BODY CONCERT P-7. Lone Wolf Tribe. Kevin Augustine PRODUCTION CONTACT $36,400 $7,000. Project Budget Grant Request. 138 South Oxford St.

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1 Lone Wolf Tribe CONTACT Kevin Augustine 138 South Oxford St. Brooklyn NY lonewolftribe.com Project Budget Grant Request $36,400 $7,000 PAST GRANTS AWARDED 2015 Seed - BULLHEAD 2013 Project - The God Projekt 2012 Seed - The God Projekt 2010 Project - Hobo Grunt Cycle 2006 Project - Bride 2005 Seed - Bride 2003 Project - Animal 2002 Seed (1k) - Animal 501 (c)(3): The Field BODY CONCERT BODY CONCERT is LWT's newest work- a hybrid solo dance/puppet piece exquisitely bringing to life oversized body parts within a hauntingly romantic music score. Eschewing any traditional sense of story and character (a first for LWT), BODY CONCERT is a wordless, tender meditation on the ephemeral beauty of life performed by Kevin Augustine in a graceful and physically extreme Solo Bunraku technique. VIDEO SAMPLE Title: BODY CONCERT (in process) - June 2016 Artists: Kevin Augustine - director/creator/performer Description: A duet excerpt between the ARM & LEG. Augustine's costume is as yet incomplete, but evident is his mask (which allows both presence/invisibility) and his solo Bunraku technique of using his feet and hands. The music is by Dustin O'Halloran. PRODUCTION

2 The Jim Henson Foundation 2017 application from Kevin Augustine s Lone Wolf Tribe Lone Wolf Tribe seeks a PRODUCTION GRANT from the Jim Henson Foundation for its newest work, BODY CONCERT, created by Kevin Augustine (two years in the making so far). With an early workshop showing at the Micro Festival in Canada hosted by Les SAGES FOUS, and invited back by Les SAGES FOUS to present the full production in 2017, LWT will finish the creation of the full-length piece after our La MaMa commitment in October. We are reaching out to JACK and Irondale Theatre in Brooklyn to present the 2017 NY premiere. We are also exploring a Co-Production with Nordland Visual Theatre in Norway. Influenced by Japanese Butho dance, this hybrid work brings LWT's exquisitely sculpted foam-rubber puppets uniquely to life in a hauntingly romantic movement piece. Eschewing any traditional sense of story or character (a first for LWT), BODY CONCERT is a wordless, tender meditation on the ephemeral beauty of life performed amid a textured sonic background (live & pre-recorded), including a bittersweet piano score by Dustin O'Halloran, whose music has become "a singularly serene presence in a world full of noise". Performed as a succession of physical vignettes (under 60 min total), oversized body parts stripped of their skin become a moving sculpture of muscles, tendons and bones, achingly animated in an extremely rigorous choreography. Reducing the traditional Bunraku technique of 3 puppeteers down to a single performer, Augustine's spectacle embraces a pure minimalism as he puppeteers solo, using his hands, toes & outstretched legs. In this unique animation style, Augustine (wearing a custom made, mostly neutral mask, with his body airbrushed black), propels himself slowly over the stage (seated & prostrate) via a contoured aqua-plast-body-mold (designed by Broadway props maker, Ashley Stevens). Embedded with multiple omni-directional casters, Augustine will be capable of executing subtle, graceful and continual puppet movement, having a sometimes invisible stage presence, while other times directly showcasing the physical demands of such a technique, bodily emphasizing ambition and limitation. Without over intellectualizing what this piece is about, several universal themes are surfacing: struggle/triumph, connection/separation, longing/renewal. The artistic ambition of BODY CONCERT is to allow audiences their own personal interpretation as the piece unfolds. Some of the tenderly grotesque images to be brought to life include a legless torso walking on antique prosthetic limbs; a disembodied hand gliding on top of a rolling skull; a sightless child floating amid snowflakes; a quivering leg caressed and comforted by a detached arm, looking for a partner. With help from the Lion King s puppet maestro, Ilya Vett, small motors are incorporated within some of the BODY CONCERT puppets to allow muscles and tendons to peel away like flower petals, highlighting quivering moments of vulnerable connection. Through collaboration with lighting designer Derek Van Heel, Butoh artist and choreographer Yoshiko Usami, and a projection designer (TBA), BODY CONCERT will create a hauntingly evocative landscape of shifting ripples of light and shadow combined with scenic elements of smoke, vapor and snowfall. Utilizing projection light as a primary illumination source, this lush and stark environment will transform the playing space while interacting with the intricate puppet/dance choreography. Yoshiko will be a primary collaborator to especially help with Augustine s transitions between puppetry sequences. The minimalist piano score by O'Halloran, (with Tibetan chanting and other audio elements to weave throughout) will act as a sonic foundation and blend with live solo accompaniment. LWT plans an experimental collaboration with 3 separate solo musicians (violin, piano, cello) to accompany different nights of the eventual performances. Of great importance will be the interplay between silence & sound within the relationships of the live musicians, the prerecorded landscape and the puppets with Augustine s silent character. Embracing a primal physicality over the purely rational, BODY CONCERT is Lone Wolf Tribe s bold new performance art piece, fully expressing the company's mission to investigate, challenge and spellbind by venturing to the edges of theatrical form and the human experience. We respectfully request the financial assistance of the Jim Henson Foundation to help launch this work. We believe this will be our best touring production for speaking to international audiences while not even saying a word.!

