A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAMDIRECTED BY TIM ROBBINS

Academy Award winner Tim Robbins and his critically acclaimed LA-based theatre company, The Actors’ Gang,

illuminate the forest of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with original music and a fervent

approach to the language.

Relying on the bard’s extraordinary text and the creative imagination of fourteen talented and versatile actors,

Robbins’ irreverent and bawdy adaptation of this surreal world is expertly represented with minimal costumes,

props, and scenery.

Founded in 1981 by a group of renegade theatre artists led by Robbins, The Actors’ Gang creates bold, original

works and daring reinterpretations of the classics. In the last 31 years, the company has produced over 100 plays

in Los Angeles, in forty US states, and on five continents.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2014SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 20148PM (2HRS 30MIN / 15MIN INTERMISSION)

“This is the Midsummer Shakespeare dreamed…original, madcap and completely engaging…astonishing…you want to get up and dance in the aisles…a jovial evening has never been so well spent.” –The Huffington Post

photo: Atossa Soltani

BANDALOOP

LOOK UP NASHVILLE !A pioneer in vertical dance performance, BANDALOOP seamlessly weaves dynamic physicality and intricate

choreography to create graceful weightlessness in dance.

As a precursor to full-length performances at OZ, BANDALOOP presents Look Up Nashville! - a one-of-a-kind

spectacle with the Nashville skyline as a backdrop. Take a picnic to work on October 6th and witness BANDALOOP

dancers’ stunning response to the architecture of a Music City skyscraper.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 20141PM (15MIN)Check oznashville.com/lookupnashville for location details

HARBORING BANDALOOP reimagines Harboring, their evening length work of sweeping drama and athletic grace, in three

surprising locations at OZ. Set to original music, dancers perform eight distinct scenes as a “chorus” of local

artists guide the audience from one performance site to another. Each vignette offers a different and breathtaking

perspective from the company’s signature, interactive, and unconventional approach to the art of dance.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 20147PM (60MIN, NO INTERMISSION)

Bandaloop.org Under the artistic direction of Amelia Rudolph.

“A new definition of freedom.” – SF Chronicle

VIJAY IYER: Music of TransformationMUSIC BY VIJAY IYER FILM BY PRASHANT BHARGAVAINTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE / Conducted by David Fulmer

Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer, recently awarded a 2013 MacArthur fellowship, a 2012 Doris Duke Performing

Artist Award and an unprecedented “quintuple crown” in the 2012 Down Beat International Critics Poll, is

known for his fresh, vitalizing approach to modern music. OZ Arts is proud to present a unique two-part program

celebrating Iyer’s collaborations with an extraordinary collection of world-class artists.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2014, 8PMSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2014, 2PM(80MIN PLUS 15MIN INTERMISSION)

photo: Craig Marsden / Prashant Bhargava

“[one of] today’s most important pianists.” – The New Yorker

Mutations I-X Vijay Iyer, Piano and electronics; Miranda Cuckson and Michi Wiancko, Violins; Kyle Armbrust, Viola; Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Cello

Mutations I-X showcases Iyer’s unconventional style through a composition scored for piano, electronics, and

string quartet. Through the interweaving of acoustic and electronic sound-textures and decisive improvisational

interventions in notated music, Vijay Iyer has created a suite whose very subject is change.

RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi Music by Vijay Iyer / Film by Prashant Bhargava / With the International Contemporary Ensemble, Miranda Cuckson, Tyshawn Sorey and Michi Wiancko / Conducted by David Fulmer

Inspired by the Holi festival, known around the world as a joyful, chaotic, and colorful celebration of springtime in

India, RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi was one of the most brilliant and exciting commemorations of last year’s 100th

anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. In collaboration with celebrated filmmaker Prashant Bhargava,

Iyer composed new music within the structural framework of the famed Russian composer – but from an entirely

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13 MOST BEAUTIFUL…SONGS FOR ANDY WARHOL’S SCREEN TESTSFEATURING DEAN & BRITTA

Andy Warhol is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century. His

Screen Tests are revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals—both famous and anonymous—who were

visitors to his studio, the Factory, between 1964 and 1966. Each subject was asked to pose, lit with a strong

keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera. Each screen test lasted only as long as the

100-foot roll of film.

13 Most Beautiful is a selection of Warhol’s four-minute, silent film portraits set to music performed by Dean

Wareham and Britta Phillips, both formerly of the indie NYC downtown band, Luna. The multimedia performance

incorporates a large-scale video projection of Warhol’s Screen Tests above the musicians performing live on stage.

