Sally Silvers: You Better
$25 advance, $30 doors ($20 student/senior 65+ with ID)
- Bruce Andrews, electronics
- Michael J. Schumacher, electronics
- Sally Silvers, dance
"Iconoclassical" choreographer Sally Silvers presents the world premiere of You Better. How does imagining world history’s first known author (Enheduanna, a woman from 2300 B.C. Mesopotamia) help challenge us to live—and dance—with each other to "stay with the trouble" of our present? Choreographing a kaleidoscopic portrait of high priestess Enheduanna and the main goddess she served, You Better is another in a sequence of "girl crush" dances that celebrate female power, writing, thinking, and moving. From ancient history fact or (science) fiction, a wild speculative fabulation of inventive movement tangles together patterns for ongoingness and reinvention out of the surprises of the present tense. This new evening-length dance continues Silvers's decades of fascination with the poetic as well as the social meanings of movement. She offers a no-holds-barred exploration of movement possibilities often wittily tilted toward the eccentric, awkward, and unexpected.
About Bruce Andrews, electronics
Bruce Andrews is a multimedia writer, sound designer, art and literary theorist, and political scientist, based in New York City since the 1970s. As composer, sound designer, and live mixer, since the mid-1980s, Andrews has been music director for Sally Silvers and Dancers. (Every All Which Is Not Us, a live tape mix of Andrews’s multi-instrumental solo musical performances, was released as a recording from Xexoxial after its 1986 Washington Square Church staging. His live improvising as a musician/tape mixer took place in performances from the 1980s on.) Andrews's multimedia performance compositions (offering text as well as sound/music design) have gravitated around the stagings of Silvers's choreography.
https://jacket2.org/content/bruce-andrewsAbout Michael J. Schumacher, electronics
Michael J. Schumacher is a pioneering figure in the field of spatial sound and algorithmic composition. Since 1993, his multi-channel, generative "Room Pieces" have been presented in galleries, museums, concert halls, and other spaces around the world. Chaikin Records is the experimental music label led by composer/percussionist Brian Chase (known to many as the drummer for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs). Chaikin is home to Gelsey Bell, Anthony Coleman, Jessica Pavone, Zeena Parkins, String Noise, and other sonic adventurers.
https://www.michaeljschumacher.com/