Trident Live Art Series: Music and Dance in Performance

Description

Trident Gallery is pleased to present the Ipswich Moving Company, led by artistic director and choreographer Janet Craft, and the Boston-based improvisational music trio of Emilio Gonzalez, Matt Samolis, and Dei Xhrist for a Trident Live Art Series performance of modern dance and improvisational music. The Ipswich Moving Company will present four excerpts from Look, Look Again / Dance Installation (2015), and the musicians will present Space Abstraction Study #6, an improvisational piece for amplified kalimba, flute, and voice/movement. The Ipswich Moving Company is a professional modern dance company based in Ipswich MA led by Janet Taisey Craft for over thirty years. Gonzalez, Samolis, and Xhrist are, in various combinations, musicians, composers, scholars, musicologists, sonic curators, and performance artists. Further information about the performers is on the gallery website at TridentGallery.com/#event_imc. Admission is free. Voluntary donations ($10 suggested) compensate the artists. Seating is limited. Guests may reserve seats by visiting the gallery, by calling +1 (978) 491-7785, by sending e-mail to events@TridentGallery.com, or by joining the Facebook event (please do not respond "Maybe"). House doors open 15 minutes before the event (earlier when possible). At fully reserved events, guests without reservations will be invited to occupy empty seats promptly at the scheduled start time. The Trident Live Art Series presents performances by seasoned professionals showing experimental and collaborative work in the intimate salon setting of the gallery. Performances of 20–40 minutes are followed by refreshments and informal conversation. Live Art Series Director Sarah Slifer Swift curates and produces the performances, drawing on two decades of experience in the United States and abroad as a dance artist, choreographer, and producer.