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The What Cheer Art Company
The What Cheer Art Company is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing support for Rhode Island artists, helping them bring their projects to fruition with production advice and financial assistance. Since its founding in 1994, the What Cheer Art Company has been involved in producing and presenting a wide variety of performing arts events in Rhode Island.
We maintain a presence in the physical world, through work with Rhode
Island artists, helping to produce new work. However, this means we
scant our efforts in the virtual world. This site is therefore slight
by the standards of the 21st century, but is a useful service to some
of our projects. Just call us a little old-fashioned. Actually, call
us whatever you like, but come see some of our projects out there in
the real world.
Major Current Projects
Bright Night Providence, a fabulous New Year's Eve spectacle of local performing arts.
Music for Three
Hurdy-Gurdies is an ambitious multidisciplinary project that will
be performed in Providence on September 21-22, 2007 (site TBA). The
production will feature new music by Rhode Island composer Steven
Jobe, and will showcase performances on all three of the hurdy-gurdies
that Jobe either plays or has developed, two of which are large-scale,
one-of-a-kind instruments — 7-foot and 10-foot versions of the
normally lap-sized instrument. The Minneapolis-based dance company,
Three Dances will provide original choreography and movement for the
event.
Providence Circus School, which brings lessons in physical skills and clowning practice to children around the state.
Sing Me A Song, a new show about misunderstanding by
performance artist Tom Sgouros, coming this winter.
Highlights from Past Projects:
The Pan-Twilight Circus, a modern, no-animal tent show that toured Rhode Island and Massachusetts in 1995 and 1997
Bosch's Garden, a spectacle of music and dance, inspired by
The Garden of Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. It has an original score,
giant instruments, acrobats, and fantastic sets and costumes
Jeanne d'Arc, and opera based on the life of Joan of Arc, presented in 1997;
The Great Gilly Hopkins, the premiere of a musical adaptation of Katherine Patterson's children's novel, produced in the Fall of 1998
Sally Mayo's Wild West, a dance concert by Sally Mayo inspired by stories Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Other past projects include documentary videos, animated films, and even more theatre. Watch for us!
Contact: info@whatcheer.org
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