The Artist's Crossing: Theatre Company and School
Judith Blazer
In the Millennium, I began dialogues with some of my closest colleagues, all artists whom I admired. In 2004, two friends and gifted professionals, Joseph Bates and Landon Scott Heimbach, and I became the founding members of a new collective called The Artist's Crossing - a title we felt embodied the very idea of "art fusion."
It seems so unlikely to think that we would put Joni Mitchell, Benjamin Britten, Anton Chekhov and Jerry Herman all on one platter and serve them up at a dinner. But why wouldn't we? As artists we are perpetual students, ingesting a million styles and modes of expression. It may be easier in a sense to specialize and focus on one idiom as a creative artist, but will that keep us employed in this ever-changing industry? Even if we stay exclusively in one realm of performance, isn't it fruitful to explore art more laterally and to fuel our relationship to the particular genre we're working in? Surely this kind of exploration makes our lives more interesting and it deepens everything we do. Diversity is essential.
As we now celebrate our tenth year with The Artist's Crossing, I am not only filled with joy at our accomplishments, but even more convinced that we have to continue throughout our lifetimes as students of our work, through an ever growing understanding of how to survive as business people while fueling our ever changing artist within.
At The Artist's Crossing we work to understand a multitude of styles and resources while maintaining our own personal core. Being very diverse stylistically can sometimes threaten to reduce the depth or integrity of our work. We might even face the danger of becoming technically or stylistically "schizophrenic". So, how do we keep our balance?
We invite extremely diverse and accomplished artists to teach at The Artist's Crossing workshops. Each of them has exercised a vast range of artistic skills and techniques, both personally and professionally. In our workshops, they share their knowledge with a select group of students.
Workshops typically include various classes, private vocal coachings, and personal consultations. We also explore Anne Bogart and Tina Landau's adaptation of Mary Overlie's "Viewpoints". This is an amazing study in movement and spatial relationships that puts everyone involved on one page more quickly than anything I have ever seen or done. We practice traveling seamlessly from music to theatre to television to film. We discuss how ethics and humanity play a part in all we do and how our work can change the society we live in.
Do you aspire to a rounded career which utilizes the full range of your intelligence and talent while providing you with the essential survival tools? If so, please join us for an exciting workshop at The Artist's Crossing.
Judith Blazer
Artistic Director
It seems so unlikely to think that we would put Joni Mitchell, Benjamin Britten, Anton Chekhov and Jerry Herman all on one platter and serve them up at a dinner. But why wouldn't we? As artists we are perpetual students, ingesting a million styles and modes of expression. It may be easier in a sense to specialize and focus on one idiom as a creative artist, but will that keep us employed in this ever-changing industry? Even if we stay exclusively in one realm of performance, isn't it fruitful to explore art more laterally and to fuel our relationship to the particular genre we're working in? Surely this kind of exploration makes our lives more interesting and it deepens everything we do. Diversity is essential.
As we now celebrate our tenth year with The Artist's Crossing, I am not only filled with joy at our accomplishments, but even more convinced that we have to continue throughout our lifetimes as students of our work, through an ever growing understanding of how to survive as business people while fueling our ever changing artist within.
At The Artist's Crossing we work to understand a multitude of styles and resources while maintaining our own personal core. Being very diverse stylistically can sometimes threaten to reduce the depth or integrity of our work. We might even face the danger of becoming technically or stylistically "schizophrenic". So, how do we keep our balance?
We invite extremely diverse and accomplished artists to teach at The Artist's Crossing workshops. Each of them has exercised a vast range of artistic skills and techniques, both personally and professionally. In our workshops, they share their knowledge with a select group of students.
Workshops typically include various classes, private vocal coachings, and personal consultations. We also explore Anne Bogart and Tina Landau's adaptation of Mary Overlie's "Viewpoints". This is an amazing study in movement and spatial relationships that puts everyone involved on one page more quickly than anything I have ever seen or done. We practice traveling seamlessly from music to theatre to television to film. We discuss how ethics and humanity play a part in all we do and how our work can change the society we live in.
Do you aspire to a rounded career which utilizes the full range of your intelligence and talent while providing you with the essential survival tools? If so, please join us for an exciting workshop at The Artist's Crossing.
Judith Blazer
Artistic Director
