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A New Art Lab program of The Project Room
PHYSICAL THEATER AND CELLO IMPROVISATION
with
Cassie Terman, Shinichi Momo Koga, and Keren Rosenbaum
Saturday,
July 16, 2005, 2 PM
The three performers enter the stage empty and build a work from
the first moments and gestures. Terman and Koga play in a highly
physical realm that includes sound and language to explore an often
surreal yet utterly immediate world. They are joined by Keren Rosenbaum
on cello. Comic dilemma, the pathos of human frailty, music and
associative narratives are woven into a cohesive, wild, delicate,
and unpredictable
whole.
About the Performers
Keren Rosenbaum A prolific composer
and talented flautist from a young age, Rosenbaum studied with
renowned Israeli
composers
Arik
Shapira and Leon Shidlovski during her studies at Tel Aviv University
and continued developing her distinctive style at the Royal Conservatory,
The Hague. After directing and producing "New Voices," the first interdisciplinary festival in Israel, she founded the
Reflex Ensemble, a unique collective of classical musicians. Since
1998
the Ensemble has challenged the old-school classical music tradition
in its focus on performance, openness to new technologies, incorporating
lighting and sound artists as equal members, and choosing not to
stage its performances in concert halls. Keren is currently looking
ahead to the staging of her interdisciplinary opera "Chat," scheduled
for 2006 in New York.
Shinichi Momo Koga's productions have been experienced since
1988 throughout the North American Continent, Europe and Japan.
A photographer,
filmmaker and theater actor/director, Koga became primarily known
as a Butoh dancer after 1991 when he began dancing under Hiroko
and Koichi Tamano. In 1994, he created the group Uro Teatr Koku
with
Alenka Mullin Koga which became inkBoat in 1998.Additionally, he
collaborates with Yumiko Yoshioka and TEN PEN CHii (Germany: 1996-2001),
Do Theatre (Russia: 1997-present), Shadowlight Theatre (USA: 1993-1997)
and the group adapt in Berlin with Minako Seki, Sten Rudstøm,
Yuko Kaseki and Yael Karavan.
Cassie Terman is a performer, writer, and teacher. Since 1990
she has been performing improvisations nationally and internationally,
both solo and in collaboration. She has worked for over 14 years
with Ruth Zaporah in Action Theater, and frequent collaborators
include
Sten Rudstrom, Shinichi Koga, Leigh Evans, and the Reflex Ensemble.
For the last 11 years she has been teaching throughout the U.S.
at universities, festivals, and theater and dance organizations.
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