LOS SOLOS SERIES

SHOW CANCELLED TONIGHT!

Bonnie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:27:29 +0000

We’ve decided to err on the side of caution and cancel the show tonight at the H&H. But there’s good news! ASIMINA CHREMOS will be returning to Baltimore on Friday Feb 12th for a performance at the Red Room - not to miss!! http://redroom.org/calendar.asp AYAKO KATAOKA - will be rescheduled for the March 5th Los Solos to be held at HEXAGON SPACE and featuring Jenny Graf, Samita Sinha. Shaping up to be an extraordinary night of sound and movement! baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos

Enjoy the snow and stay warm!

Melisa Putz 9/4/09

Bonnie — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:49:48 +0000

Melisa Putz is a dancer, choreographer and educator based in Philadelphia, PA. She is co-founder and artistic director of PIMA Group, a music and dance performance company founded in 2001. She received her dance training through the Professional Training Program at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio in New York City and received a full dance scholarship to attend the Strictly Seattle Dance Intensive in Seattle, WA. Melisa has studied with Lisa Kraus, former dancer with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, and performed in her work entitled The Partita Project. Melisa also studied with choreographers Anouk Van Dijk (Amsterdam) and Jeanine Durning (NYC) through Professional Development Grants from Dance Advance .

Melisa offers dance classes and workshops to beginners through professionals. She currently teaches dance full-time at the Chester Upland School of the Arts. Her dance teaching experience includes director of the pre-professional Modern Company and co-director of Ballet Concerto, a pre-professional ballet company at the Pennsylvania Performing Arts Academy. Melisa continues to teach dance, yoga and composition workshops locally, nationally and internationally. In November 2005, Melisa taught a 3-day yoga workshop at the National Dance Center in Bucharest, Romania made possible through support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding and Dance Advance. She retuned to Romania in August 2007 through support from Dance Theater Workshop Suitcase Fund and Project DCM Foundation to teach a 7-day dance workshop and perform a site-specific work as part of the 2007 Sibiu Dans Festival.

Melisa has been awarded a Leeway Foundation Grant Award (2002), a Rocky Dance Award (2002), Temple University Space Grants (2002 & 2004), Professional Development Grant Awards from Dance Advance (2004 and 2007), and selection for the Susan Hess Choreographer’s Project (2004-2005). She has been Dance Artist-In-Residence at the Community Education Center in Philadelphia during the 2006-2007 performance season. During 2007-2008 she was Artist-In-Residence through the Philadelphia Society for Preservation of Landmarks at the Historic Powel House in Philadelphia and a co-op member at Mascher Space in Philadelphia. She is currently involved in Team Office, a cooperative management support system with funding support from Dance Advance, an initiative of the Pew Center for Arts and heritage.

http://www.pimagroup.org/

Photo: (c) Jacques-Jean Tiziou / www.jjtiziou.net

Stephanie Barber 9/4/09

Bonnie — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:49:48 +0000

Stephanie Barber is a multimedia artist who creates meticulously crafted, odd and imaginative writing, films and videos as well as performance pieces which incorporate music, literature and video.

Barber has had numerous solo screenings of her film and video work including shows at MoMA, NY, Anthology Film Archives, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center, Chicago Filmmakers and The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Her films and videos have also been included in screenings at The New York Film Festival, Film Festival Rotterdam, The Cinematheque Francaise, The London International Film Festival, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Proekt Fabrika and the State Contemporary Art Centre (both in Moscow), The San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art and The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art among others.

Her performances have been featured at the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Milwaukee Museum of Art, The Haggerty Museum of Art and galleries and artspaces around the world.

Her book poems was published in 2006 by Bronze Skull Press and her recent book these here separated to see how they standing alone or the soundtrack to six films by stephanie barber was published in May 2008 by Publishing Genius Press. Included in this book is her experimental essay the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor (the soundtrack for the video of the same name) which was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

The Chicago Reader wrote

“Stephanie Barber . . . has one of the most original visions to emerge recently from the diverse experimental film scene. Deceptively simple at first, her work is unique in the way it alters and even suspends time.”

and Bret McCabe at The Baltimore City Paper wrote Stephanie Barber’s films

“….can feel like highly formal exercises in film language made by a profoundly restless mind, playing image and sound off each other and forcing you to locate implied meanings on your own. Others are both silly and oddly engaging, involving puppets mundanely discussing pressing metaphysical concerns. And others calmly and almost imperceptibly sweep you up in the genuine breadth of their emotional wake.”

