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SUMMARY:Splinter Reeds
DESCRIPTION:Splinter Reeds\nWorks by Zachary James Watkins and Karola Obermüller\, and new commission Brume by Jean Carla Rodea \nCommissioned by Splinter Reeds with support from a Musical Grant Program award by Intermusic SF\, Brume is an immersive multimedia performance created by Jean Carla Rodea during her Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency. \nDrawing inspiration from breath in all its forms—from quiet\, intimate exhalations to the drifting fog over the Marin Headlands\, Brume explores air as both a bodily experience and an elemental force. Through spatialized sound\, light\, and video\, the piece transforms the performance space into a resonant\, living ecosystem. \nwww.jeancarlarodea.com \n \nKyle Bruckmann\, oboe | Bill Kalinkos\, clarinet | Dana Jessen\, bassoon | Nicki Roman\, saxophone | Jeff Anderle\, bass clarinet \nwww.splinterreeds.com
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/splinter-reeds/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:WENDY REID’S AMBIENT BIRD
DESCRIPTION:Ambient Bird – Shorebird Park  (premiere) \nwith sfSOUND\, bird ensemble \n&  the dailybell* at sunset \n  \nmusicians: \nLulu\, african grey parrot \nWendy Reid\, violin \nBrenda Hutchinson\, long tube \nKrys Bobrowski\, glisglass \nAurora Josephson\, voice \nRon Heglin\, tuba \nDavid Samas\, percussion \nKanoko Nishi\, koto \nBen Davis\, cello \nMatt Ingalls\, clarinet \nKyle Bruckmann\, oboe \nJohn Ingle\, saxophone \n  \nWendy Reid’s site-specific work\, ‘Ambient Bird-Shorebird Park’ is a 44-minute interspecies sonic landscape which reflects an ecocentric philosophy of connecting with all living creatures and the environment. The ensemble includes experimental musicians and a bird  working with the ambient sounds\, specifically\, the birds of Shorebird Park: Long-billed Curlews\, Marbled Godwits\, Black-necked Stilts\, American Avocets\, Sanderlings\, American Rock Pigeons\, Pacific Loons\, American Crows\, Yellow-billed Magpies\, Common Ravens\, and Wild Turkeys  (among others) \nThe structure of this work can be described as a musical process which attempts to reflect nature’s manner of operations: a spatially notated score of sonic fragments transcribed from bird-human interactions is interpreted and performed by the musicians within the ambient environment. Contextual in nature\, the work allows performers to act according to unpredictable conditions and variables which arise within the musical continuity. In performance\, an attempt is made at a spontaneous unforced growing of sound and silence in which emphasis is placed on formation rather than pre-established form\, as in the building and shaping of cell-like units in living processes. \nThis site-specific piece\, as with the first incantation\, ‘Ambient Bird 433’\,  pays homage to John Cage’s composition\, 4’33”(1952). \n*At sunset\, immediately following the performance\, Brenda Hutchinson leads everyone in bell-ringing:  dailybell\, created by composer and sound artist Brenda Hutchinson in 2008\, is an ongoing aspirational project based on the premise that something as inarguable as the movement of the Earth can be used as a point of unity and awareness among  groups of people who might otherwise find it impossible to agree. \nLocation:  Shorebird Park\,  160 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA. There is no formal seating: the audience sits on the grass\, stands\, or wanders \nAbout the site:  Shorebird Park was originally the land of the Ohlone people\, who consider their connection to the earth to be sacred. It remains a place of cultural significance that people protect and recognize its history. It is the hope of many that one day it will be returned to its indigenous inhabitants. \nSpecial Thanks to City of Berkeley-Shallon Allen\,  Matt Ingalls-sfSOUND\, Phil Perkins-location engineer\, Silvia Matheus-videographer\, Edward Morse-technical assistance\,  & the musicians of Ambient Bird-Shorebird Park. \nThis performance is made possible with a civic arts grant from the City of Berkeley\, and Is part of a  project entitled ‘Ambient Bird-Berkeley’ (2025-26)
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/wendy-reids-ambient-bird/
LOCATION:Shorebird Park\, 160 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250727T191500
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SUMMARY:ERNST KAREL: ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS THE GLITCH BLOOM + SADA
DESCRIPTION:ERNST KAREL: ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nERNST KAREL presents his multichannel\, ongoing iterative work\, Atmospheric Rivers. This piece’s subject is a key component of the global water cycle: the enormous streams of concentrated water vapor which flow through the sky from the tropics towards the poles\, releasing heavy rain in high wind\, particularly in the western U.S\, and anticipated to increase in frequency and intensity with climate change. Performed in surround sound\, the piece consists of unprocessed stereo and multichannel location recordings of atmospheric rivers\, made over the past few years\, as they pass by our house at the rocky northern California coast. \nTHE GLITCH BLOOM + SADA\nTHE GLITCH BLOOM (EDA ER & DANNIEL RIBEIRO) operates in an indefinable musical territory where the lines between composed work\, improvisation\, and multimedia blur into a distinctive sonic fusion. Their artistic practice combines vocals\, electronic elements\, electric guitar\, and video with transducers\, unconventional playing techniques\, and sculptural objects\, establishing a fluid relationship between planned structure and spontaneous creation. Founded on mutual investigation of sound possibilities\, collaborative processes\, and multimedia integration\, Glitch Bloom embraces unexpected outcomes—where harsh sounds intermingle with melodic elements\, acoustic manipulations transform through electronic processing\, and sound manifests as both physical and transient. Their performances create immersive environments that explore the convergence of music\, physical movement\, and visual components to deliver an experience that defies traditional classification. \nSADA is a vocal duo between SARAH GRACE GRAVES and EDA ER\, both singers and composers who each stumbled upon experimental music somewhat unexpectedly: Graves began her artistic path as a choral singer\, Er as an actor. In combining Graves’ innocent virtuosity with Er’s disarming honesty\, the two hope to build a narrative\, aesthetic\, and technical habitat for stories only they can tell.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ernst-karel-atmospheric-rivers-the-glitch-bloom-sada/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joseph BohigianScenes from I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment (A Work-in-Progress)
