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Above photo and photo to the right by Karl-Martin Almqvist
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● Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble Video Showing & Concert by Tim Hagans Subversive Jazz
Saturday July 24, 2010
8 p.m. Spacetaker ARC
2101 Winter Street B11
Houston, Texas
Admission is Free
The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble will show a video of GET OUTSIDE, a performance work that premiered in Sweden in December 2009. GET OUTSIDE was created in collaboration with the Norrbotten Big Band, an innovative jazz ensemble based in Sweden and features choreography by Michele Brangwen, music by Tim Hagans, and video by Yunuen Perez Vertti.
The program will also feature a performance by Tim Hagans Subversive Jazz, the wild quartet led by Grammy-nominated trumpeter & composer Tim Hagans.
Intermission will include a Meet-the-Artists Reception. Admission is Free.
8:00 to 8:50 Video Showing of GET OUTSIDE
9:20 to 10:00 Set by Tim Hagans Subversive Jazz
Performers in GET OUTSIDE are Brooke Barnes-Meeks, Scarlett Barnes, Lindsey McGill and Michele Brangwen, dancers; Tim Hagans, trumpet; Thomas Helton, acoustic bass and the amazing musicians of the Norrbotten Big Band. Lighting Design by Jeremy Choate.
Tim Hagans Subversive Jazz: Tim Hagans, trumpet; Seth Paynter, saxophone; Thomas Helton, acoustic bass; Richard Cholakian, drums.
8 p.m. Spacetaker ARC
2101 Winter Street B11, Houston TX
http://www.spacetaker.org/location/spacetaker-arc
Earlier This Season:
● 3 Short Films by the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble, The Artery Houston, 5401 Jackson @ Prospect, October 29, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble will show three short films:
GET OUTSIDE, our latest short featuring the music of Tim Hagans and created in collaboration with the Norrbotten Big Band, an innovative jazz ensemble based in Luleå, Sweden. Filmed on location in Luleå, GET OUTSIDE, will be shown as part of upcoming performances by the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble in Sweden in December 2009.
CONFUSION OF ANGELS, filmed at the Rothko Chapel and featuring music by Thomas Helton. The dance, designed specifically for sculptor Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk and Reflecting Pool, was created in response to the growing number of casualties in the Middle East.
SANCTUARY MOON, featuring music by Seth Paynter, is a short film that explores the idea that a fragment of movement or sound can have a feeling of completeness, and perhaps our unfinished thoughts and actions have a power and beauty we don't realize.
The film showing will be followed by a Meet-the-Artists Reception. Admission is Free. 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Film Showing is from 8:30 to 9:05 p.m.
The Artery is located in the Museum District. If you are traveling east on Bissonet/Binz, after you pass the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, watch for Jackson Street (it is the one following Crawford), make a left and travel north two blocks. The Artery is on the corner. Entrance is on Prospect; look for the lights of the Artery's lovely outdoor garden. Parking is on the surrounding streets.
Please visit our word page for reviews of SANCTUARY MOON and CONFUSION OF ANGELS. Visit the brangwendance channel on Youtube for a sneak preview of all three films.
● Michele Brangen Dance Ensemble, Barnevelder Theater, 2201 Preston @ Hutchins, November 28, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Please join the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble for a preview performance of GET OUTSIDE, our latest work that will premiere the following week in Sweden. Choreography by Michele Brangwen; music by Tim Hagans; film by Yunuen Perez Vertti. Meet-the-Artists reception will follow in the lobby. Admission is free.
Performers are Brooke Barnes, Scarlett Barnes, Lindsey McGill and Michele Brangwen, dancers; Tim Hagans, trumpet; Thomas Helton, contrabass; Seth Paynter, saxophone; Karl Fulbright, flute
Barnevelder Theater, 2201 Preston @ Hutchins (across Hwy 59 from Minute Maid Park). Directions available at www.barnevelder.org
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● Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble & Norrbotten Big Band Premiere GET OUTSIDE
Thursday December 10, 2009, 7 p.m. Acusticum Theater in Pitea, Sweden
Saturday December 12, 2009 9 p.m. Stora Salen Theater in Lulea, Sweden
The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble is known for their daring interaction with musicians in performance. They join forces with the equally wild Norrbotten Big Band for the world premiere of GET OUSTIDE, featuring choreography by Michele Brangwen, music by Tim Hagans, and film by Yunuen Perez Vertti.
