Walls and Bridges
Walls and Bridges is a 10-day series of performances and critical explorations uniting French and American thinkers and artists from social sciences, philosophy, literature and live arts.
A Response to "dig deep" by Arkadi Zaides — With Music by Julia Wolfe . Preceded by : "Under the Influence of Music : From the Marx Brothers to the modern mind"
219 W 19th Street (between 7th & 8th Avenues)
New York 10011
Co-presented with New York Live Arts and Les Subsistances
Hosted by Justin Davidson (Classical music and architecture critic at New York Magazine)
Featuring: Quatuor Leonis (Quartet / FR) with Guillaume Antonini (Violin player / FR), Sébastien Richaud (Violin player / FR), Alphonse Dervieux (Alto-player / FR), Julien Decoin (Cello player / FR), Julia Wolfe (composer /US) and Arkadi Zaides (Choreographer and dancer/ IL)
Lights:Thalie Laurault (FR)
Special thanks to: Myriam Van Imschoot (BE)
Julia Wolfe’s music is distinguished by an intense physicality and a relentless power that pushes performers to extremes and demands attention from the audience. Dig Deep, Wolfe’s iconic composition for string quartet, generates an intense sonic movement. In his response to the composition, Israeli choreographer and dancer Arkadi Zaides focuses on a state of ongoing oscillation, offering the audience a kinesthetic, non-narrative practice, examining the tension between restlessness and stability in his body. By zeroing in on this tension, Zaides wishes to ‘dig deep’ and unearth a somatic response to personal experiences of immigration, homelessness and in-betweenness.
The music will be performed live by the Quatuor Leonis (France) whose interdisciplinary approach has led them to be compared to the renown Kronos quartet.
The performance will be followed by a Q&A with the artists and Julia Wolfe
Preceded by :
Under the Influence of Music : From the Marx Brothers to the modern mind
Featuring: Elena Mannes (Writer and filmmaker / US), Peter Szendy (Philosopher / FR)
What are the connections between music and the body? How do song and noise affect human nature? Two thinkers travel from the outer ear to the inner mind and give their personal insights on this intriguing topic. Filmmaker and writer Elena Mannes explores the impact of music on brain, philosopher Peter Szendy studies the use of music in film, particularly in Mickey Mouse cartoons and in Marx Brothers movies.
> Suggested donation: $10
Reservations required: 212 924 0077 / www.newyorklivearts.org
(Photo credits : Romain Etienne / Item)
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