13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests is a project jointly commissioned by the Andy Warhol

Museum and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts 2008.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 20158PM (70MIN, NO INTERMISSION)

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THE LANGUAGE OF THE FUTURELAURIE ANDERSON

Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned – and daring – creative pioneers. She is globally recognized

as a groundbreaking leader in the use of technology in the arts. While known primarily for her multimedia

presentations, Anderson has also cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer,

filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist.

The Language of the Future is a collection of songs and stories about contemporary culture and the latest chapter

in Anderson’s ongoing exploration of the American narrative. Anderson’s work continues to evolve as she strives

to reimagine and redefine the relationship between reality and dreams, sparking thoughtful discourse among her

audiences worldwide.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2015FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015 8PM (70MIN, NO INTERMISSION)

“[Laurie Anderson] is the reigning performance artist of her time.” –The Boston Globe

thursday night thingsthursday night things

Thursday Night Things (TNT) is a curated series of unexpected collaborations by Nashville-based artists.

Every third Thursday of the month audience members will get a glimpse into the imagination and artistic

perspective of Nashville creators as they turn our non-traditional space into a unique visual expression.

OZ Arts is thrilled to be in discussion with diverse and multi-faceted artists and collectives, including: Cory Basil,

Brooke Waggoner, David Perry - The North Road, Stephanie Pruitt, William Tyler, Alex Lockwood, Bryce McCloud,

Joseph Hazelwood, Banning Bouldin - New Dialect, Michael Weintrob, and Tony Youngblood.

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PI DAY ROY WOOTEN, LAURIE ANDERSON, CANO OZGENER, BEN DAVIS (ISHKY), MARK HANF, BRYCE MCCLOUD AND MORE

On Pi Day 2015, OZ Arts brings together visual art, live performance, and discussion with a focus on the

connections of science, technology, engineering, art, and math. OZ Arts will showcase the conceptual artworks

of multiple visual artists including its founder, Cano Ozgener, whose Pi Synesthesia uses color to express the

mathematical constant. OZ Arts will also display photographs from Ben Davis’s Pi in the Sky, the world’s largest

ephemeral installation of pi. Five-time Grammy-winning percussionist Roy Wooten, with an ensemble, will perform

his score for the constant, and artists and scholars, including Laurie Anderson, will come to OZ Arts from across

the country to discuss the intersection of mathematics and art.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2015

“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.” –Albert Einstein

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SEPTEMBER 18

OCTOBER 16

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JANUARY 15

FEBRUARY 19

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TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANYA RETROSPECTIVE IN THREE PARTS

Trisha Brown is recognized as an avant-garde and postmodernist choreographer whose more than forty-year

contribution to contemporary dance has made a significant impact on the field.

OZ Arts is proud to present two distinct evenings of performance by Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC), with

works from the late 1960’s to 2011. Program A features multiple, iconic works created for the proscenium theatre.

Program B employs the manicured grounds of OZ for a series of Brown’s “Early Works,” then moves into the Grand

Salon, which will be transformed into a performance space with seating on two sides of the stage.

In between these two main stage performance evenings, OZ Arts brings a live performance installation, Planes,

to Nashville in collaboration with local contemporary dance collective New Dialect and Zeitgeist Gallery. Zeitgeist

Gallery will host the multi-media installation from May 2 - 30, 2015, with weekly performances in the installation

by New Dialect. A special performance evening featuring both New Dialect and TBDC dancers takes place on

May 15, 2015.

“[Ms. Brown’s work] is unexpected, virtuosic, funny, arbitrary, subtle, detailed, poetic.” –The New York Times

OZ, INDOOR

- Newark (1987)

- Opal Loop (1980)

- Rogues (2011)

- Present Tense (2003)

OZ, INDOOR/OUTDOOR

- Early Works (1960s-1970s)

- You Can See Us (1994)

- Son of Gone Fishin’ (1981)

PROGRAM ATHURSDAY, MAY 14, 2015, 8PM

PROGRAM BSATURDAY, MAY 16, 2015, 7.30PM

PLANES (1968)FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015ZEITGEIST GALLERY

photo: Ian Douglas

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MEMORY RINGSPHANTOM LIMB COMPANY

“Over the course of 65 minutes (not a one of which is wasted), this entrancing multimedia work creates a portrait of humanity locked in eternal struggle with nature…extraordinary.” - Boston Globe, 69° S. (The Shackleton Project)

Known for their unconventional approach to storytelling and use of marionette puppetry, New York City-based

Phantom Limb Company combines multi-media production design and installation to create a three-dimensional visual

landscape on stage.

In July 2014, Phantom Limb puppeteers, designers, composers, choreographers, and makers land in Nashville for a

two-week residency. Utilizing OZ’s 9,000-square-foot warehouse, the company begins the final phase of development

for Memory Rings, their second work in a three-part series focused on humanity’s relationship to the environment.