She currently lives in Baltimore, MD USA.

Los Solos will be presenting the Baltimore premiere of Barber’s new performance piece in the jungle which premiered in May 2009 at The Stone in NYC.

in the jungle
57 minutes, digital video, live performance, lecture and music
Stephanie Barber 2009

Part musical, part poetic lecture, part video transpiration soaked performance, in the jungle, playfully and sorrowfully tells the tale of an unreliable narrator in a self imposed exile. Given a grant to study the equivalent of animal cries and whines in jungle flora our heroine has lived for 1, 612 days deep in an unnamed jungle.

www.stephaniebarber.com

Read Lawn Poems online at Publishing Genius Press

Learn more about these here separated to see how they standing alone or the soundtrack to six films by stephanie barber

Interview with Stephanie Barber @ Publishing Genius

Lauren Bender 10/2/09

Bonnie — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:52:24 +0000

Lauren Bender lives and works in Baltimore, where she is co-Director for Narrow House, a publisher of experimental and avant-garde writing: http://narrow-house.blogspot.com/. Recent performances include the Stoop Storytelling Series at Center Stage in Baltimore (2009), Big Pink at the Baltimore Museum of Art, as part of the Franz West retrospective To Build a House You Start With the Roof (2009), not BLUNDER but and Will: A Retrospective at Load of Fun in Baltimore (2009), and CorpOreo at the Billy Fischer Memorial Building and the DC Arts Center (2008). Recent publications include I’AM BORED with Kevin Thurston (Produce Press, 2008) and Whale Box (Publishing Genius Press, 2008). Sporadic postings can be found at http://times-infinity.blogspot.com/.

Trisha Baga 10/2/09

Bonnie — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:52:41 +0000

Trisha Baga is an amateur scientist based in New York. She is currently investigating the effects of particles of consciousness on particles of matter. Her lectures and demonstrations loosely focus on her research into the changing nature of light over the past 25 years, specifically through Madonna’s (the pop phenomenon) mediated documents on the process of self-illumination.

Trisha Baga Video Clip

Merrill Feitell 11/6/09

Bonnie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:53:08 +0000

Merrill Feitell’s first book, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won the Iowa Award for short fiction. She has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Byrdcliffe, Bread Loaf, and the Taos Writers Conference. Her short stories have appeared in many publications, including the Best New American Voices series and have been short-listed in Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Awards. She teaches in the MFA program at University of Maryland in College Park and is Fiction Editor at Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety. She has spent the past eight years at work on a novel called Any Minute Now. She lives in Baltimore.

Maria Chavez 11/6/09

Bonnie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:53:34 +0000

Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. With a collection of new and broken needles that she calls “pencils of sound” and a selection of records, she harnesses the electro-acoustic sounds of vinyl and needle.

Chavez made her New York City debut in a duet with Thurston Moore, collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide as part of the 2007 Wien Modern Festival, and recently shared a stage with Pauline Oliveros and Lydia Lunch during Vienna’s Phonofemme Festival 2009.

Having also performed at such internationally acclaimed venues as STEIM (Amsterdam) and the Kitchen (NYC), she was named an artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room in 2006 and awarded a Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Grant by New York’s Roulette Intermedium in 2008. In June and July, 2008, she was selected to be part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for a series of performances in and around Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses sculptures at DIA: Beacon.

Chavez recently completed the score for a short film by video artist David Gacs and performing artist Matthew Day entitled “Through my Geography,” which can be viewed on her MySpace page.

This September, she will perform at San Francisco’s Electronic Music Festival, for T.I.T.O., a turntable festival in October in Berlin, and in Gdansk and Krakow, Poland. Fellow sound artist and writer Tara Rodgers will include an interview with Chavez in Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound, to be published by Duke University Press in 2009/10.

