Grange Hall Cultural Center and Across Roads Center for the Arts are proud to present an exciting showing of the Xander Naylor Sound Machine, a powerful and original mash-up of indie rock, experimental jazz, and North Indian classical music; Athena Kafantaris' Throat of the Loon video projections; and site-specific choreography with Vermont-based movement artists Monica DiGiovanni, Joy Madden, and Jessie Owens; on Friday, May 4, at 8pm, at the Grange Hall Cultural Center. "Art Jam" is a public act of artistic unity, an alchemy of art disciplines coming together to share separate work in a collaborative setting, resulting in an inspiring exchange for a fun and immersive audience experience.
Friday, May 4, 2018 @ 8pm
Grange Hall Cultural Center
317 Howard Avenue, Waterbury Center, VT
Info: 244-4168 or grangehallcc@gmail.com
All ages welcome. Admission by suggested donation .
Proceeds from ART JAM: House Party1 benefit the Grange Hall Cultural Center Renovation Fund and the Across Roads Center for the Arts Scholarship Fund.
ART JAM: House Party 1--ARTIST BIOS:
Xander Naylor—Xander Naylor Sound Machine
Xander Naylor is a cultural explorer of the guitar. Having spun through a diverse set of scenes, he has found homes in free improv, indie rock, experimental jazz, and North Indian classical music, and continues to draw elements from noise, rock, eastern rhythms, and sound collage. His latest solo album, Arc, creates a stimulating mash-up that is both startling and comforting in today's tumultuous world. Xander Naylor Sound Machine expands on these concepts and realizes them in a full-band experience.
"Some of the most refreshingly unhinged guitar recorded in this century." - New York Music Daily
"[Naylor] creates a language all his own...[and] comes across as a mix between a guitar-slinging Colin Stetson and a guitar-slinging Fred Frith, with the result (and main takeaway) being that he's a pretty competent guitar slinger, no matter what style he's tackling." - The Critical Masses
Monica DiGiovanni—My Wild Beat, Dance With Fire
Monica DiGiovanni began her yoga and meditation path over 30 years ago. Her practices are based in Kripalu Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Mindfulness Meditation techniques and Buddhist practice & philosophy. She completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Monica earned a BFA in Performance Art from Massachusetts College of Art where she studied contemporary performance art techniques as well a variety of multi-media and fine art disciplines. Based on yogic techniques, artistic practice, and clinical studies, she has developed and is currently teaching Dance with Fire: Unlock Creative Potential Through Yogic Practices and the Arts.
Athena Kafantaris--- Throat of the Loon
Athena Kafantaris is a multidisciplinary artist currently fusing performance, video, sound, puppetry, and costuming to create emotional transmissions live.
Joy Madden—Vermont Dance Theater
Joy Madden is a movement-based artist. Her background in visual art has a powerful influence on her work in dance. In recent years she has focused on site-specific performance, creating dances for art galleries, parking lots, farms and forests throughout Vermont and New York.
Jessie Owens—Ergo Movement, Vermont Dance Alliance, Spielpalast
Jessie Owens is the founder of Ergo Movement, a collaborative performance project based in Burlington, Vermont. She holds a BA in Dance from Smith College, where she attended as an Ada Comstock scholar. From 2002 to 2012, she performed with Burlington's Spielpalast Cabaret, and she co-produced performances annually in Burlington and throughout Vermont, as well as the group's venture to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2011. She is the current Vice President of the Vermont Dance Alliance, where she is working to support dance in all of its forms.
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