Bootstraps \"Develop Your Music Career\" Session 2

2. Presents

4. The Beginning who I am…

6. Then…1998 VisionIntoArt began as a school project in 1998, with performances held in dance studios. VIA won an interdisciplinary grant from Juilliard which funded our first public performance at Lincoln Center Institute. The following year VIA went on to perform at key note performances at the Council on Foundation, North Carolina School for the Arts and Dickinson College.

7. Now…2008 VIA has performed over fifty trans-media performances in festivals, halls, museums, theaters and clubs across United States, Europe, Eastern Europe, and Mexico. VIA has commissioned fifteen new works from composers since 1999, and has performed over one hundred works by emerging and established composers of our day. VIA has additionally commissioned five poets, four visual artists, six filmmakers, six choreographers, four directors, five writers, three lighting designers, three sound designers, and has worked with over sixty musicians, actors and dancers as guests to the VIA core group, creating a truly interdisciplinary community.

13. Future Plans: Sample Goals and Benchmarks First, identify your dreams and your challenges. This will help clarify your intentions, and will help you strategize more effectively.

15. Sample Benchmarks What is a benchmark? Measures of progress toward a goal, taken at intervals prior to the program's completion or the anticipated attainment of the final goal.

17. Sample Budget

43. May 29, 2008 The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. 350 FIFTH AVENUE, SUITE 4301 NEW YORK, NY 10118 To whom it May Concern: VisionIntoArt is requesting $15,000 for commissioning fees and performer fees for the upcoming production of VioLens by VisionIntoArt. Music will be written by Paola Prestini and Milica Paranosic and performed by the members of VisionIntoArt. Collaborating across forms and cultures, VisionIntoArt creates trans-media work drawn from today. Transcending genre--from New Music to Politics--VIA challenges audiences to see and hear art differently. A diverse, multi-disciplinary collective, inhabiting sound and sharing process, VisionIntoArt embraces the role of the artist as public intellectual and political touchstone. The duration of the score will be 70 minutes of individually composed music and collaboratively conceived soundscapes and electronics for this interdisciplinary work. The work will be scored for the VIA Ensemble: soprano, clarinet, violin, viola, electric bass, percussion, electronics, keyboards. Everyone in VIA sings and moves. The VIA composers created the concept of the work, and perform by triggering electronics, playing keyboards and singing in the ensemble. VIA composers will collaborate with two brilliant leading NY based visual artists (Erika Harrsch and Martha Colburn), as well as the usual VIA team, comprised of the musicians listed above, a spoken word poet, filmmaker, sound designer and lighting designer. VioLens is an interdisciplinary story that explores the mutation of three fictitious children's tales and their real life counterparts. The stories focus on fire, food, and racism, the three themes inter-relating to create a work that questions society's perceptions of morality, violence, and family. The multimedia basis of Violens lends itself to a wide variety of performance opportunities such as museums, concert halls, theatres, and clubs. This particular style has allowed the VioLens project to develop significantly in regards to its performance goals and touring. We have outlined those developments in our projected timeline. Sincerely yours, Paola Prestini, VisionIntoArt Director Board of Directors VIA Director Paola Balsamo Prestini Founder & Co-Director, Composer Pablo Rieppi Music Director Misty Tolle Director Music Education Programs, Carnegie Hall Melville Strauss, Director of Strauss Asset Management Diane Volk Arts Advocate, Lawyer Advisory Board Eric Booth, Arts Advocate Mary Rodgers-Guettel, composer Warren Ilchman, Director, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship Richard Kessler, Director, Center for Arts and Eucation Fran Richard Director, ASCAP Jeffrey Zeigler, Cellist, Kronos Quartet OFFICE 275 West 73rd Street #2A New York, NY 10023 Phone 917-544-1482 Email [email_address] Web www.visionintoart.com