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XØ PROJECTS INC PRESENTS

SlowSix IN CONCERT WITH

LEE WHITTIER VIDEO + ANEMONE DANCE THEATER
 

COMPOSITION BY  < CHRIS TIGNOR >

MUSIC BY  < SLOW SIX >

VIDEO BY  < LEE WHITTIER >

CHOREOGRAPHY BY  < SARA BAIRD >
DANCE BY  < ANEMONE DANCE THEATER >
 

FRIDAY-SATURDAY 4-5 JUNE 2004 9:00PM
ADMISSION $10 | RUNS APPX 65 MIN

RESERVATIONS URGED 718-855-0871 OR < RESERVATIONS >  
 

THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY
232 THIRD ST CORNER THIRD AV  GOWANUS BROOKLYN NY 11215  < MAP >
 
F/G TO CARROLL ST | Walk East down Third St over Gowanus Canal to Third Av
F/M/R TO NINTH ST-FOURTH AV | Walk North on Fourth Av. West on Third St to Third Av

 

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DESCRIPTION

This performance will consist of three segments, all featuring music composed by Chris Tignor, performed by Slow Six with video art by Lee Whittier projected on the performers. The first and last segments will also feature the choreography of Sara Baird performed by Anemone Dance Theater, as follows:

1. Contemplation and Dissolution of an Idea for Two Pairs (SlowSix) + Lacuna (Anemone): Music for two violins, electric guitar and electric bouzouki traces the contemplation and dissolution of an idea shared by the musicians as they trade material back and forth developing a shared landscape that soon fractures from its own density. The second half of the work hears the dust settle as the original compositional elements dissolve into their most basic sonic components. Guided by the music, three dancers emerge out of a plastic terrain, part futuristic alien and part ghost from history's past, performing bizarre rituals and engage in an experimental ceremony.

2. The Secret Life of Paper Tiger (SlowSix): Music for violin, electric guitar, fender rhodes and computer begins as an introspection, and proceeds gradually to become overwhelmed by a rhythmic fervor as musicians become entangled in shifting and interlocking musical patterns.

3. This Is Your Last Chance (Before I Sleep) (SlowSix) + Remember? (Anemone): Hypnotic music for violin, electric guitar, fender rhodes and computer. Two dancers in elaborate, white costumes with large undulating, wing-like headdress absorb the vivid motions of the video projection. Light, vitality, radiance and creative freedom reign. Dancers perform through the first half of the piece at which point the they exit and a violinist enters finishing off the piece.

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PROFILES

SLOWSIX  

SlowSix is an ensemble playing a unique brand of electronic chamber music. Members include, Christopher Tignor, Maxim Moston, Jeffrey Guimond, Peter Cressy, Stephen Griesgraber, Leanne Darling, Marlan Barry, and Lee Whittier. Comprised of guitars, strings, a Rhodes, a laptop and video projections, SlowSix's sound reflects the instrumental virtuosity and compositional rigor of its members' classical training while harnessing the wide range of sound available to electro-acoustic instruments. SlowSix makes extensive use of digital signal processing allowing a computer to take in the sound of the instruments around it, transfiguring the signals into its own voice and rhetoric. Used live, this process transforms the computer from its limited role as a playback device or sound effect generator into a full-fledged member of the ensemble.

An integral part of the SlowSix performance is its collaboration with other performing and visual artists. Most performances include the dynamic imagery of visual artist Lee Whittier that is designed specifically for each piece, and is projected throughout the performance space incorporating the architecture into the total  experience. SlowSix has also  collaborated with choreographer Sara Baird and the Anemone Dance Theater, among others.

Since its founding in 2000, SlowSix has performed in numerous venues in New York City, including, HERE Theater, Knitting Factory, Tonic and The Old American Can Factory. The ensemble has released three of its pieces as a debut album entitled "Private Times in Public Places" and is currently putting the finishing touches on three new works.  For additional information visit < WWW.SLOWSIX.COM >
 

CHRISTOPHER TIGNOR

Christopher Tignor studied electronic music with Richard Teitelbaum and poetry with John Ashbery at Bard College where he received his BA degree in 1998. He earned an MS degree in Computer Science at New York University in 2000, and is currently a PhD candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University. His primary compositional interests involve electronic chamber music, much of which employs live processing of instrumentalists via homegrown software instruments.  Dedicated to the exploration of interdisciplinary art forms, he has collaborated with a wide range of artists from poetry to dance as a composer, violinist, programmer, and poet.
 

LEE WHITTIER

As a digital media artist, Lee Whittier employs video and video stills to tell stories seen through the eyes of people dabbling in space travel, implanting wireless networks, overcoming compatibility issues and quietly building utopias.  His work has a sensual quality which keeps it kinetic, galvanized by the energy discharged when analog is converted to digital. His work is intimate, approachable and determined to maintain something of himself as he is broken down into 1¹s and 0¹s, A¹s, C¹s, G¹s and T¹s. Whittier's work is exhibited and represented by the Paul Sharpe Gallery in New York City.
 

ANEMONE DANCE THEATER

Anemone Dance Theater is a performance art collective comprised of choreographers, dancers, composers, and visual artists. The company incorporates movement styles influenced by Japanese Butoh dance and elements of yoga, modern dance and ballet techniques and philosophies. By altering the audience¹s relationship to time and space, Anemone creates a unique theater experience.
 

SARA BAIRD

Sara Baird is the artistic director, choreographer and a dancer with Anemone Dance Theater which she co-founded in 2002. She integrates movement, sound, costume, sculpture and visuals to create an ethereal effect, and places a strong emphasis on collaborations with artists from various fields.  Her artistic intrigue and inquiry into the Butoh dance form greatly informs her work and research.
Based in New York City for more than ten years, Sara has during that time also performed on tour across the United States, the South of France, and the lunar landscape of Bolivia. She also performed with the Butoh Rockettes, Poppo & Gogo Boys, Richard Move for the Guggenheim Museum, VH1, and the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and the companies of Neta Pulvermacher and Nicholas Rodriguez.
Sara teaches yoga at NYU, the DanceSpace Center and at the Sandra Cameron Dance Studios. She is currently pursuing an MFA degree in dance at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee where she spends her Summers. 
 

XØ PROJECTS INC

XØ Projects Inc is  a company engaged in overlapping activities of design, art and commerce. It operates The Old American Can Factory an historic 140,000 sf, six-building arts and manufacturing complex at the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. Built 1860 through 1905 with a medievalesque courtyard and alleyways, the complex has a quiet, vibrant artistic energy heightened throughout the year by uncommon performances, exhibitions and events presented in and around the buildings. Curated tenants at the complex include a wide range of individual visual & performing artists and companies as well as manufacturing businesses. For additional information please visit < PROFILE >.