January 9, 2014
I’m back from the desert and still finding thorns, and will still have many under my skin in two weeks when I perform six or seven new texts fresh off the typewriter, for Out Here Death Is No Big Deal with the performance ensemble Flashpoint/Proximal Constellations at Caffe Vivaldi in the West Village. We’re delighted by a year and a half of all-but-one sold-out shows (which one, you ask? perhaps the best one, until now).
We’ll embark upon all new material on 1/23 at Caffe Vivaldi in the West Village. Accompanied by jazz composer Arthur Kell of Brooklyn Underground, we perform a spiderweb of new original semi-improvisational short texts surrounding a cluster of preoccupations. For this January 23rd performance, it’s all about SEISMOLOGY, MINE SHAFTS, THIS VERY FRAGILE EARTH, THE END OF FIRST LIGHT, and MARTYRS WHO DO NOT BEAR WITNESS.
From the press release:
NYC-based performance ensemble FLASHPOINT / PROXIMAL CONSTELLATIONS presents the third show in its 2013-14 performance season at CAFFE VIVALDI: the premiere of an ALL-NEW original miniature stories, musings, meditations, parables, harangues, poems, conversations, micro-memoirs and telescopic think pieces…with upright bass. Through literature and live music, the six artists’ compositions are provocative, hilarious, haunting, and aggressively tender explorations of the convergences between literature, theater, music, improvisation, and collaborative live performance.
For this January 23rd performance, it’s all about SEISMOLOGY, MINE SHAFTS, THIS VERY FRAGILE EARTH, THE END OF FIRST LIGHT, and MARTYRS WHO DO NOT BEAR WITNESS.