Ballet
and Dance Performances
at City Center
More information when we have it
http://www.citycenter.org/
American
Ballet Theatre
Oct. 20 - Nov. 7
Career
Transition for Dancers Annual Gala
Oct. 25
Encores!®
Bash
Nov. 21 - 22
Alvin
Ailey® American Dance Theater
Dec. 1 - Jan. 2, 2005
Eifman
Ballet
May 24-29, 2005
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KITCHEN FALL 2004 PREVIEW
Dance and Performance Shows Only
For more information: www.kitchen.org
[Theater]
Roman Paska: Dead Puppet Talk (World Premiere)
September 9-11 (Thu-Sat), 14-18 (Tue-Sat) 8pm $20
Dead
Puppet Talk conjures a hypnotic world where puppet performers silently
act out scenes from a “play within the play” as actors
wryly speculate on the puppets’ raison d’être.
This “talking opera” marks Roman Paska’s return
to New York after four years as Director of the International Institute
of Puppetry (Charleville-Mézières, France), the world’s
foremost center for puppet theater. Developed at the 2004 Sundance
Theatre Laboratory at White Oak, it features the director’s
signature blend of elegant puppets inspired by anatomical dolls
and artists’ mannequins, film interludes, and a score of electro-acoustically
altered blues and traditional music mixed live at each performance.
Open
Kitchen [Family Event]
Kitchen Neighborhood Street Fair
September 18 (Sat) 2-5pm Rain or Shine
Location: 19th Street (between 10th & 11th Avenues) Free
Hotline: 212-255-5793 x10
Come
kick off our fall season with the annual Kitchen Neighborhood Street
Fair-an eclectic mix of outdoor shows, surprise acts by street performers,
interactive artists' booths and the best in local cuisine. Main
stage highlights include Slavic brass band Zlatne Uste’s toe-tapping
tunes; West African/American group Mamma Tongue’s soulful
harmonies; Jollyship the Whiz-Bang’s band of musical maritime
puppets; and children’s performance ensemble Oneness’s
celebration of Rastafarian traditions through dance, song and spoken
word. Hosting the afternoon is the “Bemused Blonde of Performance
Art” (The New York Times) Julie Atlas Muz in a rare daytime
appearance.
[Puppetry/Dance]
Amy Trompetter/David Neumann: The Happy Prince (World Premiere)
September 23-25 (Thu-Sat) 8pm
September 25 (Sat) 2pm $20/$10 under 18
Lunch break performance: September 24 (Fri) 12pm $10
Director/designer:
Amy Trompetter
Choreographic director: David Neumann
Performers: Trudi Cohen, Christopher Green, Sophia Holman, Ricardo
Muniz, Jessica Valadez
Papier
maché puppets of all sizes, a chorus of puppeteers and dancers,
a fiery “hell mouth” and a miraculous deus ex machina
set the stage for this delightful piece by master puppeteer/director
Amy Trompetter and Bessie award-winning choreographer David Neumann.
The collaborative team illuminates Oscar Wilde’s fairytale
The Happy Prince, in which a weeping statue, so large only a portion
of it can be seen at one time, longs to give his jewels to the suffering
poor. Trompetter’s production of The Barber of Seville puppet
opera, revived with Neumann at St. Ann’s Warehouse in 2003,
was critically acclaimed as “the best sort of rethinking of
the basic opera repertory now taking place” (The New York
Times).
[Dance/Music]
Molissa Fenley and Dancers
New Work (Program 1)
September 29-October 2 (Wed-Sat) 8pm $20
Hemispheres
(Program 2)
October 6-9 (Wed-Sat) 8pm $20
Choreography:
Molissa Fenley
Music: John Bischoff, Joy Harjo, Bun-Ching Lam (Program 1), Anthony
Davis (Program 2)
Music performed live by Anthony Davis and Kitchen House Blend (Program
2)
Dancers: Ashley Brunning, Tessa Chandler, Molissa Fenley, Wanjiru
Kamuyu, Cassie Mey, Paz Tanjuaquio
Molissa
Fenley and Dancers joins forces with composer Anthony Davis and
The Kitchen’s ten-piece House Blend band to restage the critically
acclaimed Hemispheres (Program 2), last seen in its entirety at
its 1983 BAM premiere. Propelled by Davis’s Bessie-winning
score, the seductive churning of the dance packs a percussive punch
that is hard to resist. The two-week run also features new work
for ensemble (Program 1): the U.S. premiere of Lava Field with music
by John Bischoff, Kuro Shio set to a score by Bun-Ching Lam, and
Water Courses, a dance of swirling eddies banked by poet Joy Harjo’s
taped vocal composition.
