Echoes of Discovery Activities
July 10 - 15
Project Bandaloop Residency
July 10, 11, 12
4 PM -7 PM (Wed., Thur., & Fri.) 10 AM-1 PM (Thur.
& Fri.)
Artisan Block North Side by the Carousel
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Watch the nation's leading aerial dance troupe, Project
Bandaloop, turn the sides of the Artisan Building in the
new Great Northern Town Center into their dance floor! The troupe
will be rehearsing a new piece called "Crossing."
"Crossing" is based on Project Bandaloop's mountaineering/art
project, in which they transversed the Sierra Nevada mountain
in the summer of 2001. The dancers worked together as a group
to create dances over 20 days in the mountains while crossing
the Sierra Nevadas. Along the route the performer-mountaineers
created site-specific dances on the ground and on the rock faces. |
The piece explores crossing from one state of being into another,
from one water shed to another, using isolation and the mountain
spaces as their inspiration. The next phase of Bandaloop's journey
begins in Helena as the group creates an urban multi-media dance
piece based on their mountain traverse.
www.projectbandaloop.org/
Performance at the Archie Bray
Sunday, July 14, 7:30 pm
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Project Bandaloop will perform a brief dance off
one of the 45-foot chimneys at the Archie Bray Foundation in
celebration of the launching of the Echoes of Discovery
project. |
Composer/violinist Zachary Carrettin joined
Project Bandaloop on the journey, recording sounds with
a hand-held digital recording devise, and notating sound-scapes
on manuscript. He will perform as a soloist and with Project
Bandaloop.
Also enjoy a brief debut performance by Rent Party Improv,
a group of jazz musicians, poets and artists who, like Project
Bandaloop, plunge into the gravitational pull of the musical
moment, exploring sonorous wildernesses and encounters.
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Rob Quist, a Pikuni Blackfeet singer/songwriter,
will perform selections from Odyssey West, a Lewis and Clark
project he and singer Jack Gladstone have developed. |
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Symposium:
Revisioning Lewis and Clark:
Echoes of Discovery in Western Arts
Monday, July 15
Morning Events
at the Holter Museum
Afternoon Events
at the Myrna Loy Center
with support from the Montana
Arts Council, the Montana Committee for the Humanities,
the NEA, NEA-Forest Service Arts and Rural Community
Assistance Program, and the National Performance Network.
This symposium will investigate the relationship of art to
the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration, and to the West.
It will also provide examples and discussion of what some leading
contemporary artists are planning. |
