Until
Feb. 9 Friedrichsbau-Apollo,
Freiburg Until
Feb. 9 Kino Casablance, Nürnberg Feb.
6-8 Kinoptikum, Landschut Feb.
13 Dokument - Kino, Berlin Feb.
15-16 Kino Sternchen, Biberach Feb.
17-23 Bali,
Berlin Feb.
18-23 Koralle,
Hamburg Feb.
20 Audi Forum,
Ingolstadt Feb.
24 - Mar. 2 Kino Roxy, Dortmund Feb.
24 - Mar. 2 Lichtblik, Berlin
art
installation byDiane
Tuft music
byPatrick
Grant THE
NEW LOS ANGELES ART FAIR FOR CONTEMPORARY AND
NEW ART
artLAIt
has been over a decade since Los Angeles hosted a major contemporary art fair
and much has happened since then - an explosion of contemporary art galleries
and an expansion of local museum programs that highlight new and contemporary
art. Many cultural critics are declaring Los Angeles as the destination to find
the latest and most vital artists and galleries in the country. More and more
artists are moving to live and work in Los Angeles and their work is increasingly
finding greater exposure around the world. It is fitting that Los Angeles now
have an exciting new art fair through which to re-present itself to the art world.
artLAhas
been created as a public event to bring together a mix of national and international
galleries, artists, collectors and curators for a visual discussion of the current
art scene. Galleries will present innovative works by established artists and
cutting-edge newcomers. Site-specific installations will feature robotic, video
and digital art. New art and new media in the avant-garde tradition will offer
the next generation of artists to the public.
artLAis
positioned to take the excitement of the local Los Angeles art scene and present
it to the community at large as it incorporates the best new and exciting art
from around the globe.
A
screening of Gary Brackett's Living
Poetry with music by Patrick Grant, MC Baba, and others.
Sunday,
January 23 8:00pm
LIVING
POETRY is the latest installment of a series of videos Brackett has been creating.
The series, This Weeks This, is a type of political diary which explores
the intersection between art and life, of the personal and the political, of daily
life and the world at large.
In
LIVING POETRY, Brackett weaves together interviews with poets and performers
with events of the daily life and world events, asking the simple question: what
is the role of poetry today? What good is it? Featured in the video is Judith
Malina, co-founder of The Living Theatre performer Steve Ben Israel;
poet and Beat Box artist MC Baba; as well as other members of the Living
Theatre, with music by the composer Patrick Grant.
btwn
Houston & Bleecker across the street from CBGBs (212)
614-0505
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16
JAN 05 New
York, NY
Beat
Night with Larry Simon Beat
Night rock & roll, jazz, spoken word, & poetry with Larry Simon
and his eclectic retro rustic entourage Special guest
Patrick Grant on keyboard
COME
CELEBRATE OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY AT THE CORNELIA ST. CAFE!
Poetry
with Live Music with readings by
Thaddeus
Rutkowski Alice B. Talkless Madeline Artenberg Patricia
Carragon
accompanied
by The Larry Simon Ensemble
Larry Simon -
guitar Nate Edgar - bass Mike
Barron - percussion &
special guest Patrick Grant - keyboard
This
two-week series of events at the Forum
Freies Theater featured workshops, performances, documentary films and
symposiums that explored the expressive forms which criticize globalization using
dramatic means and investigate how the strategies of social protest have changed
in the last half century.
The events included "Party Music Vol.1,"
a performance/lecture on music & politics by Patrick Grant, a Strange Music
collaboration with the upcoming hip-hop artist MC
Baba, and music for "A Day in the Life of the City" by
the Living Theatre, with the involvement of other international politically-minded
theater companies & many other participants from Europe, culminating
in a large-scale outdoor performance in the streets of Düsseldorf.
The
German
premiere of the film "Resist!"
by Dirk Szuszies was all a part of the many events.
Several
leading international action-theatre companies participated and contributed to
these and other events, including:
Margaret
Jenkins Dance Company The Villancourt Fountain in Justin Herrmann Plaza
across from the Ferry Building
"...the
dancers dashing to the busy eighth notes and constantly shifting time signatures
of Patrick Grants score. And the enlarged company is dancing beautifully, each
dancer unique in dynamism but united by a piercing focus..."
