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California artist Bob Bellerue is a performance/sound composition for material, space, electronics, laptop, body, sound and power. Microphones are placed inside of tubes, boxes, and interesting acoustic environments and made to feed back, modulated by analog and digital filters and processes. The performer plays nonmusical instruments (panes of glass, metal, and wood) with hands and feedback, and a contact mic is placed in the mouth and played with the guttural palette. Broadband noise is generated from ambient and prepared-ambient recordings, and speeches by George Bush and Osama bin Laden are shredded and fused together. The result is a wail against corporate spiritual and political power systems, using organic and aleatoric rhythms, melodies, textures; chthonic sounds, oppressed signals. Nightingale Theater, 1416 E 4th St, Tulsa. Thursday, 8:00pm and Friday, 10:00pm. $12. ($6. students). More on Bob Bellerue at http://halfnormal.com.
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The work of Lelavision is based in the delight of discovery, the tension of human interaction and the strange predicaments encountered while trying to dance and play music at the same time. And since sound, the energy of movement and light are technically explained as the vibration of air, Lelavision's, "Rhythm of the Landscape" hopes to create some "good vibrations". Lelavision has been presented by entities such as Dance Umbrella of Boston, Emory University of Atlanta and Barking Legs of Chattanooga in America. Abroad, the company has toured the UK, Italy, Singapore and Bangkok with entities such as Teatro della Tosse (Genoa), Singapore International Children's Festival, AnTobar Arts Center (the Isle of Mull). |
This dance-theater program presents Miami, Florida artist Helena Thevenot's two of her last works and Realtime video projection by New York based Vj Benton-C Bainbridge. The evening weaves these works together into a theme that addresses questions of identity and changing environment. 'Annotations' is a movement diary of a traveler. It is a journey through changing terrain and conditions, and their influences on the state of mind/emotions/soul of this traveler. Nightingale Theater, 1416 E 4th St, Tulsa. Friday and Saturday, 8:00pm. $12. ($6. students). More on the artists at http://benton-c.com. ACT I Collaboration commissioned by Tigertail Productions and premiered in its FLA/BRA Festival 2001. ACT II ACT III Commissioned in part by Miami Light Project to premiere in its Here & Now Festival '01. Program Credits: |
An Introduction to Butoh Butoh was created in the late 1950's. It evolved in the turmoil of Japan's postwar landscape as an expression of humanitarian awareness by Butoh's co-founders Kazuo Ohno (b. 1906), Tatsumi Hijikata (1928 - 1985) and Akira Kasai. The Butoh Movement was a radical answer to western concepts of dance and a rebellion against traditional Japanese dance and theater. With Butoh, a completely new language of dance was born. Butoh is a search for the origins and meaning of dance. It is the search for a very ancient form of art where ritual and artistic creation were seamless. Perhaps this is its strength and its growing global appeal. Although this art form is only 49 years old, it has rapidly spread throughout the world. Butoh has gained recognition in the U.S., Europe, Israel, Latin America and in parts of Asia. It was exported out of Japan in the 1980s by groups such as Sankai Juku, Eiko and Koma, and Min Tanaka. Butoh is not a fixed genre. Ms. Thevenot's work is part of this evolving form. Artistic Statement Butoh Artist Helena Thevenot's artistic choices are rooted in her French-Nicaraguan heritage and her experiences with changing cultural contexts. Most defining events in her life are the Nicaraguan civil war and emigration. From a history of displacement, adapting to foreign environments and forging new identities, Helena has emerged with a vast source of creative energy and a working philosophy that shapes her creative explorations. As a choreographer, her solo experimental works are developed through a process of image-motion using a hybrid of approaches, from both the East and the West, that honor the mind-body-spirit connection. From this deep meditative dance, a search for identity begins. It is a pursuit not limited to geography and displacement, but an identity rooted in the body that identifies us as deeply human and connects us to the universal. Furthermore, within her artistic pursuit is a commitment to expand the definition of contemporary dance and to broaden