We foster the creation process by providing artist residency, rehearsal and performance space at the 200-year old former Baptist Church in Mount Vision, NY
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Founded in 2008, Upstate Production Services, Inc., supports the movement to decentralize New York State’s cultural landscape. After many years of service in the Entertainment Industry, we strive to dedicate ourselves to the cultivation, production and management of high quality Arts and Events outside major urban areas. We believe that the magical landscape of the Central New York Region can prov
ide tremendous inspiration for the creation and enjoyment of new work in the fine and performing arts. At UPSI, we foster the creation process by providing artist residency, rehearsal and performance space at the 200-year old decommissioned Baptist Church in Mount Vision that we purchased in 2004 and at our 32-acre property in Westford. We facilitate additional performances and events through our theater and event production services, fabricating in our fully-outfitted metal and woodworking shop.
It’s almost time! Glimpse into our show this Saturday, Click your heels three times, Ulysses
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors
Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 7pm on day of show, 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417
This Thursday at 4 PM! Parent Presentation 🔥✴️
(Last year’s program pictured)
Fizgig artists and instructors in residence will offer a “peak behind the curtain” to Hartwick Huskies program youth. The children will have the opportunity to see how actors devise original theater! We will play theater games, learn to work as an ensemble, and create small compositions for the stage. The workshop will culminate in a brief showing for parents at 4 pm so students can experience getting up in front of an audience.
Parents of Hartwick Husky youth are invited to attend the arts education performance at 4 PM. Please arrive at 3:45 to get a great seat!
Creative Theater Workshop for The Hartwick Huskies
Presented by The Visionary &
NYC artist ensemble in residence: Fizgig
THURSDAY, JULY 25 FROM 12:30 - 5
Creative Theater Workshop for The Hartwick Huskies
Presented by The Visionary NYC artist ensemble in residence: Fizgig
Performance for parents begins at 4 PM
(by invitation only)
Pictured: Hartwick Huskies Arts Ed Program Presented by The Visionary in 2023
Artist in residency spotlight 🔦💡
Jonah Lione hails from Clinton NJ, the Pennsylvania of New Jersey (where the big football game was milk themed if that gives you some insight). Last year, he graduated from Pace University where he studied acting and devising as part of their International Performance Ensemble. He recently premiered The Golden Project at 54 Below; wherein through a devised process they examined how golden age musicals could be reimagined/reinvigorated for the 21st century. His most special skills include bending his shoulders in ways they shouldn’t, synesthesia (everything has a color!), and clapping very loud.
See Lione in:
Click your heels three times, Ulysses
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors
Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 7pm on day of show, 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417
Kevin Karpinski is a native, self-taught New York City storyteller. He enjoys physical and improv theater. He knows how to ride a bike and how to swim. His most important credit is The Big Show which was part of the 2024 Down To Clown Festival at The Vino Theater. 🎭 His next most important credit is the upcoming show at Click your heels three times, Ulysses
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors
Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 7pm on day of show, 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417
Kit Grindeland is a Renaissance goblin with a degree in Theatre Education/Acting, a decade of touring/working as an actor/educator/props designer/electrician/a lot of other things, and years as an educator in unconventional settings (the zoo, a replica of the US senate, a monastery, the woods, etc) under their belt. He is an upcoming ceramic merit fellow at The Steel Yard in Providence where they create pit-fired ceramic masks and works as a theatre and arts educator in the country’s smallest state. They clown with Mycah Hogan and the Wilbury Theatre Group, where they are putting up their first solo show, “Rasputin, LIVE!” at the PVD Fringe. Kit was introduced to clown in their basement in 2020 and hasn’t looked back.