Beat
Night with Larry Simon Beat
Night rock & roll, jazz, spoken word, & poetry with Larry Simon
and his eclectic retro rustic entourage Special guest
Patrick Grant on keyboard
Featuring: READERS-
Young Writers Festival. This October's "Beat Night" program promises
to be a truly exciting, creative and special evening. Teen writers from NYC, including
the remarkable young poets from Marty Skoble's Poetry program at St. Ann's school
in Brooklyn, will be reading their works:
Allison Bosworth, Sinead Daly,
Pierce Delahunt, Mollie Dince, Kate Ehrenberg, Lizzie Greenberg, Genevieve Hanft,
Cordelia Istel, Johan Lichtash, Kate Riley, Sarah Sherman
Accompanied
by- The Larry Simon Ensemble-Larry Simon-Guitar/music director, Nate Edgar-Bass,
Mike Barron - Percussion and Special Guest: Patrick Grant-Keyboard
"Systole
& Diastole: Chambers of the Heart" at the LongHouse
Reserve, East Hampton, NY
Directed by Maria Pessino Musical
Score by Patrick Grant
Systole
& Diastole: Chambers of the Heart is a guided journey
through the LongHouse Reserve
Gardens at dusk. The performance will take place at site-specific locations
set up by director Maria Pessino. The tapestry of performances will be woven with
the threads of song, spoken word, visual and video arts, propelled along by an
original score by composer Patrick Grant. At the end of the evening, the audience's
footprints will have created an invisible path in space, the winding outline of
the world's oldest maze: the event's main set-piece being a replica of the labyrinth
that Theseus battled the Minotaur within on the island Crete in Greek mythology.
The
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival The
Castro Theater, San Francisco - 25 JUL Wheeler
Auditorium, Berkeley - 02 AUG Mountain
View Century Cinema 16, Mountain View - 04 AUG
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11
JUL 04
Beat
Night with Larry Simon Beat
Night rock & roll, jazz, spoken word, & poetry with Larry Simon
and his eclectic retro rustic entourage Special guest
Patrick Grant on keyboard
Featuring: READERS-
Dana Lee Cohen, Young Dawkins , Darrell Perry, Iris Schwartz and Special Guest:
blues poet Chris Paccione
Accompanied
by- The Larry Simon Ensemble-Larry Simon-Guitar/music director, Cynthia Chatis-flute,
Nate Edgar-Bass, Nick Zaricki-Trumpet and Special Guest: Patrick Grant-Keyboard
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International Film Weekend, Würzburg 22/01-25/01/2004
- Cinema
Bellevaux, Lausanne, Switzerland - March 7th, 2004
- The Other Cinema,
London, UK - April 11th, 2004
- The Ritzy, London, UK - April
15th, 2004
- Tribeca Film Festival, New York - May 1 - 9th, 2004
- Berlin Jewish
Film Festival, Germany - June 17th, 2004
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26
APR 2004
Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Yerba
Buena Center San Francisco, CA
Patrick
Grant nominated for Best Dance Score of 2003 Margaret
Jenkins Dance Co. Wins Special Award
An
extraordinary team of collaborators worked for more than a year to celebrate the
work of one of San Franciscos bedrock choreographers. In April 2003, Margaret
Jenkins Dance Company: Three Decades of Dance transformed the vast Herbst
Pavilion into a living museum of dance history. Set designer Alexander V. Nichols,
poet Michael Palmer, videographer Martin Gould, and sound designer Gregory T.
Kuhn created a truly transporting environment to showcase the companys past.
More than 100 former MJDC dancers were contacted to participate, and several veterans
performed significant past works during a pre-show.
The companys
program presented a new work, "Fractured Fictions," with an original
score by Patrick Grant (on
"Music from the Red Night"Strange Music CD 009) and
also restaged MJDC classics not seen in many years, notably bringing writer and
performance artist Rinde Eckert back to the stage in the 1988 work Shorebirds
Atlantic and with sections of the milestone work The Gates (Far Away Near)
which had its score performed live by composer Paul Dresher and his ensemble.
The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company retrospective was an absorbing testament to
the companys past and future.
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23
APR 2004
The
Bay Area Dance Community presents... Choreographers In Action "24
VIEWS"
ODC Theater 3153 17th St @ Shotwell St San
Francisco, CA
Friday, April 23, 2004 7:00pm
24 two-minute segments
in an event being organized by the CIA press/media committee to be held at ODC
Theater on Friday, April 23rd at 7:30PM in conjunction with National Dance Week.
Through this event, the CIA offers the press and public a juicy taste of the rich
variety of dance going on in the Bay Area this year. These short segments will
help illustrate the strength of our community, with the goal of highlighting a
wide and engaging diversity of artistic styles.
Melanie
Elms performed her solo from
Margaret Jenkins' "Fractured Fictions."
RUBINCHAPELLE
410 West 14 Street New York City 8:30 PM
Dance
party to follow
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EPIC
PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT CAPTURED IN SACRED SISTER
A collaboration
between Bettina WitteVeen and Robert Wilson
Verve
Editions announces the publication of a new book, Sacred Sister,
documenting an important artistic project. Ancient myth and state-of-the-art photography
are interwoven in this arresting meditation on timeless female power by the up-and-coming
artist Bettina WitteVeen.
A
hundred powerful images delving into timeless themes from Greek mythology (the
Three Fates, Amazons, Hecate and Medusa) to Asian spirituality (Tara). The photographs
are taken in remote Far Eastern locales, including the jungles of Bali, Burma
and Vietnam, by WitteVeen, an artist whose work has been the highlight of a recent
exhibition at the Museum of Natural History in New York.
