Performances by
Vector - multi-media dance by
Rebecca Weber & Joanne Cook
Perry Brass - poet
Mike Brenner - story reading
Norman Salant - singer/songwriter
dDamien - storytelling/performance
Mary Abrams - MC and more...
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Performer bios:
Rebecca Weber (PhD, Prov. Prof. DMT), Vector Artistic Director, makes live and digital dance work investigating intersections between dance, science, and somatics. She is a Senior Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Auckland and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist and Dance Movement Therapist. Weber’s choreography has been supported by Creative New Zealand, Dance/USA, Dance/UP, World Dance Alliance, Decoda, Mascher Space Co-operative, Rebecca Skelton Fund, Bates Dance Festival, Tempo Dance Festival, Wimbledon Space, and others.
Joanna Cook, Vector Co-director, is a dance artist, researcher and multimodal choreographer based in New Zealand. She is a PhD Candidate at the University of Auckland exploring the possibilities of Multimodality as (feminist) Choreographic Practice. Joanna creates work that is experiential, immersive and engages: movement, artist books, soundscapes, printmaking, installation, photography, voice, poetics, video documentation and live performance.
 Perry Brass, author, poet, activist, and current president of the Gay Liberation Front Foundation; has published 21 books, including poetry, novels, plays, journalism, short fiction, speculative fiction, young-adult fiction, and bestselling advice, like The Manly Art of Seduction. His work has been included in 35 anthologies and books of critical studies, including The Male Muse, the first anthology of openly gay poetry and the Columbia University Anthology of Gay Literature. He has had over a hundred poems set to music, including Chris DeBlasio's setting of "Walt Whitman in 1989," which became an anthem of the AIDS crisis, and was featured in All the Way Through Evening, a documentary by Rohan Spong about young composers who died of HIV. His work presents a visionary attitude toward human life and sexuality coming from a core involvement with the value of humanity and art. www.perrybrass.com
Mike Brenner’s mission involves uncovering the ultimate source of our violence towards ourselves and our planet. He has been an architect, psychiatrist, healer, author, and is now a movie producer. He will read a story, an offshoot of his book The Mesopotamian Tale.
dDamien, a native New Yorker from Staten Island, who recently completed Odyssey of Embodied Spiritual Learning (OESL). A nine month course directed by Mary Abrams. Drawing inspiration from OESL and decades of freeform movement, including club dancing. dDamien blends spoken word into this creative mix.
Norman Salant is a NYC songwriter and singer whose songs reflect the most moving elements of life. Melodious, intricate, lyrical wordplay, large themes, poetic imagery, abstract impressions; above all honest and somehow modern. Norman’s songs are deceptively complex, seeming to reconstitute all the music he’s ever heard and played, inclusive even of his former saxophone career (appears on The Residents and Romeo Void albums), from the Beatles to Coltrane, from Dylan to Philip Glass, from Byrne to Bowie, and turning it into something fresh and new. Pop, yes, folk, yes, avant-garde, perhaps; radically different than any particular genre might produce. As we emerge in this post-pandemic world, Norman’s music is particularly worth listening to. www.normansalant.com
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