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08/17 Sunday
11:30 AM Yoga with Natalie Brooks
7:00 PM Multiartscape Triptyk
Join us as we travel along multimedia terrains of artistic expression. During this event we pass markers along roads that take switchback turns through music, poetry, & dance.
Forbes Graham -- trumpet
Jane Wang -- cello & piano
Daniel Johnson -- poetry
Suzanne Bouffard -- tap dance
Liz Roncka -- movement
Dan Godston -- horns & poetry
Kevin Micka aka Animal Hospital – guitar, percussion & effects
$10 suggested donation
Jane Wang is a composer/musician/artist who often collaborates with choreographers, movement, performance and theater artists. She plays double bass, cello, piano, guitarron, toy piano, ukelele, and various other instruments. She has performed in Haiti, Japan, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Italy and has had collaborated with artists in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. She is currently a member of the Mobius Artist Group and the composers' collaborative CDZABU. More info about her work is available online at
www.myspace.com/janewangcomposer
Daniel Johnson was raised in Salem, Ohio. He has worked as an educator and teaching artist with Teach for America, Young Chicago Authors, and Snow City Arts Foundation. Currently, he lives with his wife in Cambridge, Massachussets. His poetry has appeared in a variety of publications including jubilat, VERSE, American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, and in the anthology I Have My Own Song For It: Modern Poems of Ohio. In 2004 and 2005, he was selected for the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Juried Reading. His first manuscript is titled How to Catch a Falling Knife.
Suzanne Bouffard is a Boston-based tap dance performer, teacher, and choreographer, who has been called a “standout…for her effervescent pizzazz” by The Boston Globe. She currently performs with the New England Tap Ensemble and The Rhythm Section, and has been a member of the Footnotes Tap Ensemble and the Terpsichore Dance Troupe. Among her numerous credits are appearances in Clara's Dream: A Jazz Nutcracker, Tapestry, and the Beantown Tap Festival, and she has been a featured soloist with the Yoko Miwa Trio and the Wesleyan University Jazz Orchestra. Previously, she had a successful acting career on Broadway. Suzanne has taught at Emerson College, Wesleyan University, and throughout the Boston area. She holds a Ph.D. from Duke University.
Dan Godston composes music and plays the trumpet and other instruments in Chicago. In 2006 his trio -- Ways & Means -- released its debut CD, entitled Fire of Dream; this recording features a collaboration with poet Ed Roberson. From 2005 till 2006 The Ways & Means Trio hosted a monthly series at Muse Café called Lower & Upper Limits, which showcased collaborations between poets and musicians. Dan has worked with Jim Ryan, Daniele Cavallanti, Tiziano Tononi, Joel Wanek, Jayve Montgomery, Eric Glick Rieman, Guillermo Gregorio, Tom Abbs, Jerome Bryerton, Mankwe Ndosi, David Boykin, Douglas Ewart, Paul Hartsaw, Mars Williams, Steve Cohn, Nicole Mitchell, Briggan Krauss, Alex Wing, Ben Boye, Bill MacKay, Joshua Manchester, Federico Ughi, Clifton Hyde, and other musicians.
Forbes Graham is a composer, trumpet player, and electronic musician currently based in the Boston area. He has appeared on over 30 recordings, including studio appearances on such labels as Metal Blade, Tzadik, and Troubleman. Forbes has performed and recorded with a very diverse group of artists, including Erase Errata, Rakalam Bob Moses, Steve Lantner, Daughters, Raqib Hassan, Jim Hobbs, The One Am Radio, and Luther Gray. His composition “Variations on the Fibonacci Sequence” was commissioned by the Greenwall Foundation and world premiered at the 2007 Festival of New Trumpet. Forbes has also written music for the new music/rock ensemble Normal Love. He has appeared at numerous festivals including High Zero and The Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music. His work incorporates many genres including drum n’ bass, jazz, contemporary classical, noise, and hip-hop.
Liz Roncka has been dancing professionally since 1998. Her early training was in the tradition of classical ballet at the School of the New Bedford Ballet. In college, Liz’s focus shifted toward contemporary dance and improvisation. She was a member of the Dance Collective of Boston from 1998-2005. Liz has had the pleasure of performing modern dance and improvisational work under the direction of: Ramelle Adams, Emily Beattie, Ruth Benson-Levin, Debra Bluth, Alissa Cardone, Sean Curran, Andrew Harwood, Dawn Kramer, Light Motion, and Micki Taylor-Pinney. Her improvisational work has been presented in Boston, NYC, Paris and Budapest. Liz’s primary interest is in developing improvisational performances with dancers and musicians, most recently with movement artists Olivier Besson and Emily Beattie and musicians Jane Wang, Grant Smith, Jessyka Luzzi and Sean Frenette. When not dancing, Liz is a physical therapist and owner of Axis Pilates, LLC in Brookline.
www.myspace.com/forbesgraham
/www.danielbjohnson.com
www.myspace.com/janewangcomposer
http://tapboston.havetodance.com/suzanne_bouffard.html
www.myspace.com/dangodstonmusic