Performers are Brooke Barnes-Meeks, Scarlett Barnes, Lindsey McGill and Michele Brangwen, dancers; Tim Hagans, trumpet; Thomas Helton, contrabass, and the amazing musicians of the Norrbotten Big Band. Lighting Design by Jeremy Choate.
Get Outside images by Peter Josyph: Dancer Lindsey McGill and saxophone soloist Karl-Martin Almqvist
"Fetchingly situated between Brownian blasts and Milesian murmurs, the trumpeter’s lines cover lots of emotional breadth. It makes for a straight-ahead quintet approach that is quite willing to bend the rules to suit a tune’s forgotten corners. Chop-wise, his poetry with standard ballads might hush this room. Evidently he does know what love is."
-- Jim Macnie, The Village Voice
TIM HAGANS SUBVERSIVE JAZZ
Friday February 26, 2010 from 8 to 9:30 p.m.
Dean's Credit Clothing Fairview
The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble presents Tim Hagans Subversive Jazz at Dean's on Fairview on Friday February 26 from 8:00 to 9:30.
This quartet of stellar musicians, led by Grammy-nominated trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans, are also regular members of the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble. Please don't miss this opportunity to enjoy our musicians in this hip and spacious setting.
KUHF Radio Announcer Eric Ladau will introduce the performance.
TIM HAGANS trumpet
SETH PAYNTER saxophone
THOMAS HELTON acoustic bass
RICHARD CHOLAKIAN percussion
DEAN'S CREDIT CLOTHING
315 Fairview
(between Morgan & Taft)
Tickets: $20 General Admission
$15 Students & Seniors
Available at the door with cash or check
or in advance by credit card by clicking here
● The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble with Legendary NYC Composer & Bassist Rufus Reid & Tim Hagans Subversive Jazz
Barnevelder Theater, 2201 Preston @ Hutchins, on May 16, 2010.
Two shows: 6 & 8 p.m.
The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble premieres two new works: CARESS THE THOUGHT featuring chreography by Michele Brangwen and music by Rufus Reid; and THIS BELONGS IN THE GARAGE with choreography by Michele Brangwen and music by Tim Hagans.
Rufus Reid is one of today's premiere bassists on the international jazz scene and a celebrated composer. He is a recipient of the Chamber Music America New Works Commission; Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Award; The Sackler Commission Prize, and the ASCAP/IAJE Commission for Established Jazz Composers. Mr. Reid was named a Guggenheim Fellow in June 2008. As a bassist he has traveled, performed and recorded with Eddie Harris, Sonny Stitt, Don Byas, Philly Joe Jones, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Dexter Gordon, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Farmer. His most recent CD as a leader, Out Front, was released on Motéma records
“The album's centerpiece, the 12-minute suite "Caress the Thought," opens with rich, reverberating bowed bass; cinematic and shimmering at some points, fateful and insistent at others.”
- Aarik Danielsen, The Columbia Daily Tribune
CARESS THE THOUGHT has been arranged specifically for this performance with the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble. Brangwen describes the collaboration: “I heard Rufus speak about this composition and it has a very intimate and emotional arc to it, raw and yet refined. I can best describe this work by saying what if we can remember things before they happen. There is magic that comes from the intangible ways in which people connect to each other…perhaps there is no such thing as time, only togetherness.”
The program also includes the premiere of THIS BELONGS IN THE GARAGE, with choreography by Michele Brangwen and music by Grammy-nominated trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans. THIS BELONGS IN THE GARAGE is a high-energy rebellion against the marginalized places that art is relegated to in our current society. The work follows the form of a traditional jazz tune with the choreography and composition sandwiching a middle section of wild improvisation and interaction by all performers.
Performers are Brooke Barnes-Meeks, Scarlett Barnes, and Michele Brangwen, dancers; Rufus Reid, acoustic bass; and Tim Hagans Subversive Jazz with Tim Hagans, trumpet; Seth Paynter, saxophone; and Richard Cholakian, drums. KUHF Radio Announcer Eric Ladau will introduce the performances.
Performances are Sunday May 16, 2010 at Barnevelder Theater at 6 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 General Admission and $15 Students & Seniors, and can be purchased at the door with cash or check.
No mre advance sales. Tickets can only be purchased at the door with cash or check.
More info at www.rufusreid.com
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