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The Watermill Center presents The Aging Magician | Open Rehearsal

The Watermill Center is pleased to present Director/Designer Julian Crouch, Librettist/Performer Rinde Eckert and Composer, Paola Prestini who will read sections from the libretto of their new work AGING MAGICIAN, play a film, and create a scene based on the work created during their residency at Watermill with students from the Park Avenue Armory Youth Corps. It is the artists’ goal to use this workshop / performance as a way to illuminate how the themes of legacy and death relate to the age group at hand.

ABOUT AGING MAGICIAN

A new music-theatre work, AGING MAGICIAN uses a composite of sonic and visual elements to guide a man entering his final stages of life to the fantastical world of Coney Island. Composed by Paola Prestini with libretto by Rinde Eckert, design and direction by Julian Crouch, instrument designer Mark Stewart, and projection designer, S. Katy Tucker,AGING MAGICIAN'S creative team combines music, theatre, puppetry, instrument making, and scenic design to create an enduring work for the stage. This project co-produced by Beth Morrison Projects and VisionIntoArt is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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ABOUT THE ARMORY YOUTH CORPS

The Armory Youth Corps is designed to engage high school students in the Armory’s operations, and foster their interest in the arts, architecture, and historic preservation. Students in this program have the opportunity to gain experience working behind the scenes at an arts organization, which will strengthen students’ artistic, career, and life skills through project-based learning, career readiness training, and leadership development.

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AGING MAGICIAN is part of our new partnership with Park Avenue Armory's Artist-in-Residence Program.

For more information and to register, please follow this link: http://watermillcenter.org/events/vision-into-art-aging-magician

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