Moment's Notice
Western Sky Studio
2525 8th St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
8pm, Saturday, Jan. 16
Tickets sliding scale, $8-$15
Featuring improvised performances by:
Anka Draugelates & Cheryl Leonard - music/sound art
Margit Galanter - dance
Olivia Corson - body tales
Owen Walker - action theater
Rajendra Serber - dance
..and inevitable surprises...
Anka Draugelates & Cheryl Leonard are doing a piece called "winterstillness."
Anka Draugelates wa
s born in Munich, Germany. She is an improvisational voice artist and musician who composes both experimental and classical pieces. Draugelates studied music therapy in the Netherlands at hoogeschool nijmegen and received her diploma in 1996. Draugelates has participated in solo and group shows throughout Germany, Europe and San Francisco. She enjoys working collaboratively, and has worked extensively with diverse artists, including filmmakers, visual artists, dancers and musicians.
s born in Munich, Germany. She is an improvisational voice artist and musician who composes both experimental and classical pieces. Draugelates studied music therapy in the Netherlands at hoogeschool nijmegen and received her diploma in 1996. Draugelates has participated in solo and group shows throughout Germany, Europe and San Francisco. She enjoys working collaboratively, and has worked extensively with diverse artists, including filmmakers, visual artists, dancers and musicians.Cheryl Leonard is a composer, performer, improviser and
instrument builder. Over the last decade she has focused on investigating sounds, structures, and objects from the natural world. Leonard’s works cultivate stones, leaves, wood, water, sand, shells, feathers, and bones as musical instruments in compositions that reveal the unique voices hidden within these materials. Leonard’s music has been performed worldwide and featured in several television and video documentaries. She has received grants from ASCAP, the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, American Composers Forum and Meet the Composer, and awarded residencies at Djerassi, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Villa Montalvo and Engine 27. www.allwaysnorth.comMargit Galanter is a movement artisan
and collaborative investigator. Her fascination regarding the construction and value of movement has led her to improvising for many years. Margit’s practices span forms such as the Feldenkrais Method®, Wild Goose Qigong, tuning scores, acupressure, and improvisational dance/research/performance, coalescing. She lives in Oakland, where she practices Physical Intelligence and co-curates the SEEDS Festival. To learn more about her biz, check here: www.physicalintelligence.org and for art matters, www.margitg.wordpress.com.
For Moment’s Notice, Margit will present a chapter of Y, a long term project that investigates the androgyne and the beginning of the word.
Olivia Corson is a spirited and inspiring San Francisco Bay Area movement theater artist, noted for her powerful and transformative teaching and performance work. She skillfully interweaves movement and story, feeling and thought, the sacred and the ordinary, with humor and compassion. Corson has performed hundreds of evenings of improvised narrative dance pieces and been a much-loved teacher for over 30 years. She has also created — written, choreographed and directed — many movement theater pieces over many years, (including her pivotal one woman eco-theater show, "Third Stone From the Sun." For more info: www.bodytales.comOwen Walker teache
s and performs improvisation in the Bay Area. Originally a visual artist, he gave up brushes and paint for a more immediate medium - the expressive body. As a performance artist and dancer, Owen was captivated by Ruth Zaporah's work (www.actiontheater.com); he began studying with her intensively in the early nineties. Owen's training also includes vocal work with the Roy Hart Theater, Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation and modern dance. Owen is a member of the International Action Theater Ensemble. For seven years he was a member of Mobius Artists Group in Boston. Owen also co-founded Four Goats and a Virgin, an improvisational theater ensemble. He has performed throughout New England, New York, the Bay Area, and in France.
Rajendra Serber was a 2008 recipient of the Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange award. He directed and performed in his own multimedia group, The RK Corral, supported by grants form the Zellerbach Family Fund, had residencies at The LAB and 848 Community Space, and was nominated for multiple Isadora Duncan Awards and Lester Horton Dance Awards. From 1996 to 1997 he was the Associate Producer of House of Dance, which was broadcast bimonthly on San Francisco’s public access channel. As a dancer, Rajendra has had the privilege of collaborating with many wonderful artists: The Residents, Scott Wells, Sara Shelton Mann, Ilaan Egeland, Jon Weaver, Kimiko Guthrie and Eric Kupers of Dandelion Dancetheater.
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