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Nova Arts Project

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About Me

Nova Arts Project is a Houston-based theatre company. We seek to recreate classics and inspire new works in a fearlessly theatrical way.
Photos from Nova's tempOdyssey:
Photos from Nova's The Joy Luck Club:
Pictures from The Danube:
Photos from Nova's Oedipus^3:
Nova Arts Project, formed in 2005 with a vision of an avant-garde theatre for the new century, is always challenging and never boring. We are attracted to those aesthetic experiments that capitalize on the visceral nature of live theatre.
-Says Everette Evans of Houston Chronicle about Nova Arts Project and our last production: "It's the theatrical equivalent of standing in an electrical storm and daring the lightning to strike."
-Says Alison Young in ArtsHouston magazine: "Creative, full of talent and nerve, but also a tight group of players, Nova Arts Project is a terrific addition to the already edgy Houston theatre scene."

My Interests


Photos Of Nova's Hamlet by Ayn Morgan (aynart.com)

Hamlet rehearsal photos(photos by Sara Patterson):

Pictures of Nova's production: Oedipus3

Oedipus Rex (directed by Bernardo Cubria)

Oedipus at Colonus (directed by Clinton Hopper)

Antigone (directed by Jenni Rebecca Stephenson)

I'd like to meet:

theatre people, houstonians, austinites, artists, dancers, designers, directors, actors, painters, sculptors, musicians, playwrights, stage managers, dramaturgs, graphic designers, website designers, photographers, marketing directors, accountants, lawyers, PR people, fundraisers, grant writers, donors
Founding Directors:

Movies:

Short clip of video used in Nova's current production of Hamlet:

Hamlet Out-takes:

Short video of Hamlet fight call:

A film that was created as part of the MFAH's Film/Music Swap, 'Dance de fanatiques de bazarette'... (Involving Clinton Hopper and Jenni Stephenson of Nova Arts Project, along with Lindsey Ricker. Directed by Sharad Patel.)

Books:


An essay of our own making:
We are for a new theatre. What theatre oftentimes is—a dying art form no longer needed or relevant to most—is crass, mundane and profit-based. It no longer provides the ritual and communion so relished by earlier audiences. Frequently, there is nothing for the spectator to do in theatre now except sit there until it is time to leave. We are for a new theatre that is not the bland, milquetoast entertainment experience that makes people laugh, but does not make them think. We are for a new theatre—a theatre with plays that may catalyze, provoke or even offend. We are for a new theatre.
Theatre must be made to remember its core—a core that is based in ritual, communion and universality. Theatre is not real. Theatre is theatre. For plays to try to pretend to be real, in the age of movies, television and first-person videogames is futile and embarrassing. For theatre to be necessary, to be relevant in the lives of most it must be different. Theatre must be visceral, passionate and unconcerned with the literal. We are for a new theatre—a theatre of fearless theatricality, a theatre where kitchen sinks do not belong.
Our new theatre will happen in three primary ways—our use of space, our visual aesthetic and our presentation of classic plays and new works.
The space wherein we present our theatre is intimate and intense. There is no magical chasm. There is no picture frame. There is no fourth wall. The use of space as it concerns the performers and spectators is as important as all the other design elements required for a play. Our space is created new for every production—it is a dynamic element between the performers and spectators. Every bit of the space is offered up in service of the play being presented.
Aesthetically, we are moving away from realism. We will use a visual language that is based in symbol and metaphor. Literal interpretations of plays, from a visual aesthetic perspective, will not be our focus. Like a dog on the hunt, our performers and spectators must sniff out theme, characterization and interpretation based on the clues given via the visual aesthetic of any given work. Our performers and spectators are intelligent people, and we respect that. We will not insult them by spoon feeding meaning and character to them.
The works we do are our third movement. Classics are a broadcloth, with which we can imagine and analyze the universal themes they offer in our own time. We do not revere the classics, and if necessary will deconstruct them in order to see a character or theme in a new way. It is a challenge to us and to our performers and spectators to take a play we all have experienced a million times and re-imagine that play as something new. New works are passionate voices of today—they are the specificity to the classics’ universality. Using new and classic works provides a strong and true mirror to our spectators and ourselves—we see the entire world and only ourselves in that mirror.
Our new theatre must happen. For theatre to save itself, its practitioners must be brave and have the wisdom to know that letting traditional theatre go by the wayside is necessary for theatre to be reborn. We accept this challenge.
A New Theatre/Explosion is here.

