Roulette

Brooklyn-based skybetter and associates performs an evening of contemporary dance repertory with live music by the Ear Heart Music Ensemble, making their debut in this concert.  The program includes Temporary Matters set to selections from Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Englabörn; Cold House You Kept set to String Quartet no. 2, Quasi una Fantasia by Henryk Górecki, and the New York premiere of Eveningland, Skybetter’s recent commission by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, featuring selections from David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion. Flutist and Ear Heart Music director Amelia Lukas will lead the ensemble in Karen Tanaka’s ethereal Frozen Horizen, setting an icy yet uplifting tone for the evening. The performance will take place in the round.

 

Monday, November 18 at 8pm

Roulette

509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Tickets are $20 ($15 for members/students/seniors)

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www.roulette.org

Last night of the Vision Festival: panel discussion, dance, creative music & arts.

4.00 pm - PANEL : FREEDOM FOR SALE (POETS & PROPHETS)
Amiri Baraka
Ewuare X. Osayande
Other panelists TBA

6.00 pm - INGRID LAUBROCK / ANTI-HOUSE
Ingrid Laubrock - sax
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Kris Davis - piano
John Hebert - bass
Tom Rainey - drums

7.00 pm - BURNT SUGAR, THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER / HOLY GHOST & FIRE
Greg "Ionman" Tate - conduction, guitar, laptop
Lisala - vocals
Abby Dobson - vocals
Mikel Banks - vocals, conduction, freak-a-phone
Lewis "Flip" Barnes Jr. trumpet
Micah Gaugh - alto sax
V. Jeffery Smith - tenor sax
Avram Fefer - tenor sax
"Moist" Paula Henderson - bari sax
Dave "Smoota" Smith - trombone
Andre Lassalle - guitar
BenTyree guitar
Bruce Mack - vocals/keyboards
Jason DiMatteo - acoustic bass
Jared Michael Nickerson - electric bass
LaFrae Sci - drums

8.00 pm - JASON JORDAN SOLO DANCE
Jason Jordan - dance

8.30 pm - BROWN / LEVIN
Rob Brown - sax
Daniel Levin - cello

9.30 pm - KIDD JORDAN QUINTET
Kidd Jordan - tenor sax
Charles Gayle - tenor, piano
J.D. Parran - baritone sax
William Parker - bass
Hamid Drake - drums

Live video art: Paul Clay

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Fifth night of the Vision Festival: creative music & multi-media artists.

7.00 pm - SHEILA JORDAN & JAY CLAYTON / BEBOP TO FREEBOP
Sheila Jordan - voice
Jay Clayton - voice
Jack Wilkins - guitar
Cameron Brown - bass

8.00 pm - YOSHIKO CHUMA SOLO DANCE
Yoshiko Chuma - dance

8.30 pm - ROY CAMPBELL / EHRAN ELISHA
Roy Campbell - trumpet
Ehran Elisha - drums

9.30 pm - HENRY GRIMES - WADADA LEO SMITH
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
Henry Grimes - bass, violin

10.30 pm - PHEEROAN AKLAFF / DEAR FREEDOM SUITE
Jun Miyake - saxophones, flutes
Santi Debriano - bass, electric guitar
Pheeroan akLaff - percussion, mixed media
+ Amiri Baraka - words

Multi-media artists: Jo Wood-Brown, Miriam Parker

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Legendary for his beautiful tone, his melodic center, and the freedom with which he approaches music, Joe McPhee will receive this year's Lifetime Achievement Award.
It is with great joy that Arts for Art pays homage to this innovative composer, a master of both the saxophone and the trumpet, who has devoted his life to the highest standard of musical excellence.

7.00 pm - JOE MCPHEE / ANGELS, DEVILS & HAINTS II
Playing "In The Gardens Of Harlem" - a tribute to Clifford Thornton
Joe McPhee - horns
Steve Swell - horns
Roy Campbell - horns
Joe Giardullo - horns
Rosie Hertlein - violin
Michael Bisio - bass
Dominic Duval - bass
Hilliard Greene - bass
William Parker - bass
Jay Rosen - percussions
Warren Smith - percussions

8.30 pm - SONNY SIMMONS ENSEMBLE
Sonny Simmons - alto sax, english horn
Thomas Bellier - electric guitar
William Parker - bass
Warren Smith drums

9.30 pm - JASON JORDAN / KNOCK KNOCK DANCE COMPANY
4 dancers & Joe McPhee

10.00 pm - THE THING + JOE MCPHEE
Joe McPhee - sax, trumpet
Mats Gustafsson - tenor saxophone
Ingebrigt HÃ¥ker Flaten - bass
Paal Nilssen-Love - drums

Visual artist: Jeff Schlanger

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This annual, multi-arts festival has been the primary focus of Arts for Art's efforts in raising the awareness and reputation of Creative jazz music, dance, spoken word, and visual arts. The Vision Festival, now in its seventeenth year, presents the very best in the international creative music and encourages interdisciplinary collaborations.This year's edition will present approximately 120 artists in 44 performances of music, dance, visual art and poetry all working within the composed and improvisational downtown aesthetic. It will include the work of both established and emerging artists as well as students, with the aim of insuring the future of creative jazz and innovative new music and art in NYC.

Legendary for his beautiful tone, his melodic center, and the freedom with which he approaches music, Joe McPhee will receive this year's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Check out the Vision Festival BOOKLET: http://issuu.com/artsforart/docs/booklet

Check out the whole PROGRAM here: http://www.artsforart.org/event/visionfestival17/schedule

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