DESCRIPTION:Other Minds presents scenes in workshop from the work-in-progress\, I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment\, by American composer Joseph Bohigian\, Lebanese-Armenian vocalist Khatchadour Khatchadourian\, and the music-technology group Ensemble Decipher. The free workshop performance will take place on Friday\, July 25\, 2025\, at 7:30 pm at the Paul Dresher Ensemble Studio in Oakland\, CA. The performance will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A with the ensemble\, moderated by Charles Amirkhanian. \nI Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment is an evening-length multimedia work for solo voice\, electronics ensemble\, and video projection about the life of the visionary Georgian-born Soviet-Armenian film director Sergei Parajanov. Though he made significant contributions to film\, Parajanov was repeatedly persecuted\, censored\, and imprisoned in his home country. The multiplicity of cultures in his native South Caucasus region was essential to his work\, which is reflected in the multilingual text for this piece by the 18th century ashugh (bard) Sayat Nova\, the subject of Parajanov’s 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates. This work combines Sayat Nova’s existing melodies with newly created ones by Khatchadourian and Bohigian\, along with live electronic manipulation\, by Bohigian and the members of Ensemble Decipher\, of recordings by folk musicians from across the South Caucasus. \nEnsemble Decipher has been performing with vintage\, contemporary\, and emerging technologies since 2017. I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment is the latest project in a long history of collaboration with Bohigian\, also a member of the ensemble\, as a composer\, whose music focuses on memory\, cultural reunification\, and diaspora through the use of archival materials. This piece marks the first collaboration between Ensemble Decipher and Khatchadour Khatchadourian\, an expert singer of traditional music from across West Asia in Armenian\, Arabic\, and Farsi. \nThis project is supported by grants from the MAP Fund and New Music USA Creator Fund 2025–26. \nThe RSVP list is full. If you would like to join the waitlist\, please email us at otherminds@otherminds.org. Seating may be available for walkups on the day of the performance. If you have signed up but are no longer able to attend\, please let us know at otherminds@otherminds.org.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/joseph-bohigianscenes-from-i-am-he-whose-life-and-soul-are-torment-a-work-in-progress/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250720T183000
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SUMMARY:The Pla[y/n] for Reparation OPEN REHEARSAL
DESCRIPTION:With this multidisciplinary interactive performance DEAR Artist e.Franklin provides participants an opportunity to learn about\, discuss\, envision\, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece\, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book\, punctuated and/or interwoven by discrete moments of performance by e. Franklin and self-selecting participants. The goals of the project are to heighten participants’ understanding of intersectional healing/repair and to build practical skills in advancing this notion through role play and experiential learning. \nThis project is supported by a grant from the MAP Fund\,with additional funding by the Zellerbach Family Foundation\,and East Bay Fund for Artists
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/the-play-n-for-reparation-open-rehearsal/2025-07-20/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250719T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250719T193000
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SUMMARY:The Pla[y/n] for Reparation OPEN REHEARSAL
DESCRIPTION:With this multidisciplinary interactive performance DEAR Artist e.Franklin provides participants an opportunity to learn about\, discuss\, envision\, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece\, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book\, punctuated and/or interwoven by discrete moments of performance by e. Franklin and self-selecting participants. The goals of the project are to heighten participants’ understanding of intersectional healing/repair and to build practical skills in advancing this notion through role play and experiential learning. \nThis project is supported by a grant from the MAP Fund\,with additional funding by the Zellerbach Family Foundation\,and East Bay Fund for Artists
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/the-play-n-for-reparation-open-rehearsal/2025-07-19/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250718T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250718T193000
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SUMMARY:The Pla[y/n] for Reparation OPEN REHEARSAL
DESCRIPTION:With this multidisciplinary interactive performance DEAR Artist e.Franklin provides participants an opportunity to learn about\, discuss\, envision\, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece\, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book\, punctuated and/or interwoven by discrete moments of performance by e. Franklin and self-selecting participants. The goals of the project are to heighten participants’ understanding of intersectional healing/repair and to build practical skills in advancing this notion through role play and experiential learning. \nThis project is supported by a grant from the MAP Fund\,with additional funding by the Zellerbach Family Foundation\,and East Bay Fund for Artists
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/the-play-n-for-reparation-open-rehearsal/2025-07-18/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250717T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250717T193000
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SUMMARY:The Pla[y/n] for Reparation OPEN REHEARSAL
DESCRIPTION:With this multidisciplinary interactive performance DEAR Artist e.Franklin provides participants an opportunity to learn about\, discuss\, envision\, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece\, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book\, punctuated and/or interwoven by discrete moments of performance by e. Franklin and self-selecting participants. The goals of the project are to heighten participants’ understanding of intersectional healing/repair and to build practical skills in advancing this notion through role play and experiential learning. \nThis project is supported by a grant from the MAP Fund\,with additional funding by the Zellerbach Family Foundation\,and East Bay Fund for Artists
