Popebama travels to the great state of Minnesota in October! Pleased to be performing at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), we will present works by Erin Rogers and Dennis Sullivan.
Monday, October 14 2019 // 3:00pm
University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD)
Scarlett, inspired by Russian spy, Anna Chapman, premieres Thursday, October 3, 2019 amidst a century’s worth of transmission and torture devices at the KGB Espionage Museum.
Witness works/performances by Hai-Ting Chinn, Lynn Bechtold, Mioi Takeda, Jennifer DeVore Milica Paranosic Megan Curet, Agnė Urbaitytė, Ann Warren and Anna Veismane, exploring the fearless lives of Josephine Baker, Judith Coplan, Mata Hari, Vera Pešić and others.
Ladies First – HoneyTraps
Thursday, Oct 3rd , 7:00 PM (door & reception at 6:30 PM)
KGB Espionage Museum
245 W 14th St
New York, NY 10011 (between 7th & 8th Aves)
1, 2, 3, A, C and Path Trains to 14th Street
Tickets HERE
In its seventh season, this year’s all-female cast/female produced Ladies First series centers its theme around female spies (honey traps) and their tactics through times, cultures and socio-political contexts.
The production follows Ladies First’s signature four-part formula, which includes a reception, an award ceremony, a performance and an after-party. This year, the performance portion will be an installation, complementing the museum setting. The performance will be staged throughout the museum, with the performers strategically placed in their positions and incorporated into the context. The museum curator, Agne Urbaityte, will act as a guide, and will lead the audience from one performance spot to the next. The audience is invited to walk around and get close to the performers and learn about some of the artifacts in the museum. Chairs will be provided for those visitors who need to be seated.
The performance will last about 45 minutes and will occur three times during the evening: at 7:00 PM, 7:45 PM and 8:30 PM. The audience members can enter at any time after 6:30 PM and stay as long as they want. VIP ticket holders will receive a free gift and a complimentary after-party cocktail. The (secret) lady of honor will be presented an award made by artist Cecilia Mandrile in a festive award ceremony, following the Russian spy-themed reception, which will take place at 6:30 PM.
Based in Los Angeles, the modern music collective Wild Up is an adventurous chamber orchestra made up of musicians committed to creating visceral, thought-provoking happenings. Wild Up believes that music is a catalyst for shared experiences, and that a concert venue is a place to challenge, excite, and ignite a community of listeners. Julius Eastman was an artist who enjoyed a brief period of prominence as a composer, conductor, singer, pianist, and choreographer in New York during the 1970s and early 1980s, yet he died homeless and in relative obscurity. The recent rediscovery of his works is helping to complete his legacy and to give him his rightful place in the canon of American contemporary music. In their Washington, DC, debut, Wild Up will perform the composer’s Joy Boy and Femenine.
More info HERE
Friday, Sep 20th, 2019 // 7:30pm
Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech
190 Alumni Mall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
wild Up is the ultimately flexible, go anywhere, play anything modern music collective led by Christopher Rountree, artistic director and conductor. Together with them, you will explore the music of ancient India, modern California, and post-war New York that embraces a theme of innovation and acknowledges we are all standing on the shoulders of our ancestors. Join the orchestra as members of a congregation in a devotional that preaches a joyous path to the future of American Utopianism.
Ensemble Pamplemousse curates and produces a three-day festival of experimental music and performance at Clinton Hill’s newly renovated JACK arts space, from September 19 – 21, 2019. The third iteration of an annual festival follows in the tradition of the Annual Avant-Garde Festival, which took place between 1963 and 1980, advancing the careers of hundreds of young musicians and artists while deeply expanding the repertoire of the disciplines featured. Chance and Circumstance seeks to bring together American collectives and sound/media artists working in the field of experimental arts, music, and music theater, with a strong focus on the community of New York City.
All events hosted by JACK, at 18 Putnam Ave (not the former Waverly address, but just down the block).
All events $15, ($10 students & seniors). Festival passes will be available shortly.
Details:
Thursday, September 19, 2019, 7pm
Daniel Silliman
Zach Rowden/Robert Black
Erin Rogers
Friday, September 20, 2019, 7pm
Stepancic.Gidron
Ben Bennett/Michael Foster
yarn|wire
Saturday, September 21, 2019, 7pm
Bromp Treb
Ensemble Pamplemousse (record release!)
About:
September 19th features two Brooklyn-based composer/performers presenting rigorous solo material. Daniel Silliman’s emerging solo practice juxtaposes harsh electronic feedback with idiosyncratic networks of magnetic tape and esoteric sound synthesis. Erin Rogers applies a multivalent approach toward the saxophone family and theatrical music, often bridging rigorous compositional detail with playfully virtuosic narratives. Balancing the program is a duo of two New Haven-based bassists, Zach Rowden and Robert Black performing a new work written with Pamplemousse’s own Natacha Diels.