3 BUDGET- BODY CONCERT EXPENSES: Artistic Fees: Lowest Artistic Director/creator (Kevin Augustine) $5, Lighting Designer (Derek Van Heel ) $1, Chorographer (Yoshiko Usami) $ Musicians (3) $6, Sound Designer (Mark Bruckner) $1, Special costume designer (Ashley Stevens) $2, Puppet mechanics (Ilya Vett) $ Costume designer (Ciera Wells) $ Video Designer $1, Videographer $ Photographer (Dress Reh) Michael Falco $ Graphic Designer $ SUB TOTAL: $21, Administration Fees: Assistant $ Marketing (postcards/posters/ads) $1, PR (DAR Agency) $4, SUB TOTAL: $6, Production Costs: Rehearsal Space $1, Special Effects (snow/vapor) $1, Makeup & Costume Materials $2, Puppet Materials $2, Lighting $ Transportation $ SUB TOTAL: $8, TOTAL EXPENSES: $36, INCOME: The Jim Henson Foundation $7, NYSCA $10, Brooklyn Arts Council $3, The Jerome Foundation $12, Kickstarter campaign $4, SUB TOTAL: $36, TOTAL INCOME: $36,400.00

4 Artist&Bios&! Creator:! Kevin Augustine is founding Artistic Director of Lone Wolf Tribe, a performance company blending history, philosophy and lifesized puppetry into brutally poetic contemporary narratives. Harnessing the power of visual storytelling with meticulous craft, physical rigor and decidedly dark humor, LWT aims to investigate, challenge and spellbind while speaking compassionately to our collective human experience. Acting as playwright, director, puppet maker and performer, Augustine s life-long storytelling passion was ignited as a boy when his grandmother made him a hand-stitched sock puppet. Trained as an actor and self-taught as a puppet artist, Augustine founded LWT in Having written and performed 7 full-length Tribe shows, traversing a broad thematic scope from monotheism s ancient beginnings to the current U.S. Veteran suicide epidemic, Augustine devotes 1-3 years to fully realize each new production. Grants, fellowships and residencies have been awarded from The New York State Council on the Arts, The Jim Henson Foundation, The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, The Green Wall Foundation, The Axe Houghton Foundation, Puffin Foundation, The Pennsylvania Arts Council, Puppeteers of America, The Mac Dowell Colony, Yaddo & WildAcres. Augustine's work has been archived in the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts, published, commissioned and performed on both coasts as well as internationally in Brazil, Holland and Africa; LWT Credits include The God Projekt (return engagement opening La MaMa s 55th Season), winner of the 2014 Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance Art Production/ 4 STARS "Critic's Pick"~ "One of the most startlingly intense shows I've seen": Time Out NY; awarded a week-long DEEP SPACE artistic residency through NACL Theatre in 's Hobo Grunt Cycle (Dixon Place commission) Superb; Augustine s most eloquent work for the stage yet : Martin Denton; and BRIDE (PS122 commission), UNIMA Citation for Excellence in Puppetry and "Top 10 Show of 2008": Time Out NY. Other merits include Overall Excellence Award for Solo Show/ NYC Fringe; Critics' Choice Award & Sold-Out Citation/ SF Fringe and being inducted into the Indie Theater Hall of Fame and named a person of the year for As an associate member of Veterans for Peace, Kevin is collaborating with VFP on one of Lone Wolf Tribe's new works, CLARION CALL- a physically demanding street theatre series calling silent attention to the lasting legacy of war. Augustine toured Sweden in 2013 with Pontus Lidberg Dance as puppet director for SNOW, commissioned by the Royal Swedish Opera with a premiere at The Joyce and a Guggenheim showing in Kevin also continues to perform as a lead puppeteer at the Metropolitan Opera in Madama Butterfly (since 2006) and Wagner s Ring Cycle. He offers monthly puppet workshops in both technique and construction at LWT's South Oxford studio space in Fort Green Brooklyn. Movement!Consultant:! Yoshiko Usamiis an actress, Movement & Butoh Artist from Nagoya, Japan. She has acted in, devised and choreographed a variety of local and international shows, having won several awards, including Best One-Woman Show for her Butoh Medea (United Solo 2014 at Theatre Row). Butoh Medea was selected to perform at *United Solo Europe in Warsaw, Poland in June, 2015, then toured to Edinburgh Festival Fringe (21 shows. sold out 5 shows, selected for the short list of The Asian Arts Award) Other theatre credits include BALDY (Center of Remembering & Sharing; United Solo 2013; Hollywood Fringe 2013; FringeNYC 2012; Dorothy Strelsin Theatre), Butoh Electra (Irondale Center; FringeNYC 2011), The Woolgatherer (ASDS Repertory Season), Odyssey (The Wings Theatre) and many others. Dance credits include Isis Variations (Fringe NYC 2014); Facet (Hollywood Fringe 2013; Wave Rising Series); Autumn Leaves (Kraine Theatre) and Kizuna: Connection (NICODA). Yokko also acted in several of local and international films, one of which was the first runner up in the hour Shootout at the Asian American Film Lab (Himitus). She is a proud member of The Ume Group and Void Theatre Company as well as the founder and artistic director of Ren Gyo Soh in NYC. Awards: Winner of Best One-Woman Show (Butoh Medea, United Solo 2014); Winner of Best Choreography (Butoh Medea, United Solo 2014); Nominee for Best International Performance (BALDY, Hollywood Fringe 2013). Education: Attended University of Oregon (Theatre Arts), University at Albany (BA in Theatre); Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University (MFA in Acting). Lighting!Designer:! Derek Van Heel has over 15 years of experience in live production, having entered the entertainment industry professionally at the age of 17, running a studio camera for local newscasts in his Montana hometown. He spent most of his twenties working in theaters across the United States with the help of four national tours, and in Seattle, where he spent time on the staffs of the Intiman Theatre and the Seattle Children s Theatre. Now based in Brooklyn, NY, Derek s designs have been seen at The Alvin Ailey Citibank Theatre, Jazz at Lincoln Center s Rose Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Off-Broadway, and the kinds of basements, bars, churches, and teeny-tiny rooms where New York theatre is often forged. Recent designs include the East Coast premier of Gone (Melinda Sullivan Dance Project), Manon (Curtis Institute of Music), Origin Theatre s critically acclaimed production of The International, The Miracle Worker (Montana Repertory Theatre; national tour), and the immersive Close Up, which paired dance from LeeSaar The Company with live interactive projections from video artists OMTA. He recently received a Best Lighting Design award for his work on Ren Gyo Soh s Butoh Medea at the 5th annual United Solo Festival in NYC, bringing that show s award total to four. Butoh Medea has gone on to perform at United Solo Europe in Warsaw Poland, and the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. In addition to design, Derek continues to work as a Lighting Director and Production Manager for such companies as Gallim Dance, LeeSaar The Company, Castleton Festival, and the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), and provides Vectorworks (CAD) drafting services for television and corporate clients. He holds a BFA from the University of Montana, and an MFA from NYU s Tisch School of the Arts. He enjoys traveling, hiking, playing the ukelele, training in the Japanese martial art of Aikido, and is a longtime fan of the Seattle Seahawks.

