Anat Pick and Alina Nelega Reading
In this Shambaugh House series reading, Christopher Merrill introduces each of the speakers. Alina Nelega reads and performs segments from her mono-drama “Amelia Breathes Deeply.” Anat Pick performs selections of her work.
Alina NELEGA (playwright, fiction writer, journalist; Romania) has authored over 15 plays, most recently TAXI/ VINYL; she runs playwriting workshops, translates and directs new writing. A participant in cultural exchanges in Ireland, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, and at the New York Fringe Festival, she has been a beneficiary of international residencies at the Royal Court Theatre and The Bush Theatre (London). Her awards include “Play of the Year 2000,” and “The European Author Award” at the New Plays Festival in Heidelberg, Germany, in 2007, and a shortlist as “best playwright” by the Romanian Writers’ Union, for Kamikaze. She lives in Tirgu Mures, and attends courtesy of the Romanian Cultural Institute and independent sources.
Anat PICK (sound-text performance artist; Israel) began her career as a pianist, eventually branching out to develop a repertoire of innovative language-oriented performance, one elaborating from the base of a phonetic mixture of eastern and western languages. For the past decade, Pick has given concerts across Israel, the Far East, and Europe. Her many collaborations with other artists and musicians have involved a variety of forms, including spoken word and free-improvisation.She maintains an intense interest in the performance of Dada sound poetry. Pick lives in Tel Aviv and participates courtesy of the Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the University of Iowa Louis Schulman Hillel.
In: International Writing Program Archive | Poetry | New Media
Authors: Anat Pick , Alina Nelega
Date Recorded: September 12, 2008
Program: Shambaugh House Readings
Format: reading
Topics: performance, sound poetry