Flight — Northeast Shadow Tour
Posted April 14, 2008 by erik_ruin in Events
FLIGHT:the mythic journey of a persons displaced - a brand new shadow theater show with imagery by Erik Ruin, a live score by violinist Katt Hernandez, and the capable puppeteering assistance of Megan Gibes, may very well be coming to a venue near you!(if you
live in the Northeast U.S., that is)...
About the show:
FLIGHT is the picaresque journey of a displaced person attempting to escape/transcend persecution. Erik Ruin's signature papercut style is animated with scrolling vistas of shipwrecks, refugee camps and burning houses and many fine shadow puppet tricks set to a hair-raisingly beautiful violin score by virtuoso/improviser Katt Hernandez. Erik's prints and Katt's music will be available for sale at their shows.
About the performers:
ERIK RUIN is a Michigan-raised, Philly-based printmaker, shadow-puppeteer, and co-editor of the anthology Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (with Josh MacPhee, AK Press, 2007). Ongoing theatrical work includes the epic musical shadow theater extravaganza The Nothing Factory, and various improvisational groupings of overhead projectors and musical instruments. Check out some of his print work here.
KATT HERNANDEZ has collaborated with a magnificently variated sea of musicians, dancers, and others, and performed in a vast slew of of subway passages, urban grottos, and troglyditical performace places, as well as other experimental and life-making spaces throughout the East Coast Metropolii.
MEGAN GIBES is both puppeteer and musican. She's manipulated objects with Ben Matchstick and RPM Puppet Conspiracy around the U.S. and Thailand, and played bass, trombone and drums (all at the same time) in International Anthems for Irrational Numbers and most recently with Uke of Spaces Corners.
THE DATES-
4/16- PROVIDENCE,RI- with Joshua Marcus/"NO MORE TIME TO LISTEN INSIDE" compositions and contraptions by
lyndon cordey lopez.,performed by THE WHAT DREAR?
SEXTET/puppet short from Beth Nixon- at Building 16 (call Dan- 401.787.3236- for directions)- potluck dinner! beginning at 8.
4/17- LOWELL, MA- with Amalgam trio (Video Artist and Modular Synth player Walter Wright, Dancer Joe Burgio, and Katt Hernandez on violin)- at Gallery 119- 119 Chelmsford Street- 8 pm
4/18- PORTLAND, ME- w/ Joshua Marcus/ Brown Bird/ The Gargoylez. MEG PERRY CENTER - 8 pm
4/19- BIDDEFORD, ME- w/ Joshua Marcus/ Brown Bird/ The Gargoylez. The Franklin Arts Center
- 8 pm
4/20- BELFAST, ME- w/ Joshua Marcus/ Brown Bird/ The Gargoylez(w/ Special Guest Dave Noyes & Vinz Nez & Brian Arlet)/ Uke of Spaces Corners -WATERFALL ARTS- 256 High Street Belfast Me 04915 - 7 pm
4/22- MONTPELIER, VT- Langdon Street Cafe- 4 Langdon Street Montpelier, VT 05602 - 7 pm
4/23- BRATTLEBORO, VT- more acts TBA- the Tinderbox-17 Elliot St. - 7ish pm
4/24- AMHERST, MA- Food For Thought Books- 106 N.Pleasant Street - 7 pm
4/25- BOSTON, MA- more acts TBA- Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Avenue - 7 pm.
4/26- NEW YORK CITY- more acts TBA- Space Space- 390 Seneca Ave -(L train to dekalb ave exit front of train at stanhope st walk against traffic on stanhope 3 blocks last door on left before seneca ave)-Ridgewood! - 8 pm
*note- ALL SHOWS ARE CHEAP! if not a pass-the-hat donations type thing, it's a 5-bucks-at-the-door type thing.
**note even more so- at most shows, where there's not a zillion other performers, Katt will also be doing a solo improvised violin performance- not to be missed!
PLEASE FORWARD/POST THIS AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE!
THANKS!
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Erik:
Looking forward to the NYC stop, Candace and I are planning to attend. Great to meet you at the fair last weekend, the print looks amazing!
--Jason (friendlyagitate.net)
Posted by: jason at April 15, 2008 9:55 AM