Reclaiming What Is Lost
A Vocal, Movement, and Ritual Workshopwith Anne Hege
SATURDAY, July 31, 2 to 5 p.m.
Suggested $12 - 20 sliding scale donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Limit: 12
Sign up with angel@earthangelart.comReclaiming what is Lost is a workshop dedicated to the exploration of ways we can reclaim people or places we have lost yet still feel we need to hold a place for in our lives. MR Daniel and Anne Hege will guide the workshop participants through a series of movement and vocal exercises that will become the building blocks for a ritual we will create together. All participants are invited to bring a sonic memory of a loved one or place they would like to reclaim. This could be an audio recording, an object that makes sound, or a spoken memory. Creating a type of sonic altar, we will honor our collective memories through guided movement and singing, improvisation and some technological surprises. The three-hour workshop will culminate in an enactment of our ritual. There are no prerequisites for this workshop and all are welcome.
Bios
MR Daniel is an interdisciplinary composer/artist working in sound, performance, and installation. Her work culls the terrain of memory, often realized as sound environments employing vocal folk idioms, and reconfigurations of African American spirituals through a range of analog and digital manipulations of voice, musical instrumentation, video, text, and found sound. Previously, she received a doctorate in History of Consciousness from University of California at Santa Cruz. Her art has been performed or exhibited in various locales, including The Tank (New York), The Lab, WAM (San Francisco), Soap Factory (Minnesota), SPACES (Cleveland), Around the Coyote (Chicago), EMP Pop! Conference (Seattle), and broadcast on Greek National Radio. A VONA Fellow, she studied creative writing with Junot Díaz, Marci Blackman, and Julius Lester. MR has lived in Illinois, Oregon, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Oakland, California. Currently, MR is completing her doctorate in music composition at Princeton University.
Born in Oakland, CA, Anne Hege began her musical studies singing with the Piedmont Children’s Choir and the Oakland Youth Chorus. Formative projects with innovators such as Keith Terry and Linda Tillery inspired her multimedia leanings in the mid 90’s. Hege received her BA from Wesleyan University and MA in music composition from Mills College where she worked with Pauline Oliveros, Chris Brown, Alvin Curran and Fred Frith. Hege has composed works for film, installation art, dance and concert settings. She performs original works in her duos, New Prosthetics and Sidecar, as well as in the vocal trio, Celestial Mechanics. She is currently working on her
The image below is from a performance piece that will give structure to this workshop.
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