Open audition for PRODIGAL - NEW AUDITION DATES

Thursday, November 13th from 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Sunday, November 16th from 11am to 2pm
Thursday, November 20th from 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: SATORI an artist space, 3003 Locust Street, St. Louis Mo. 63103. Go to satori3003.net for
directions to Satori.
Call for performance artists – athletic male and female.
Confidence movement, contemporary dance, gymnastics, yoga, rock climbing and aerial arts preferred. Be a featured or an
ensemble performer in a challenging work entitled Prodigal.
Go to satori3003.net to see illustrations of Prodigal. Then select Satori –then - Brady’s Portfolio then – Projects in Develop-
ment.
Rehearsals for Prodigal are scheduled to begin mid October 2008.
For more information contact Tom Brady at 314-503-8441 or email him at tombrady2@mac.com
Honorarium - plus each performer will be named in the program. Support and Featured performers will be highligted with
a photo and biography.
Brady has been developing Prodigal since 2005. This challenging three-act performance/opera, is a secular look at the
parable, used as a Koan, a riddle, a paradox, an aid in meditation and a means of gaining intuitive knowledge. The perfor-
mance is scheduled to take place - September 2009 - in front of and east of the St. Louis Art Museum and Art Hill - the
annual site of the Shakespeare Festival.
Brady has invited Monica Newsam to join him in developing the vision for Prodigal. Newsam brings a wealth of creative
experience. Originally from Panama, her repertoire includes international dance performances. Newsam currently teaches
at Webster University Dance Department – aerial arts as well as at the City Museum.
Brady premiered another performance/opera 3Row Poles to Enlightenment in Milan, Italy December 2004, at COCA here in
St. Louis January of 2006, Mad Art Gallery January 2007 and most recently at his studio Satori here in St. Louis 2008 joined
by Monica Newsam. Brady is a prolific designer, composer, artist, choreographer and performer. Brady and his work have
been featured in the Post Dispatch, Mary Leonard in 2006 and 2007 lifestyles section; The West End Word, Kara Krekeler
2008 . He has also performed at Franklin Furnace in New York as well as the now-renowned PS1 Contemporary Arts Center
in Long Island. A video collaboration completed with his daughter Dara was screened at Links Hall, Chicago 2008.
He has collaborated with Rich O’Donnell of the New Music Circle and is a consortium member of ANNONYArts founded by
Beckah Voigt, Webster University.