They journey to The Visionary for a week in residency, and a final magnificent performance of:
Click your heels three times, Ulysses
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors
Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 7pm on day of show, 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417
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Visionary Artist in Residence 2024 ⭐️ 🤡 💃
Jamie Graham A native Nashvillian, Jamie Graham is a dancer, improvisor and physical comedienne based in Brooklyn, NY. She completed her B.F.A. in Dance and B.A. in English Literature at Webster University, St. Louis, a year of post-graduate dance at CODARTS, Rotterdamse Dansacademie, and a M.A. in Applied Physiology at Teachers College, Columbia University. Jamie is thrilled to be on the treteau as physical theater has been her passion ever since she first saw it at the Edinburgh Fringe while studying abroad at age 19. She is one half of dance comedy improv duo The Raving Jaynes (who have toured to improv festivals around the world!) and a founding member of Virginia Scott’s company SomeClowns (who have toured to the far corners of NYC!). Past work includes ongoing performance in Third Rail Projects’ award-winning immersive theater experience Then She Fell as well as 10+ years with Jenny Rocha’s Painted Ladies and Rocha Dance Theatre and in project-based work with Barbara Mahler. Jamiegraham.live
She returns to The Visionary for residency and final performance:
Click your heels three times, Ulysses
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors
Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 7pm on day of show, 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417
Visionary Artist in Residence 2024 ⭐️ 🖼️
Adriana Chavez is a performance and visual artist based in Las Vegas, NV. Inspired by her Mexican family and driven by her identity as a Q***r Latinx artist, Chavez seeks connection and belonging through her performative and sculptural installations. A graduate of Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, she is eager to return to collaborative physical theatre making! She is grateful for the opportunity to work with Virginia Scott and Fizgig! For the past few years, Adriana has been working solo on an alter ego she created named “Juan Chico.” This disruptor and wild card of a character is inspired by the tender and messy men in her family, the drinkers, the melancholy dreamers, the cheaters, and the mustached macho men. With humor and play as the driving force, “Juan Chico” has been a vehicle to explore her cultural and familial heritage, her queerness, and her complicated relationship to religion. Chavez has worked with various theatre companies including A Public Fit Theatre Company, The LAB Experimental Theatre Company, Vegas Theatre Company, Majestic Repertory Theatre, Dell’arte Company, Elke Rindfleisch Dance, Jonah Bokaer, Homunculus Mask Theatre, and Naked Empire Bouffon Company. She has exhibited her performance and visual art at several venues, including The Momentary, The Lilley Museum of Art, Holland Project, Goldwell Open Air Museum & Red Barn Art Center, Nuwu Art Gallery, and UNLV’s Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, where she was artist in residence from 2020 - 21. She currently works for the Smith Center for the Performing Arts teaching social emotional learning through theatre to elementary aged youth.
Click your heels three times, Ulysses Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors
Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 7pm on day of show, 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417
Artist in Residence 2024 🎶
John Coyne is a composer/lyricist/sound designer/whatever else based in Brooklyn. He writes all sorts of things, from traditional book musicals to strange cabarets. He runs a show called Up Next, which is a monthly variety show of adventurous musical theatre and other musical nonsense, hosted by the off-Broadway company BEDLAM in their space. One of his favorite things to do is to improvise music to theatre as it’s being made, which is what he is doing here. He works with Virginia Scott a good deal on this sort of thing, whether that be on commedia dell’arte pieces, clown shows, or this piece, which is a new form for the group. He is very passionate about stretching the bounds of what can be considered “musical theatre” and tries to bring genres and textures and flavors of music and theatre together in all sorts of novel ways.
Click Your Heels Three Times, Ulysses
Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors
Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 7pm on day of show, 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417
Nashville born, New York City based director and master teacher of Clown, Commedia dell” arte, Bouffon and Physical Comedy Virginia Scott returns to The Visionary this summer with Fizgig, a versatile group of performers who will take on Homer’s Odyssey, Tréteau Theater style. Following her successful 2021 stay with her endearingly funny and humorously thoughtful clown troupe Some Clowns, we are thrilled to experience the new work.
Click your heels three times, Ulysses Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Tickets: $18 general admission / $15 students & seniors
Tickets can be purchased at The Visionary box office beginning at 7pm on day of show, 2381 State Highway 205, Mount Vision, or online
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-your-heels-three-times-ulysses-tickets-924888505417
Save the date! 📅 ⭐️🔥🎭
The Visionary is back with the theater troupe Fizgig, our first summer artists in residence. We invite you to another unforgettable performance presented by The Visionary on July 27 at 7:30pm.
Click here or on the pic to reserve your tickets!
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Presenting: Click Your Heels Three Times, Ulysses
Ulysses can’t believe his luck… or the relentless absence of it! If you’ve ever been seriously homesick and just couldn’t catch a break, you’ll recognize something in this funny and poignant take on Homer’s The Odyssey. In this theater piece with original music and dialog, seven actors will conjure up countless characters and an astonishing variety of exotic locales, while ingeniously blending genres like film noir, action/adventure, romance, and even Sci-fi. It’s a lifetime of epic films all rolled into one fast-paced, tender-hearted romp that will be sure to leave you nodding your head to what Glenda said, “There’s no place like home.”
Created and Directed by Virginia Scott
Music composed and performed by John Coyne
Lighting Design, Stage Manager, Understudy: Kit Grindlelend
Cast: Adriana Chavez, Jamie Graham, Kevin Karpinski, Jonah Lione, Jacqueline Sophia, Joy Weeng, Erin Woodward
The Visionary Dance Festival photo recap part two with great thanks again to all involved in making the evening extraordinary.
