Elaine is now an ancient dancer in life, a choreographer whose imagination is always running away with her. She loves light, and the dance of life with all its wonders and enjoying other people's imaginations. Her early pioneering work in the field of Intermedia explored new technologies and ways of integrating film/video, dance, visual art, and music in live performance. elainesummersdance.com
Body Memory Table by Christy Ann Brown
An Interactive Installlation
40+40+40 0n a 4x4x4 performance platform
Live performance featuring Elaine Summers & Christy Ann Brown
The performance work of Christy Ann Brown has been shown at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Harvard University, The First Performance Studies Conference, The New York Fringe Festival, Movement Research (NYC), Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library (NYC), The Movement Salon (NYC), The Culture Project. She has been published in "Women and Performance."
With Live video and music improvisation in reaction to films by Elaine Summers
which will be shown simultaneously on two of the four screens.
With:
- Katherine Liberovskaya: live video
- Al Margolis (IF, Bwana): cds and sampler
- Monique Buzzarté: trombone
Films:
- 'Iowa Blizzard', 1973, 10 minutes 4 seconds
- 'Two Girls Downtown Iowa', 1973, 11 minutes 16 seconds
- 'Walking Dance for Any #', sections 3 and 4, 1968, approximately 20 mins.
Katherine Liberovskaya
Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian video and media artist based in
Montreal and New York. Shas been working predominantly in experimental video
since the late eighties. Over the years, she has produced many
single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances which
have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues and events around
the world. As of recent years her work - in single-channel and installation
video as well as performance - mainly revolves around collaborations with
new music composers/sound artists, notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,
Bwana and David Watson. Since 2003 she began exploring live video mixing,
using MAX/MSP and Jitter, in improvisation with live new music/sound and has
since performed in diverse contexts in North America and Europe with a
number of music/sound artists among which: Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat,
o.blaat, Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi + Shoko Nagai), Mary Halvorson, Anthony
Coleman, Tiziana Bertoncini, Thomas Lehn, Urkuma, Angelica Castellò, Micheal
Delia, Antonio Della Marina, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Hitoshi Kojo,
murmer, Maks Shentelevs, jgrzinich, Monique Buzzarté, Kristin Norderval, Jim
Bell, TV Pow, Boris Hauf, Gill Arno, Ben Owen, André Gonçalves, Alessandro
Bosetti, Audrey Chen, Matt Pass...
Al Margolis
Activist in the 1980s American cassette underground through his cassette
label Sound Of Pig Music, co-founder of experimental music label Pogus
Productions. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making music that
has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more
process-oriented composition. A recent review of Margolis’s work says: "Let
it be declared that Al Margolis/If, Bwana is some sort of evil genius
working with raw materials which are never adapted to a genre or a context,
because they create one in that very moment. Those sources are radically
altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations
moving in compact determination." (Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes).
Currently Margolis is label manager for Deep Listening, XI Records, and
Mutable Music; plays bass guitar in the legendary punk/post-punk band
Styrenes; and continues his work as If, Bwana. He has recorded and/or
performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan Osborne, Monique Buzzarté,
Katherine Liberovskaya, Adam Bohman, Ellen Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm,
JaneScarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger, David First, and Dave Prescott, among
others.
Monique Buzzarté
Monique Buzzarté, trombonist/composer, is an avid proponent of contemporary
music, commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone, with
electronics, and in chamber ensembles in addition to her own compositions.
Ms. Buzzarté's recordings include Zanana's Holding Patterns (Deep Listening
30), John Cage's Five3 with the Arditti Quartet (Mode 75: John CAGE: Vol. 19
- The Number Pieces 2), and Dreaming Wide Awake with the New Circle Five
(Deep Listening 20); forthcoming from Townhall Records is Sorrel Hays' Wake
Up and Dream. Since 1983 her New Music from Women: Trombone project has
supported the expansion of the trombone repertoire. An author and educator
as well as a performer/composer, Ms. Buzzarté has published research on the
brass music of women composers and received residencies in 2003 at
Create@iEAR Studios and in 2002 at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts for the
development of an interactive performance system for the trombone. Her
advocacy work for women in music included coordinating efforts which led to
the admission of women members into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in
1997. Ms. Buzzarté is certified to teach the meditative improvisation
practices of Deep Listening.
Questions: E-mail: Christy Ann or phone 406.543.8636
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