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[Here's an announcement for a project many friends of mine are involved with. Cynthia Hopkins should be a name known to you from the theatre world -- I know her as having written and sung songs for Mac Wellman plays. Anika is probably the first Dutch woman to sing for an all Japanese (and Dutch) country band -- it's called Konteree Bando (sp?), which is how you say "country band" in Japanese. If you're in the neighborhood...]
Transmsission Projects presents in association with GAle GAtes et al.
Compress Your Dreams
Compress your Dreams is written by Anika Tromholt Kristensen, with excerpts from Finnish playwright Michael Baran's You Don't Know What Love Is.
Choreographed and performed by Anika T. Kristensen and Okwui Okpokwasili.
Music composed & performed live by Cynthia Hopkins. Design by Tom Fruin and Jeff Sugg.
Performance Dates:
March 19 - March 23 , Wed - Sun @ 8 pm
March 25 - March 30, Tue - Sun @ 8 pm
April 2 - April 4, Wed - Fri @ 8 pm
Tickets: $12
Special benefit Saturday March 29, tickets $25 *see details below
Reservation and Information: 718-875-9177
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 pm - 6 pm
Location: GAle GAtes et al., 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
As Transmission Projects strives to fuse performance and visual art, we have chosen the unique setting of GAle GAtes et al.'s highly visible gallery space for our venue to allow the sculptural installation to stand on its own as a piece of art during daytime gallery hours.
Our Benefit performance on March 29 will consist of the following ingredients:
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performance at 8 pm
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after party at LOW, bar below Rice
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music by Koosil-Ja Hwang and a-un: Kenta Nagai & Tatsuya Nakatani
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delicious hors d'oeuvres generously donated by LOW, served between 9:30-10:30pm
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"The Silencer", a cocktail designed for the evening, the proceeds of which will benefit Transmission Projects
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raffle, with many exciting prizes
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Tickets for the benefit are $25 for performance and party, or $5 the at the door at LOW, the bar below Rice at 81 Washington Street, 718-222-1569, www.riceny.com/low
Compress your Dreams - a tribute to silence, is a story about a woman's isolated travel in repeated patterns in search of complete silence. On a journey through a noisy mind, she discovers that the silence has been with her the whole way... she just forgot to listen. On this journey she meets a personage of herself, embodied in another performer. We follow these women as they walk into the darkness of the north and the brightness of the ice.
It is a journey into an obscure dream world of singing polar bears and saw playing penguins. The piece is inspired by the harsh environment of the north pole. It draws on the theme of ice as a means of conservation and therefore a forbidding vault for the secrets of history, as well as a metaphor for emotional blockage - but a blockage with the potential for metamorphosis.
We hope to see you at our show.
Sincerely Transmission Projects
Posted by Brian Stefans at March 21, 2003 03:24 AM