“Art is not a luxury. Art is a necessity.” - Jamie Leonard, co-owner, The Visionary
Thank you, upstate New York art appreciators and lovers for joining us last night, writer Alison Collins of the Daily Star for helping us to fill the house, thank you to the amazing King's Kakery Pastry Shop for the delicious supper and treats, and finally, thank you
Johnny Butler
Alex Oliva
Michelle Thompson Ulerich
Annie White
and Caleb Patterson
for bringing The Visionary Dance Festival to our theatre and once again creating unparalleled beauty and magic.
Thank you to all for creating such an unforgettable, extraordinary night featuring art like our mountains have never seen.
Until next season 🤩✨⭐️🌟💫⭐️✨
Impressions of last night's dress rehearsal for the Visionary Dance Festival. Don't forget to join us tonight! More info here:
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Can’t wait to see you all for the inaugural VISIONARY DANCE FESTIVAL!
Join us on August 12 at 8pm at the Visionary and see new works by Johnny Butler, Alex Oliva, Quaba Venza Ernest, Caleb Patterson, Michele Thompson Ulerich and Annie White.
King's Kakery will serve up their delicious Caribbean Food starting at 5:30pm.
Andrea Spencer
Mark your calendars! and are bringing you another drag brunch on February 5th!
To a Visionary 2023 and a great thank you to all our artists and friends.
Thank you Nattie and Hollis for a beautiful final performance. That’s a wrap on season 2022!
Closing night with Nattie and Hollis of Unconventional Dance, and our 2022 season. Click the event to join us. Tickets available at the door.
Final show of the season coming up THIS Friday and Saturday October 7 and 8 at 8 PM.
Tickets available in the event for Unconventional Dance.
Nattie and Hollis Instagram Takeover starts NOW. See them perform in person this Friday and Saturday at 8 pm.
Nattie and Hollis are dancing for you this Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8, at 8 PM at our beautiful historic theatre in Mount Vision, New York. Here they are, dancing in our mountains.
Come see the live, multi-media stage version.
Tickets on sale now:
https://www.upsi-ny.com/upcoming-events-news
Attend alone and dive into this performance for inspiration - come in a group and go for a drink or a bite after to discuss this once in a lifetime experience at Mandys Bar & Grill where we gather to celebrate after most of our shows.
Watch our final season performance artists in residence Nattie and Hollis explore movement in the forest of Lower Wilbur Park in Oneonta, at The Telephone of the Wind, interviewed by our fabulous collaborator Bernadette Winters Bell. This is a taste of what you can experience this Friday and Saturday, October 7 & 8 at 8 PM.
RSVP here: Unconventional Dance
Nattie and Hollis are here. See their breathtaking work - and probably this move - at our historic theatre in Mount Vision, NY this Friday and Saturday, October 7 & 8, 2022 at 8 PM.
Tickets now on sale:
https://www.upsi-ny.com/upcoming-events-news
Invisible Landscapes live at The Visionary
We’re ready ♥️✅
If you missed it yesterday, tonight is your last chance to see this beautiful program of dance, film, music and wearable art in collaboration which also happens to be a love letter to LA. You can really see that in the cinematography (the colors, the sunsets, the locations) as well as in the spirit of the movement. 8pm today at The Visionary
Tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/invisible-landscapes-tickets-332708318537
Invisible Landscapes premieres this Friday, September 9 with a second performance on Saturday, September 10 at 8PM at The Visionary in Mount Vision, NY.
Purchase tickets here
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to experience this new interdisciplinary piece combining dance, film, visual arts and architecture. Drawing Inspiration from poems by Mary Oliver, Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, Repetitive Geometry and the juxtaposition of reality and imagination.
Invisible Landscapes crafts an immersive environment for the viewer to investigate the narrative terrains that exist between each of us.
A wonderful live interview with our artist in residence Jessica Kondrath, performing this Friday and Saturday at 8pm.
Tickets and details here:
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Ready to see some of this magic happen at The Visionary soon!
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Hartwick Huskies at The Visionary for an arts education extravaganza with FIZGIG! They came, they learned, they conquered. Thank you to our wonderful instructors, participants, and community!
THEATRE CAMP FOR HARTWICK HUSKIES SPONSORED BY THE VISIONARY: This program is a unique introduction to theatre, where participants work together to create their own original play based on a theme: Haunted Hartwick (chosen by the young thespians!). Participants learned character development, playwriting, costuming, set & prop design, acting, dancing, and performance practices; all while having fun. Using daily lesson plans, theatre games, and crafts; participants had a fully immersive experience of all that goes into putting on a play. The workshop culminated with a wonderful performance of the participants’ original play. Instructor: Sarah Serafin 🩷 Produced by Beatrice Georgalidis @veatrikoula Special thanks to The Visionary owners Jamie Leonard and Pamela Rapp without whom this immersive, enriching offering for our youth could not have been possible.
