Barbara Neri will judge student presentations and teach Performance Art & Improvisational Monologue workshops at the 2011 Thespian Festival of META / Michigan Educational Theater Association Dec 2 & 3 at Saginaw Valley State Univ., Saginaw, MI.
Barbara Neri will be a panel participant at the Universtiy of Michigan's SMTD "Tennessee Williams @ 100" birthday conference. Neri will be a member of the Williams in Production panel on Thursday Oct 13, 2011 at 5PM in the Arthur Miller Theater. Go to the above link for more information and to browse for other conference events and performances.
NEW! "Unlocking Desire" will be produced in the heart of Detroit at the Marlene Boll Theater located at 1401 Broadway. Directed by John Jakary the play will have nine performances: Fri & Sat Sept 23 & 24 at 8PM and Sun Sep 25 at 3PM; Fri & Sat Sept 30 and Oct 1 at 8PM and Sun Oct 2 at 3PM; Thurs & Fri & Sat, Oct 6, 7 & 8 at 8PM. Press and ticket information will be made available soon. Go to Williams Wing to read more about Neri's play.
March is Women's History Month. Join Barbara Neri for a Lecture Demonstration at the Downtown Branch of the Ann Arbor Public Library: "The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A New Edition of EBB's Poetry Explored with Associate Editor, Artist and Playwright Barbara Neri." Wedneday evening March 16th from 7:00 - 8:30 PM. Find more details / directions here.
Barbara Neri's play "Unlocking Desire" was given a public reading by The New Theater Project at 8 PM on Monday Jan 31, 2011 at MIX, 130 W. Michigan Ave., Ypsilanti, MI. Go to Williams Wing to read more about Neri's play.
Neri presented a paper at the NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association) 2010 conference "Victorian Scale and Perspective" held in Montreal, CA from November 11-13. Neri's paper entitled "Seeing the Light: Dark Rooms and the Embodiment of Sight in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'" was read on Friday Nov. 12th. Go to the conference site for more information.
Barbara Neri's visual art was exhibited as part of 'Sub-Terrain,' an all media show at Ann Arbor's Work Gallery Sept 10 through Oct 9, 2010. Artists were invited to give vision to the invisible. Neri's collage entitled 'Tower of Malakoff / Valley of Death' (20 1/4" x 22 1/2") is pictured below. The work used images from the Crimean War taken from the London Illustrated Times, circa 1855 and made allegorical use of other dome like structures including the Duomo, the female breast and the cage crinoline. John Carlos Cantu wrote: "[The featured artists] confront their viewier with viewpoints that are anything but understated. And this strategy makes "Sub-Terrain" an uncompromising success." Read the review here.
Neri's play, "Unlocking Desire," was read as part of the Renegade Theater Festival in Lansing MI, August 19 & 20 at the 'Friends Meeting House' in Lansing's Old Town. Details for the 2010 festival can be found here: Renegade 2010. Scroll down here to Read Tom Helma's review.
It is official! The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (WEBB) is now in print. The 5 volume edition, was published by Pickering and Chatto this March 2010. Barbara Neri was an associate editor on this project contributing in general to the edition and specifically her research on EBB's 44 love sonnets, "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Click here to go to the Publishers Site.
Neri's play "Unlocking Desire" was read at the Planet Ant Theater on March 16, 2010.
Barbara Neri's visual art was exhibited as part of The Gallery Project's "Spring Collection 2010." Exhibition dates were 12/9/09 - 1/11/10. Neri's mixed media 2D work entitled "Am I out of Fashion" (18"Wx15"H) was selected for the show and is seen below. View "Spring Collection 2010" at the The Gallery Project 2009 archive.
Barbara Neri presented a lecture "The Critical Nature of Creativity" for the AAWA (Ann Arbor Women Artists) 2009-2010 series. Neri's presentation was on Monday, November 16 at 7:30 PM and was free and open to the public. Her talk surrounded the synergy of creative processes in performance, visual art, writing and research that she has refined and used to explore ideas and will included examples of recent and past work.
