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We're Lookin' for a Music Programs Intern

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) is seeking a creative, energetic and hard-working Music Programs Intern to work closely with the Producer of Art & Music Programs to produce the Council's summer music projects.

This internship will offer significant responsibility and valuable hands-on experience in an arts organization. The ideal candidates are highly organized, efficient, and have some knowledge of New York City's music/art scene.

THE INTERN WILL:
- Attend LMCC cultural events, and provide support in all areas of production including creative strategizing, scheduling, artist wrangling, and site set-up and break-down.
- Communicate with marketing team on event needs such as signage and web-content
- Assist in some basic graphic design projects
- Communicate with vendors and partners (in-kind sponsors, event site, etc.)

AS PART OF THE COUNCIL'S TEAM, INTERNS WILL:
- Receive a monthly stipend and/or university credit.
- Have access to all LMCC events, including launch events, performances, and receptions.
- Gain first-hand experience working with production, design, and promotions in non-profit arts environment.
- Meet and work with artists
- Learn from young and energetic arts professionals

QUALIFICATIONS:
- Undergraduates in the fields of Fine Arts, Music Production, or similar
- Independent, hard-working, organized, and experienced with a background or strong interest in the arts and event production;
- Strong office and administrative skills; Computer experience including MSOffice, Illustrator, Excel; MAC proficiency a plus
- Available some nights and weekends for openings, special events, and performances
- A willingness to be out of the office much of the time, whether at gallery spaces or outdoor performances.
- Strong writing and communication skills
- Available 20+ hours per week
- Open attitude and sense of humor are as strongly valued as work ethic

Please submit a cover letter, writing sample, and recent resume via email or fax to:
Ken Beasley, Producer of Arts & Music Programs
kbeasley@lmcc.net
fax: 212. 219. 2058
We apologize, but we are unable to respond to all applications.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) is the leading voice for arts and culture in downtown New York City, producing cultural events and promoting the arts through grants, services, advocacy, and cultural development programs.

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Critics Burning Up Over Fire on Wall Street

Ellis Wood's Fire on Wall Street is creating quite a fire in the hearts of dance critics. Look out, Venus can burn.

Field Notes: Dance, Performance & Theater Commentary by Eva Yaa Asantewaa

The Ladies Who Lurch

Eva Yaa Asantewaa

John Rockwell--taste arbiter for the affluent and powerful in his position as Senior Dance Critic of The New York Times--seemed highly incensed at the notion of the all-female Ellis Wood Dance using the balconies of a building just a few blocks away from Ground Zero for a Sitelines site-specific show called Fire on Wall Street. "Insensitive," he deemed it in his review today. "Tasteless." "Rude." "Silliness." But from the look of things, neither stockbrokers nor tourists seemed to mind it much, which might say more about the sorry state of public engagement with the art of dance than about Ellis Wood’s own ability to get a rise out of people.

The title--Fire on Wall Street–works either as a news headline or a command. Twenty fiery women dressed in "flesh"-toned underwear and haphazardly wrapped in wisps of scarlet tulle dangle over the balcony railings and around the Corinthian colonnade of 55 Wall Street, a financial and architectural landmark, and home of the ritzy Cipriani Wall Street restaurant. Wood has created a deliberately over-the-top vision, splashing a prime icon of white male dominion with the red of women’s blood. She has summoned Venus in the person of Cheryl Cochran, a black actress whose electronically-amplified voice breathes fire down upon our heads as she recites inflammatory text by Bil Wright, a noted black gay poet and novelist.

This Venus is no inoffensively sweet love goddess but the original fierce Aphrodite come back to reclaim her throne. She’s flanked by a militant chorus of sirens, banshees, and bacchantes who coyly beckon us forward then wave us away, writhe around and over the rails, rotate their heads as if in trance, and lash the air with their streaming or spiky tresses. There’s music, too--by Daniel Bernard Roumain--but maybe Wood should have hooked up with Diamanda Galas.

If you still own a sense of humor–or at least a rebellious nature--try to catch Fire on Wall Street, which runs again August 28-30 at noon and 12:30pm. It’s free, just short of fifteen minutes, and a hoot.

Fire on Wall Street is a production of Sitelines, curated by Nolini Barretto and presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and in association with the River to River® Festival. For more information, visit www.lmcc.net/sitelines and www.RiverToRiverNYC.com. For information on Ellis Wood Dance, visit www.wooddance.net.

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