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/the-play-n-for-reparation-open-rehearsal/2025-07-17/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250713T191500
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SUMMARY:GEORGE ROGERS + LORIN BENEDICT  LISA MEZZACAPPA 5(ISH)
DESCRIPTION:LISA MEZZACAPPA 5(ISH) \nBassist and composer LISA MEZZACAPPA (acoustic bass) brings her newest ensemble to the WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES in advance of its NYC debut at The Stone later this month. Mezzacappa’s previous works have drawn inspiration from Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster’s lean noir crime novels and Italo Calvino’s hilarious and poignant Cosmicomics stories. Now she’s exploring the concept of worldbuilding in the otherwrldly cycle\, a suite of music inspired her fascination with the speculative fiction of Ursula Le Guin\, Haruki Murakami\, Samuel R. Delany\, and David Mitchell— as a way to envision new kinds of musical interaction\, storytelling\, structure and play. \nAARON BENNETT\, tenor saxophone\nKYLE BRUCKMANN\, oboes/modular synth\nMARK PASCUCCI-CLIFFORD\, vibraphone\nBRETT CARSON\, keyboard\nLISA MEZZACAPPA\, acoustic bass\nJORDAN GLENN\, drums \n____________________________ \nGEORGE ROGERS + LORIN BENEDICT \nGrand Prize winner of the 2025 Vandoren Emerging Artist competition\, GEORGE ROGERS is a saxophonist\, improviser\, composer\, teacher\, and facilitator from the San Francisco Bay Area\, currently based in Oberlin\, Ohio. Rogers—a mentee of saxophone legends Gary Bartz\, Justin Robinson\, and Dann Zinn—has performed at venues across the nation\, including Dizzy’s Club\, SFJAZZ\, LIBRETTO\, the Concord Jazz Festival\, the Vail Jazz Party\, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Drawing inspiration from a diverse array of genres\, Rogers’s playing and composing styles blend elements of traditional\, modern\, and avant-garde jazz\, while also embracing influences from popular\, experimental\, and singer-songwriter music. For WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES\, Rogers joins LORIN BENEDICT\, an improvising vocalist (scat singer\, essentially) living in Emeryville\, California. Most of Lorin’s work in this area is centered loosely in the jazz idiom. Lorin has co-led small groups (duos\, trios) in which the roles of the musicians are somewhat mutable even in contexts where highly structured forms are being played. Examples include Bleeding Vector with Emeryville guitarist Eric Vogler\, and another duo project with east bay saxophonist Kasey Knudsen. Together\, these three musicians jointly lead the trio project\, The Holly Martins. He has also co-led duo projects with Helsinki-based drummer Sam Ospovat and LA-based musician Logan Kane.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/george-rogers-lorin-benedict-lisa-mezzacappa-5ish/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T210000
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SUMMARY:Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area\, dNaga Dance Co.\, directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma\, presents Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love\, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland\, July 10-12th\, 2025. \nJoin us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co.\, providing a unique pairing of dance\, bites\, and beverages. Driven by a longstanding collaborative team\, and celebrating its 24th year\, Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love offers a powerful and restorative evening. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks to match the exploration of grief\, fury\, grace\, and love will be included in the price of admission. \nIncluded in the evening is a suite of dances from Unbound\, which premiered at the Mondavi Center in October 2024 and was commissioned by the Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories Research Initiative (AAVOT). Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love is supported by individual donations and the generous support of Musical Traditions. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group. \n“Hard times require furious dancing” – Alice Walker. \nPhoto by Robbie Sweeny; Dancer: Raychel Hatch \nCAST & COLLABORATORS \nConceived and Directed by Claudine Naganuma \nChoreography by Claudine Naganuma and dNaga Dance Co. \nMusical Director and Composer: Joel Davel \nLighting and Technical Direction: Dale MacDonald \nVideo and Animation: Elmira Bagherzadeh \nDancers: Lihong Chan\, Mana Hayakowa\, Catalina Jackson-Uruena\, Erin Landers\, Leila Massoudi\, and Gabby Wei. \nABOUT dNaga Dance Co. \ndNaga Dance Co. started in 2001 and is rooted in creativity and community building. Through dance\, their mission is to explore that which challenges us and to uplift our commonalities in order to inspire compassion and hope. dNaga is licensed to offer the Dance for PD® program in Oakland and founded the GIRL Project at EastSide Cultural Center. dNaga’s community programs are driven by the cultivation of creativity and connection. By cultivating creative thinking\, we are directly affecting our ability to build new pathways to problem-solving. We can help to heal trauma\, interrupt systemic oppression\, and use art as a tool to liberate ourselves and our communities. dNaga is in residence at Danspace and its company members live in California and New York. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group based in San Francisco.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/tastes-like-bitterness-moves-like-love/2025-07-12/2/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T160000
