HERE Arts Center

HERE Arts Center is a New York City based off-off broadway presenting house, founded in 1993, with two stages specializing in hybrid performance, dance, theater, multi-media and puppetry. From 1993-2006, HERE supported over 11,100 artists and served approximately 850,000 audience members. HERE supports the work of artists at all stages in their careers through fully-produced works, commissions and subsidized performance and rehearsal space.

HERE describes their mission as “supporting artists' independence within an interdependent community. The HERE community provides the artist with access, arts management innovation, and nonprofit enterprise. We measure our success by the lively, active exchange that occurs in our spaces daily. With this in mind, our seasons are driven by the needs of our community.”

They are located in SoHo on 145 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013 between Spring and Broome.The space has been totally rebuilt and redesigned for 5 months and for the first time since 1993. This huge renovation had a cost of a million dollars. It happened at the beginning of 2008 and was the occasion for a big reopening gala in June, gathering together a few productions that happened to be important to HERE in some way.

HERE Artist Residency Program - HARP

Here arts center offers every year a chance to emergent or already known artists to develop their project in a 3 year time. The selection takes place every January. Here receives each year more than 100 applications for the HARP (Here Arts Residency Program) and chooses about 20 projects that match its interests and concerns. The new group meets every month, added to the old people and everybody discusses the projects, giving advices and names that could be useful.

About the HERE Theatres

* The Mainstage Theatre is a flexible black box theatre with a sprung wood floor which can seat up to 99 depending on configuration of the seating platforms.

* The Dorothy B. Williams Theatre is a fixed seating performance space with a raised stage which seats up to 67 patrons. It is suitable for readings, auditions, meetings, symposia, conferences, presentations, or classes.

Significant productions

* Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues"
* Basil Twist's "Symphonie Fantastique"
* Hazelle Goodman's "On Edge"
* Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle's "all wear bowlers"
* Young Jean Lee's "Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven"

Awards

Between 1993 and 2006, HERE and the work presented at HERE have received:

* 13 OBIE awards
* OBIE grant for artistic achievement
* 2 Berrilla Kerr awards
* 2 New York Innovative Theatre Awards ("Disposable Men", "all wear bowlers")
* Pulitzer Prize nomination ("Vagina Monologues")
* Drama Desk Award nomination ("all wear bowlers")

External links

* [http://www.here.org/ HERE Arts Center website]
* [http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/here.htm HERE Theatre Specs] from NYTheatre.com
* [http://www.nyc-arts.org/oDetail.aspx?OrgID=1399 HERE Overview] at NYC Arts
* " [http://www.allwearbowlers.com/ all wear bowlers] " Official website