Phil Soltanoff

Phil Soltanoff is a hybrid artist who mixes and incorporates dance, theatre, visual art and new technologies in order to disrupt familiar forms and conventional artistic etiquette. He is the artistic director of Mad Dog, an experimental theatre company. Among his works are ‘LA Party’ (part of the Under The Radar 2009 festival programme), ‘Sitstandwalkliedown’, specially created for a public space on Governor Island, New York and comissioned by the Sitelines festival in 2010, and ‘I/O’, a collaboration with the sound artist Joe Diebes, whereby six lyrical singers enter into dialogue with a computer. In 2002, Phil Soltanoff began collaborating with Aurélien Bory and Compagnie 111 on a trilogy on space, with ‘Plan B’ and ‘Plus ou Moins l’Infini’.  His collaboration with the Festival Fusebox includes ’12nineteen Library’, an installation created for the Austin Museum of Art, which was awarded the Austin Critics Table Award in 2009. Phil Soltanoff is sponsored by the MAP grant, the Doris Duke Creative Exploration Fund, the French-American grant for live performance (FACE), the Trust for Mutual Understanding and Newman’s Own. In 2009, the Mellon Foundation rewarded the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles for encouranging the creation of original works, especially by Phil Soltanoff and his partner Jim Findley. The first of their pieces was shown as the CTG in Los Angeles in 2011. In 1999, Soltanoff and Hanne Tierney created the Brooklyn exhibition and performance space Five Myles, which was awarded the prestigious Obie Award in 2000.

Source: Théâtre du Rond-Point (Paris, France)

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