Neri's multimedia installation "Dance Drawing: (Re)mapping Choreography" was exhibited as part of the (re)Mapping exhibit at Work Gallery in Ann Arbor, MI from Oct 23 till Nov 13, 2009. Read Neri's artist statement, see a slide show of this installation, and a video excerpt from "Collaboration II." Neri's 'Dance Drawings' were recently published in Performance Research (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group) Volume 13, No. 1 (March 2008) 'On Choreography.' Download Neri's article at Routledge.
Barbara Neri's Play "Unlocking Desire" will be given a staged reading as part of the LA Women's Theater Project "20% Festival of New Works." Neri's play will be read by a cast of fine actors directed by Rachel Jenkins on Saturday, October 10th from 8:00 - 9:30 PM at the Stella Adler Theater in Hollywood.
Barbara Neri created the above installation "Homage to our Dancing Ancestors" for UM Dance Department's "Dancing at 100" celebration, June 13th and June 14, 2009. The installation was part of a larger site specific work choreographed and directed by Professor of Dance Jessica Fogel. Read more and see a slide show of images taken in Neri's studio, and in UM Dance Dept Studio B, and of audience viewing the installation.
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Dec. 10, 2008 till Jan 18th, 2009 Barbara Neri's interactive installation from The EBB Project entitled "Imagine me imagining you, Dream of me dreaming of you" was on view at The Gallery Project located at 215 S. Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor, MI. Neri created the installation for the Gallery's 2008 fundraiser exhibition "Step Right Up!" Viewers could have their picture taken in all of the installations for this show by purchasing a pass. Read Neri's artist statement and see images of her installation taken at the opening. View "Step Right UP!" in The Gallery Project 2008 archive. Go to Neri's Visual Art page.
Neri's Artist Pages, "INFINITE FIELD (Dance Drawing)," can be found in a recently published issue of Performance Research (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group) Volume 13, No. 1 (March 2008) 'On Choreography.' Download Neri's article at Routledge.
Barbara Neri taught Performance & Monologue workshops for the Michigan Educational Theatre Association Thespian Festival 2008 hosted by Michigan State University and the Warren Consolidated Schools for Performing Arts Friday Dec 5 and Saturday Dec. 6 at MSU, East Lansing, MI. A variety of Workshops were held both days taught by stellar performers and teachers from across the state. Four main stage shows were presented by Michigan HIgh Schools including "The Laramie Project" by Grosse Pointe South. Contact John W. Rutherford for information about the 2009 META Festival: Email jr08bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us
Barbara Neri presented a scene called "Soldier Poet" from her new multimedia performance play entitled "Unlocking Desire." This sneak preview took place as part of the 555 Nonprofit Gallery Studio fundraiser event, "555 Bailout," on Saturday Nov. 8, 2008 at 8:00 PM.
555 is located at 4884 Grand River Ave. at Warren in Detroit, MI. The fundraiser began at 6:00 PM and ended at 2:00 AM. Donations of $10, $20, $40, $100 can still be made at www.555arts.org. Neri's scene was directed by John Jakary. Read about the inspiration for Neri's new performance play at Williams Wing.
Neri's INFINITE FIELD DVD was shown at WORK Gallery as part of the ICON show. Visitors could view the entire 60 minute performance on flat screen from Sept. 13 - Oct. 8, 2008. WORK Gallery is located at 3663 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48201, Phone 313 593 9527. Gallery hours 11am-4pm, Tuesday through Saturday. Go here to see a six minute excerpt.
Barbara Neri's DVD of INFINITE FIELD will be shown as part of the Brighton Film Festival. This year the festival has moved from Brighton, Michigan to Windsor, CA and has become part of the Detroit Windsor Film Festival. Neri's film will be shown at the Art Gallery of Windsor on Thursday June 26, 2008 from 7 PM - 9 PM. Click here to read more about INFINTE FIELD.
