Unnameable Element
Leo Chang – voice, Piri | Chris Williams – trumpet | Lester St. Louis – cello | Miriam Parker – movement, video
Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks
3×3 “HEAD IN THE SAND” to Tipping Utopia to Vision Festival
Dancers: Yoshiko Chuma, Miriam Parker, Emily Mare Pope | Jason Kao Hwang – violin | Steve Swell – trombone | Aliya Ultan – cello
“Miriam Parker, a 2021 Toulmin Fellow with National Sawdust and Center for Ballet and the Arts, leads our 2022 Toulmin Fellows - including dancer Adji Cissoko, composer Emily Wells, composer Jihye Lee, artist and educator Kara Wilkes, choreographer Tiffany Rea-Fisher and composer/performer Val Jeanty - along with our audience of artists and creators in discussing the lessons we’ve learned throughout the last two years.”
Image reference: https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWyQ8POeEG/?hl=en
ChamberQUEER 2022 opens their two-show engagement at National Sawdust on June 10 by drawing centuries of music into conversation – juxtaposing boundary-breaking Renaissance nuns with the voices of three fantastic emerging composers drawn from our 2020 Call for Scores: Connor D’Netto, Alexis Lamb, and Rosśa Crean. The concert weaves these musical worlds together through reflective improvisations that converse with multifaceted experiences of queerness across the centuries. Confirmed performers for June 10 include violinist Mazz Swift and baritone vocalist Lucas Bouk alongside the core ChamberQUEER ensemble of Jules Biber, Danielle Buonaiuto, Brian Mummert, and Andrew Yee, with more artists TBA.
Workshop/Performance by Jasmine Hearn, Miriam Parker, Kamau Amu Patton, Jamila Raegan, Sara VanDerBeek, Alisha B Wormsley, and Stan VanDerBeek Archive
Photo credits left to right: courtesy of the artist, Jorge Cardenas, Sara Kostić
What is special about Moving Landscapes is that while each performance is an expression of its own, each artist will also engage and participate in recreating the space from what is left behind by the other two. The vestige of each work will activate the ancestry of the next, supporting our ideas emerging from community, conviviality, and identity. All three artists explore a universe as individuals and share the space as a collaboration: one space, three different perceptions.
In jazz, radical honesty is best represented by William Parker. His compositions are blunt, and they always display – albeit indirectly – strong political convictions. However, the double bass player will not play with your nerves. Neither will he up the stakes. His music, while full of awareness, is also infinitely humble. This sound poem gives a fresh example of the way languages are linked by what Parker calls “universal tonality”. Jazz, opera, and folk music coexist in this brilliantly crafted piece which re-examines the Trail of Tears, an important episode in the history of the United States of America, during which some 100.000 members of the Cherokee and Choctaw were forcibly relocated after being relentlessly and violently dispossessed. Parker’s account is blunt but full of love and searing truth.
AMA BIRCH | NO LAND | WILLIAM PARKER | MIRIAM PARKER | BENTLEY ANDERSON | JOHN TANK | ALEX HARSLEY | KENDRA KRUEGER | In collaboration with the 4th Street Photo Gallery
About Lost Voyage/Dwelling: Cobalt Mirror Image ✧ In continuation of a 7-week residency at FiveMyles in 2020, Miriam Parker, Jean Carla Rodea, Jo Wood-Brown, Merche Blasco, rebeca medina, Asiya Wadud, Alystyre Julian, and Tiffani Moore revisit and expand their original ‘Lost Voyage,’ bringing what has been named ‘Lost Voyage/Dwelling’ to FiveMyles in a video and sound installation with performances on November 20th and 21st.
For more information about Lost Voyage, please visit WWW.LOSTVOYAGENYC.COM.
Photo Credit by Don Yorty
Yoshiko Chuma | Yanira Castro | Miriam Parker | Wendy Perron | Emily Marie Pope | Kathy Ray | Vicky Shick | Nicky Paraiso (Link to Article by Don Yorty)
Curated by Zahra Sherzad
Performance with Spencer Zahn and Darius Christian Busquelo
“Through Their Gazes/ A Través de sus Miradas”, curated by Jean Carla Rodea will screen August 6th at 8pm through the Outpost Vimeo channel.
One of the first in-person music festivals to return to New York City, Vision 25 will take place over seven nights, July 22-23 and 29-30 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and July 24-25 and 31 at The Clemente in the Lower East Side, and all events will be in-person, outdoors, and live streamed.
A meditation through amplified vibrations on interconnectedness, our capacity for mutual transformation, and the urgent need to listen to each other and the world.
Influential opera director Yuval Sharon will join our co-founder Paola Prestini to discuss arts leadership in times of change, the future of performance and the operatic form, collaborating with artists and creating safe spaces for all.
In partnership with the Center for Ballet and the Arts
Two co-fellows from our season-long collaboration with the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU— composer, performer, and founder of Constellation Chor, Marisa Michelson, and interdisciplinary artist Miriam Parker — connect sound and movement from sacred music to free jazz, Buddhism to divine spirituality.
Monira Foundation Virtual Stage presents My Truth: an evening of performances for Instagram Live, featuring Miriam Parker with Merche Blasco, and Rashad Wright.
PREORDER THE DIGITAL ALBUM. The Festival will be live-streamed on Vimeo, Youtube and FB Live. More information on Infrequent Seams website.
Free live streaming will also be available on Twitch.
Friday December 18 7-10pm EST:
Miriam Parker presents Baldwin, Urgency of Now, 2020 as part of Brackish Music & Art.
Brackish is a performance series showcasing live music (improvised/composed), visual art (installation/video/projection), poetry, and movement curated by Angela Morris, jaimie branch, and stevie may. Focussed particularly on women and non-binary artists, it’s the kind of vital low-stakes / high interest environment where people can take risks within a room full of people who are likewise engaged in experimentation.
Happy to announce that i will be performing LIVE in collaboration with Luke Stewart, hosted by Fridman Gallery and Wide Awakes!
I will also be presenting video art in collaboration with Christina Smiros.
More details about the streaming platforms to come soon!
Wednesday, September 30th, Miriam Parker will be a guest to Heroes Are Gang Leaders, the literary free jazz ensemble of writers, artists and musicians as a part of the 2020 Brooklyn Book Festival.
The Performance will be online thorugh ISSUE Project Room.
A last report Live from FiveMyles. Saying goodbye to Lost Voyage @ Five Myles.
Join us on Instagram and Facebook Live.
FiveMyles (558 St. Johns Place) will be open from 1pm to 6pm. While the performance will be from 4pm to 6pm with limited space for viewing. Please remember masks are necessary to enter the space.
If you are interested in attending, please email Miriam.
Final Week Reports. Join us on Instagram.
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