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SUMMARY:Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area\, dNaga Dance Co.\, directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma\, presents Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love\, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland\, July 10-12th\, 2025. \nJoin us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co.\, providing a unique pairing of dance\, bites\, and beverages. Driven by a longstanding collaborative team\, and celebrating its 24th year\, Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love offers a powerful and restorative evening. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks to match the exploration of grief\, fury\, grace\, and love will be included in the price of admission. \nIncluded in the evening is a suite of dances from Unbound\, which premiered at the Mondavi Center in October 2024 and was commissioned by the Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories Research Initiative (AAVOT). Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love is supported by individual donations and the generous support of Musical Traditions. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group. \n“Hard times require furious dancing” – Alice Walker. \nPhoto by Robbie Sweeny; Dancer: Raychel Hatch \nCAST & COLLABORATORS \nConceived and Directed by Claudine Naganuma \nChoreography by Claudine Naganuma and dNaga Dance Co. \nMusical Director and Composer: Joel Davel \nLighting and Technical Direction: Dale MacDonald \nVideo and Animation: Elmira Bagherzadeh \nDancers: Lihong Chan\, Mana Hayakowa\, Catalina Jackson-Uruena\, Erin Landers\, Leila Massoudi\, and Gabby Wei. \nABOUT dNaga Dance Co. \ndNaga Dance Co. started in 2001 and is rooted in creativity and community building. Through dance\, their mission is to explore that which challenges us and to uplift our commonalities in order to inspire compassion and hope. dNaga is licensed to offer the Dance for PD® program in Oakland and founded the GIRL Project at EastSide Cultural Center. dNaga’s community programs are driven by the cultivation of creativity and connection. By cultivating creative thinking\, we are directly affecting our ability to build new pathways to problem-solving. We can help to heal trauma\, interrupt systemic oppression\, and use art as a tool to liberate ourselves and our communities. dNaga is in residence at Danspace and its company members live in California and New York. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group based in San Francisco.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/tastes-like-bitterness-moves-like-love/2025-07-12/1/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250711T190000
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SUMMARY:Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area\, dNaga Dance Co.\, directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma\, presents Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love\, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland\, July 10-12th\, 2025. \nJoin us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co.\, providing a unique pairing of dance\, bites\, and beverages. Driven by a longstanding collaborative team\, and celebrating its 24th year\, Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love offers a powerful and restorative evening. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks to match the exploration of grief\, fury\, grace\, and love will be included in the price of admission. \nIncluded in the evening is a suite of dances from Unbound\, which premiered at the Mondavi Center in October 2024 and was commissioned by the Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories Research Initiative (AAVOT). Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love is supported by individual donations and the generous support of Musical Traditions. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group. \n“Hard times require furious dancing” – Alice Walker. \nPhoto by Robbie Sweeny; Dancer: Raychel Hatch \nCAST & COLLABORATORS \nConceived and Directed by Claudine Naganuma \nChoreography by Claudine Naganuma and dNaga Dance Co. \nMusical Director and Composer: Joel Davel \nLighting and Technical Direction: Dale MacDonald \nVideo and Animation: Elmira Bagherzadeh \nDancers: Lihong Chan\, Mana Hayakowa\, Catalina Jackson-Uruena\, Erin Landers\, Leila Massoudi\, and Gabby Wei. \nABOUT dNaga Dance Co. \ndNaga Dance Co. started in 2001 and is rooted in creativity and community building. Through dance\, their mission is to explore that which challenges us and to uplift our commonalities in order to inspire compassion and hope. dNaga is licensed to offer the Dance for PD® program in Oakland and founded the GIRL Project at EastSide Cultural Center. dNaga’s community programs are driven by the cultivation of creativity and connection. By cultivating creative thinking\, we are directly affecting our ability to build new pathways to problem-solving. We can help to heal trauma\, interrupt systemic oppression\, and use art as a tool to liberate ourselves and our communities. dNaga is in residence at Danspace and its company members live in California and New York. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group based in San Francisco.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/tastes-like-bitterness-moves-like-love/2025-07-11/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250710T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250710T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
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SUMMARY:Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area\, dNaga Dance Co.\, directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma\, presents Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love\, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland\, July 10-12th\, 2025. \nJoin us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co.\, providing a unique pairing of dance\, bites\, and beverages. Driven by a longstanding collaborative team\, and celebrating its 24th year\, Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love offers a powerful and restorative evening. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks to match the exploration of grief\, fury\, grace\, and love will be included in the price of admission. \nIncluded in the evening is a suite of dances from Unbound\, which premiered at the Mondavi Center in October 2024 and was commissioned by the Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories Research Initiative (AAVOT). Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love is supported by individual donations and the generous support of Musical Traditions. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group. \n“Hard times require furious dancing” – Alice Walker. \nPhoto by Robbie Sweeny; Dancer: Raychel Hatch \nCAST & COLLABORATORS \nConceived and Directed by Claudine Naganuma \nChoreography by Claudine Naganuma and dNaga Dance Co. \nMusical Director and Composer: Joel Davel \nLighting and Technical Direction: Dale MacDonald \nVideo and Animation: Elmira Bagherzadeh \nDancers: Lihong Chan\, Mana Hayakowa\, Catalina Jackson-Uruena\, Erin Landers\, Leila Massoudi\, and Gabby Wei. \nABOUT dNaga Dance Co. \ndNaga Dance Co. started in 2001 and is rooted in creativity and community building. Through dance\, their mission is to explore that which challenges us and to uplift our commonalities in order to inspire compassion and hope. dNaga is licensed to offer the Dance for PD® program in Oakland and founded the GIRL Project at EastSide Cultural Center. dNaga’s community programs are driven by the cultivation of creativity and connection. By cultivating creative thinking\, we are directly affecting our ability to build new pathways to problem-solving. We can help to heal trauma\, interrupt systemic oppression\, and use art as a tool to liberate ourselves and our communities. dNaga is in residence at Danspace and its company members live in California and New York. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group based in San Francisco.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/tastes-like-bitterness-moves-like-love/2025-07-10/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250517T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250517T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