[Video/Dance]
Kitchen Art Gallery: From The Kitchen Archive
September 18-October 30
Open: Tue-Sat, 12-6pm Free
A 1979
video recording of Molissa Fenley’s Mix (b&w remastered
tape with sound ), performed by Molissa Fenley, Elizabeth Streb,
John Bernd, and Kate McLaughlin.
Open
Kitchen [Workshop]
LAVA LAB - Laying the Foundation for the Acrobats of the
Future
October 4 -December 13 (Mondays, except October 11)
4:45-5:45pm (ages 5-14) $160 - 6-7:45pm (adults) $200
Instructors:
LAVA veterans Sarah East Johnson and Natalie Agee
Now
celebrating its 10th season, LAVA LAB offers kids and adults an
exciting combination of acrobatics and circus technique. This 10-week
workshop, blending vigor and creativity, challenges its participants
to build physical strength, coordination and flexibility. Instruction
includes trapeze, tumbling, and human pyramids. Fly by and jump
right in!
Some scholarships are available. For more information: 212-255-5793
x10
Fall
for Chelsea
A One-Day Festival of Arts, Culture and Entertainment
October 16 (Sat) 11am-11pm
Join
Chelsea’s arts organizations, galleries, shops and restaurants
to celebrate the rich cultural landscape of the neighborhood. The
day features special events, discounts on performance tickets and
at local restaurants and shops. Call 212-691-6500 x 259 or visit
www.fallforchelsea.com
Fall
for Chelsea is produced by the Chelsea Cultural Partnership, including
Atlantic Theater Company, Chelsea Art Museum, Dance Theater Workshop,
Electronic Arts Intermix, Eyebeam, The High Line, International
Print Center, Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, New Museum of Contemporary
Art, Rubin Museum of Art, and TADA.
Open
Kitchen [Family Event]
The Ase Dance Theatre Collective: Shugaculuwata
October 16 (Sat) 2pm
$10/20% off for family of 4 or more and for Fall for Chelsea participants
(See above)
Choreography:
Adia Tamar Whitaker
Musical direction: Guy de Chalus, Sekou Gibson
Explore
the powerful and healing tradition of Haitian dance, music and vodou,
and its connection to the roots of contemporary hip-hop culture.
With an energetic and compelling mix of dance, singing, drumming
and video, The Ase (pronounced Ah-shay) Dance Theatre Collective
illuminates the parallels between Haiti’s struggle for independence
and hip hop as a creative outlet for young people of color to fight
racism and oppression. The audience learns about folklore in the
African diaspora through call and response, movement and rhythm.
[Dance/Theater]
Artus/Company Gábor Goda: Cain’s Hat (U.S.
Premiere)
October 20-23 (Wed-Sat) 8pm $20
Lunch break performance: October 22 (Fri) 12pm $10
Director/choreographer:
Gábor Goda
Performers/collaborators: Tamás Bakó, Gábor
Goda, Bea Gold, Erzsi Kiss, Péter Lipka
Music: Erzsi Kiss
Costume design: Kriszta Remete
Lighting design: Gábor Kocsis
Production assistant: Ágnes Varanyi
Hungary’s
foremost performance group Artus brings its exciting fusion of dance,
conceptual theater and visual arts to The Kitchen with Cain’s
Hat. In this fiercely intelligent and physical work, a hat conceals
or protects depending on who’s wearing it. The piece tackles
the biblical stories of Moses and Cain, featuring dancers precariously
moving on poles and mapping out a world steeped in power struggles
and masked identities. A Critic’s Hit Parade (The Stage, UK),
Cain’s Hat was awarded Best Performance at the 2001 Hungarian
Pan Art Festival and short-listed for the Total Theatre Award at
the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
[Dance/Performance]
Nibroll: Dry Flower (U.S. Premiere)
November 3-6 (Wed-Sat) 8pm $20
Lunch break performance: November 5 (Fri) 12pm $10
Choreography:
Mikuni Yanaihara
Video: Keisuke Takahashi
Music: Yuki Kato
Costume designer: Mitsushi Yanaihara
Lighting designer: Kai Takinoiri
The
Tokyo-based interdisciplinary art collective Nibroll draws equally
from the talents of its choreographer, composer, videographer, lighting
and fashion designers to produce spectacular, multi-layered works
rooted in Japan’s raging cultural contradictions. For the
American premiere of Dry Flower, spiky dance phrasing rife with
abrupt humiliations and collapsing partnerships share the stage
with animated projections of drifting petals and stampeding gazelles-“A
dazzling Cubist attack, where [the company] dissects time, space
and direction and lays it all bare for the audience to pick and
choose” (Post-Gazette, Pittsburg).