In June 2015, OZ is honored to present the WORLD PREMIERE of Phantom Limb Company’s Memory Rings. Told from

the perspective of the world’s oldest living tree, this theatrical presentation tells the story of 5,000 years of human and

environmental change.

THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2015 – PREVIEWFRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 20157PM (75MIN, NO INTERMISSION)

photo: Pavel Antonov, 69° S, 2012

“[OZ is] securing its place among Nashville’s most

intriguing—and inspiring—cultural venues.”

–The Tennessean

“[OZ] bodes well for the artistic future.”

–ArtsNash

WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING...

“Billed as ‘a destination for innovative contemporary

art experiences,’ OZ Nashville has not disappointed in its

inaugural season.”–Nashville Scene

“Imagine what this will do for the city’s art scene—

and let your imagination off the chain.”

–Nashville Scene

“Now the city is embracing modernism.”

–The New York Times

“OZ is filling a vital gap in our artistic landscape.”

–ArtsNash, Evans Donnell

“If Utopia had a creative arts center, it would be OZ.”

–Jaz Dorsey

MEMBERSHIP

TICKETS

Membership in OZ is designed to provide on-going operating support for Nashville’s new contemporary arts organization. OZ is committed to bringing the best contemporary arts possible to Nashville to serve as yet another example of our city’s national and international status. The creative spirit has given Nashville a place in the world’s cultural landscape. It is our belief that OZ will help to nurture, strengthen and elevate that spirit to meet the opportunities ahead for our city.

We welcome your support as a member. And, we invite you to be part of what we are doing—bring your energy and enthusiasm to experience Brave New Art.

THE ARTIST CIRCLE, $50,000

THE PRODUCER CIRCLE, $25,000

THE DIRECTOR CIRCLE, $10,000

THE VANGUARD, $5,000

THE CRITIC, $1,000 TAKE OZ, $100 (AGES 21-39)

THE CREATOR’S CIRCLE

FOR DETAILED INFORMATION, GO TO OZNASHVILLE.COM/MEMBERSHIP

FOR TICKET SALES GO TO OZNASHVILLE.COM/PROGRAMS

A discount on all performance tickets is available to working artists, educators, and students.For more information go to: oznashville.com/creatorscircle

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTOUTREACHOZ Arts has created partnerships with a wide-range of

institutions to deliver artistic opportunities to the greater

community. Partners receive educational content that

seeks to create unique learning experiences for the

lifelong learner.

BANDALOOP – Vertical dance workshopOct 4, 2014, 10am – 1pmOZ Arts, 6172 Cockrill Bend Circle, Nashville$25 per person

Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) – MasterclassesMay 12 & 13, 2015 $25 per person

OZ SCHOOL DAYSOZ Arts is pleased to launch a new program created for

working families! OZ School Days are offered when Metro

Nashville Public Schools are out of session for public

holidays. Each full day session is focused on dance, drama,

music and/or visual art and is available for $50 per session

on the following dates from 9am – 4pm:

2014:Oct 13 Columbus DayNov 4 Parent-Teacher Work Day

2015:Jan 19 MLK, Jr Bday Feb 16 Washington’s BdayMarch 23-27 Spring Break campApril 3 Spring Holiday

SUMMER CAMPSave The Date for the 2015 Summer Arts Camp at OZ, Carnival of Culture, June 25 & 26, 2015

photo: W.O. Smith StringSmiths students performing with Ethel

For detailed information on all Community

Engagement Programs as well as Education

and Community Partners go to:

oznashville.com/education

STAFF AND CONSULTANTS

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS

STAFFCANO OZGENER Founder

TIM OZGENER Chief Executive Officer

LAUREN SNELLING Artistic Director

PAMELA JOHNSON SVP of Development & Marketing

ADAM SHEPARD Chief Financial Officer

ROBERT CAMPBELL Creative Cultivator

RUS SNELLING Production Manager

MICHAEL MAUREN Technical Director

SARA MOGGIO Director of Sales and Events

KATHERINE DAVIS Events Coordinator and Executive Assistant to the CEO

KATE ABRAMS Event Manager

SHANNON HARVEY Development Associate

KIM DALRYMPLE Marketing Associate

BRIAN SOMERVILLE Artist in Residence

JAMMIE WILLIAMS Artist in Residence

CONSULTANTSAMY ATKINSON Owner, Amy Atkinson Communications, Marketing & Communications Consultant

MIKE CONDER Finance & Operations, OZ and Principal, Crowned Heads Cigars

DELEVANTE CREATIVE Creative Direction & Brand Development

ARNITA OZGENER Development & Events

AYLIN OZGENER Philanthropy, Education & Development

AARON RAYBURN Brand Development Consultant

PATTERSON SIMSPresident of the Board at ICI, Former Curator at MoMA, The Whitney (NYC), Arts Consultant, OZ

NICHOLAS WOODS & BRYAN

ROBERTSON Fuzz Interactive, Website Design and Development

BLAKE ZIDELL Blake Zidell & Associates, Public Relations

4 Wall Entertainment

Accurate Staging

Elyse Adler

Advocate Marketing & Printing, Inc.

