FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kathryn Hargreaves or Tim Quinn
events@dangerouscurve.org
213-617-8483
New
York's NOW Ensemble
opens up the new
Dangerous Curve
an Experimental Exhibition
and Performance/Live Art Space
Wednesday,
May 3, 2006
8:00 p.m.
$10.00
1020 East Fourth Place
(500 Molino Street #102)
Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Los Angeles, CA,
April 15, 2006 - We're back! The NOW Ensemble, New York's answer to The
California Ear Unit, will be coming to Dangerous Curve for our first event
of any kind after a long hiatus. (Lest we let you forget, we closed a
year ago almost to the day with a performance by Survival
Research Laboratories, which drew over 1,500 people on less than a
day's notice.) NOW Ensemble is a featured visiting group at this year's
Carlsbad Music Festival
in Carlsbad, CA, and they're stopping by in Los Angeles on their way,
after a colloquium at Cal Arts.
The concert starts at 8:00 p.m. and costs $10.00.
We're located
at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo Streets, in the back
of the 500 Molino Street Lofts, #102, between the Fourth Street Bridge's
two on/off ramps. See our website for
directions, pictures, and updates.
Specializing in the works of emerging avant garde composers, NOW Ensemble's
repretoire relies on new music being composed. Their ensemble has a unique
combination of instruments: Alexandra Sopp is on flute, Sara Phillips
on clarinet/bass clarinet, Mark Dancigers on electric guitar/composer,
Peter Rosenfeld on double bass, and Michael Mizrahi on piano. Patrick
Burke and Judd Greenstein compose. The NOW Ensemble have performed at
Merkin Concert Hall, the Tenri Cultural Institute, the Juilliard School,
Williamsburg's DuBuQuE Concert Series, and the Look & Listen Festival
in Chelsea's Robert Miller Gallery. Recently, they performed at The Knitting
Factory, the Galapagos Art Space in Manhattan and Brooklyn, MIT's Killian
Hall in Cambridge, MA, and Firehouse 12 in New Haven, CT (as part of Free
Speech Zone, a tour of new music to New York, Boston, and New Haven).
Here's what some people have to say about them:
"As to the performances, to say that they were completely masterly
(and, in some cases masterful) technically and wonderfully powerful and
expressive would be to slander them by using faint praise. It was the
kind of playing which was so concentrated and focused that it could melt
through steel. --Rodney Lister, Tempo
"[NOW Ensemble's] 'Folk Music'...is one of the freshest pieces I've
heard so far this year. --Alex Ross, The New Yorker, on Judd Greenstein's
work for NOW Ensemble.
"This is a new voice lifting in the context of a smaller world, suggesting
the shape of the sounds that will define art music in the early part of
this new century." --Ed Montgomery, Context Studios.
Yes, we will be cracking out our Steinway---brought over from our living
space by popular demand! See you there!
Dangerous
Curve related events:
Saturday, May 6, 2006: Our selections from Theo di Ricco's 13th Congress
for Performance Art, with Theodor di Ricco (Berlin), Sandra Schaefer and
Philip Fryer (Boston), Ernest Truely (New York), and Willem Wilhelmus
(Finland/Holland). $10.00
Coming up: a big fundraiser, plus our first exhibition opening!
Also: Take a look at our column, Dangerous Blurb, on eyespyla.com,
where we write about art collecting and other things art-related.
Artists, submit your art for art-in-windows installations in Los Angeles County. Dangerous Curve is curating for Phantom Galleries LA . See the website for submission information. This is an ongoing open call for installation art, sculpture, video or new media, 2D visual art, and even live art.
Check out
the new free newspaper, The
Arts District Citizen, published in The Arts District and distributed
throughout the vicinity. Tim Quinn and Kathryn Hargreaves contribute writings
on art and other things.
Kathryn Hargreaves teaches Kundalini Yoga workshops, with an emphasis
on using that physical technology to enhance creativity, on selected Friday
evenings at
Bashtet Movement Studio
201 S. Santa Fe, Suite 200
Los Angeles, 90012.
(213) 680-YOGA:
Dangerous Curve is a leading contemporary art space in the Artists District
of Los Angeles. It is a privately run venue for live art, experimental
art and music, and installations. The gallery supports visionary established
and emerging artists of all ages, with live art residencies and one-person
shows of high-quality risky and intelligent work that's ahead of the curve.
Visit our website. Sign up for
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vital art community by donating to our Events and Openings Fund! Buy some
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Another way to support Dangerous Curve is to buy an ad in The
Arts District Citizen. Tell them we sent you and we get a portion
of the ad price!
A huge thank you to our supporters, The Dale and Edna Walsh Foundation,
and Kate Bartolo of The Kor Group. Because of their and your generous
support, Dangerous Curve is able to make a difference by helping emerging
artists and educating the commmunity about high-quality art.
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