“BUBBLE
& SQUEAK” Pasadena
WHO
Cilla Vee Life Arts – with Cilla Vee, Grayson Morris, Blair Bogin,
Lukas Ligeti, Robert Jacobson, Vinny Golia
WHAT
‘Bubble & Squeak” – cross-disciplinary performance collaborations
WHEN
Thursday October 18th – 8pm
WHERE
Battery Books & Music - 26 S Los Robos Ave. Pasadena CA 91101
HOW MUCH
Donation
BUBBLE & SQUEAK
Bubble & Squeak is a British dish whose recipe has morphed over
time to accommodate throwing various odd bits of ingredients together. Very
fitting for an eclectic mix of performing artists in a book store!
The evening will feature touring artist Cilla Vee with some of LA’s
finest improvisers as they mix and match in various collaborations and in
response to the environment.
Cilla Vee
Life Arts
CILLA VEE LIFE ARTS is an inter-disciplinary arts organization founded
in 2002 in the South Bronx by Claire Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla Vee) – now
based in Asheville NC.
It serves as an umbrella for multiple projects that focus on collaboration and
facilitation. With a mission of blurring boundaries and crossing categories,
CVLA draws from a diverse pool of artists with a wide range of artistic
backgrounds.
Performances can include anything from dance, movement, music, sound, text,
film and video, visual and performance art to installation and beyond.
“When it's summer in the city, people do
weird things. Performers especially. ....“Beguiling”
John Rockwell – New York Times
This Fall Cilla Vee is touring cross-country and the west coast in
order to connect and collaborate with area artists in each location.
ARTIST INFORMATION
Cilla
Vee (performance)
Claire
Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla Vee) is an inter-disciplinary artist with a
performing arts background. She is the director of Cilla Vee Life Arts – an arts organization with a focus on
cross-media collaboration.
Her
work utilizes artistic disciplines of dance, music, text, media, visual and
installation art.
Claire
has presented her work in venues as diverse as Jacob’s Pillow , the New York
Botanical
Gardens , Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center and Art Basel Miami. She has performed and taught throughout
the USA, Canada, Europe, Japan and Pakistan.
Claire
received her professional training in London at The Laban Centre For Movement
and Dance and at the London Studio
Centre For Performing Arts . Her pre-professional training includes the Royal
Academy of Dance and the Royal
Schools of Music examinations. She
also served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York and holds an MFA in
Creative Practice from the Transart
Institute with Plymouth
University, UK.
On
moving to the USA in 1992, Claire held the positions of Dancer for Unto These
Hills drama on the Cherokee Indian
Reservation and for Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater in North Carolina, as well as serving
as a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and as Choreographer for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee.
Once
based in New York in 2002, Claire founded Cilla Vee Life Arts and, with the support of arts advocates
such as Chashama , Bronx Council on the Arts and Arts for Art , began to develop and present her signature
modes of work – including Motion Sculpture Movement Installations and The Sound Of Movement projects.
She
is the creator of the Living Art pedagogy for performance art.
Claire
now uses Asheville NC as her home-base.
“My work as an artist blurs
boundaries and crosses categories. Re-defining the traditional concepts of a
“piece” and challenging the conventions of performance, time, space and
audience relationships.”
Grayson
Morris (performance)
Grayson Morris is a
multi-disciplinary performer from Asheville, NC, currently based in Los Angeles
. She has appeared on Gotham Comedy Live and toured nationally with her solo
show Am I a Grownup Yet? She runs a
biannual immersive performance art series in Asheville called emersion, which is currently in its
third year. She performs regularly in LA where she moved to study
theatrical clowning.
Blair Bogin
(performance)
BLAIR BOGIN is an interdisciplinary artist. She earned an MFA from the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Amidst her art practice, she is a
counseling Astrologer (Sisterbride) and Kundalini Yoga Instructor.
Robert
Jacobson (guitar / strings)
Jacobson explores new harmonies on stringed instruments, riding the
edges between improvisation & composition, and helping make outer space more
musician friendly. Jacobson's studied Classical Guitar, Jazz, Balinese Gamelan,
and Balkan folk music. Jacobson completed degrees at University of Southern
California and California Institute of the Arts. Select groups
Jacobson played with include The Industrial Jazz Group, Arthur Jarvinen's
The Invisible Guy, acoustic poly-musical ensemble Svara, Jacobson's Coldwater
band, and Balkan folk dance group Veselba.
Lukas Ligeti
(drums / percussion)
Lukas Ligeti is a composer, percussionist, electronics performer, and
assistant professor at UC Irvine. The recipient of the 2010 CalArts Alpert
Award in Music, he has been commissioned by Bang On A Can, Kronos Quartet,
Eighth Blackbird, American Composers Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, and others,
and has performed with John Zorn, Gary Lucas, Marilyn Crispell, etc., as well
as giving solo concerts on 4 continents. His intercultural work has led him to
15 African countries; he co-founded the groups Beta Foly and Burkina Electric
and has worked with traditional musicians in Egypt, Uganda, Zimbabwe, etc. He
lives in Irvine and Johannesburg.
Long Bio
Drawing
upon influences including Downtown New York experimentalism, contemporary
classical music, jazz, and traditional music from Africa, Lukas Ligeti has
developed a unique voice as a composer and improviser.
Lukas
studied composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna,
Austria, his city of birth. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University
and subsequently lived in New York City from 1998 until 2015, when he became
Assistant Professor in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology,
an innovative PhD program at the University of California, Irvine. He has
taught at the University of Ghana, lecturing in collaboration with the eminent
composer/musicologist J.H. Kwabena Nketia, and is currently completing a PhD at
the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was
previously composer-in-residence. He lives in Irvine and Johannesburg.
