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This event is part of The Watermill Center / CPR residency partnership.
The Watermill Center, CPR, and Chez Bushwick present work at CPR – Center for Performance Research on Sunday, March 4 starting at 7:30 p.m. Samita Sinha presents her new solo work Cipher that explores the question: how does sound come out of my body? Tatyana Tenenbaum will perform two excerpts from her latest work-in-progress Who See The Sky, a work that investigates the ideological structures that define art, science, and primitivism.
Chez Bushwick, Presenting Partner
Chez Bushwick, an artist-run organization based in Brooklyn, is dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary art and performance, with a strong focus on new choreography. www.chezbushwick.net. The program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
About The Work
Samita Sinha: Cipher is a solo work that begins from the question: how does sound come out of my body? Sinha explores this question using the “nonsense” sounds of tarana—a genre of song in Indian classical music invented in the 13th century that mixes Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit syllables that are said to encode mystical meanings. Cipher is performed with a “band” of four electronic boxes, including electronic tabla (drum box) and electronic tanpura (drone box), which have trapped a centuries-old tradition of acoustic finery into a convenient, portable form.
Tatyana Tenenbaum will perform two excerpts from her latest work-in-progress Who See The Sky, a work that investigates the ideological structures that define art, science, and primitivism. She will be joined by Ezra Tenenbaum, Talya Epstein, Rebeca Medina, Laurel Snyder and Benjamin Van Buren. Over the past several years her work has explored the possibilities in creating entirely self-contained performance environments, where sound and movement is generated entirely live by performers. In Who See The Sky she returns to the artificial world of musical theater to examine a form long largely regarded as pastiche, and often excluded from 20th century performance discourse. She re-imagines the American musical through a phenomenological lens, blurring the line between high and low art through a series of unexpected shifts in timbre and tone. In the tradition of Robert Ashley or Laurie Anderson, her musicality straddles a world between song and poem, creating additional spaces for abstract movement.
About The Artists
Samita Sinha is a vocal artist, composer, and cultural worker. She combines tradition with experiment to create new forms, drawing from a deep grounding in North Indian classical music, a contemporary vocabulary, folk and ritual music, and songs and texts in several languages. She blends a raw, visceral energy with her classical training, creating a dynamic range of focused solo work and adventurous collaborations with jazz musicians and improvisers (Marc Cary, Sunny Jain), poets (Fiona Templeton, Sekou Sundiata), and dancers (Daria Fain). Sinha is also an innovative arts educator in schools and communities through MAPP, Carnegie Hall, and the 92nd Street Y. She has received awards from NYSCA, Fulbright Foundation, Queens Council on the Arts, Asian American Arts Alliance, and has been awarded residencies at Millay Colony, The Coleman Center (Alabama), and KHN (Nebraska). She studied Post-Colonial Literature and Cultural Criticism at Yale, and received her MFA from Bard in 2010.
Tatyana Tenenbaum is a choreographer and composer whose work examines sound and movement within a shared perceptual, historical, and dramaturgical framework. Her work has been presented in New York by Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research, Cabinet Magazine, The Chocolate Factory’s THROW, Draftwork at Danspace Project, Dance Conversations at The Flea, AUNTS, and Chez Bushwick, among others. She has received funding from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and the Brooklyn Arts Council, and has completed residencies through Dance Theater Workshop (2011 Fresh Tracks Recipient), DanceNOW (NYC), Pieter PASD (LA), and Espacio Abimental (Bogotá, Colombia). She was a participant in the Watermill Center’s 2011 Summer Program. In addition to her own work, she works with and Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks and Daria Fain & Robert Kocik’s Phoneme Choir. She received dual degrees in Music Composition and Dance from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music.
Her work has been presented in New York by Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research, Cabinet Magazine, The Chocolate Factory’s THROW, Draftwork at Danspace Project, Dance Conversations at The Flea, AUNTS, and Chez Bushwick, among others. She has received funding for her work from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and the Brooklyn Arts Council, and has completed residencies through Dance Theater Workshop (2011 Fresh Tracks Recipient), DanceNOW (NYC), Pieter PASD (LA), and Espacio Abimental (Bogotá, Colombia). She was a participant in the Watermill Center’s 2011 Summer Program under the direction of Robert Wilson. From 2007 – 2009 she curated dance at The Tank, where she hosted “The Raw and the Cooked Show,” a forum for interdisciplinary improvisation. In addition to her own work, she has had the pleasure of performing with Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks, Daria Fain & Robert Kocik’s Phenome Choir, Michele Torino Hower, and Brandin Steffensen. She received dual degrees in Dance and Music Composition from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music.
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