Events
Cincinnati: Brianna Matzke "Tremor"
Debut of pianist Brianna Matzke’s “Tremor” project, featuring music by composers Molly Joyce, Forrest Pierce, Adeliia Faizullina, Matthew Evan Taylor, and Hanna Benn.
Los Angeles: CAP UCLA
Composer Molly Joyce and choreographer Jerron Herman join forces for Left and Right, a new cross-disciplinary work combining original music, dance and poetic narration.
Joyce and Herron’s respective disabilities inform their artistry, creating a kindred and prolific artistic partnership. Their latest collaboration, Left and Right, is inspired by Joyce and Herron’s impaired left sides. (Herman’s is congenital from cerebral palsy. Joyce’s was acquired in a car accident.) The work is a rumination on the opposing lore of the left and right sides of the body— the left being cursed and dark, the right being healing and beneficial.
Joyce and Herron invite accessibility collaborators into their artistic process, including directory Austin Regan, writer / audio describer Max Greyson, accessibility consultant Sandy Guttman and blind/vision impairment consultant Andy Slater. Left and Right is an evening celebrating intersectional arts and identities with accessibility at the forefront.
Stockholm: Duo Holmander & Huang
Premiere of new work for Duo Holmander & Huang (Magnus Holmander, clarinet and David Huang, piano), along with performances of Attack and Sustain and Rave.
Los Angeles: Magdalene / REDCAT
Magdalene is a chamber opera in thirteen movements—a wild meditation on transformation and desire scored by the collective voice of fourteen women composers: Leila Adu, Ruby Kato Attwood, Danielle Birritetella, Sheena Birrittella, Christina Courtin, Gabrielle Herbst, Molly Joyce, Emma O’Halloran, Tanner Porter, Ellen Reid, Kamala Sankaram, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, Annika Socolofsky, and Gyða Valtýsdóttir. Set to Marie Howe’s Magdalene poems, the opera invites an audience into the interior world of the biblical figure Mary Magdalene—enlarging her to cross time and space, she appears as a woman alive now, who strives to heal the unyielding split between the sacred and the sexual. Encountering her life in flashes—wandering through a hotel, lighting birthday candles, making love in the ocean—Magdalene finds transcendence in the mundane to finally become the subject of her own story.
Los Angeles: Magdalene / REDCAT
Magdalene is a chamber opera in thirteen movements—a wild meditation on transformation and desire scored by the collective voice of fourteen women composers: Leila Adu, Ruby Kato Attwood, Danielle Birritetella, Sheena Birrittella, Christina Courtin, Gabrielle Herbst, Molly Joyce, Emma O’Halloran, Tanner Porter, Ellen Reid, Kamala Sankaram, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, Annika Socolofsky, and Gyða Valtýsdóttir. Set to Marie Howe’s Magdalene poems, the opera invites an audience into the interior world of the biblical figure Mary Magdalene—enlarging her to cross time and space, she appears as a woman alive now, who strives to heal the unyielding split between the sacred and the sexual. Encountering her life in flashes—wandering through a hotel, lighting birthday candles, making love in the ocean—Magdalene finds transcendence in the mundane to finally become the subject of her own story.
Pennsylvania: Two-Headed Dragon: dueling pianists and NakedEye at DCC
NakedEye Ensemble performs a unique assemblage of amplified bicycle, nineties Latin pop, deep grooves, toy instruments, extended duo piano techniques, and much, much more. Song and Supové head a wild ride choreographed around a grand piano, toy pianos, midi controllers, a bicycle, and a body of electroacoustic instruments.
PROGRAM
Rusty Banks: Spoke(n) (2016)
Richard Belcastro: Inner Strife (2016)
Angélica Negrón: Fruity Roll on Sparkly Lip Gloss (2019)
Randall Woolf: The Ancient Art of Weaving (2019)
Molly Joyce: On and Off (2019)
New York: Cooper Hewitt - Temporary Body: A Jerron Herman Performance
Ooriginal dance performance by writer and dancer Jerron Herman, in which he will engage and respond to the historic Carnegie Mansion, Cooper Hewitt’s home. The performance will travel through several galleries on the first floor of the museum and attendees will be encouraged to interact with the performance piece by writing on the performer’s garment, designed by fashion designer Sughanda Gupta. Soundscape design by composer and vocalist Molly Joyce. Co-produced by INTERIM Corporation.
Boston: Berklee College of Music / Milton Academy
Residency/performance with Berklee disability arts ensemble, including musicians Gaelynn Lea and Adrian Anantawan.
Greenville, NC: Hinge Quartet
Hinge Quartet performs Hit and Run at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC.
Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Public Library
Performing as part of Brooklyn Public Library’s Night in the Library: Out of Darkness, curated by National Sawdust.
