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2008 Schedule of performances
The Fringe Arts Festival runs from Thursday, January 24 through Sunday, 27, 2008
Thurs 1/24,7:30pm
Opening night event at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center,
56 Broadway, Asheville
A Night Out with Bob (Rauschenberg) and John (Cage) a evening of
multimedia, music and performance art celebrating the history of
performative/collaborative work of Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage.
Music performed by Wayne Kirby and friends, “Modus Operandi”
performed by Cilla Vee-Life Arts. Claire Elizabeth Barratt, Elisa
Faires and Greg Congleton.. Lecture/presentation by Jim Julien
BeBe—Fri 1/25, 7:30pm & Sat 1/26, 7:30 pm
“Pleasure Saucer/Rev. Johnny Lemuria” a subgenius rant.
“Last Dinner with Friends” (Holly M. Paar) is a surprisingly uplifting short film about the end of the world. A frank look at how the thing we’re all thinking about is something we rarely talk about. Last Dinner with Friends literally puts the end of the world on the table.
“Havanico” (Susan & Giles Collard) a movement theatre piece based on the use of space and time and the illusion of movement. How many options can there ever be presented?
“Shadows of Putin” (Jim Julien) a Balinese-style shadow puppet performance focused on the career of Russian president Vladimir Putin and the fates of many Russian journalists during his administration.
“Fecal Matters” (The Feral Chihuahuas) an episode of a Sitcom called that is set in a Primate Fecal Research Laboratory. The story hinges on eccentric Dr. Simon Coggles, who accidentally discovered that monkey fecal matter eliminates acne in teenagers, a discovery that netted him notable awards and the research facility where the sitcom is set. All and all, it should be good clean fun...on paper anyway. (Pun intended)
“The Vehicle” (Stina Andersen) presents an interactive sculptural-building-a-story performance entitled “The Vehicle,” featuring WSSW White Sheep Spirit Woman as the neo-mythological curator of events. The background film creates a herstorical portrait of WSSW’s journey from Sheep Island to Maine Land.
BeBe—Fri 1/25, 9:30pm; Sat 1/26, 9:30pm & Sun1/27, 3:30pm
“self selected moments from only mildly recognizable me” (katie kyle baker) This piece tells a story of
moments, conversations, pauses and breaths, fears and frustrations and happenings in time that I couldn’t shake from my head and heart even if I wanted to. It is about the moments that we encounter that stand out, that somehow seem to stop time, the ones that we want to remember beyond what our minds can hold. I began writing them down with the hope of capturing them for myself so that I would never forget. The little slips of paper have become my archive, my days, my memories. When strung together, they are chapters of my story.
(“Bendy” Lindsey Morrow) wild and unusual aerial contortionist stylings
“Black Snow Flying Upwards, or: My Embarrassment ” (John Crutchfield) is a jittery vaudeville solo about a
monotonous crucifixion. It’s also about love, death, hunger, memory, nausea, the mind, and the fragment of a leaf in someone’s hair. With song and dance.
“MAYBE YOU HAD WOODEN FINGERS IN A PAST LIFE” (Brian Howe and Ashley Howe) is a 16-minute digital video that is more concerned with is-ness than about -ness. Using various bits of film they’d collected over the course of their collaboration and shooting some new ones specifically for the project, the Howes created an intuitive audiovisual narrative that most resembles a visual poem with documentary elements.
“Heaven, Hell and In Between” (Mondy Carter) A triptych that would make Hieronymus Bosch say, “What’s up with that?”. First comes The New JC. Which answers the question, “What if the second coming was more unexpected than the first?” Next: The Chase Begins at Death when your life flashes before your eyes at death there’s a surprise: it takes a whole lot longer than you think. Finally (and finally in an ultimate sense) it’s Neal Vexvision- Ask yourself this: what news program will you turn to during the Apocalypse?
“Connection Paradise” & “Crab Headed Woman” (Paw of Zing--Elisa Faires) querky, surreal, alchemical,
electronic cabaret performance along with a performance by Rubbermaiden ... Glitchy DAda Nautical Booty Bass with a human and puppet Hip Hop Music Video
“Mysterious Visions & The Volcanic Kiss”, (Wicked Geisha) The White Priestess Tells A Tale, The Brothers Dark & Light Unite, Deity Dancers of the Volcano, Live Kabuki Drummers, The Head of The Dragon & The Flower Geisha, The Tail of The Story, Thankfulness and a New Vision.
LaZoom Bus Fringe show—Fri 1/25, 9:30pm & Sat 1/26, 9:30pm
LaZoom bus Opening Ceremony: Geisha Sisters presenting…Tea Ritual, Umbrella Dancing, The Story Scrolls
“Kiss My Asheville” (Denise Lee Ostler) original songs on ukulele
“adler ah pplebaum” (Adam Jones) spouts music and a poetry reading as an obscene alter ego RONNIE CLARK “SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN”... A simple man who loves America, Women, Booze and Satanism.
The Suspicious Puppet Performers proudly propose: “The War on Water-terrorism”
“Pledge /Fracture” a collaboration between composer Wayne Kirby and butoh dancer Julie Becton Gillum, is an exploration of the Pledge of Allegiance through movement and sound. The duo examines underlying themes presented in this vow honoring our “alien nation.”
“Venus de Sarcophagus” [Excerpt from work in progress, Bound by Beauty] (Kathy Meyers and Aaron Alderman) A collaboration between sculpture and dance dealing with beauty.
“Women at the Well”—Sat 1/26, 1:30pm @Pack Square a free to the public, site-specific outdoor
performance piece supported by funding by Arts2People.
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