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Big Bang--A New Series At Cornelia Street Cafe On The Third Monday Of Every Month
September 13, 2005
To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected]
Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014
Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.
“a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987
BIG BANG--A NEW SERIES AT CORNELIA STREET CAFE ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH
“Big Bang", the latest new and all-inclusive music and mixed media series at the downtown hub of artistic exploration, The Cornelia Street Cafe, beginning Monday, October 17th, 2005 and every third Monday of the month thereafter. Doors open at 8:30. $10 cover plus a one-drink (or equivalent) minimum.
“Big Bang' is a creative collision of musicians with artists in spoken word, dance, visual art, video art, found words, theatre, etc. presenting works in progress in a new series every third Monday at the Cornelia Street Café. The evenings will include two featured groups followed by a brief talk back with the audience after each set. Every evening will end with a jam session in which we fish names out of a hat (including names of audience members) that will go for about 10 minutes.
Artists and their collaborators this Fall include:
Monday, October 17th - 8:30pm
Groundbreaking flutist, Robert Dick working with the words and text of two different poets including Bruce Lawder's “The Sound" which was premiered by Robert at Dartmouth last January, and with the anonymous random word texts that spammers send blocks of in an effort to get through spam filters
Multi-instrument goddess, Kali Z Fasteau working with wordsmith Carletta Joy Walker, and Ron McBee on African percussion.
Monday, November 21st - 8:30pm
Composer/violinist, Jason Kao Hwang and Sang Won Park(kayagum, ajang, voice) now working as a duo, have collaborated for over fifteen years in The Far East Side Band. Their cross-cultural improvisations continue to evolve.
Strike Anywhere Ensemble, led by actor Leese Walker, developing signature sets of short performance pieces where they use structures from Jazz and popular forms as the parameters within which to improvise. Working title is “3D Jazz". Set “melodies" are composed which might be text, dance, music or some combo and then ordered in song form. Different disciplines play the different musical roles one would find in a band. So the dancer could play the bass function and the actors might function like the horn section.
Monday, December 19th - 8:30pm
Cornetist, Taylor Ho Bynum, and dancer, Rachel Bernsen working on a performance duo, trying to move away from the traditional confines of dance/music collaboration and [move] towards creating a shared interdisciplinary improvisational language.
Guitarist Eyal Maoz working with video artists including Siew-wai from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in improvised music and performance with video.
Saxophonist and Lyriconist, Jorrit Dijkstra working with sculptor and painter Marieken Cochius whose art works will be on display downstairs specifically for their performance/collaboration.
“Big Bang" promises to be a fun, educational and yes even nutritional series of discovery, open dialogue, and creative exploration between many different art forms. Come join us!
Contact: Katie Down [email protected] (917) 518-1961
To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected]
Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014
Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.
“a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987
BIG BANG--A NEW SERIES AT CORNELIA STREET CAFE ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH
“Big Bang", the latest new and all-inclusive music and mixed media series at the downtown hub of artistic exploration, The Cornelia Street Cafe, beginning Monday, October 17th, 2005 and every third Monday of the month thereafter. Doors open at 8:30. $10 cover plus a one-drink (or equivalent) minimum.
“Big Bang' is a creative collision of musicians with artists in spoken word, dance, visual art, video art, found words, theatre, etc. presenting works in progress in a new series every third Monday at the Cornelia Street Café. The evenings will include two featured groups followed by a brief talk back with the audience after each set. Every evening will end with a jam session in which we fish names out of a hat (including names of audience members) that will go for about 10 minutes.
Artists and their collaborators this Fall include:
Monday, October 17th - 8:30pm
Groundbreaking flutist, Robert Dick working with the words and text of two different poets including Bruce Lawder's “The Sound" which was premiered by Robert at Dartmouth last January, and with the anonymous random word texts that spammers send blocks of in an effort to get through spam filters
Multi-instrument goddess, Kali Z Fasteau working with wordsmith Carletta Joy Walker, and Ron McBee on African percussion.
Monday, November 21st - 8:30pm
Composer/violinist, Jason Kao Hwang and Sang Won Park(kayagum, ajang, voice) now working as a duo, have collaborated for over fifteen years in The Far East Side Band. Their cross-cultural improvisations continue to evolve.
Strike Anywhere Ensemble, led by actor Leese Walker, developing signature sets of short performance pieces where they use structures from Jazz and popular forms as the parameters within which to improvise. Working title is “3D Jazz". Set “melodies" are composed which might be text, dance, music or some combo and then ordered in song form. Different disciplines play the different musical roles one would find in a band. So the dancer could play the bass function and the actors might function like the horn section.
Monday, December 19th - 8:30pm
Cornetist, Taylor Ho Bynum, and dancer, Rachel Bernsen working on a performance duo, trying to move away from the traditional confines of dance/music collaboration and [move] towards creating a shared interdisciplinary improvisational language.
Guitarist Eyal Maoz working with video artists including Siew-wai from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in improvised music and performance with video.
Saxophonist and Lyriconist, Jorrit Dijkstra working with sculptor and painter Marieken Cochius whose art works will be on display downstairs specifically for their performance/collaboration.
“Big Bang" promises to be a fun, educational and yes even nutritional series of discovery, open dialogue, and creative exploration between many different art forms. Come join us!
Contact: Katie Down [email protected] (917) 518-1961
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