Heroes:

Salvage Vanguard Theater - Austin, The Wooster Group, The Vortex Repertory Company, Peter Brook, Julie Taymor

My Blog

Volunteers Needed!

Have you ever wanted to help Nova, but you never knew how? Well now's your chance!We can use more: stagehands (helping move the set,) Sound Board Operator, Light Board Operator, Greeters, Tic...
Posted by Nova Arts Project on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:56:00 PST

Houston Chronicle review of Love Loves a Pornographer

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/theater/5692573 .html April 11, 2008, 5:16AMREVIEWIngenious wordplay drives Pornographer By EVERETT EVANS Sometimes you can pinpoint the exact moment when...
Posted by Nova Arts Project on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:46:00 PST

Love Loves a Pornographer opens THURSDAY!

Nova Arts Project’s Love Loves a Pornographer opens THIS THURSDAY! Winner of L.A. Drama Critics Circle award for Writing! Regional premiere!  New work by author of ’The Eight: Reindee...
Posted by Nova Arts Project on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:30:00 PST

Love Loves a Pornographer opens in one week!

Nova Arts Project’s Love Loves a Pornographer opens in one week! Winner of L.A. Drama Critics Circle award for Writing! Regional premiere! Runs Thursday-Saturdays, April 10th-26th (8PM) @ Barnev...
Posted by Nova Arts Project on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:24:00 PST

Love Love a Pornographer Preview/Porn-OH! Party THIS Sunday!!!!

Just a flirtatious reminder that the ’Love Loves a Pornographer’ Preview/Porn-OH! Party is THIS Sunday, March 16th @ Boheme (Fairview and Taft) from 6-9PM! This party not only launches Nov...
Posted by Nova Arts Project on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:23:00 PST

Love Loves a Pornographer Preview/Porn-OH! Party- March 16th

Love Loves a Pornographer by Jeff Goode   (Catch the Bootown kickball tournament before the party!  1-5PM at Studewood Park!)...
Posted by Nova Arts Project on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:47:00 PST

Cast announced for Love Loves a Pornographer!

Love Loves a Pornographer by Jeff Goode Nova Arts Project’s Production Dates: April 10-26th (Mark your calendar!) CAST: Fennimore: Wayne Barnhill      Miles Monger: ...
Posted by Nova Arts Project on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:10:00 PST

Auditions for Love Loves a Pornographer: February 23rd!

NOVA ARTS PROJECT is holding auditions for the first play of its third season:   LOVE LOVES A PORNOGRAPHER By Jeff Goode  Directed by Rob Kimbro   AUDITIONS: Saturday, February 23rd&nb...
Posted by Nova Arts Project on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:18:00 PST

Nova’s mention in Evans’ Top ? (Chronicle)

Several of our peers deserve a presence on this list-Plenty of great work wasn't mentioned, but is not forgotten.  Thanks to Evans and the Chronicle for the shout-out! Local shows earn applauseBy...
Posted by Nova Arts Project on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:08:00 PST

Nova Arts’ "Conduct of Life" a hard-hitting indictment of inhumanity

Nova Arts' "Conduct of Life" a hard-hitting indictment of inhumanity By EVERETT EVANSHouston Chronicle Nova Arts Project takes the prize for nerviest programming this holiday season with María Irene F...
Posted by Nova Arts Project on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:56:00 PST