Wibi Soerjadi at Carnegie Hall

Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage - Carnegie Hall, NY
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Wibi has a unique way of making transcriptions. In the spirit of Liszt he looks at the possibilities of the instrument and in this tries to explore the boundaries of timbre, colour and technique to let the grand piano sound as orchestral as possible. In other words, how can you let the piano sound like a full orchestra instead of just an instrument with snares and hammers. Wibi is known as a transcription and Liszt specialist and receives queries from pianists from all over the world for his scores, his way of playing and technique.
The programme The Art of Transcription which Wibi will be playing is a programme consisting of transcriptions which illustrate various aspects of the piano itself and playing the piano. In Amor and Psyche Wibi has translated the age-old story into a 9-part composition. In this work he follows the story but also tries to explore the boundaries of timbre and expressivity in the piano. Colour, expression, devotion and melodiousness are key words in this work. Wibi’s performance at Carnegie Hall will be the American premiere of this work.

Bart Bmore & Dada Life at Pacha NY

Friday, January 28, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Pacha NY - 618 West 46th Street, NY
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A contemporary of electro-powered party-starters like Diplo and Boys Noize, Bart B. More made is presence known this year with “Brap,” a nasty slice of stripped down dance floor fodder with drum-blurts, snare hits, and walls of synth noise that start and stop like a motorcycle. True to their absurdist name, Swedish duo Dada Life goes even further left in electro-land, taking tracks like Kaskade’s pretty “Dynasty” and running it through the crazy deconstructionist remix machine. Expect adventurous sounds and irresistibly bizarre noises.

Position among the Stars premiere at Sundance Film Festival

Saterday, January 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Holiday Village Cinema IV
Monday, January 24, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Holiday Village Cinema IV
Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Temple Theatre
Saterday, January 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Temple Theatre

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This final installment of the trilogy follows the award-winning documentaries The Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon (winner of the World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize at Sundance in 2005) as filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich concludes his in-depth portrait of Indonesia seen through the eyes of one family living in the slums of Jakarta. Grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman, weathers a changing society and the influence of globalization reflected in the lives of her juvenile granddaughter, Tari, and her sons, Bakti and Dwi, who are Muslims. Modern-day Indonesia is entrenched in a tug-of-war between Christianity and Islam, young and old, rich and poor, and beset by encroaching globalization that threatens the simple life that Rumidjah knows so well. Position Among the Stars allows each exquisite detail to come together and construct a rich mosaic of Indonesia today. The result is poignant, breathtaking, and a singularly stellar vérité triumph. 

Calefax Reed Quintet US Tour

Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 9:30 PM
Chamber Music Corvallis - Corvallis, OR
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Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM
Bradbury Building - Los Angeles, CA
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Monday, January 24, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Reinhardt University - Atlanta, GA 

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The Amsterdam based reet ensemble has won a number of prestigious prizes and can be heard frequently throughout Europe and further afield in Russia, China, India,Turkey, Japan and the USA. Calefax, established 25 years ago and are now in great demand worldwide, not least because of their unique instrumentation. The quintet performs standing up, plays some pieces from memory, and always introduces itself and the programme to the audience. Most importantly, the five musicians arrange, recompose and interpret music from eight centuries to suit their unique constellation: from early music to classical and jazz to world premières; in the hands of Calefax it all sounds fresh and new.

De Stilte at IPAY Showcase in Tampa

 
Wednesday January 19, 2011 - Saturday January 22, 2011
International Performing Arts for Youth SHOWCASE 2011

Tampa, FL

An adventurous journey through Alice's dream world, with exciting pursuits and unexpected turns. Doors of all shapes and sizes offer a peek into the kitchen of our fantasy, where the strangest dishes are prepared. Alice transforms into different characters, growing and shrinking while chasing the rabbit, running into creatures she wishes she'd never met.
"Alice" is a dance about big and small, for the young and old.

De Stilte is the only professional dance company in the Southern region of The Netherlands, that focuses entirely on developing and producing performances for children. Established in 1990, De Stilte has thus far launched 24 performances and 12 special projects. Over a period of fifteen years (1994-2009) there have been 1,800 performances, attended by over 280,000 visitors. Since 2006, De Stilte has witnessed a tremendous international growth and has become an important ambassador of Dutch youth dance abroad. Performances are regularly danced in Belgium and Germany, but De Stilte has also been a guest in Turkey, Scotland, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain, Hungary, Finland, Marocco, Austria and Curaçao.

International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) is the premiere membership organization in the world today servicing and supporting the professional community of performing arts for young audiences. Our membership is comprised of a growing worldwide network of artists, producers, presenters, agents, educators and students that are dedicated and involved in producing, presenting and promoting all forms of theatre, music, dance, circus, puppetry and more.

Saskia Laroo performing at the Hilton Hotel

Saskia Laroo (www.saskialaroo.nl)

 

















Saturday, Januari 8, 2011 
Hilton Hotel - New York, NY

Saskia Laroo is a trumpet player with her own record label: Laroo Records. Saskia Laroo performs worldwide with her own bands, with her solo act, as a guest soloist. Styles: Jazz/pop/dance/world Events: concerts/danceparties/private celebrations Venues: Festivals/Clubs/Schools/Corporations

Zacharias Oberzan Grand Theatre Groningen at the Public Theater

Zacharias Oberzan, Your Brother. Remember? (www.grand-theatre.nl)

Wednesday January 5 - Sunday, January 16, 2011 
Under the Radar Festival, The Public Theater - New York, NY

Zachary Oberzan's play has him returning home after 20 years to recreate Jean Claude Van Damme parody movies he made with his brother, Gator, when they were younger. So kind of like "Be Kind Rewind," but good and sad and true.  The pair are currently estranged, and Gator suffers from drug addiction. “What began as a fairly academic exercise in videography became about re-establishing—it’s probably more accurate to say establishing for the first time—a relationship with my brother,” Oberzan told TDF. 

Jacob ter Veldhuis performing at the International Saxophone Symposium

Jacob ter Veldhuis

Jacob ter Veldhuis, also known as Jacob TV, is a Dutch avant-garde classical composer.Ter Veldhuis favors tonal, melodic compositions, avoiding the dissonance of some recent classical music. Many of his works build melodies around samples of the human voice, as in Steve Reich's composition' DifferentTrains'. Some of his works have been performed by the New York string quartet Ethel.

Performances:
7th of January, performance together with Branford Marsalis and US Navy Band
8th of January, lecture by JacobTV

Location:
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030

Tickets are not necessary, the event is free.

Fedde Le Grand and AfroJack at Pacha's

Afrojack, Friday January 7 from 10pm

Laidback Luke, Saturday January 8 from 8pm

Tickets available at http://www.pacha-nyc.clubtickets.com/