Nattie and Hollis are dancing for you this Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8, at 8 PM at our beautiful historic theatre in Mount Vision, New York. Here they are, dancing in our mountains. Come see the live, multi-media stage version. Tickets on sale now: https://www.upsi-ny.com/upcoming-events-news Attend alone and dive into this performance for inspiration - come in a group and go for a drink or a bite after to discuss this once in a lifetime experience at Mandys Bar & Grill where we gather to celebrate after most of our shows. #nattieandhollis #theworldistheirstage #thisweekendatTheV #TheVisionary #artistsinresidence @theyareamazing #theydanceeverywhere #sitespecific #sitespecificdance #sitespecificart #sitespecificperformance
Invisible Landscapes live at The Visionary
Invisible Landscapes premieres this Friday, September 9 with a second performance on Saturday, September 10 at 8PM at The Visionary in Mount Vision, NY. Purchase tickets here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/invisible-landscapes-tickets-332708318537 to experience this new interdisciplinary piece combining dance, film, visual arts and architecture. Drawing Inspiration from poems by Mary Oliver, Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, Repetitive Geometry and the juxtaposition of reality and imagination. Invisible Landscapes crafts an immersive environment for the viewer to investigate the narrative terrains that exist between each of us.
This is what we do at The Visionary. We saw many new faces at this show, and heard more than once from new friends "Wow, what a cool space." Award winning artists such as Johnny Butler and Alex Oliva travel from afar to bring you groundbreaking, thought provoking, soul awakening works. To experience the magic for yourself, visit this link to RSVP to our next seasonal performance. https://www.upsi-ny.com/upcoming-events-news INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES GRAYSCALE JESSICA KONDRATH COLLABORATION DANCE / WEARABLE ART / FILM / VIDEO MAPPING / MUSIC SEPTEMBER 9 & 10, 2022 8PM ***Excerpt from NOT SILENT FILMS A TRIP TO THE MOON (1902) WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC BY JOHNNY BUTLER THE SUNBATHER (2022) A NEW DANCE THEATER WORK BY ALEX OLIVA AND JOHNNY BUTLER SILENT FILM / MUSIC / DANCE PRESENTED AUGUST 27, 2022 8PM
A glimpse inside NOT SILENT FILMS A TRIP TO THE MOON (1902) WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC BY JOHNNY BUTLER THE SUNBATHER (2022) A NEW DANCE THEATER WORK BY ALEX OLIVA AND JOHNNY BUTLERSILENT FILM / MUSIC / DANCE PRESENTED. AUGUST 27, 2022 8PM Johnny Butler and Alex Oliva
Tomorrow night at 8 pm. Here’s a teaser. Come experience the real thing. Tickets: https://www.upsi-ny.com/upcoming-events-news
Not Silent Movies premieres this Saturday, August 27 at 8 PM at The Visionary Theatre in Mount Vision, NY. Purchase tickets here www.eventbrite.com/e/not-silent-films-a-trip-to-the-moon-1903-the-sunbather-2022-tickets-332016689857 to see Johnny Butler and Alex Oliva's artistic residency culmination of original music, dance, theatre, and hear Johnny's original score to the silent classic film, A Trip to the Moon. Smashing Pumpkins did it first... Johnny is bringing his flute, saxophone and our organ to the party. Don't miss it.
Coming to the Visionary later this month: Alex Oliva and Johnny Butler regularly partner creating improvisational movement and sound stories. Their new dance theater work "The Sunbather" immerses the audience in the story of a lone scientist who tinkers with a humanoid creation that suddenly comes to life and confronts its master. The residency will also celebrate the art of film scoring. This time, Grammy-award winner Johnny Butler has chosen the first science fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, a highly satirical look at nineteenth century science and imperialism. The Visionary thevisionaryny.com
Behind the scenes with Lake Arts Project, in rehearsals for "Becoming Whole" premiering Saturday, June 18 at 8 PM with professional ballet dancers Barry Molina and Lizzie Tripp appearing courtesy of Milwaukee Ballet at The Visionary in Mount Vision, NY. Purchase tickets here: https://www.upsi-ny.com/upcoming-events-news Discounts available for veterans and students.
Reserve your seats today for unforgettable performances by the Lake Arts Project with Lizzie Tripp & Barry Molina, Johnny Butler & Alex Oliva, Jessica Kondrath, Hollis Bartlett and Nattie Trogdon. https://www.upsi-ny.com/upcoming-events-news #2022season #unforgettable #seasonschedule