Dorothee Alemany

Laurie Anderson

Apollo Middle School

Cory Basil

BATCH Nashville

Belmont University

Best Brands

Prashant Bhargava

Emily Bills

Blackhawk Audio

Banning Bouldin

Bob Bradley

Trisha Brown

Linda Brumbach

Dorinda Carter

Thomas Cavanagh

Susie Clark

The Clay Lady’s Studio, Artist Co-Op

Steve Cohen

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Ben Davis

Amanda Dillingham

Dina Dusko

Kristy Edmunds

Spenser Fritz

Julia Glawe

Good Food for Good People

Jessica Grindstaff

Dameon Guess

AC Bill Gupton

Simon Hanna

Pacer Harp

Ben Harrison

Hip-Hues

Lou Hockett

Dr. Gary Hughes

Brian Hull

Irem Ikizler

Mara Isaacs

Vijay Iyer

John Early Museum Magnet Middle School

John Trotwood Moore Middle School

Bob Kucher

LEAD Academy

Clarissa Lega

Lipscomb University

Alex Lockwood

Carolyn Lucas

Anne Stewart Lynde

Dianne Madden

Made First

Bryce McCloud

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools

Moves and Grooves

Nashville School of the Arts

Nashville Shakespeare Festival

National Museum of African

American Music

New Dialect

Oasis Center

Playing by Air

Plaza Artist Materials & Picture Framing

Jairo Prado

Printers Press

Stephanie Pruitt

Alisa Regas

ReMake Art

Tim Robbins

Robert Churchwell Museum Magnet Elementary School

Mark Rowan

Josh Rubin

Andee Rudloff

Amelia Rudolph

Erik Sanko

Commissioner Derrick Schofield

Rena Shagan

Patterson Sims

Brian Somerville

Star Education

Casey Summar

Tennessee Board of Regents

Tennessee Department of Corrections

Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts

Tennessee Puppetry Guild

Tennessee State University

William Tyler

Michael Weintrob

Jammie Williams

Sabra Williams

Wising Chair Productions

Roy Wooten

Lain York

Your Heart on Art

Janice Zeitlin

Manuel Zeitlin

OZ SUPPORTS THE CREATION, DEVELOPMENT AND

PRESENTATION OF SIGNIFICANT PERFORMING AND VISUAL

ART WORKS BY LEADING ARTISTS WHOSE CONTRIBUTION

INFLUENCES THE ADVANCEMENT OF THEIR FIELD.

Amy Atkinson - Owner, Amy Atkinson Communications

Anne Brown - Owner, The Arts Company

Libby Callaway - Writer, Media Consultant

Chase Cole - Partner, Waller Law

Jen Cole - Executive Director, Metro Arts Commission

Stephanie Conner - Tennessee Arts Commission

Gavin Duke - Principal, Page Duke Landscape Architecture

Kristy Edmunds - Artistic & Executive Director, Center for the Art of Performance, UCLA

Karen Elson - Model, Singer-Songwriter, Guitarist

Karen Hayes - Co-owner, Parnassus Bookstore

Gavin Ivester - Partner, FLO Thinkery, Creative Leader, Nike, Puma

Keith Meacham - Education and Learning Consultant at Homer Learning, Inc.

Ellen Meyer - President, Watkins College of Art, Design & Film

Dave Pittman - Editor, NATIVE Magazine

Paul Polycarpou - CEO and Editor, Nashville Arts Magazine

Anne Pope - Executive Director, Tennessee Arts Commission

Jill Robinson - Director of Executive Learning and Marketing, Belmont University

Patterson Sims - President of the Board at ICI, Former Curator at MoMA, The Whitney (NYC)

Mike Smith - Group Publisher – Nashville, SouthComm

Ronnie Steine - At-Large 2, Council Member, Metro Council

Joseph Sulkowski - Artist

Stacy Widelitz - Composer

Betsy Wills - Founder at YouScience, ArtStormer Blog

Mel Ziegler - Professor of Art, Chair, Department of Art, Vanderbilt University

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