Cynthia Hopkins is an American performance artist, composer, and musician. Review of Hopkins' performance of ''Accidental Nostalgia'' at the Edinburgh Festival.

Performance work

She has written, composed, and performed five works of performance art at a number of theaters around the world, including St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York,

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in Manhattan, and the

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, t ...

in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On December 21, 2012 she performed during and had her music performed on the John Hodgman: Ragnarok special, which was streamed on

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on June 20, 2013. Her work, ''This Clement World'', was reviewed in ''The New York Times'' by Jason Zinoman and by

Charles Isherwood Charles Isherwood (born 1964/65) is an American theater critic. Education Isherwood is a graduate of Stanford University. Career Isherwood wrote for '' Backstage West'' in Los Angeles. In 1993, he joined the staff of ''Variety'', where he was pr ...

. In addition Hopkins' work as a solo performance artist, she regularly collaborates with Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar of the

Big Dance Theater Big Dance Theater is a New York City-based dance theater company.

and acts in other theatrical pieces. This work has included ''Alan Smithee Directed This Play'' (BAM Next Wave Festival 2015) and ''Ich, Kürbisgeist'' (The Kitchen 2014).Soloski, Alexis.
Mashing Mismatched Movies (and Fur Hats and Lawn Chairs) Into Drama
. ''New York Times.'' 2014 October 1. Retrieved 2 September 2015. In her work as a performer, Hopkins sings and plays the

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

, guitar, piano, and the

musical saw A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando (portamento), the sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin. The musical saw is classified as a plaque f ...

. As a musician, she has self-produced five full-length albums.

Discography

* The Truth: A Tragedy (2010) * The Success of Failure (or, The Failure of Success) (2009) * Must Don’t Whip ‘Um (2008) * Accidental Nostalgia (2005) * Alas Alack (2002) * Devotionals (2001) * Hooker (2000) * Gloria Deluxe (1999)

Awards and Fellowships

Bessie Award The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists presenting their work in New York City. The broad categories of the awards are: choreography, ...

Obie Award The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by ''The Village Voice'' newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City. In September 2014, the awards were jointly presented and administered with the A ...

(two-time winner) * Alpert Award in Theater (2007) *

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

(2010)
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Grants to Artists award (2015)

References

External links

Cynthia Hopkins' Official Website

MikeyPod Podcast interview with Cynthia Hopkins
Living people Bessie Award winners Obie Award recipients American women songwriters Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-musician-stub