Barbara Neri will be teaching three weekend Performance Art Workshops this summer 2008. Neri is also forming a new Performance Group. Go to LECTURES, TEACHING & WORKSHOPS to find details!
New video excerpts have been posted on the Portfolio Performance Section page. Go there to see excerpts from INFINITE FIELD and "Matter of Life & Death (Bolero)."
Neri was invited to participate in TOUCHING TIME: BODIES/WRITING/HISTORIES. An experimental practice-based research symposium April 19th/20th, 2008: Dance Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Keynote Provocation: Ann Cooper Albright, Professor of Dance, Oberlin College.
Conference Team: Amy Carroll, Assistant Professor of English and American Culture (Latina/o Studies) Amy Chavasse, Assistant Professor of Dance, Petra Kuppers, Associate Professor of English (Performance Studies/Disability Studies) and Yopie Prins, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Barbara Neri judged performances and taught workshops for the Michigan Thespian Festival 2007 on Friday November 30 & Saturday December 1, 2007 at the Warren Consolidated School for the Performing Arts located at 12901 Fifteen Mile Road, Sterling Heights, MI. Contact John W. Rutherford for more information: Email jr08bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us Phone: 248-203-3580. The Festival is a project of the Educational Theater Association of Michigan.
Neri's latest article was published in May 2007, "Cobridme de flores: (Un)Covering flowers of Portuguese and Spanish Poets in Sonnets from the Portuguese," in the 2006 Bicentenary issue of Victorian Poetry devoted to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Click here to Access this article and issue online.
Now available! A DVD of the New York premiere performance of The Consolation of Poetry. View the preview, click here to go to the Store Page.
Visitors can click here: Stilnovisti to go to Neri's youtube site and find video excerpts of the art and performance of Barbara Neri.
Visual art work by Barbara Neri from The EBB Project was exhibited in "Venus of Willendorf: Redefining the Goddess" an exhibition sponsored and curated by Feminist Artist Project Michigan. The two works by Neri juried into the show were "Sonnet 1 (Minerva Descends)" and "Isis & Sylvia (Plath): Mirror Image." The exhibition was held at the Duderstadt Gallery in the Duderstadt Center on the North Campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The exhibition opened February 9 and continued till February 26, 2007. The Feminist Art Project Michigan is part of a national effort to recognize the aesthetic and intellectual impact of women on the visual arts and culture. The national project is administered at Rutgers University and can be explored here http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/.
Click here to read Neri's Artist Statement for the show and see images of the work.
Ms. Neri is currently at work on her contribution to a new edition of EBB's complete works forthcoming in 2009 (Pickering and Chatto). Click here to go to the Publishers Site.
She is an associate editor of the edition contributing her research on EBB's "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Below are the 44 Sonnets in Neri's studio. Neri is also working toward a book length project of art/criticism on EBB's 44 Love Sonnets.
The Visual Art and Installation work of The EBB Project was listed in the Michigan Humanities 2006 - 2009 Touring Guide. Neri is no longer part of the guide but go here Michigan Humanities Site to learn more about available grants to assist nonprofit groups and schools in hosting other Michigan artists and performers!
A new wing of The EBB Project has been created. New research emerging from the wing will be the ground upon which new performances will be built. Go to The Williams Wing to read more.
Ms. Neri was honored recently when The Fund for Women Artists chose her photograph for their fund raising video. Seen below, the photo was taken during a performance of "The Consolation of Poetry" at the 2005 NY International Fringe Festival. Click here to see more photos of this performance.
Barbara Neri's "Matter of Life & Death (Bolero)" was featured in and on the cover of London based e-zine STIMULUS-Respond.
Go to Writing to download a free PDF of this article or the entire issue # 13.
An installation from the piece featured above, "Matter of Life & Death (Bolero)," was exhibited at the Work Gallery September 2006 in Ann Arbor, MI. Click here to read the statement Neri wrote for this exhibit see images and learn how this earlier work connects to her current work.