Bianca Casady & The C.i.A (of CocoRosie) Announces European Tour

Bianca Casady & The C.i.A. is heading out for a 22-date tour in Europe to perform new music staged in a theater-like setting together with a dancer Bino Sauitzvy, visual artist Jean Marc Ruellan. With her sister Sierra, Bianca Casady has created the great surreal Pop-Art-World called CocoRosie, and about the solo work, she says: " I often played the dark side of CocoRosie. And now I don't have to worry about being too dark, too scary, too weird."

Bianca Casady & The C.i.A. - Dog in a Yard VIDEO

After several solo projects such as the publication Girls Against God, theater direction, art exhibitions - Bianca Casady once more steps out of the familiar CocoRosie context to gather long time partners The C.i.A. for a musical-performance project. In the new year to be released as an album in 2016 via FANTASYmusic in Europe and Atlas Chair in North and South America. Casady designs a mysterious and suggestive parallel world starting from an untuned piano, a dusty typewriter and stacks of poems.

Her songs are performative gems from a strange music Wonderland, which can now be experienced in a concert performance. The show has been premiered on August 6th at Summer Festival Kampnagel in Hamburg, followed by Zurcher Theaterspektakel, David Byrne's London Meltdown Festival, and Berlin PopKultur amongst others.

In addition to worldwide acclaimed albums and concerts Bianca Casady band with sister Sierra; CocoRosie have premiered the dance piece "Night Shift - A Feeble Ballet" in 2012 at Kampnagel and have since implemented two theater projects with Robert Wilson.

Bianca Casady's most recent work:
2012 - "Nightshift - a feeble ballet" directed and choreographed by Bianca Casady VIDEO
2013 - "Peter Pan" directed by Robert Wilson, music by CocoRosie, at Berliner Ensemble in Berlin. The production was re-staged at Theatre de la Ville in Paris in December during a month long celebration of Robert Wilson's work,
starring Sierra as Tinkerbell!
2013 - The Color of Pomegranates (live film score) at The Louvre Museum in Paris. Written and directed by Serguei Paradjanov.
2014 September - Bianca hosted the Future Feminism art exhibition in New York, "The Future Is Female" alongside Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons), Sierra Casady, Kembra Pfahler and Johanna Constantine
2014 - 2nd issue of the magazine "GAG - Girls Against God" co-edited by Bianca Casady
2014 - successfully running a fundraising campaign for the movie "The Eyes Of The Moon" with new CocoRosie music.
2015 March - Bianca's "Mother Hunting - Miracle of a Rose" premiered at Oslo National Theatre HERE
2015 June - Pushkins Fairy Tales premiered at State Theater of Nations, directed by Robert Wilson, music by CocoRosie HERE
2015 August - Bianca's solo project Bianca Casady & The C.i.A. saw the light at Kampnagel Sommer Festival in Germany and at David Byrne's Meltdown Festival in London amongst others VIDEO
2015 September - CocoRosie's sixth album Heartache City released accompanied by European, North and South American tours HERE

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