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SUMMARY:Ninaad
DESCRIPTION:This evening’s performances will showcase two forms of dance within the Odissi repertoire — Nritta or pure dance\, usually a lyrical composition celebrating a season or a mood\, and Nritya or expressive dance where the dancers use movement and expression to narrate a story\, usually from Hindu mythology.\n\nThe dancers will perform a mix of Guru Swain’s unique choreographies\, which honor the Odissi form and traditions but offer fresh executions of this exquisite and ancient Indian classical dance form\, as well as traditional items from the Odissi repertoire.\n\nSamir Kumar Panigrahi\, Santosh Ram\, Roji Swain\, and Debashree Patnaik are award-winning principal dancers with the Bhubaneswar-based disciples of Guru Shree Bichitrananda Swain\, founder-director of Rudrakshya Foundation. A must-see for lovers of Indian classical dance and cultural storytelling.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ninaad/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250511T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
CREATED:20250501T201122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T212033Z
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SUMMARY:Adam Lion (solo vibraphone)sfSoundGroup performs Lucier and Erickson
DESCRIPTION:Adam Lion (Solo Vibraphone)   \nsfSoundGroup performs Lucier and Erickson \n\nAdam Lion: Los Angeles-based percussionist presents his new vibraphone album “When a Line Bends\,” a study on acoustic phenomena and the possibilities of sound.​\nsfSoundGroup: Performing Alvin Lucier’s “Two Circles” (2012) and Robert Erickson’s “Pacific Sirens” (1969)\, featuring performers Sam Weiser (violin)\, Monica Scott (cello)\, Kjell Nordeson (percussion)\, Lisa Mezzacappa (bass)\, Hadley McCarroll (piano)\, Brendan Lai-Tong (trombone)\, John Ingle (saxophone)\, Matt Ingalls (clarinet)\, and Diane Grubbe (flute).​
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/adam-lion-solo-vibraphonesfsoundgroup-performs-lucier-and-erickson/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T211019Z
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SUMMARY:Roar Shack LIVE!post:ballet x The Living Earth Show
DESCRIPTION:A genre-defying collaboration of fierce movement and experimental sound\, Roar Shack LIVE! is where post:ballet meets The Living Earth Show. Directed by Robert Dekkers\, the show turns performance into a conversation—alive\, raw\, and surprising. Come witness the edge of contemporary dance and music.\n\nWith performances by Moscylene ParkeHarrison\, Riley Nicholson\, Doug Machiz\, Producer Dennis (Dennis Aman)\, Mia J. Cheong\, Ben Tarquin\, and The Living Earth Show (and more guests to come)\, Post:Post:ballet will be a one-of-a-kind\, one-night-only event.\n\nThe event will sell out and capacity is EXTREMELY limited. \nMake sure you snag a spot before they’re gone!
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/roar-shack-live-postballet-x-the-living-earth-show/
LOCATION:Roar Shack\, 34 7th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250504T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
CREATED:20250501T200542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T211944Z
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SUMMARY:Double CD Release Show: "Cracking the Surface" & "Jongleurs"
DESCRIPTION:Cracking the Surface: Featuring David Michalak (instruments of skatch)\, Scott Looney (piano\, hyper-piano)\, and Thomas Dimuzio (Buchla 200E\, processing). This performance celebrates their new release recorded at Fantasy Studios with Tom Nunn\, marking his last recording.​\nChris Brown & Ben Davis: Celebrating the release of “Jongleurs\,” this duo explores free improvisation with influences from classical contemporary music\, utilizing just intonation\, noise\, and live interactive electronics.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/double-cd-release-show-cracking-the-surface-jongleurs/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250501T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250501T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
CREATED:20250501T204553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T204646Z
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SUMMARY:The Wheel - Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
DESCRIPTION:Dive into an immersive experience of time\, cycles\, and renewal with MJDC’s The Wheel\, which features live music by Paul Dresher and Joel Davel\, text by poet Michael Palmer\, and choreography by Margaret Jenkins. A visceral fusion of motion\, sound\, and story.\n\nEnter an exploratory voyage of movement\, memory\, and visual transformation as we investigate the universality of the wheel – the wheel of time\, of chance\, of seasons\, of currents and of lies. Be immersed in a constantly evolving landscape of dance\, music\, language\, and visuals that ask: What happens if the circle breaks; can it be regenerated?\n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/the-wheel-margaret-jenkins-dance-company/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida\, San Francisco\, 94110\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250419T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250419T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
CREATED:20250418T193237Z
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SUMMARY:Indonesia & India in California Festival
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating 50 Years of
