ADVANCE: $12
DAY OF SHOW: $15
DAY OF SHOW: $15
Tue., September 14, 2010 / 6:30 PM
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About This Event
Minimum Age:
18+Doors Open:
6:30 PMShow Time:
7:15 PMDescription:
Don't miss Dardashti's CD Release Party for "The Naming." With original live music modern dance, video art, and special guests, it promises to be an amazing night! Mycale (the all-female John Zorn Vocal Project) opens the set at 7 pm. THE NAMING is the new multi-disciplinary work created by the Persian Jewish vocal innovator, Galeet Dardashti--the driving force behind the popular all-woman Middle Eastern band, Divahn. In THE NAMING, Dardashti draws on the Eastern music deep in her bones to transform the ghostly outlines of Biblical women into full-blown flesh-and-blood personalities. She unites the Persian classical music that made her grandfather a musical icon in Iran, with a deep connection to Jewish poetry and song, to create lush electronica-edged Middle Eastern compositions in Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Persian. Her songs tell the stories of why the brilliant Queen of Sheba shaved her legs, how the stunning Vashti laid down the line for her drunken husband, and how a mysterious witch spoke King Saul’s doom and then served him a nice dinner. For Dardashti, the stories of some of the women in her songs also intertwine with her own Iranian family’s tales of women breaking the rules as well as those of women in the Middle East today fighting to have their voices heard; some also echo through her personal story, in her recent transition into motherhood.
"A heart-stopping effort" that will "make you fall hard in love" (The Huffington Post)
"The marriage of centuries is fully and passionately consummated, providing an enveloping sonic venue for Dardashti’s powerful voice and Talmudic wisdom" (Milwaukee Express).
Featuring:Galeet Dardashti (vocals),Matt Kilmer (percussion),Alan Kushan (santur),Jessie Reagan (cello),Skye Steele (violin),Bryan Noll (electronic soundscapes)
AND MORE!
SYREN Modern Dance, featuring:Lynn Peterson,Chanelle Lagace & Brigitte Mitchell This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.
"A heart-stopping effort" that will "make you fall hard in love" (The Huffington Post)
"The marriage of centuries is fully and passionately consummated, providing an enveloping sonic venue for Dardashti’s powerful voice and Talmudic wisdom" (Milwaukee Express).
Featuring:Galeet Dardashti (vocals),Matt Kilmer (percussion),Alan Kushan (santur),Jessie Reagan (cello),Skye Steele (violin),Bryan Noll (electronic soundscapes)
AND MORE!
SYREN Modern Dance, featuring:Lynn Peterson,Chanelle Lagace & Brigitte Mitchell This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.
Artists
Galeet Dardashti "The Naming" CD Release Show
As the granddaughter of Yona Dardashti, the most renowned singer of Persian classical music in Iran in his day, and daughter of highly esteemed cantor Farid Dardashti, Middle Eastern vocalist and composer Galeet Dardashti is the first woman in her family to continue her family tradition of distinguished Persian and Jewish musicianship.
After performing in the US and Canada with The Dardashti Family from her childhood into her teenage years, Dardashti began her own independent musical pursuits. She has performed as a soloist both throughout the US and Israel, including significant cantorial work. As leader and vocalist of the edgy all-female Mizrahi band Divahn, Dardashti’s “sultry delivery spans international styles and clings to listeners long after the last round of applause” (Jerusalem Report).
Her new acoustic/electronic solo project "The Naming," supported by a Six Points Fellowship and a Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Fellowship, draws inspiration from the musical and cultural landscapes of the Middle East and some of the provocative yet unsung Biblical women who lived there. Galeet also pursues her passion for Jewish music and culture as an anthropologist. She recently completed her Ph.D. in anthropology on the performance of contemporary Mizrahi and Arab music in Israel. She offers residencies, lectures, and workshops on her artistic and academic work.
After performing in the US and Canada with The Dardashti Family from her childhood into her teenage years, Dardashti began her own independent musical pursuits. She has performed as a soloist both throughout the US and Israel, including significant cantorial work. As leader and vocalist of the edgy all-female Mizrahi band Divahn, Dardashti’s “sultry delivery spans international styles and clings to listeners long after the last round of applause” (Jerusalem Report).
Her new acoustic/electronic solo project "The Naming," supported by a Six Points Fellowship and a Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Fellowship, draws inspiration from the musical and cultural landscapes of the Middle East and some of the provocative yet unsung Biblical women who lived there. Galeet also pursues her passion for Jewish music and culture as an anthropologist. She recently completed her Ph.D. in anthropology on the performance of contemporary Mizrahi and Arab music in Israel. She offers residencies, lectures, and workshops on her artistic and academic work.
SYREN Modern Dance
SYREN was formed in 2003 by Kate St. Amand and Lynn Peterson and has since produced seven New York Seasons. SYREN has been presented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Symphony Space and Queens Theatre in the Park and by numerous schools and performing centers around the region. It has been supported by grants from New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Harkness Space Grants (92nd Street Y), and residencies at DanceNOW/NYC’s Silo and Dance Theater Workshop’s Outer/Space. SYREN participates in WNYC, New York Public Radio’s *STAR* Initiative.
Outreach and education are core company activities, and the co-directors have led workshops or set pieces on students at Purchase College, Yale University and Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, among others. SYREN was proud to launch its third year of "Dance on Canvas" in January 2010. This Partnership with the Art Students League of New York is a series of gallery-based rehearsals where visual artists capture the company’s dynamic motion in oil, charcoal and ink.
Outreach and education are core company activities, and the co-directors have led workshops or set pieces on students at Purchase College, Yale University and Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, among others. SYREN was proud to launch its third year of "Dance on Canvas" in January 2010. This Partnership with the Art Students League of New York is a series of gallery-based rehearsals where visual artists capture the company’s dynamic motion in oil, charcoal and ink.
Mycale
Get ready for a whole new approach to Masada music! Expressive and passionate, Basya Schecter of Pharaoh's Daughter (Brooklyn), Ayelet Rose Gottlieb (Israel), Malika Zarra (Morocco) and Sofia Rei Koutsovitis (Argentina) are four of the most creative vocalists around. Each the leader of a dynamic band of their own, they come together here in an intimate a cappella setting to interpret eleven songs from John Zorn's remarkable Book of Angels. With lyrics in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, French and Arabic drawn from Rumi, Fernando Pessoa, The Hebrew Bible and more, the Masada vocal project is perhaps the most hauntingly beautiful installments in the entire Angels series. Dynamic and evocative New Jewish Music from four powerful women vocalists!