Beyond the realm of sound, in 2006 Chavez co-founded Houndstooth:Fine Vintage for Men, a boutique in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that specializes in men’s vintage clothing and accessories. The store’s visionary, she spearheads buying, merchandising, private styling, and services geared to the fashion, movie, and music industries. As Houndstooth also hosts sound artists from around the globe, Chavez has curated numerous performances as well as both permanent and temporary installations of visual art.

http://www.myspace.com/mariachavez

Shana Palmer 12/4/09

Bonnie — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:54:03 +0000

Shana Palmer arrived in Baltimore, MD last May from Boston, MA where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Painting at the Massachusetts College Of Art. She is a multidisciplinary artist and self-taught musician. Her solo music project Childe Bride is going on its third year with releases in the US and in the UK. Her improvised music is described as mysterious tribal drone and sometimes noise folk. The consistency that exist in that the music is always narrative, taking the audience on a walk often through the world of shadows and forest at twilight. Since moving to Baltimore she has been involved in Baltimore’s High Zero Festival doing collaborations with Jenny Graff Shepard and film installation work in last years Transmodern Festival. She is currently the other half of the debut band Secret Secrets where she juxtaposes her electronic music with Mellisa Moore’s (a past Los Solo’s series performers) drumming styles. Secret Secrets is looking forward to an Ehse Records release in the future.

http://childebride.blogspot.com/

Interview with Shana - http://musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=154

C. Ryder Cooley 12/4/09

Bonnie — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:54:19 +0000

C. RYDER COOLEY is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and performer. Weaving together chimeric images with found props and forgotten objects, she creates cinematic performances and installation spaces. Ryder has participated in a wide range of public works, educational projects and international shows. Awarded Best Performance Artist of the NY Capital District in 2006 & 2007, selected works have been performed and installed at locations including: White Box and Exit Art galleries in NYC, Yerba Buena, Intersection for the Arts and Theater Artaud in San Francisco, Proctors Mainstage Theater in Schenectady NY, Pan American Art Projects in Miami FL, Watermill Center in Long Island NY, Gay Pride Festival in Bulgaria and public art projects in Indonesia, El Salvador, France and the Czech Republic.

ANIMALIA: STORIES OF COLLAPSE, CALAMITY AND DEPARTURE
A lyrical fairytale by C. Ryder Cooley, performed with Natalie Agee

ANIMALIA, Stories of Collapse, Calamity and Departure is an inter-species fairytale that combines live music on singing saw, accordion and strings with movement and projection. Performed within a landscape of mesmerizing video and archival film, Animalia invokes visions of secret bee societies and haunted circus scenes.

This 50 minute multimedia performance offers metaphors of flight as departure points from environmental collapse and the hallucinatory effects of war. By appropriating the masculine power symbol of the buck ‘rack’ and reinserting it onto feminine characters, the narrative blurs the divisions between masculine/feminine identity and human/animal forms.

Created by artist-musician C. Ryder Cooley, this project was developed in part at the Byrd-Hoffman Watermill Center and with the support of NYFA, the MacDowell Colony and the Yaddo Foundation.

http://www.vimeo.com/5161326
http://www.carolynrydercooley.com/

rydercooleyatyahoodotcom

Ayako Kataoka MOVED TO 3/5/10

Bonnie — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:55:45 +0000

Ayako Kataoka is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Tokyo. Born into a family of Buddhist priests and artists, she grew up immersed in an atmosphere of shaka drawings, chant depicted in japanese calligraphy, and the milieu of traditional Japanese temples.

Realized in sound, video, installation, and dance performances, her works are often embodied with her heritage dealing with the concept of bringing invisible to visible. Her selected works have been performed and exhibited at spaces including; Tokyo Dance Video Festival, San Francsico International Arts Festival, and High Zero Festival.

Kataoka holds MFA from Mills College, Oakland, CA, where she also worked as a technical assistant at the Center for Contemporary Music Center (former San Francisco Tape Music Center). She is a resident of Baltimore, MD since 2009.

http://saisui.wordpress.com