[Dance]
Tere O’Connor Dance (World Premiere)
December 2-4 (Thu-Sat), 8-11 (Wed-Sat) 8pm
December 4 (Sat) 2pm $20
Choreography:
Tere O’Connor
Lighting Design: Brian MacDevitt
Music: James Baker
“A
deeply felt poetics of dance; the terrain of passion it covers is
marked by elegance, empathy and wit” (ArtForum). For his new
evening-length work at The Kitchen, Tere O’Connor examines
the dynamics of different cultures and opposing ideologies enmeshed
in globalization and overpopulation. After years of experimenting
with elements such as text, acting and film, the Bessie Award-winning
artist returns to choreography as a poetic system. Two distinct,
unrelated choreographies-meditative and extremely physical-are forced
into close proximity to create one work.
Open
Kitchen [Family Event]
Dance Improv Game Show
December 11 (Sat) 2pm
$10/20% off for families of 4 or more
Contestants:
David Neumann, Lynn Mancinelli, Coco Killingsworth
Host: Treva Offutt
Whose
move is it anyway? In this non-competitive game show, kids have
the chance to shape the dance. After a group warm-up and contestant
showcase, audience members suggest settings and sounds for the improv
experts to perform live on the spot. All suggestions are welcome!
So how would a rooster dance on the moon? Come find out!
[Dance]
Dance In Progress
Oren Bar-Noy, Bryan Kepple/Pedro Osorio, Morgan Thorson
December 17 & 18 (Fri & Sat) 8pm $12
The
Kitchen’s longest running program, Dance In Progress features
four emerging choreographers exploring new territory in dance. The
evening performances are a culmination of a two-month laboratory,
during which the artists share information, receive feedback and
create work.
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BAM
NEXT WAVE Fall 2004
Dance and Performance Shows Only
For more information: www.bam.org
Bush
Bangarra Dance Theatre
Choreographed by Stephen Page and Frances Rings
Oct 19, 21—23 at 7:30pm
Come home Charley Patton
Part 3 of the Geography Trilogy
A Cross Performance Inc. production
Directed and choreographed by Ralph Lemon
Oct 26, 28—30 at 7:30pm
Near Life Experience
Ballet Preljocaj
Choreography by Angelin Preljocaj
Music by Air
Nov 3 at 8pm
Nov 4—6 at 7:30pm
Für die Kinder von gestern, heute und morgen
(For the Children of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow)
A piece by Pina Bausch
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
Nov 16, 18—20 at 7:30pm
Nov 21 at 3pm
CALIFORNIA
John Jasperse Company
Dec 7—11 at 7:30pm
Isabella's room
Needcompany
A performance work directed by Jan Lauwers
Dec 14, 16—18 at 7:30pm
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The
Joyce - Fall 2004
For more information, www.joyce.org
September
21st-October 3rd
The Limón Dance Company returns to The Joyce
with both popular classics and exciting new works. The world premiere
of Susanne Linke’s provocative all female ballet, Extreme
Beauty and the company premiere of Lar Lubovitch’s Concerto
Six Twenty-Two are sure to be highlights in this two-week engagement.
Other works on the line-up include Jirí Kylián’s
Evening Songs and Limón’s solo Chaconne.
October
5th-10th
The abundance of riches served up by Jane Comfort and Company
is legend to her fans. Using dance, singing, acting and puppetry,
Comfort’s creations coalesce in amazing ways. One highlight
of the company’s one-week engagement is sure to be the New
York premiere of Persephone, an athletic and lyrical dance with
a set of neon and fiber optic sculptures by Keith Sonnier and live
music by Tigger Benford. Ms. Comfort’s Bessie Award-winning
piece Underground River as well as the politically charged Three
Bagatelles for the Righteous – complete with references to
our country’s current presidential campaign – round
out the one- week engagement.
