Dear friends,Happy Norouz to you all! The Persian New Year is an ancient ritual acknowledging new light and energy source to cleanse much that we all carry in our hearts, psyche and are so concerned about. It's wonderful to be humbled by the seasonal beauty of our planet and never take it for granted."When there's there's life there's hope" Stephen Hawkings Happy New Year!  My media stage production "The House is Black" had its world premiere at The Center for the Art of Performance at Royce Hall, UCLA in late Jan. Once again thank you to our LA audience for an unforgettable premiere! We were blessed with your overwhelming response and we are grateful to you! For those of you interested in knowing more about the project, its brilliant cast of collaborators including Co-Director, Dramaturge Robert Egan , Composer Richard Horowitz, Lighting Designer Anne Militello (just to name a few) and would like to see some of the images from our Royce Hall premiere, please check out the production's web page. The House is Black World Premiere View: The House is BlackI have high hopes that this potent media production will have an international tour and I will be able to share this very important project with you all in the soon future! Yours, Sussan 
ARTCURRENT EXHIBITION Delighted to have one of my photographs from my #Robert Rauschenberg Residency period, recently exhibited at the Shulamit Gallery (Dawn of the Cold Season) in a very interesting exhibit at the National Academy Museum in NYC! NY friends, hope you can see the exhibit. NationAlacademy.org Here's an interview about the exhibition, written by Gisele Regatao and Deborah Solomon, for NPR. WNYC.org/200-year-selfie-obsession. UPCOMING MUSEUM EVENT Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Date: July 18th More info: Soon TBA REVIEWS Victoria Loosleaf's article on my work for Artbound Wonderful Art Salon by Victoria Looseleaf and Joanne Cottrell Sussan Deyhim's images in Artsy.net 
FILM and TVODYSSEY NBC You can hear my vocals in the anticipated new NBC series "Odyssey" starting April 5th. Directed by Peter Horton, this is another great collaboration with composer John Debney and his great team. 
NEW RECORDINGSWe are currently in the final stages of recordings and mixing the soundtrack of my media show "@The House is Black" in collaboration with composer @Richard Horowitz. This is a unique, complex and beautiful musical projects and I so look forward to sharing it with you. 
REVIEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTSSussan Deyhim at CAP UCLA "Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA is proud to present the first multimedia film-performance project from acclaimed performance artist/vocalist and composer Sussan Deyhim. "The House is Black" is inspired by the life and poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad, one of Iran’s most influential feminist poets and filmmakers of the 20th Century. " >> read more Sussan interview with Anil on Innerviews.org |