Cultural Bridges\n\n\n\n\nThe Indonesia & India in California Festival will celebrate the  history of these performing arts traditions as practiced in California and the SF Bay Area for over fifty years. Popular interest in culturally rich South and Southeast Asian art performance emerged in the 1960s through early 1970s through awareness of Southeast Asia\, catapulted by concerns for the Vietnamese War. The interest in Indian culture and traditional arts manifested in pop culture in music\, decorative arts\, practice of meditation and yoga\, dance and theater. \n\n11:00 AM – 5:00 PM \nFree Performances and Workshops \nFree Performances celebrating the 50-year history of Indonesian and Indian art performance in the Bay Area and learn more about the 4th and 1st largest countries in the world. Enjoy the UCB-based Sari Raras courtly gamelan bronze percussion ensemble\, followed by a lively set of West Javanese music & dance. Participate in one of the family-friendly mask and puppetry workshops while learning about the Hindu mythology shared over the centuries by India and Indonesia. Enjoy Oakland’s Bali-influenced rock ensemble\, Purnamasari\, and dances by Lestari Dance Company (Java) and Kompiang Davies (Bali). Join a Body Tjak (contemporary Balinese kecak) rhythm workshop by Oakland artist Keith Terry\, Crosspulse. Enjoy classical Bharata Natyam and other traditional South Indian dances presented by the Bala Dance Center and Kalanjali Dances of India\, both based in the East Bay for 50 years. \n6:30 PM – 10:00 PM\nEvening Concerts (tickets required) \nFormal Virtuoso Music and Dance Concert\, featuring Indian music(sarod and tabla) by Manik Khan\, youngest son of the legendary maestro Ali Akbar Khan who founded the Ali Akbar Khan School of Music in Berkeley in 1967 (since 1968 in Marin County). Enjoy music and dance by the San Jose-based Gamelan Pusaka Sunda Degung ensemble(West Java)\, followed by Balinese music and dance by Gamelan Sekar Jaya. Founded in 1979 in Berkeley\, GSJ has won numerous awards from the Government in Bali for their exemplary Gong Kebyar ensemble. (tickets required)
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/indonesia-india-in-california-festival/
LOCATION:Crowden Music Center\, 1475 Rose St\, Berkeley\, 94702\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250105T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
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SUMMARY:PHILIP GELBCHRIS BROWN & JOHANNA POETHIG
DESCRIPTION:PHILIP GELB \nAfter a long absence from the music scene\, Philip Gelb has returned to performing\, marking his first ensemble performance since the Pauline Oliveros Memorial Festivals. During those festivals\, Gelb emerged from self-imposed retirement to pay tribute to his mentor and dear friend. Previously\, due to dental issues\, he was forced to give up playing the shakuhachi\, the instrument on which he gained international recognition for his innovative approach. However\, thanks to a generous gift from an old friend and former student\, he received a Buchla Music Easel and some Buchla Tiptop modules this past year. \nFor the first time in over a decade\, Gelb has formed a new ensemble featuring three major players from the Bay Area music scene—Kanoko Nishi-Smith (koto)\, Kyle Bruckmann (oboe\, English horn)\, and Thomas Dimuzio (synthesizer\, sampler)—as well as Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello)\, a newcomer and returnee to the Bay Area music community. Notably\, this concert is not only Gelb’s first ensemble performance in many years (following a solo Buchla set last month) but also Lonberg-Holm’s first concert since relocating back to the Bay Area\, where he once lived as a student at Mills College in the 1980s. \n\nCHRIS BROWN & JOHANNA POETHIG\nChris Brown (composition\, virtual piano\, and interactive electronics) and Johanna Poethig (video) present RhythmiChrome (2023)\, a suite of seven scored and improvised pieces in just intonation. \nSynesthesia is a “perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.” While pitch and rhythm occupy different ranges of the vibrational scale\, they are inherently connected\, as both are defined by their number of vibrations or beats per second. \nIn his book New Musical Resources\, composer Henry Cowell theorized that using the same whole number (integer) ratios to associate pitch and rhythm can effectively compose relationships between rhythm and harmony. In the 1930s\, Cowell collaborated with inventor Leon Theremin to create the Rhythmicon\, an electric instrument that played rhythms proportional to the simplest pitch intervals in the harmonic series. \nFor RhythmiChrome\, Brown developed a Rhythmicon-inspired software that automatically generates rhythms congruent with the tuning of notes he plays on a MIDI keyboard. Playing chords of these intervals creates polyrhythms directly tied to the pitch relationships in the music. These polyrhythms\, in turn\, inspire improvisation by producing responses that transform both pitch and rhythm in a feedback-like process. \nThe notes in RhythmiChrome are derived from composer Harry Partch’s 41-tone tuning system\, which is based on the numbers 2\, 3\, 5\, 7\, 9\, and 11. This system enables a wide range of harmonies\, from deeply consonant to strikingly dissonant. Partch famously associated specific colors with each number in his system and painted the keys of his reed organ accordingly\, naming the instrument the “Chromelodeon.” \nBrown’s composition Occhio—a song cycle of seven pieces—uses various subsets or modes of Partch’s tuning\, each conveying a distinct mood and drawing from the poetry of Italian poet Erika Dagnino. The seven pieces in RhythmiChrome—Sguardo (The Gaze)\, Umidità (Humidity)\, Atmosferica (Atmospheres)\, Palpebre (Eyelids)\, Pianta (Plant)\, Pulsazioni (Pulsations)\, and Respiro (Breath)—are improvisations informed by this system and its poetic influences. \nAs a final layer in this synesthetic exploration\, Johanna Poethig has created vibrant video collages in response to the music and its themes. These visuals further inspire Brown’s improvisations\, completing the feedback loop between sound\, sight\, and concept. \n—C
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/giacomo-fiore-robert-blatt-manfred-werder-kevin-corcoran-2/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
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SUMMARY:John Sanborn | Thematic Pairs [video art Futurespective]
