An exciting range of performances including a post-modern variety show, a contemporary psychedelic funk opera, a celebration for the acclaimed Apollo Theater in conjunction with its 75th anniversary exhibition, and the U.S. debut of Daorum, an innovative collaboration between Korean and Australian jazz musicians highlight the next three months of TARGET® FREE THURSDAYS at the David Rubenstein Atrium.
Program details for TARGET® FREE THURSDAYS performances for January through March 2011 follow. All performances start at 8:30 p.m. at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Broadway between 62nd and 63rd Streets. Admission is free. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. The ‘wichcraft cafe, serving food and drinks, is open before and the performance. The Atrium closes at 10 p.m.
For more information, visit www.LincolnCenter.org/Atrium.
The January-March 2011 schedule is as follows (programs and artists subject to change):
Thursday, January 6 at 8:30 pm - A Special HOLIDAYS @ THE ATRIUM presentation
SXIP'S HOUR OF CHARM hosted and curated by Sxip Shirey
Composer, circus-performer, story-teller Sxip Shirey brings his wacky, traveling variety show featuring some of New York City's most intriguing and unusual performing artists to the Atrium. On the bill are Butoh-trained dancer and contortionist Jonathan Nosan; Samurai Sword Soul, choreographed Japanese sword fighters; the raunchy, funny and loveable comedian/story-teller Greg Walloch; Butt Kapinski (the clown alter-ego of improv performer Deanna Fleysher) and violinist Sarah "Snaps" Alden performing A Clown Noir; and blues and jazz-inflected singer-songwriter Dayna Kurtz. Bid "ta-ta" (or maybe "good riddance") to the 2010 holiday season with a zany Twelfth Night extravaganza of a show. For more information visit: http://www.sxipshirey.com
Thursday, January 13 at 8:30 pm - SILVER ROOTS: ANCIENT DANCES
Presented in collaboration with the Irish Arts Center
Silver Roots-Maria Millar, violin, Shawn Wyckoff, flute and Michael Haas, cello-explore the intersection of classical music and the traditional music and dances of Europe in their compelling new program Ancient Dances. Drawing from classical and world music sources, improvisation and original material, the program is a journey of sonic discovery. The world premiere of a work by Norwegian composer Otto Martin Christensen highlights the evening. Also on the program: a piece juxtaposing works by English Baroque composer Matthew Locke, alongside those of 20th-century master Henry Cowell, and a compendium of up-tempo dance tunes from Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany and England. The musicians of Silver Roots, all graduates of Juilliard, were recently awarded a Chamber Music America ResidenCy Grant. Since 2008, the trio has presented concerts, workshops, masterclasses and outreach programs across the country and in Canada. They have appeared at Lincoln Center as part of MEE THE ARTISTS series. For more information about the artists, and to hear a sample of their work, visit www.silverrootsmusic.com, www.youtube.com, or www.irishartscenter.org.
January 20 at 8:30 pm - Gordon Voidwell
An intoxicating mix of 80's new wave, funk, and R&B, with a dash of hip-hop swagger and the DIY spirit of indie culture Gordon Voidwell is the alter-ego of Will Johnson, a Bronx-born ex-chorister turned rap geek. A multi-instrumentalist, trained vocalist and a published fashion writer, his music is subversive pop and funk, along the lines of Tom Tom Club, Madonna, Prince, David Bowie, and George Clinton. Voidwell uses analog synthesizers and chunky drum machines as the backdrop for silky, reverb-drenched vocals-also reminiscent of Cameo, New Edition and other noted 80s R&B crooners. Blending old sounds with updated lexicon, Voidwell creates a sonic collage-one that is oh so familiar but at once strange and unusual. This is the point; to embrace the immense void that exists between seemingly opposite ideas of past and future, hip and dorky, pop and indie etc. etc.. That void is the well from which Gordon drinks and he invites you to do the same. Follow, learn and hear more about the artist, at www.myspace.com/gordonvoidwell; www.twitter.com/gvoidwell; http://www.facebook.com/people/Gordon-Voidwell/1037634511; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqYOawwOAow; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK-dqm2fT24; and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZnJSYiPs4I