October
12th-17th
In its U.S. debut, Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo
celebrates the late beloved queen of fàdo, Amália
Rodrigues, with Amaramália Abandono. Created by acclaimed
contemporary choreographer Vasco Wellenkamp and performed by a company
of 16 dancers, Amaramália Abandono illuminates the life of
the legendary singer – the voice that captured the soul of
Portugal -- and the passion, vitality, and drama of fàdo.
October
21st-November 7th
Ballet Tech, a Joyce staple, returns to its home
with a three-week engagement. Eliot Feld will present a dozen new
ballets for his MANDANCE PROJECT, including Jawbone
and Gyorgy, two pieces especially created for, and here performed
by, Damien Woetzel, the acclaimed principal with New York City Ballet.
Also on the company’s bill are Patricia Tuthill’s Hoodoo
Zephyr and Steve Reich’s Proverb, performed by NYCB’s
Sean Suozzi.
November
9th-14th
As part of Mexico Now, the citywide celebration of Mexican culture,
comes Delfos Danza Contemporánea, one of
Latin America’s most acclaimed and prestigious dance companies,
and the only dance company included in this citywide arts celebration.
Featuring music by artists as diverse as Meredith Monk and Yann
Tiersen (who scored the film Amélie), the program is comprised
of six short works that invoke the passion, mystery, and faith of
Mexico.
November
16th-21st
Garth Fagan Dance, now in its 34th season makes its annual
return to The Joyce. Mr. Fagan, choreographer of The Lion King,
has, as is his custom, brought a troupe of exciting dancers who
extend the boundaries of physicality with astounding leaps, turns,
and twists. This year’s program will feature the return of
last season’s popular DANCECOLLAGEFORROMIE, as well as a Fagan
world premiere.
November
23rd-28th
Celebrating 25 years of rhythm tap dance, Jazz Tap Ensemble
returns to The Joyce with six of the country’s hottest tap
dancers and a live jazz quartet. This jazzy, elegant, season will
include classic tap, including Jimmy Slyde’s Interplay and
Gregory Hines’ Groove, the music of Miles Davis and Duke Ellington,
and a special film tribute to the late dance legend Gregory Hines.
November
30th –December 12th
The ever-popular Ballet Hispanico returns with a two-week engagement
of passionate dancing and unique storytelling in its trademark colorful
and energetic manner. The company will feature works by Graciela
Daniele, Peter Pucci, Ramón Oller, Alex Mango, and Sergio
Trujillo.
December
14th-19th
Each evening of The Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s one-week
engagement will be a unique, one-of-a-kind Event – with its
own distinct choreography, music, and décor. With a different
combination of live musicians/composers as well as an ever-changing
stage environment created by a different luminary from the visual
arts world at each performance, Events promises to be a unique fusion
of the dance, music, and visual arts disciplines.
December
21st-January 2nd
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is The Joyce’s perfect
alternative holiday attraction. Inspired by the pomp and grandeur
of the Great Russian ballets, this company both spoofs and celebrates
the excesses of classic dance. This tutu terrific all male company
will present two different programs during this two-week holiday
engagement.
January
4th-23rd
Classical Savion---Tony Award winner Savion Glover, with his band,
makes a triumphant return to The Joyce in an all-new show. Witnessing
the virtuosity, energy and genius of Savion is the perfect way to
start 2005.
January
25th-30th
With its trademark visually stunning productions, Buglisi/Foreman
Dance will return to The Joyce in January with a one-week season
that includes Buglisi’s Women’s Stories, and Foreman’s
Inside/Out, featuring a commissioned score by bandoneon master Daniel
Binelli.
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Japan
Society PERFORMING ARTS 2004-2005
Fall
2004 - Tradition and Beyond: 150th Anniversary of U.S.-Japan Treaty
Okinawa
Kumiodori
September
30 - October 3
Japan
Society presents the rare elegance and vibrancy of Okinawa Kumiodori,
the theater form unique to Okinawa, the southernmost chain of small
islands in Japan. Visually and aurally stunning, this art form,
influenced by kabuki and noh theatrical motifs, originated from
public entertainment in the early 18th century and was perfected
through the history of interaction between Japan, Korea and China.
Along with traditional court music and dance, the program renowned
revenge play Nido Tekiuchi (Sept. 30 - Oct. 2) in which two brothers
includes the disguise themselves as dancing girls to avenge their
father's murder, as well as an excerpt from Shushin Kaneiri (Oct.