the way performance is viewed. Thus, collaboration with artist of other contemporary mediums is an important aspect of her work. It is the medium itself and the artist behind it that bring challenges to push the limits and further the work. In part, her artistic collaborations are nurtured by a shared desire to engage the audience's active presence to undertake a journey into the subconscious where endless associations can take flight without regard to ego, meaning and story. Ultimately, Ms. Thevenot's artistic mission is to create a movement-image theater that acts as a mindful connection between humanity and nature, it is a mission that returns to the primordial function of dance. It is a desire to serve and strengthen the spirit of the community through art. ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Helena Thevenot (b. Nicaragua) is a contemporary choreographer, performer and educator based in Miami. Ms. Thevenot received one of the three Choreographer's Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs' Dance Miami Fellowship Program 2002 - 2003 for the development new work. Helena is a two-time recipient of State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Honors in Dance and she has received artistic fellowships to create and perform works in Germany, Poland, Mexico, Nicaragua and for an apprenticeship in Japan with butoh founder, Kazuo Ohno and his son, Yoshito Ohno. In addition to a BA in Dance from the University of Maryland, Helena's eclectic background can also be traced to renowned artists that include among others, Eric Hawkins, Kei Takei, Nancy Topf, Maureen Fleming, Akira Kasai, Yumiko Yoshioka and Diego Piñon. In 1999, she performed in ExSit! Project in Germany and Poland, performing works by butoh duo Itto Morita and Mika Takeuchi. Since arriving to the Miami area in the late 80's, Helena has emerged as a solo artist with a unique vision, often incorporating original music and visual imagery from artists such as composer Gustavo Matamoros, composer Jon Gibson, composer/violinist Alfredo Triff, VJ Benton Bainbridge, filmmaker Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez, and sculptor Lonne Sherbill-Weinstein. Miami Light Project has commissioned and presented Helena in their Here & Now Festival in 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2003. Artemis Performing Network co-presented her full-length work, "The Anatomy of Desire" in 2000. Tigertail Productions commissioned and presented her work "The Moment Prior" in its FLA/BRA Festival '01. This work was presented by Dance-Network on August 11th at the Cowell Theater in the New Visions: American Butoh program of the San Francisco Butoh Festival '02. In August 2003, the complete version of "Annotations" was presented by Celcit's IX International Theater Festival (Monologues, Dialogues and MoreS) in Nicaraguan. Certified in the Topf Technique since 1997, Helena has guest lectured and taught Topf and Butoh movement workshops at festivals, colleges and universities nationally and internationally. She is currently an adjunct faculty at the New World School of the Arts Theatre Department in Miami. VJ BENTON-C BAINBRIDGE For two decades Benton-C Bainbridge has pursued moviemaking as a realtime, performable artform, playing live audiovisuals in a multitude of group and solo contexts around the world. Using custom analog, digital and optical systems, Benton-C seeks to harness the transcendent, communicative power of music in moving images. Benton-C Bainbridge has performed, screened, streamed, broadcast and installed video world wide over the wires and airwaves and in museums, galleries, clubs, colleges and festivals including the Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Mercat des les Flores (Barcelona), Uplink Factory (Tokyo), American Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), The Kitchen (NYC), Transcinema (San Francisco), STEIM (Amsterdam), Metafort d'Aubervilliers (Paris), Fla/Bra (Miami), Dallas Video Festival, Wien Moderne (Vienna), Inventionen (Berlin), Vidarte (Mexico City), and Hotwired (World Wide Web) [see also: 77 Hz, The Poool, NNeng, unitygain, Valued Cu$tomer]. |
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Ada, Oklahoma artist Gerald Clarke's outdoor performance is a reaction to September 11, 2001 composed of the artist ironing the wrinkles out of a 100 yard piece of fabric that contains the names of various world religious names and terms printed on it. Market on the River, 4100 S. Riverside Dr., Saturday 8:00am-5:00pm. No Charge. |
Bob Bellerue
LelaVision
Helena Thevenot
Jeff Falk
Gerald Clarke