THURSDAY APRIL 5th
DOORS at 8:30pm
$10.-
Featuring:
VONIGA (Courtney Von Drehle & Joe Janiga, with Margretta Hansen)
JODY OBERFELDER
MARK NILSEN
CHRIS COCHRANE
TANYA GAGNE
MEGAN HANLEY & LAURA VILLAVERDE
HAROLD MOELLER
& MAJA RAJENOVICH
‘I Saw Her Only Yesterday,’ by VONIGA, the Emmy nominated Portland, OR based musical duo of accordionist Courtney Von Drehle and percussionist Joe Janiga, team up with modern dancer Margretta Hansen for a sound/dance aperitif. Hansen’s movement acts as a non-verbal narrator to the sweet and sorrowful music of these two film composers who are in town performing with Klezmocracy as part of the DoJump show at the New Victory Theater. www.voniga.com
‘Come Sit Stay’ (2011) A man confuses his girlfriend for a dog, expecting loyalty and obedience. In this short film written and directed by JODY OBERFELDER, playfulness turn to violence and fantasy leaves questions as to who is man’s best friend. Editing by Daniel Garcia, cinematography by Clarrissa de los Reyes, and music composed by Brendan Berry, with lyrics by Jody Oberfelder sung by Tine Kndermann and David Starrels. www.jodyoberfelder.com
A debut night: MARK NILSEN will narrate and sing a condensed version from ‘Wizard of Sand’ an adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s masterpiece, The Wizard of Oz.. Our story begins on the eve of Diggidy; an itinerant laborer leaving for America on a 10 day trek through the desert toward Southern California to pick water melons, in hopes of meeting the Wizard of Sand. Come catch the colorful adventure! www.nycsewer.com
CHRIS COCHRANE will be playing first his show in NY since returning from performing THEM with Ishmael Houston-Jones, Dennis Cooper and some amazing dancers at the Pompidou Center in Paris. He’ll be playing guitar and singing in some combination of noise and song. http://www.chriscochrane.net
TANYA GAGNE (aka T-Pow!) brings her latest music-making-flying-contraption, the first Composition in a series: Beat feet! ONWARDS + UPWARDS. Tanya is one half of the infamous Wau Wau Sisters, member of Chica Vas, founder & director of the Trapeze Loft & Big Sky Works, veteran of Circus Amok, the Bindlestiff Family Circus, LAVA & La Soiree, & always excited to share the stage w/Vic Thrill & Bamiam.tv. Team Spirit Animal Squad, w/Suzanne Rogaleski (of Lone Wolf & Cub), will be returning to Big Sky Works this year. www.tanyagagne.com
MEGAN HANLEY and LAURA VILLAVERDE present ‘Sin Fronteira,’ a short theatrical piece about precocity and borders, featuring two Minute Men waiting for someone like Godot on the Texas/Mexico border, exploring inter-linguistic poetry. These two artists met through extensive training with the SITI company, lead by the work of Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki.www.meganhanley.weebly.com
For tonight’s show, HAROLD MOELLER will be giving a motivational speech on the ‘Evils of Tobacco’. We’ve loved him in the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Bindelstiff Variety Show, with Britney Spears on her ‘CIRCUS’ tour, on cruise ships, theme parks, and in his appearances Off Broadway. Harold performs as a clown, juggler, lasso artist, cyr wheelist (the Human Spoke), unicycler, and a FUNNY face maker.
MAJA RAJENOVICH presents a small collection of dance films and live performances from her ‘Comic Series: Love Letters to Brooklyn and the Volcano’. A flock of birds will be enlisted to accompany the solo flight, based on research that shows a bird travels more swiftly en masse. www.majarajenovich.com