3), a classic play in which a Buddhist Monk battles a demon. Co-presented
with World Music Institute,the performance will be in Japanese with
English subtitles. (Thur. Sept. 30 at 7:00 pm, Fri. & Sat. Oct.
1 & 2 at 7:30 pm, family matinee Sun. Oct. 3 at 2 pm; Sept.
30 - Oct 2 tickets are $35 / $30 Japan Society & World Music
Institute members; Oct. 3 tickets are $25 / $10 for children 12
and under.)
Yosuke
Yamashita New York Trio: Pacific Crossing
October
13 & 14
Tradition
meets modern when world-renowned jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita and
his New York Trio (Cecil McBee on bass and Pheerooan akLaff on drums)
present a unique concert of original jazz adaptations of Japanese
folk songs. Reflecting a deep and rich range of influences from
ancient shamisen melody lines to the rhythms of obon dances fused
with jazz sensibility, the repertoire will be fleshed out by special
Japanese masters of indigenous instruments, including Kiyohiko Senba
performing traditional drum and Meisho Tosha on traditional flute
(John Rockwell of The New York Times recently noted, “Mr.
Tosha’s flute playing suggested that the best way to bridge
gaps between cultures… is to be true to yourself. His performance
spoke deeply to Westerners.”) The music is performed with
a visual projection installation lent by the Open Port Memorial
Museum in Yokohama, where the U.S.-Japan Treaty was signed in 1854
and where one of the first ports of entry opened to foreigners at
the dawn of Japan's exchange with the West, just before the Meiji
era. (Wed. & Thur., Oct. 13 & 14 at 7:30 pm. Tickets: $30
/ $25 Japan Society members; A Pre-performance Lecture begins one
hour before curtain on both nights.)
Related
event: Celebrate the Pacific Around Town!
Pacific
Overtures: An Evening with Amon Miyamoto, Stephen Sondheim &
John Weidman (November 1)
In
conjunction with the first Broadway revival of Pacific Overtures,
With Gorgeous Entertainment Inc. and the Roudabout Theater, Japan
Society presents a panel discussion with the show’s creators
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman along with director Amon Miyamoto,
one of the most popular leading directors of musicals in Japan.
(Mon, Nov. 1 at 6:30 pm. Tickets: $15 / $12 Japan Society members,
seniors, Pacific Overtures ticket holders & students.)
Basil
Twist's Dogugaeshi (World Premiere)
November 18 - 23
The
Obie Award-winning mastermind behind Symphonie Fantastique divulges
his latest work inspired by Japanese puppet theater, blending centuries
of tradition with his own inimitable style. Innovative puppet artist
Basil Twist became obsessed with the rarefied and dying tradition
of Japanese dogugaeshi stage mechanism technique when he saw it
in a black-and-white film years ago. With this commission from Japan
Society, he is finally given the opportunity to delve into its rich
intricacies. After immersing himself in Japanese Awaji Puppet Theater,
the origin of what has come to be known as bunraku puppet form and
the only modern practitioner of dogugaeshi, Twist unfolds abstract
and modern imagery inspired by Japan. This intimate performance
features original shamisen compositions created and performed by
authorized master musician Yumiko Tanaka, who has collaborated with
numerous renowned Western artists such as John Zorn, Elliot Sharp
and Heiner Goebbels. Thur. - Tues., Nov. 18 - 23 (Nov. 18-20 &
22, at 9:30 pm; Nov. 18, 21 & 23 at 7 pm; Nov. 20 & 21 at
3pm). Tickets: $35 / $30 Japan Society members. Limited to 70 seats
per show.
Related
event: The Magic World of Puppet Artist Basil Twist
On
Friday, November 19 at 6:00 pm, Basil Twist and collaborator Yumiko
Tanaka discuss the creative process of their latest work. Moderated
by world puppet expert Eileen Blumenthal at the Proshansky Auditorium,
C-Level, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave. at 34th St. Call
(212) 817-8215 code 4907 or visit http://web.gc.cuny.edu for more
information. Suggested donation: $10; CUNY students free.
First
Noh & Kyogen Program Witnessed by Americans
(December
9 & 10)
After
a sold out performance in March 2004, Members of Nohgaku Kyokai
return to Japan Society with a new evening of noh and kyogen, the
traditional Japanese theater forms with a more than 600-year performance
history. In this program, the company restages the very first noh
and kyogen program witnessed by an American audience in Tokyo, 1874.
