turning musical theater on its head with its dynamic new utilization of thick beats and pop music technology. Long seen as sworn enemies, musical theater nerds and hip hop heads can now come together on June 3rd and June 4th when an abridged version of CAMP WANATACHI is performed at 3 Legged Dog Art + Technology Center.

Ms. Mignini isn’t the only Broadway star to get the vocoder treatment. Alice Lee, who stared in the Tony Award winning Broadway cult sensation Spring Awakening, has also joined the CAMP WANATACHI cast. The unique blend electronically processed vocals with unaffected “musical theater” singing hits just the right note when atop of CAMP WANATACHI’s signature electro-funk and lush orchestral arrangements.

Music Directed and arranged by up and coming new classical music composer Conrad Winslow, a Julliard grad student currently under the tutelage of Academy Award winning composer John Corigliano, Mr. Winslow has merged his penchant for  “harmonic thorniness and rhythmic vitality”  (New York Times) with his love for electronic dance music in his compositions for CAMP WANATACHI. Also acting as conductor and a live DJ, Mr. Winslow’s arrangements for his 7 piece orchestral ensemble hearken the undulating repetition of Phillip Glass, the glitchy specificity of Alarm Will Sound and the electronic/emotional consciousness of Nico Muhly.

Written and composed by indie rocker Natalie Weiss of Unicornicopia and featuring beats by hip hop producer Machinedrum, CAMP WANATACHI began as an experimental DJ set/monologue cycle performed by enthusiast hipsters alongside of noise bands in Williamsburg basements. As the project developed, it began to share bills with established artists such as Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors.

Now, under the direction of Matt Cowart (Co-Producer/Associate Director of Sondheim: the birthday concert with the New York Philharmonic), CAMP WANATACHI has transformed into a vibrant, boundary breaking piece of musical theater that is sure to become a Broadway hit.

 CAMP WANATACHI Concerts at Three Legged Dog Art + Technology Center: 

80 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10006
Two nights only!
Thursday, June 3rd 8:00pm (followed by VIP Reception)
Friday, June 4th 8:00pm (followed by CASSETTE NYC After Party.)

Tickets: $15 (includes admission to CASSETTE NYC After Party on June 4th.)
Tickets for June 3rd concert and VIP reception: $25 

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CAMP WANATACHI is a new musical about two 13 year old girls who fall in love with each other at Christian summer camp. Music by Natalie Weiss (of Unicornicopia) + Travis Stewart (Machinedrum.)

Defies all expectations. Refreshing and uplifting. - TimeOut NY 
A hilariously subversive piece of theater. - New York Magazine 
Very catchy. - New York Post

 

CAMP WANATACHI: In Concert! June 3rd + June 4th @ 8PM 
3 Legged Dog Art + Technology Center (80 Greenwich St.) 
Tickets: $15 (includes admission to CASSETTE NYC After Party on June 4th)

CASSETTE NYC AFTER PARTY June 4th @ 9pm 
3 Legged Dog Art + Technology Center (80 Greenwich St.) 
Hosted by: Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner, Anne Koch + Greggor
DJ sets: Machinedrum, Lando Kal of Lazer SwordLe Chev 


Book by Natalie Weiss + Bekah Brunstetter, Music Direction by Conrad Winslow, Choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall, Directed by Matt Cowart, Produced by Ian Pai + Bridget Regan. Cast: Amy Gironda, Laurel Harris, Alice Lee, David Andrew Morton, Carolyn Mignini, Natalie Weiss, Cortney Wolfson.  

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