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Kathleen Supove announces the release of her new CD THE EXPLODING PIANO on the MAJOR WHO MEDIA label. The CD release concert will be held on Tuesday, August 17, at Le Poisson Rouge at 158 Bleecker Street in New York City.

The concert starts at 7:30, with doors opening at 6:30.

In addition to performing music from the CD, there will be :

-Video by Joshue Ott to go with Anna Clyne’s piece ON TRACK.

-New video created live by Jennifer Stock for ISABELLE EBERHARDT DREAMS OF PIANOS by Missy Mazzoli.

-In addition, there will be a special guest, media/video artist Peter Schmideg “performing” a work he created and revised for this event, based on the performance artist Marge Cameron, and inspired by SUTRA SUTRA by Randall Woolf.

-REVOLUTION by Dan Becker will have a video specially designed for it by Safy Etiel (V.J. name: Sniper), an Israeli artist living in Berlin.

-Rounding out the show will be A SHAKING OF THE PUMPKIN by Michael Gatonska, which features his custom-designed accessories and is a video in itself.

Also: a fake fashion show, auction, contests, and…a discount on the new CD.

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topBanner3The September Concert Foundation is proud to announce its 9th Annual September Concert, which will take place worldwide from September 10 – 12, 2010. As done in the past 8 years, these concerts will take place in designated performance spaces, including public parks and concert halls, in cities around the world. These music events have the sole purpose of joining people together worldwide to “celebrate peace and humanity through music.”

The September Concert Foundation invites musicians from all walks of life to participate in the 2010 events. For more details and to register your concert, go to www.septemberconcert.org. Deadline to register is August 13, 2010.

For more information: Phone 212.333.3399. Email: [email protected]

This is the first year that The September Concert will take place over 3 days instead of just one day. Haruko Smith founded the September Concert Foundation in 2002 to turn September 11th into something positive. “We provide the perfect answer to help people see a meaningful way to mark 9/11 as the day the seed for peace was planted. New York City should feel good about how this day gave birth to this positive tradition.”

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AA_QiXi_annc.FINLR.nosmprintThe Chinese Fine Arts Society is raffling round trip Main Cabin Air Transportation to Shanghai or Beijing for two, courtesy of American Airlines in Chicago on August 22nd, 2010, at the fundraising party after their Qi Xi performance in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Winning ticket holders need to be present to win. Raffle tickets are just $10 each or 3/$25 and can be purchased at their online store or by calling 312-369-3197.

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Palimpsest-PUG-5.6.10-Ocean-300x200Erica Mott, based in Chicago, is a performer, director, and deviser whose work is particularly inspired by observation of her immediate environment. The recent winner of a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award, Erica is currently launching into a worldwide schedule of performances and teaching residencies in New York; North Carolina; Malerargues, France; Oaxaca, Mexico; and Skagastrond, Iceland.

Peter McDowell Arts Consulting and HelloARI Design are proud to launch Erica’s new web site which we feel reflects the visual and theatrically compelling nature of Erica’s performance.

Through mask, clown, butoh-inspired movement and site-specific performance, she attempts to capture and heighten the magic, mystery and tragedy in everyday activities and interactions. She endeavors to find universality in these actions and her performance that may be communicated across social, economic, and cultural boundaries.

Thanks to her grant from the Chicago Dancemakers Forum, from June 2010-July 2011, Erica will be developing new choreography based on intensive research into the intersections between objects and dancers’ bodies. Her research will take her to France to work with acclaimed puppetry and spectacle performance company Royal Deluxe and to San Francisco for an ongoing collaboration with choreographer, Sara Shelton Mann. She will continue to research and develop this new work for a premiere in July 2011.

The Chicago Dancemakers Forum is a catalyst for innovation and a means to increase dynamic interaction among Chicago’s dancemakers. The Lab Artist program supports artistic exploration, research, and development that leads to production of a new work, culminating in public performances. The select choreographers are active in their field and developing a distinctive trajectory in their work. They possess the skills and experience to undertake a larger project of extended scale, and the capacity to benefit from an environment of artistic interchange.