The works comprise
a touring
exhibition that was designed by Robert
Wilson, one of the major figures of the avant-garde. The book includes
an extensive documentary record of Wilson's working
process in creating the Balinese-inspired pavilions in which the photographs
will be shown, his first project of this kind.
Deep
in the jungles of Bali, Burma, Vietnam, and Indonesia, the artist Bettina WitteVeen
has
conducted an extraordinary seven-year project to find the face of legend in the
peoples of today. The result is a powerful group of 100 stunning images that capture
the strength of womanhood in a global context.
Pursuing
the theme of the "sacred sister" to the far corners of Asia, WitteVeen
has succeeded in bringing together deep-rooted beliefs and the spiritual life
of real women in our own time, if not our own culture. The series has a strong
central theme, nothing less than epic in scope, that finds universal significance
in a deeply held belief in the significance of the universe. This center holds
together dynamic images of young and old women, trance dancers and weavers, priestesses
and innocent young girls - all captured through the lens of a practicing Buddhist.
It
is accompanied by a fascinating and accessible interpretive essay by Charles
A. Riley, that serves to illuminate the ideas explored through WitteVeen's
art.
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JULY
2003 - DEC 2003
"RESIST" a
film by Dirk Szuszies
shown at film festivals:
-
Visions du Réel Nyon (Switzerland) - 28/04-4/05
- Dok
Fest Munich (Germany) - Point of View - 3/05-10/05
This event
will feature contemporary dance and music with a premiere choreography by
Linda Diamond intitled "Coasting Clear" with music
by Patrick Grant in conjunction with the Woodstock Centennial Celebration
taking place all summer. Woodstock
Diamond Dance Festival
The Byrdcliffe Theater Upper Byrdliffe Road off of Glasco Turnpike Woodstock,
NY
July 25
- 8PM - $20 - General admission includes gala reception sponsored by New World
Home Cooking and local merchants in Woodstock (Woodstock Chamber of Commerce and
Arts) ===========================================
21
JUL 03
A 50 Year Living Theatre Retrospective
in Naples, Italy called:
"LABYRINTHS of the IMAGINARY" (nei
LABIRINTI della IMMAGINAZIONE) presented by the Fondazione
Morra
will have screenings of
A
film by Dirk
SZUSZIES & Karin KAPER
"RESIST!
To be with the LIVING" with
Judith MALINA and the Living THEATRE 2003,
in color, 90 min.
Music:
Carlo
ALTOMARE, Patrick GRANT,
Andrea LIBEROVICI Production:
YC
ALIGATOR FILM
Click here or on the graphic
below for the events calendar:
19 JUL 03
Grant
will be giving a live solo performance of his and other contemporary keyboard
works with Q&A at
HORIZON
BOOKS Downtown Cadillac 115 S. Mitchell St. Cadillac, MI 49601
(231) 775-9979 cadillac@horizonbooks.com
at
1 PM
This
event is free and open to the public.
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18 JUL 03
CADILLAC ARTS FESTIVAL Cadillac,
MI
The
Cadillac String Association of Cadillac, Michigan has commissioned Patrick
Grant to write a work, "Some
ASSEMBLY",
for strings and percussion to be premiered at the Cadillac Arts Festival
on July 18, 2003 at 5:30 PM.
The piece will be conducted
by Mike Filkins.
The
concert will take place in the Rotary Performing Arts Pavilion in Cadillac City
Park on Lake Street in Downtown Cadillac.
This event is free and open
to the public. ===========================================
17 JUL 03
PG
will be appeared on Interlochen
Public Radioon the morning of July 17 at 8:30 AM to speak
with Dick Wallace about his work and the upcoming premiere commissioned by the
Cadillac String Association.
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12 JUL 03
Please join us for Dinner
& Dancing to benefit ODDFELLOWS
PLAYHOUSE
at
"Deep Wood", the home of Maria Pessino-Rothwell & Tom Rothwell
Saturday, July 12, 2003
Presenting
a concert performance by PATRICK GRANT GROUP
PG w/ Kathleen Supové and Marija Ilic: keyboards,
and John Ferrari: percussion
41 Deepwood Lane
Amagansett, NY (631)
267-7881
Suggested Donation: $100 per person $175 per couple
THURSDAY,
MAY 15, from 6pm to 9pm at GALAPAGOS
ART SPACE 70 North 6 St., Williamsburg/Brooklyn Subway: L Bedford
Ave.
Admission:
$5 Live music from the amazing cast of 20 singers and instrumentalists,
CDs for sale and listening, cash bar. The CD contains a 12 page booklet with libretto
and color artworks.
Click
on the picture above for a detailed analysis of the work and of Artaud, his
influence by the Indonesian performing arts, and of connections to Alchemy,
Picasso, and much more...