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SUMMARY:CRS Presents BETA Quartet: Where We Come From
DESCRIPTION:CRS presents the award-winning contemporary flute ensemble BETA Quartet\, who will perform a program featuring the world premiere of “Where We Come From” by Detroit-based saxophonist/composer Marcus Elliot\, a piece commissioned by BETA Quartet. “Where We Come From” is a 4-movement work that centers around the Divine Feminine theme and demonstrates the power\, beauty\, and grace that embodies female energy and Mother Nature. \nDescribed as “chamber music at its finest” by Kenneth Tse and “unique and virtuosic” by Barbara Siesel\, BETA Quartet is an award-winning ensemble comprised of flutists Eftihia Arkoudis\, Tatiana Cassetta\, Alyssa Schwartz\, and Meg Brennan. \nTickets are available via eventbrite.com. Tickets are $20 general admission and $10 for students. Some seating may be on blankets on the floor.\nIf not sold out\, tickets will also be available at the door for cash only. \nThe concert will take place in the award-winning White Room at CRS. Please note that the venue is accessible only via a flight of stairs and is not wheelchair accessible. Proof of vaccination is not required but the wearing of masks is encouraged. \nThe White Room at CRS is located between 12th & 13th streets\, above Think Coffee\, in Manhattan. The nearest subway station is 14th St / Union Square (4/5/6\, N/R/Q/W\, L). \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nMarcus Elliot is a saxophonist\, composer\, improviser\, and educator based in Detroit\, Michigan. Marcus is a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow\, awarded by Kresge Arts in Detroit. He is the current director of the University of Michigan’s Creative Arts Orchestra. His compositions and improvisations have been described by the New York Times as “convincing and confident\, evolved in touch and tone…”\, and the Detroit Free Press has said\, “Marcus Elliot represents next generation of jazz”. Elliot leads and co-leads many different Detroit based bands including the Marcus EllioTickt Quartet\, Clockwork\, Balance\, Beyond Rebellious\, and Lanula. Elliot performs in the Shigeto Live Ensemble. He is a Fellow of the Geri Allen Gathering Orchestra. He co-founded the nonprofit Polyfold Musical Arts Collective. Elliot is the director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Civic Jazz Ensembles. Elliot received his master’s degree in improvisation from the University of Michigan. \nhttps://www.marcuselliotmusic.com \nBETA Quartet is dedicated to exploring and promoting the cutting edge of modern flute music by premiering and performing works by living composers from around the world. The ensemble is actively engaged through concerts\, masterclasses\, and educational outreach across the country and abroad. \nAs strong competitors\, BETA has won First Prize at France Music Competition 2° (2020) and West Virginia Music Teachers National Association Chamber Music Competition (2016)\, First Prize at the Flute Society of Kentucky Quartet Competition (2017)\, and advanced to the semi-finals of the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (2017). The group has performed and presented workshops at the National Flute Association Convention\, Florida Flute Association Convention\, the Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention\, the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia\, and the WVU International Flute Symposium. \nBETA’s activities have been partially funded by grants from The Friends of Flutes Foundation and West Virginia University\, and their recognition within the flute community resulted in sponsorship by Flute Specialists\, Inc. (Clawson\, MI). As of 2019\, BETA Quartet is also a Trevor James Low Flutes Ensemble. \nFollowing the release of their self-titled debut album (2017)\, BETA commissioned Detroit based composer Marcus Elliott to write a work celebrating the feminine divine (2019) and recorded the world premiere of Nuraghi Warriors Dance (Ples Bojevnikov Nuraghi) composed by Anže Rozman and dedicated to the group (2020). Both albums are released with Merandi Records and are available through Spotify\, iTunes\, YouTube and www.betaquartet.com. \nCRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently\, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians)\, a platform created to empower\, elevate\, normalize and give visibility to women\, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race\, sexuality\, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide\, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions. \nhttps://crsny.org
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LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:DIVINE at DOCK 11\, commissioned by CRS
DESCRIPTION:CRS is thrilled to invite you to Berlin for the world premiere of DIVINE\, inspired by tragic tales of wronged and resilient women such as ballet’s “Giselle” and the classic Japanese Kaidan ghost story “Oiwa.” \nSupported by a commission from CRS\, Berlin-based butoh dance artist Yuko Kaseki and ballet artist Megumi Eda created and perform the work to an original sound score composed by Reiko Yamada. \nPerformances will take place May 25 – 28\, 2023 at 7pm at DOCK 11. Following the May 26 performance\, there will be a Q&A with the audience in collaboration with Theaterscoutings. \nTickets are 10/15 € and are available through DOCK 11. \nThese two dancers are like oil and water\, moon and turtle\, the North and South Pole\, a crane in rubbish…. By exchanging their polar opposite approaches to movement and performance\, they assume characters plagued with the discomfort and instability of unfamiliar\, distorted bodies. These two figures with different space/time/ dimensions meet where the eye of the corona appears to have passed\, which they cross in sympathy but filled with confusion and dissonance from wildly different types of existences. Their suffering and persistence echo the paths of Giselle and Oiwa and countless other women whose divine spirits have endured objectification\, coercion\, violence\, and imprisonment in images and lives not of their own choosing or making. \n“Beautiful ballerinas are often caught in their own beauty. They definitely don’t know how to mug. But Megumi can morph in a flash from small boy to impossibly regal diva to a small squirrel chewing on a