Past Events – 2024

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Presenting the solo version of Du.0’s SOUNDNEST concept (with graphic scores by Aimée Niemann).

Scoot’s (email for address), Pittsburgh, PA

Presenting the solo version of Du.0’s SOUNDNEST concept (with graphic scores by Aimée Niemann).

​Convivium 33 Gallery (1433 E 33rd St, Cleveland, OH 44114)

​Du.0 brings the SOUNDNEST to the closing night of artist Beatrice Modisett’s solo exhibition “Into a Kind of Quietness.” Percussionist Ellery Trafford will also perform.

Analog Diary, 1154 North Avenue, Beacon, NY

Mise-En_Place, 341 Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY

with visual artist Beatrice Modisett

Summit, NY

Mise-en_Place, 341 Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY

“Solo recital” with pianist Melinda Faylor, cellist Iva Casian-Laskos, and percussionist Caitlin Cawley.

Soapbox Gallery (636 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238)

“Shadowboxing in Blue” is an innovative, multidimensional project weaving dance, boxing, and an original score for a string quartet. This collaboration between dancers, boxers, and musicians explores an individual facing inner adversaries at different life stages. With the goal of fostering diversity, both in casting and artistic expression, this project seeks to deliver a powerful message that challenges norms and redefines the intersection of art, sports, and self-healing.

Direction : Lauren Hlubny
Composition : Caitlin Cawley, Lauren Hlubny & The Musicians

Haven Boxing (65 Scholes St, Brooklyn, NY 11206)

O Most Noble Greenness is a collaboration across centuries between Du.0 and Hildegard von Bingen, a German abbess and composer from 1100 A.D. Though separated from the composer by the remove of time, language, geography, and instrumentation, we nevertheless felt Hildegard’s presence as a living, breathing source of inspiration. 

Channeling Hildegard’s visceral embodiment of natural and mystical imagery, we deconstruct her song “Item de Virginibus” to uncover new sonorities and form. Throughout the compositional process, we found landing points within her melody that opened into pools of sonic unity, anchoring the piece between periods of timbral and harmonic expansion. The coda illuminates the husk of Hildegard’s original structure and reduces it to its most skeletal form. – Du.0 

Set to “Quatuor pour la fin du temps” by Olivier Messiaen, Vervet Dance will premiere their “Quartet for the End of Time,” a 50 minute dance work choreographed by Loren Groenendaal for four dancers and four musicians at the Icebox Project Space at 1400 N American St, Philadelphia, PA 19122 on Friday, November 22, 2024 at 8pm, Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 2pm and 8pm.

While this work deals with the difficult themes of apocalypse, existential questioning of time, humanitarian and environmental disasters, the overall expression is poetic, hopeful and uplifting, seeking to provide solace in difficult times. The contemporary dance work brings a more human element to the music as dance is a medium performed by human bodies. These bodies are seeking to live, experience time, and survive apocalypses. They run, sway, and careen away from and into disaster, find support in each other, inspiration and solace from nature and connection with humanity. Much of the imagery in the dance comes from nature- trees, lichens, birds, sky with clouds, sun, rain, and rainbows. These images, processes, and relationships serve as allegories for more human stories as well as sharing their own naturalistic truth.