WEST GOES EAST - CalArts at The Kitchen
Wednesday, January 26 to Saturday, January, 29 2005 at 8:00 PM
New York, New York - From gamelan and Mozart to human sculpture and digital dance, West Goes East - CalArts at the Kitchen presents the astonishing diversity of California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) alumni based in the New York metro area. Valencia, California based CalArts is considered one of the nations' foremost laboratories for innovative artistic practice and the artists and performers in West Goes East exemplify the Institute's tradition of experimentation.
WEST GOES EAST will be presented in at The Kitchen in New York City. This four evening event features 23 Artists, over 100 performers, and includes 10 world premiers. Special guests include Mort Subotnick, electronic music pioneer and co-director of CalArts' Composition program and the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT) and legendary film composer David Shire. It is curated by Shem Guibbory in consultation with Dan Joseph and former Kitchen Music Curator John King.
Highlights of the series:
The first evening, Wednesday, January 26, will offer the multimedia exotica of video performance artist Kathy Rose. It will also feature a world premier by composer/ turntablist, Marina Rosenfeld and works by composer/performers Earl Howard and Denman Maroney.
| On Thursday, January 27, Shem Guibbory will perform "The Evolution of a 21st Century Violinist" with works by J. S. Bach, Grazyna Bacewicz and Julie Arlene Spencer. World-renowned frame drummer Glen Velez and percussionist Lynn Vartan will accompany him. Also that evening, the National Theater of Elsewhere will present Deviates from the Master Plan written by its artistic director Brian Howrey. |
On Friday, January 28, acclaimed digital dance company, Troika Ranch, will give a world premiere performance of "16 (R)evolutions." Troika Ranch's work unites dance, theater and interactive digital media. For "16 (R)evolutions" interactive projections will create a gritty disturbing atmosphere to evoke a parable of innocence lost. Troika Ranch is the collaboration between composer/media artist Mark Coniglio and choreographer Dawn Stoppiello. Meredith Alex's "Metamorphosis in Vogue: A Gallery of Human Sculpture" will round out the evening.
Randall Packer, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Art and Technology will co-host the final program on Saturday the 29th. This special night features The Code Ensemble, led by composer/bassist Steve Horowitz, who recently wrote the score to the independent film sensation "Super Size Me." Horowitz and filmmaker Jane Brill will present the world premiere of "The Re-taking of Pelham One Two Three." This electric concerto for 14 instrumentalists, sampler and film/video projection is loosely based on director Dick Sargent's classic 1970's action film "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" and its score composed by David Shire. The current incarnation creates parallels between down and dirty '70s New York and post-911 Manhattan. Shire will participate in a pre-concert discussion.
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WEST GOES EAST - Cal Arts at The Kitchen
Schedule of Events
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Host: Steven Lavine, President, CalArts
 Kathy Rose - Video Performance
Terry Dame Junkyard Gamelan
Marina Rosenfeld -Turntablist
Earl Howard - Sax, synthesizer
Denman Maroney - Piano
THURSDAY January 27, 2005
Host, TBA
Lois Vierk - Simoom for Eight Cellos
Jessica Gaynor Dance Company
Kate Weare and Karl Anderson - dance company
Brian Howrey - Deviates from the Master Plan
Shem Guibbory - Violin & Percussion
FRIDAY January 28, 2005
Host: Morton Subotnik
Dan Joseph Ensemble
aka Ginsburg - Cartoon Projections with Charles Bukowski text
Marcos Rosales - Dance/Video/Music
NewBand - music by Dean Drummond and Anne LeBaron
Troika Ranch Digital Dance Theater
Meredith Alex - Metamorphosis in Vogue: a Gallery of Human Sculpture
SATURDAY January 29, 2005
Hosts: Joel Wachs, President of the Andy Warhol Foundation
and Randall Packer, Secretary, U. S. Department of Art and Technology
Pre-concert discussion with composer David Shire
Doug Vitarelli - Experimental Animation
Steve Horowitz - The Re-Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Jamie Bishton Dance Company
Mike Enright - Experimental animation
Gamelan Son of Lion
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The nation's first art institute to offer BFAs and MFAs in both the visual and performing arts, CalArts is dedicated to training and nurturing the next generation of professional artists, fostering brilliance and innovation within the broadest context possible. Emphasis is placed on new and experimental work and students are admitted solely on the basis of artistic ability. To encourage innovation and experimentation, CalArts' six schools - Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater - are all housed under one roof in a unique, five-story building with the equivalent of 11 acres of square footage in Valencia, California, just 30 minutes north of downtown Los Angeles.
The CalArts' Alumni Association was established to promote, advocate and support the continuance of a vision of a community of the arts among its members and by extension, the present student body, faculty, and staff of the Institute; the furtherance of the potential of interdisciplinary exploration among artists and the arts; the support and cultivation of talent; and to assist its members and the Institute to remain at the forefront of the cutting edge of artistic expression, creativity and technology.
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WEST GOES EAST - CalArts at The Kitchen PRESS QUOTES:
Kathy Rose
"…a genuinely original, consistently startling synthesis of movement, film and sound...The final moment in "She," with Rose's silvery, new-found wings held aloft on shadow puppet sticks by her insect assistants, is one of the most truly strange images I can remember seeing on a stage...It was during her "Precious Metals" that I began wondering if Rose is really some pagan high priestess exiled to the world of contemporary art."- Philadelphia Inquirer
Jamie Bishton
"Jamie Bishton is know primarily as a former standout dancer with the companies of Twyla Tharp and Mikhail Baryshnikov. That may change...Mr. Bishton is well on his way to a solid career as a choreographer. He dance big, filling the stage like a sudden gust of breeze, but no detail or nuance is slighted." - Jennifer Dunning, New York Times
Marina Rosenfeld
Marina Rosenfeld appears onstage, her slippery crackle-and-pop loops gradually filling the space like a surface-sound symphony. Aside from the occasional golden flash of her lightning-bolt pendant, there's not much to see as Rosenfeld tends diligently to her setup of turntables, processing paraphernalia, and possibly hidden Powerbook. Her gestures are deliberate, obscured by equipment and indistinctly related to the stream of sounds. Those sounds, however, are as seductive and hypnotic…allusive and illusive in equal measure. - Gil Gershman, Signal to Noise
Shem Guibbory
"I'd never heard... so much life and force in each individual phrase... so just and delicate a balance and ensemble. It was enthralling."- Andrew Porter, The New Yorker
Troika Ranch
"Troika Ranch deftly melds its visual acuity with the lofty spaciousness of St. Mark's Church... When the dance and media balance, just so, a spectator's eye and ear move between mediums, synthesizing in Wagner's dreamed-of way... Choreographer Dawn Stoppiello's movement, fleshy with wide arcs of leg and hand, appears to take both ease and oomph to perform. It's gutsy and breathy without being overtly dramatic." - Dance Insider
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