Düsseldorf: Kunstkommission Düsseldorf
stadt.raum.experimente - Artist talks & presentations with Antimonument, Molly Joyce, Martina Morger, Jota Ramos, Studio3
Canton, NY: Hinge Quartet
Hinge Quartet performs Hit and Run at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY.
Oshkosh, WI: Hinge Quartet
Hinge Quartet performs Hit and Run at University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh in Oshkosh, WI.
Pittsburgh: Body Doubles Symposium
Guest speaker/performer at the Body Doubles Symposium, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
Tucson: University of Arizona
Residency + performance with Duo Entre-Nous (Jackie Glazier, Don-Paul Kahl) at University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ.
Boston: Hinge Quartet
Hinge Quartet performs Hit and Run at Boston Conservatory at Berklee in Boston, MA.
Sydney, Australia: Eighth Blackbird
Eighth Blackbird musicians Lina Andonovska (flute) and Matthew Duvall (percussion) perform Light and Dark at Art Gallery NSW in Sydney, Australia, as part of the Klänge live music program.
Düsseldorf: Perspective Public Art Installation
Public art installation of the German iteration of Perspective, featuring voices and viewpoints of disabled interviewees, in video ads across Düsseldorf, Germany.
Oxford, OH: Hinge Quartet
Hinge Quartet performs Hit and Run at Miami University in Oxford, OH.
New York: New York Festival of Song
November’s program spotlights singer-songwriters who come out of the classical tradition. The composer-performers featured this afternoon will include Molly Joyce, a musician whose limited mobility in her left hand has lead her to creative and idiosyncratic performance techniques, and made her a powerful advocate for people with disabilities; Dicky Dutton, whose work explores ritual and queer identity in a playfully improvisatory spirit; and Lucy Dhegrae, performing a piece for voice and electronics that wrestles with the complex legacy of “modern” music, with a profound concern for connecting with audiences outside the “scene.” Tickets $25. Students tickets ($10) available here.
Richmond: Third Practice Festival
Solo voice/toy organ set as part of the Third Practice Festival at University of Richmond in Richmond, VA.
Italy/Online: Hybrida Space Talk
Virtual talk on Disability as a Creative Source, hosted by Italy’s Hybrida Space Festival.
Berlin/Online: Refuge Worldwide Workshop
In this workshop, disabled artist Molly Joyce will present selections from her ongoing project titled "Perspective." The project features disabled interviewees responding to what access, care, interdependence, and more means to them and features their voices aurally and visually, musical accompaniment, and open-caption videos. Molly has explored several mediums for the work thus far, ranging from installation to dance to public art, and she will share selections along with posing project questions to workshop attendees, such as "What is care for you?" and "What is cure for you?".
Ithaca: Opera Ithaca Festival
Performance of YousaidShesaidHesaid, featuring text by Christopher Oscar Peña and direction by Austin Regan, as part of the Opera Ithaca Festival at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY.
New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Art Museum
Perspective showing as part of Gateways to Awareness explores the role of memory, perception and the five senses in our appreciation of art and the world around us, at the New Bedford Art Museum in New Bedford, MA.
Berlin: Seven Last Words
Performance of The forest we could not see, as part of the PODIUM Festival’s Seven Last Words project at Theatre im Delphi in Berlin, Germany.
Lüneburg: Seven Last Words
Performance of The forest we could not see, as part of the PODIUM Festival’s Seven Last Words project at St. Michaelis in Lüneburg, Germany.
Healdsburg: Cycles of Resistance
Chelsea Hollow performs The Beauty of Disability, as part of her Cycles of Resistance project, at 222 in Healdsburg, CA.
Massachusetts: Gordon Symphony Orchestra
The Gordon Symphony Orchestra of Gordon College performs Fresh, conducted by Gabe Southard.
Westminster, MD: NakedEye Ensemble
NakedEye Ensemble performs Less is More at Carroll Community College in Westminster, MD.
Penn State: Lee Hinkle
Percussionist Lee Hinkle performs Figure and Form for solo vibraphone.
Zurich: Cadillac Lyriq Launch
DJ set for launch of the Cadillac Lyriq in Zurich, Switzerland.
Brooklyn: Cycles of Resistance
Chelsea Hollow performs The Beauty of Disability, as part of her Cycles of Resistance project, at Brooklyn Art Haus in Brooklyn, NY.
New York: Han Chen - Infinite Staircase
Metropolis Ensemble, Black Tea Music, and National Sawdust present a new project featuring the World Premiere of 18 new works for solo piano, co-commissioned by Metropolis and pianist Han Chen, celebrating the centenary birthday of Hungarian-Austrian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006).
Each of the new works is paired with one of Ligeti’s renowned canonic piano etudes, in a recital performance by Han Chen. A diverse cohort of contemporary composers were invited to study Ligeti’s etude, go against the etude, or simply sit with the etude during the composition process. Together, all thirty-six works bring a new and imaginative interpretation on the original iconic etudes.