three SF performances in the next two days

Thursday, 25 June 2009

Supperclub - I'm dinner theater, playing Schnittke around 8:30 or 9

657 Harrison St between 2nd an 3rd (415) 348-0900

Thursday, 25 June 2009

Tingel Tangel - Pride Edition - again Schnittke, guessing I'll go on around 10

THE 'NEW' BLUE MACAW
2565 Mission St btwn. 21ST AND 22ND

Friday, 26 June 2009

Suppervision Pride - again at the Supperclub - show starts at midnight

Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time last movement, with Gary Lutes, piano

657 Harrison St between 2nd an 3rd (415) 348-0900

our lives as file-footage celebrities

James and I keep surfacing in the news. The lovely thing about this clip (for which thanks Dennis) is that we're holding up a fraudulent prop - our invalidated marriage certificate from 2004. Above is a screen grab; here's the clip.

Kunst-Stoff review and photos

The Kunst-Stoff show at Yerba Buena Forum was a big success - every night was different and the dancers made interpretive and improvisatory virtue out of some shocking necessities, for example legs spontaneously flying off the table that's a crucial prop throughout the second piece. The Chronicle review was positive; I feel immeasurably about it.

Here are some photos I took at the dress:




























































And after the show -

Yale classmate and Apparition of the Eternal Church star Manoel Felciano, now appearing in Albee's At Home at the Zoo at ACT (Chronicle review); Mano's French American International School classmate and my Lowell High School classmate Nat Stookey, who arranged the Schnittke choir concerto movement ("I, an expert in human passions") that I played on solo violin. Clothes and make-up by Suppositori Spelling.

With Kunst-Stoff jack-of-all-trades Keira Chang (a.k.a. Spatial K) and Justin Andrews.

With San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra fellow alumnus Rob Bailis, now director of ODC Theater, who in the past year has become my artistic fairy godmother, coproducing the big Messiaen night in Grace Cathedral and hooking me up with a three year ODC residency and this Yerba Buena gig. Also pictured: Rob's folks.

happy anniversary James!

but wait - still more Kunst-Stoff pix!

Today was our last rehearsal at the Dance Center - after this operations shift to Yerba Buena. Very excited! Tonight I finally got around to listening to the original Schnittke choir concerto movement whose solo violin transcription by Nat Stookey I'm playing the world premiere of Friday, and I dissolved. Poof! No more violinist, just a puddle surrounded by a ring of soggy Kleenex. That Germano-Soviet crank really knew what he was doing, and he knew that he knew what he was doing. Title of the movement: "I, an Expert in Human Passions."

I took these pictures at rehearsal a couple of weeks ago and was so bummed out by how grainy and rotten they looked on the camera LCD that I didn't bother looking at them on the computer until now. They still look lousy, but they're kind of cool.

See information about this weekend's shows in the preceding post, below.

Kunst-Stoff rehearsal pix by Spatial K - show this weekend!

Some pictures from my recent rehearsal with Kunst-Stoff by Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang. a.k.a. Spatial K. These pictures are taken at the San Francisco Dance Center, housed on the fifth floor of the old Odd Fellows Building at 7th and Market.

Shows are Friday and Saturday at 8, Sunday at 7, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Tickets are on sale now!

Yannis Adoniou, our fearless leader.

With the luminous Suzanne Lappas...

and the preposterously graceful Spencer Dickhaus...

Me with my Lowell High School classmate Nat Stookey, who has arranged a movement of Alfred Schnittke's choir concerto for solo violin. The piece is famous for another transcription, by the Kronos Quartet, which is on a few of their albums. Both transcriptions take their title from the text, in this case "(Where) Every Verse is Filled with Grief." This will be the world premiere of Nat's beautifully violinistic rendering.