Lukas
received the CalArts Alpert Award in Music in 2010. He has also been
awarded
two Composition Fellowships by the New York Foundation for the Arts and two
yearlong Austrian State Grants in composition, among other awards. His music is
featured on CDs on Tzadik, Cantaloupe, Intuition, Innova, Leo, and other record
labels, and he is an endorser of Vic Firth drumsticks.
With
performances at major venues and festivals worldwide, his compositions have
been commissioned among others by Bang on a Can, Kronos Quartet, Eighth
Blackbird, Ensemble Modern, the American Composers Orchestra, MDR Orchestra
(Germany), Håkan Hardenberger and Colin Currie, New York University, Subtropics
Festival/Historical Museum of South Florida, the Vienna Festwochen, Radio
France, Icebreaker (UK), and a consortium featuring marimbists such as Eric
Beach (So Percussion) and Ji Hye Jung. His music has also been performed by the
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Tonkünstler
Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Liverpool Philharmonic Ensemble 10/10, San
Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Present Music, Ensemble mise-en,
Contemporaneous, Ensemble “die reihe”, the Amadinda, Third Coast, and Kroumata
Percussion Groups, etc.
Lukas
has collaborated with choreographers such as Karole Armitage and Panaibra
Gabriel Canda, composed music for the European ARTE TV channel, and created a
sound installation for the Goethe Institute on the occasion of the 2014 Soccer
World Cup in Brazil. He has participated in two projects of Lebanese sound
artist Tarek Atoui, and was artist-in-residence at the Museum of the History of
Polish Jews in Warsaw, where he created a site-specific performance.
As a
drummer, he has worked with John Zorn, Marilyn Crispell, Gary Lucas, John
Tchicai, Henry Kaiser, Michael Manring, Wadada Leo Smith, DJ Spooky, Elliott
Sharp, Raoul
Björkenheim, Thollem McDonas, Jon Rose, Benoît Delbecq, members of Sonic Youth
and the Grateful Dead, etc., and leads or co-leads several bands such as
Hypercolor (with Eyal Maoz and James Ilgenfritz) and Notebook. He has given solo
electronic percussion concerts on four continents, performing on the Marimba
Lumina, an instrument designed by seminal synthesizer engineer Don Buchla.
A
pioneer in experimental intercultural collaboration in Africa for more than 20
years, he co-founded the ensemble Beta Foly in Côte d’Ivoire and today co-leads
Burkina Electric, the first electronica band from Burkina Faso. He has also
engaged in collaborations and/or led projects in Egypt (with Nubian musicians
and musicians of the Cairo Opera Orchestra), Uganda (with that country’s
premier music/dance group, the Ndere Troupe), Kenya, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, etc.
Vinny Golia
As
a composer Vinny Golia fuses the rich heritage of Jazz, contemporary
classical and world music into his own unique compositions. Also a
bandleader, Golia has presented his music to concert audiences in
Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United
States in ensembles varying dramatically in size and instrumentation.
Mr. Golia has won numerous awards as a composer, including grants from
The National Endowment of the Arts, The Lila Wallace Commissioning
Program, The California Arts Council, Meet the Composer,Clausen
Foundation of the Arts, Funds for U.S. Artists and the American
Composers Forum. In 1982 he created the on-going 50 piece Vinny Golia
Large Ensemble to perform his compositions for chamber orchestra and
jazz ensembles.
A
multi-woodwind performer, Vinny’s recordings have been consistently
picked by critics and readers of music journals for their yearly “ten
best” lists. In 1990 he was the winner of the Jazz Times TDWR award for
Bass Saxophone. In 1998 he ranked 1st in the Cadence Magazine Writers
& Readers Poll and has continually placed in the Downbeat Critic’s
Poll for Baritone & Soprano Saxophone. In 1999 Vinny won the LA
Weekly’s Award for “Best Jazz Musician”. Jazziz Magazine has also named
him as one of the 100 people who have influenced the course of Jazz in
our Century. In 2006 The Jazz Journalists Association honored him with a
Lifetime Achievement Award. 2013 Vinny won the Downbeat Critic’s Poll
in the “New Star” category for Baritone Saxophone.
Golia
has also contributed original compositions and scores to Ballet and
Modern Dance works, video, theatrical productions, and film. As an
educator Vinny has lectured on music & painting composition,
improvisation, Jazz History, The History of Music in Film, CD &
record manufacturing and self-production throughout the United States,
Europe, Mexico, New Zealand and Canada. He currently teaches at
California Institute of the Arts. In 1998 Golia was appointed Regent’s
Lecturer at the University of California at San Diego. In 2009 Vinny
Golia was appointed the first holder of the Michel Colombier Performer
Composer Chair at Cal Arts.
Vinny
has been a featured performer with Anthony Braxton, Henry Grimes, John
Carter, Bobby Bradford, Joelle Leandre, Leo Smith, Horace Tapscott, John
Zorn, Tim Berne, Bertram Turetzky, George Lewis, Barre Phillips, The
Rova Saxophone Quartet, Patti Smith, Harry “the Hipster” Gibson, Eugene
Chadburne, Kevin Ayers, Peter Kowald, John Bergamo, George Gruntz
Concert Jazz Band, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennick, Lydia Lunch, Harry
Sparrney and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra amongst many others.