This event--whose audience included President Ulysses Grant--was
documented in the diary of Noh Master Umewaka Minoru (1828-1909),
whose great grandson, Master Umewaka Rokuro, will be featured in
this program. Japan Society has organized a six-city tour of this
program to hit Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Atlanta and New Orleans.
The
program includes: Han-noh [half-noh]: Mochizuki; Kyogen: Tsurigitsune
(Trapping of the Fox), said to be one of the most challenging plays
in the kyogen repertory; and Noh: Tsuchigumo (The Earth Spider),
known as one of the most shockingly flamboyant works in the noh
repertory. In Japanese with English subtitles. (Thur. & Fri.,
Dec. 9 & 10 at 7:30 pm; Ticket: $60 / $50 Japan Society members.)
Winter/Spring
2005-
NEXT-NEXT: THE FRONTIER OF JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS
8th
Annual Japanese Contemporary Dance Showcase
(January
7 & 8)
This
year, Japan Society's acclaimed evening of cutting-edge Japanese
contemporary dance features the U.S. debut of Jo Kanamori and his
newly formed Noism04; the all-female butoh-inspired Sennichi-Mae
Dance Company; BATIK, led by Ikuyo Kuroda, a member of Kim Itoh's
company and recipient of the Kirin Choreography Award; Monochrome
Circus, founded by choreographer Kosei Sakamoto, 2002 Bates Dance
Festival participant; and soloist Kaiji Moriyama. The 2003 showcase
inspired Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times to write, "Japan
Society reaffirms annually: the experimental dance scene in Japan
spawns surprise and creativity." (Friday & Saturday, January
7 & 8 at 7:30 pm; tickets: $25 / $20 Japan Society members.)
US-Japan
Choreographers Exchange Residency, Round 2
(January
30 – February 5)
Co-produced
with Dance Theater Workshop and Japan Contemporary Dance Network,
three U.S. and two Japanese choreographers spend five weeks with
each other in their respective hometowns during which they exchange
and share performance technique and ideas. This year’s artists
include: Ori Flomin (NY), Tania Isaacs (PA), Sara Sweet Rabidoux
(MA), Yukiko Amano (Tokyo), and Shigemi Kitamura (Osaka).
Rinko-gun
Theater Company's Yaneura (Attic)
(February
10 - 12)
One
of Japan's most politically radical theater companies presents their
award-winning play, Yaneuura (Attic)--a darkly comic work from playwright
and director Yoji Sakate, which takes an incisive look at the recently
growing social issue in Japan called hikikomori. This term, which
literally translates as "withdrawn," refers to people
whose obsessions or disconnection from society have led them to
cocoon themselves in their rooms and refuse any contact with the
outside world. All the scenes are performed in a claustrophobic
4-meter-wide set. Japan Society will take the production on tour
to Miami, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. In Japanese with English subtitles.
(Thur. - Sat., Feb, 10 - 12 at 7:30 pm; tickets: $35 / $30 Japan
Society members.)
ONKYO
Marathon: Improvisational Computer Music
(March
18-19)
Japan’s
most revolutionary composer/musicians of computer-generated “sound
pieces” (called “onkyo” in Japanese, a term which
has since become internationally employed) perform in this marathon
concert of music defying all conventions. Curated by Carl Stone,
the performers will be joined by American composer/musicians for
improvisation. In lieu of a usual concert setting, this event will
take place in an intimate reception room with a bar, where the audience
can come and go freely, steeping themselves in 21st Century new
sound.
Baby
Cart at Armageddon – Work in Progress
(April
29-30)
With
a production subtitled "A Samurai Sword Music/Theater &
Martial Arts Ballet", composer/creator Fred Ho joins forces
with playwright Ruth Margraff to create his latest theatrical event
fusing live music, sword fights, state-of-the-art visual design
and marital arts performance, based on the 1970s raging cult hit
Japanese manga series “Lone Wolf and Cub.” This series
has captured the imagination across cultures, inspiring the American
serialized graphic novel, and later the film starring Tom Hanks,
Road to Perdition.
Solos
& Duos
(May
20-21)
Co-presented
with Dance Theater Workshop, Japan Society offers a collection of
the freshest voices of emerging Japanese dancers and choreographers.
Location:
333 East 47th Street, between First & Second Avenues
Trains:
4/5/6 at 42nd St.; E & V at 53rd St.-Lexington Ave.)
Box
Office: (212) 752-3015, Monday – Friday from 10 AM –
4:45 PM
Information:
(212) 832 -1155; www.japansociety.org
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