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Ms.
Kremer's works have been performed in Minneapolis, Boston,
Fort Worth, Chicago, Washington D.C. and Ireland. As a director
and librettist she is particularly known for the development
of new plays. Representative productions include a work titled
Journeys Through Imaginary Landscapes that was
inspired by the sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, the prints of
Hiroshige, and by Haiku poetry. Journeys was
granted two month-long residencies at the Smithsonian Institute
and several performances at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
She directed Crawl Space, a performance piece,
for the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) at the Mills Gallery
and The Separate Prison: A Jazz Opera at the
BCA's Cyclorama.
Ms. Kremer has received grants and awards for her work from
the National endowment for the Arts, The New England Foundation
for the Arts, the Massachusetts
Cultural Commission, the Worcester Arts Lottery, the LEF
Foundation, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center and
Holy Cross College. With funds provided by the National
Endowment for the Arts/Dance Program, Ms. Kremer lived in
Micronesia where she produced and directed a video program
on the chant/dance traditions of Palau. She has conducted
research on Javanese classical dance and Balinese topeng
(mask/dance/drama), where she studied with acclaimed mask
dance I Gusti Ngurah Windia. She has also traveled extensively
and studied the performing arts traditions of Nepal and
India.
Ms. Kremer has collaborated with composer, Shirish Korde
as director of the video for his piece for solo flute Tenderness
of Cranes, performed by Jean DeMart. They have collaborated
on the chamber opera
Rasa, which has been funded by the NEA
Opera program and has been performed in the Boston area
and in Fort Worth and is recorded on Neuma compact discs;
Bhima's Journey, a contemporary music theatre
piece based on an episode from the Mahabharata, and on The
Separate Prison: A Jazz Opera.
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Lynn
Kremer