nut.” – Laurie Anderson\nThis is only the second commission by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and the first production we have supported outside the United States. We became connected to Yuko Kaseki through the work of past CRS visiting instructor and performer Shinichi Momo Koga and through Yuko’s work with CAVE Art Space and Japan Society. We developed a relationship with Megumi when her daughter performed in ballet recitals at CRS under the direction of Rie Fukuzawa and through Megumi’s work with Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks. At Yoshiko’s suggestion\, CRS presented Megumi’s talk and documentary video art at CRS\, which grew out of Megumi’s work with Yoshiko. This project was\, in fact\, hatched at a School of Hard Kocks performance last October at Ki Smith Gallery\, and we are grateful for Yoshiko’s support and encouragement. \nMegumi Eda was born in Nagano\, Japan and had her professional debut with the Matsuyama Ballet Company at age 14 in Tokyo where she appeared in many of the ballet classics in repertoire. After appearing successfully in the Prix de Lausanne Competition\, she was invited to the Hamburg Ballet School and for the next 15 years\, as a member of the Hamburg Ballet\, the Dutch National Balletand the Rambert Dance Company\, she worked with many choreographers including John Neumeier\, Christopher Bruce\, Jiri Kylian\, Lindsey Kemp\, William Forsythe\, Hans van Manen\, Twyla Tharp and David Dawson. In 2004\, she moved to New York as a founding member of Armitage Gone! Dance and has continued a close collaboration with Karole Armitage to this day. In addition to her work with Armitage she has begun to incorporate other art forms including sculpture and video into her own installations and performances. In New York\, she has developed her passion as a video editor and a director. She has been collaborating with Yoshiko Chuma since 2014 as a Performer/Filmmaker. She won a Bessie Award (NYC Dance & Performance Awards) in 2004. Megumi was named one of Dance Magazine’s BEST PERFORMERS 2015.  Since 2018 she has lived in Berlin and has recently presented her solo choreography in Venice and Berlin. \nmegumieda.com \nYuko Kaseki is a director\, choreographer\, teacher and Butoh dancer who has lived in Berlin long and short enough. She has been searching for a way to penetrate the space between physical and spiritual expression. Every day she trains her perception to find the moment of extraordinary in the ordinary.She studied Butoh dance and Performing Art in HBK Braunschweig with Anzu Furukawa and danced in her company Dance Butter Tokio and Verwandlungsamt in 1989-2000. \nin 1995\, Yuko Kaseki and Marc Ates founded the dance company cokaseki. cokaseki is as an ensemble for performative research around dance\, visual arts and experimental music in live events and improvisations at theater\, gallery\, site specific space\, and film… Since then various members have been part of the group in different roles and changing creative responsibilities. Collaborations have been taking place in numerous international projects with performers such as Christine Bonansea\, Sherwood Chen\, Shinichi Iova Koga\, 4RUDE\, Minako Seki\, Lisa Stertz\, Valentin Tszin\, Teo Vlad\, musicians such as Antonis Anissegos\, Kriton Beyer\, Audrey Chen\, Contagious\, Kirikoo Des\, Axel Dörner\, Echo Ho\, Emilio Gordoa\, miu\, Nguyễn + Transitory\, Yasumune Morishige\, Olaf Rupp\, Tot Onyx\, Sasha Pushkin\, SEQUOIA\, Kazuhisa Uchihashi\, Xenon\, and visual artists such as\, Nikhil Chopra\, Morvarid K\, Sarane Lecompte\, Arata Mori\, Justin Palermo\, Chiharu Shiota\, Peter Zach\, and more. \nSolo and ensemble performances\, collaborations\, and improvisations are performed throughout Europe\, Finland\, Norway\, Georgia\, Turkey\, Russia\, Japan\, Taiwan\, Korea\, Malaysia\, Thailand\, Indonesia\, India\, Burkina Faso\, Canada\, Mexico\, Brazil\, Chile\, Uruguay\, Argentina\, Australia\, and the USA. \nThese works are accumulations of poetic and vivid images that incorporate the spirit of Butoh\, and her performance aims to reflect the outsider’s existence. \nHer strong interest about breaking border of physical expression\, leads to projects with artists with mixed ability such as Theater Thikwa (Berlin)\, Roland Walter (Berlin)\, Sung Kuk Kang (Seoul)\, Zan-Chen Liao (Taipei). \nYuko Kaseki performs and organizes improvisation series “AMMO-NITE GIG” (Vol.1- 48 and on going) with international performers and musicians since 2004. \nVarious collaboration\, AmaTerraz and quantsquat with Teo Vlad (Berlin)\, inkBoat (San Francisco)\, CAVE (New York)\, Tableau Stations (San Francisco)\, improvisation duo with Antonis Anissegos (Berlin)\, ITAKO with Kazuhisa Uchihashi (Berlin)\, Poema Theater (Moscow)\, Theater Salad (Seoul) and many others. \ncokaseki.com \nReiko Yamada is a composer and sound artist\, originally from Hiroshima\, Japan. She composes concert works\, creates sound art installations and works with interdisciplinary collaborators. Her work explores the aesthetic concept of imperfection in a variety of contexts.  \nYamada holds a D.Mus in composition from McGill University\, and is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards and fellowship. She was a 2015-16 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study of Harvard University\, the 2016-17 artist-in-residence at IEM (Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik)\, the 2018 Innovator-in-Residence at Colorado College\, and 2020-21 S+T+ARTS resident artist. Her various projects have been commissioned and/or funded by New Music USA\, the Canada Council for the Arts\, IRCAM (the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music)\, CIRMMT (the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology)\, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec\, Armitage Gone! Dance\, the Zentrum für Orgelforschung der Kunstuniversität Graz and the European Commission among others. Her works have been presented in venues such as The Metropolitan Museum Breuer (New York)\, and Sónar Festival (Barcelona). She is currently a postdoctral researcher at ICFO (Institute for Photonic Sciences)  and composer-in-residency at Phonos Foundation in Barcelona. \nhttps://www.reikoyamada.com/
URL:https://crsny.org/event/divine-at-dock-11-commissioned-by-crs/2023-05-25/
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