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THIS CLEMENT WORLD Makes World Premiere at St. Ann's Warehouse, 2/5-17
by BWW
News Desk - Feb 16, 2013
St. Ann's Warehouse welcomes back Cynthia Hopkins-having commissioned and presented the artist's work since 2004-for the world premiere of her new song cycle extravaganza, This Clement World. Featuring original avant-folk songs performed by a seven-piece band and a choir, documentary footage Hopkins shot on an Arctic expedition with Cape Farewell, and the artist inhabiting three fictional characters on-stage, This Clement World offers a poetic but urgent perspective on global climate change. (more...)
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THIS CLEMENT WORLD Makes World Premiere at St. Ann's Warehouse, Now thru 2/17
by BWW News Desk - Feb 05, 2013
St. Ann's Warehouse welcomes back Cynthia Hopkins-having commissioned and presented the artist's work since 2004-for the world premiere of her new song cycle extravaganza, This Clement World. Featuring original avant-folk songs performed by a seven-piece band and a choir, documentary footage Hopkins shot on an Arctic expedition with Cape Farewell, and the artist inhabiting three fictional characters on-stage, This Clement World offers a poetic but urgent perspective on global climate change. (more...)
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Bang on a Can Summer Festival Alumni Perform at MoMA, 2/26 & 3/4
by BWW News Desk - Jan 31, 2013
On Tuesday, February 26 at 6pm and Monday, March 4 at 6pm, Bang on a Can and The Museum of Modern Art present a pair of concerts in conjunction with MoMA's exhibition Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 that reveal how pioneering European composers of 100 years ago forever changed music in New York. Curated by Bang on a Can co-founder and artistic directorDavid Lang, each concert pairs two composers-an early-20th-century innovator, and a New Yorker he influenced- and is performed by alumni and faculty of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a utopian residency program dedicated entirely to the creation, study, and performance of the most adventurous music of our time. (more...)
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THIS CLEMENT WORLD Opens 2/5 at St. Ann's Warehouse
by BWW News Desk - Jan 23, 2013
St. Ann's Warehouse (Artistic Director, Susan Feldman; Executive Director, Andrew D. Hamingson) will welcome back Cynthia Hopkins-having commissioned and presented the artist's work since 2004-for the world premiere of her new song cycle extravaganza, This Clement World. Featuring original avant-folk songs performed by a seven-piece band and a choir, documentary footage Hopkins shot on an Arctic expedition with Cape Farewell, and the artist inhabiting three fictional characters on-stage, This Clement World offers a poetic but urgent perspective on global climate change. (more...)
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THIS CLEMENT WORLD Makes World Premiere at St. Ann's Warehouse, 2/5-17
by BWW News Desk - Dec 17, 2012
St. Ann's Warehouse welcomes back Cynthia Hopkins-having commissioned and presented the artist's work since 2004-for the world premiere of her new song cycle extravaganza, This Clement World. Featuring original avant-folk songs performed by a seven-piece band and a choir, documentary footage Hopkins shot on an Arctic expedition with Cape Farewell, and the artist inhabiting three fictional characters on-stage, This Clement World offers a poetic but urgent perspective on global climate change. (more...)
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Laboratory Theater Announces GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES, 6/28-30
by BWW
News Desk - Jun 30, 2012
GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES is described as 'a meditative, cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative drawn from a variety of sources, two outlaws on the trail of an old adversary take work as jewel thieves for a washed up brothel madam. In a chance encounter with a traveling magician, they locate their enemy and conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge.' (more...)
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Laboratory Theater Announces GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES, 6/28-30
by BWW
News Desk - Jun 28, 2012
GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES is described as 'a meditative, cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative drawn from a variety of sources, two outlaws on the trail of an old adversary take work as jewel thieves for a washed up brothel madam. In a chance encounter with a traveling magician, they locate their enemy and conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge.' (more...)
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Laboratory Theater's GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES Returns 6/28-30
by BWW
News Desk - Jun 28, 2012
GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES is described as 'a meditative, cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative drawn from a variety of sources, two outlaws on the trail of an old adversary take work as jewel thieves for a washed up brothel madam. In a chance encounter with a traveling magician, they locate their enemy and conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge.' (more...)
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Laboratory Theater's GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES Returns 6/28-30
by BWW News Desk - Jun 06, 2012
GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES is described as 'a meditative, cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative drawn from a variety of sources, two outlaws on the trail of an old adversary take work as jewel thieves for a washed up brothel madam. In a chance encounter with a traveling magician, they locate their enemy and conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge.' (more...)
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Laboratory Theater Announces GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES, 6/28-30
by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2012
GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES is described as 'a meditative, cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative drawn from a variety of sources, two outlaws on the trail of an old adversary take work as jewel thieves for a washed up brothel madam. In a chance encounter with a traveling magician, they locate their enemy and conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge.' (more...)
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Cynthia Hopkins Returns to St. Ann's Warehouse in One-Night-Only Concert, 5/4
by BWW News Desk - Apr 23, 2012
Cynthia Hopkins returns to St. Ann's Warehouse and bids farewell to the institution's current home at 38 Water Street with Songs for This Clement World. Featuring a 15-member ensemble of musicians and vocalists, the concert will include the first performance of new songs from This Clement World, a new work that 'poetically but urgently addresses global climate change.' (more...)
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SONiC – Sounds of a New Century Festival Set for 10/14-10/22
by BWW
News Desk - Oct 21, 2011
SONiC - Sounds of a New Century - a brand new festival of 21st century music by more than 100 composers age 40 and under, will take over New York from Friday, October 14 through Saturday, October 22, 2011. Events will range from a daylong marathon to a DJ/VJ night, from a free symphony concert at the World Financial Center Winter Garden to collaborations between emerging choreographers and composers. (more...)
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SONiC – Sounds of a New Century Festival Set for 10/14-10/22
by BWW
News Desk - Oct 13, 2011
SONiC - Sounds of a New Century - a brand new festival of 21st century music by more than 100 composers age 40 and under, will take over New York from Friday, October 14 through Saturday, October 22, 2011. Events will range from a daylong marathon to a DJ/VJ night, from a free symphony concert at the World Financial Center Winter Garden to collaborations between emerging choreographers and composers. (more...)
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