DESCRIPTION:An evening of award-winning media art created by John Sanborn \nMedia art created by John Sanborn\, featuring four pairs of works\, one from the 1980s and one from recent times. As the world has changed\, the artist’s passions have not. \nDuring the two years of organizing a retrospective of my work at ZKM—Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe)—with curators Philip Ziegler and Stephen Sarrazin\, we wrestled with the question of how to represent my highly productive 1980s. The curators argued that the 55+ single-channel works and several intense installations that came in a rush of inspiration and production deserved some kind of attention. \nI wanted to feature more recent projects\, and I felt that the older works were a deadweight I was tired of carrying. Then\, my friend and fellow artist (and director of the ZKM)\, the late Dr. Peter Weibel\, scolded me\, saying\, “To have one foot in the past and one in the future is exactly where you want to be.” He pointed out that my themes remained steadfast while technology\, culture\, and times changed. I continued investigating transformation\, our operations to define our “self\,” and the frequencies of human experience. \nTo share this\, I developed Thematic Pairs\, a screening with a discussion that brashly represents what Peter identified and takes the viewer across decades of media art creation. Each pair of works contains a “classic” from the 1980s\, matched with a project from recent years – illuminating the evolution of circumstances\, played against the constancy of my interests. \nEach pair highlights the palpable and the sublime –abstract storytelling created using structured improvisation\, homages to those we lost\, mixtures of beauty and nasty\, and operatic adventures on the bleeding edges of music. \nPlaylist for the evening: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nACT III | 6:30 | 1983 \nJohn Sanborn\, Dean Winkler \nMusic by Philip Glass. This classic work builds an imaginary world from briskly multiplying three-dimensional forms that echo the repetitive strains and vital energy of Glass’ music.I \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn C\, Too | 5:00 | 2023 \nJohn Sanborn\, Dean Winkler \nMusic composed by Elaena Ruher\, performed by Sarah Cahill \nIn C\, Too uses the tools of our all-digital age to illuminate how close our dreams are to a common reality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUntitled | 10:44 | 1989 \nPerformed by Bill T. Jones \nUntitled pays tribute to the life and work of the dancer and choreographer Arnie Zane\, who died of AIDS in 1988. His long-time partner\, Bill T. Jones\, evokes memories of Zane through a stark\, eloquent dance lament and a parade of ghostly portraits and photographs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHotel Essex | 4:46 | 2021 \nmusic by COMMANDO\, words by Juba Kalamka \nCOMMANDO is a queer/thrash band featuring a collective of eight LGBTQ+ musicians\, all highly creative and talented. The work is an homage to gay poet and activist Essex Hemphill – where lead vocalist Kalamka raps\, sings\, and shouts over similarly crisp\, aggressive guitars and drums. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEar to the Ground | 4:27 | 1982 \nProduced and Directed by Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn \nConceived and performed by David Van Tieghem \nVan Tieghem plays the streets of New York City with reckless abandon. The sound you hear is just as it happened\, the rousing alarm of the Big Apple. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNow Their Pain is Sugar | 5:01 | 2023 \nMusic by Simon Goff \nPerformed by Sarah Cecilia Bukowski and Paunika Jones \nThis work uses a combination of lidar and photometric scanning to produce live 3D models of the dancers Sarah and Paunika. Their slow but deliberate movement fools the functionality of the scans to suggest the complexities of the wear and tear of living. They are\, at once\, aching and sweet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerfect Lives (excerpts) | 7:08 | 1983 \nComposed by Robert Ashley \nRobert Ashley’s epic work has been called a comic opera about reincarnation and was realized for television with a combination of location photography\, computer graphics\, text on screen\, fantastic piano playing by “Blue” Gene Tyranny; and the transcendent voice of Robert Ashley. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGod in 3 Persons (excerpts) | 10:00 | 2022 \nWritten and Performed by The Residents \nin collaboration with media artist John Sanborn \nA singular\, live version of The Residents’ legendary 1988 album God in Three Persons – the story of a traveling evangelist and his twisted obsession with a pair of conjoined twins he claims to be miracle workers. It does not end well.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/john-sanborn-thematic-pairs-2/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T220000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
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SUMMARY:GIACOMO FIORE ROBERT BLATT + MANFRED WERDER + KEVIN CORCORAN
DESCRIPTION:GIACOMO FIORE presents Lost Horse Wash Drone – a series of works composed after one week in residence at the Lou Harrison House in Joshua Tree\, California\, contemplating matters of tuning\, improvisation\, and our environment. The music is built on small just intonation modes\, played on fretless electric and refretted resophonic guitar with live electronic manipulation\, and accompanied field recordings from day-long hikes into the desert\, in an attempt to bring environmental and improvised sound together.\nPhoto by Dominic Guzzo \nIn a performance including 35 mm slides\, analog tape\, field recording\, found documents\, text\, typewriter\, and voice\, ROBERT BLATT\, KEVIN CORCORAN\, and MANFRED WERDER collectively realize an assemblage of their work engaging the concept of history through its intersections with art\, land\, and politics. \nROBERT BLATT is a composer\, artist\, performer\, and writer. His practice explores expanded situations that reevaluate sound and listening through environment\, community\, and language. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nKEVIN CORCORAN works with sound in contexts of music\, art\, communication\, and place\, with recent projects focused on field recordings expanded across media. He lives in San Francisco while often in transit tracing places of interest and inquiry. \nMANFRED WERDER is wandering through the abundance in which he traces all possible enunciation regarding the world. His recent works [ the inscription of the sun ] and [ the music of history ] continue the practice of reflection and inscription of both found materials through the sun and typewriter and the public space through dérive. Lives in situ. \nManfred Werder’s presence has been made possible in part by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/giacomo-fiore-robert-blatt-manfred-werder-kevin-corcoran/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T160000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation : Ghost Quartet Synopsis and Cast \nTickets : odc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \nLicensing\nGhost Quartet is presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency. Originally developed and arranged by Ghost Quartet (Brent Arnold\, Brittain Ashford\, Gelsey Bell\, Dave Malloy)\, Annie Tippe\, and Christopher Bowser. \nInstitutional Support\nGhost Quartet performances\, presented as an integral offering of New Performance Traditions’ San Francisco season\, are made possible through the generous support of the San Francisco Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation. \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet/2024-12-08/