5 Investigate Challenge Spellbind M I S S I O N S TAT E M E N T Lone Wolf Tribe is a multi-disciplinary performance company based in Brooklyn, New York, helmed by founding artistic director, Kevin Augustine. Harnessing the transformative power of visual storytelling and Augustine s virtuosic talents as writer/director, performer & sculptor, LWT s signature feature is its breathtaking tribe of hand-carved, life-sized puppets. Blending meticulous craft, physical rigor and decidedly dark humor, LWT s mission is to investigate, challenge and spellbind with fearless original stories that speak compassionately to our collective human experience. C O M PA N Y S T O R Y Since 1997, Kevin Augustine s Lone Wolf Tribe has been fusing history, philosophy, and life-sized puppetry into contemporary narratives whose dramatic scope traverse the ancient shift between polytheism & monotheism, to the current U.S. soldier suicide epidemic. Conjuring brutally poetic & theatrically provocative worlds, LWT unabashedly embraces art as a catalyst for social change. ~Martin Denton of Indie Theatre Now, says LWT S work is: Utter genius; the images Augustine creates will haunt you for days. I don t know anybody who is doing theatre quite like this. LWT productions have been performed internationally, published, commissioned (PS122, La MaMa, Dixon Place & HERE) and archived in the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts. The Tribe has won several awards including the Overall Excellence Award for Solo Show at the NY International Fringe Festival, the Critics' Choice Award and Sold-Out Citation at the San Francisco Fringe Festival, the UNIMA Citation for Excellence in Puppet Theatre for LWT s opus, BRIDE, which was twice listed as A Top 10 Best Show of 2008 by Time Out New York and the 2014 Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Performance Art Production for The God Project (invited for a return engagement to La MaMa/2016). Kevin was inducted into the Indie Theater Hall of Fame and named a person of the year for LWT s work has been funded with grants, fellowships and residencies from: Lone Wolf Tribe South Oxford Street Brooklyn, NY ! augustine@lonewolftribe.com

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7 August 10th, 2016 Hello Kevin, It was really wonderful to see your new work-in-progress "Body Concert" at our Micro-Festival of Unfinished Puppetry this past June. We would love to bring you back to Trois-Rivières to perform the finished piece in our Season of Unusual Theatre The dates of our event are not yet fixed, but we are definitely interested in including Lone Wolf Tribe in our next season! Please keep us posted on the developement of the show and your availability during the next year. It will be a privilege for us to have you back again and to present your work. Sincerely, South Miller Artistic director, Les Sages Fous LES SAGES FOUS 80, Saint-Franc ois-xavier, Trois-Rivie res, QC, G9A0A6 CANADA info@sagesfous.com