LOCATION:ODC B.Way Theater\, 3153 17th Street\, San Francisco\, CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241207T193000
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DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation : Ghost Quartet Synopsis and Cast \nTickets : odc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \nLicensing\nGhost Quartet is presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency. Originally developed and arranged by Ghost Quartet (Brent Arnold\, Brittain Ashford\, Gelsey Bell\, Dave Malloy)\, Annie Tippe\, and Christopher Bowser. \nInstitutional Support\nGhost Quartet performances\, presented as an integral offering of New Performance Traditions’ San Francisco season\, are made possible through the generous support of the San Francisco Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation. \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet/2024-12-07/
LOCATION:ODC B.Way Theater\, 3153 17th Street\, San Francisco\, CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T193000
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation : Ghost Quartet Synopsis and Cast \nTickets : odc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \nLicensing\nGhost Quartet is presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency. Originally developed and arranged by Ghost Quartet (Brent Arnold\, Brittain Ashford\, Gelsey Bell\, Dave Malloy)\, Annie Tippe\, and Christopher Bowser. \nInstitutional Support\nGhost Quartet performances\, presented as an integral offering of New Performance Traditions’ San Francisco season\, are made possible through the generous support of the San Francisco Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation. \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet/2024-12-06/
LOCATION:ODC B.Way Theater\, 3153 17th Street\, San Francisco\, CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241205T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241205T213000
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation : Ghost Quartet Synopsis and Cast \nTickets : odc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \nLicensing\nGhost Quartet is presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency. Originally developed and arranged by Ghost Quartet (Brent Arnold\, Brittain Ashford\, Gelsey Bell\, Dave Malloy)\, Annie Tippe\, and Christopher Bowser. \nInstitutional Support\nGhost Quartet performances\, presented as an integral offering of New Performance Traditions’ San Francisco season\, are made possible through the generous support of the San Francisco Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation. \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet/2024-12-05/
LOCATION:ODC B.Way Theater\, 3153 17th Street\, San Francisco\, CA
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241201T220000
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SUMMARY:THEA FARHADIAN + CHRIS BROWNEUPHOTIC
DESCRIPTION:CHRIS BROWN (piano/electronics) and THEA FARHADIAN (violin/electronics) come together for their first time improvised duo performance. \nTHEA FARHADIAN is a performer/composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work extends across a wide range of disciplines\, including solo violin and interactive electronics\, acoustic improvisation\, solo laptop\, radio art\, and scoring experimental video. Her solo pieces for violin and electronics combine a classical music background with extended technique\, digital processing\, and extensive improvisation. \nCHRIS BROWN\, composer\, pianist\, and electronic musician\, makes music with self-designed sonic systems\, including acoustic and electroacoustic instruments\, interactive software\, computer networks\, microtonal tunings\, and improvisation. His compositions are designs for performances in which people bring to life the musical structures embedded in scores\, instruments\, and machines.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/euphoticthea-farhadian-chris-brown/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241124T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241124T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-24/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241124T220000
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SUMMARY:EDA ER + DANNIEL RIBEIRO  DAN PLONSEY GROUP
DESCRIPTION:EDA ER and DANNIEL RIBEIRO debut their dynamic duo\, blending vocals\, electronics\, electric guitar\, and video. Their work incorporates transducers and extended techniques within a structured improvisation setting\, highlighting their shared exploration of sound\, collaboration\, and multimedia expression. \nEda Er is a composer\, multimedia artist\, and vocalist based in the Bay Area. Her work integrates electronic music\, classical composition\, installation art\, and theater\, often using storytelling to explore themes of belonging\, memory\, and generational trauma. Eda’s practice bridges new media\, improvisation\, and sensors\, with a focus on the interaction between sound\, visuals\, and space. She frequently collaborates with renowned ensembles and artists and is known for her interdisciplinary approach\, combining performance art with cutting-edge technology to create immersive experiences. \nDanniel Ribeiro is a Brazilian composer based in the Bay Area. His work explores instrumental music through project-specific techniques\, preparations\, sculptural objects\, amplification\, and transduced electronics. Focusing primarily on the guitar\, he expands its expressive range and investigates the instrument’s evolving stylistic devices. His performances span spontaneous composition\, recorded and transformed performances\, collaborative projects\, and the exploration of augmented instrument capabilities. Danniel has studied composition in Brazil\, Canada\, France\, and the USA\, and has participated in various international festivals as a resident composer. \nDAN PLONSEY GROUP plays music.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/eda-er-danniel-ribeiro-dan-plonsey-group/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241123T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241123T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T084724
CREATED:20241023T174730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241026T171225Z
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-23/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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