3p Dean Bowman (Vocal workshop)
Dean Bowman’s specialty is traditional Black spirituals as the foundation of modern music and improvisation. He’ll sing, discuss his work and the history of black spirituals. Come learn more and sing along. FREE. Please RSVP to info@dumboartsfestival.com.
DeanBowman.net
Congratulations to the visual artists who received the 2010 DAF festival prizes at a brief outdoor ceremony on Sunday.
Sean Capone received the grand prize for his work, Floral Wall: Skull & Void, a video installation that was sited in DUMBO’s Tobacco Warehouse. Sean was awarded a rent-free studio for one year as well as $1,000 cash prize! Additional winners were Seth Wulsin, who won $1,000 cash prize for his work, Animas and artists Ann Gilman and Dana Levy, who each received $500, splitting a prize for their open studio work. Please see the below Press Release to learn more about these winning artists.
Many thanks to our festival photographers Jane Kratochvil, Julienne Schaer, Matthew Thomas Taylor and our videographer Gerard Schmidt.
Stay tuned to view their great festival coverage!
Many many thanks to the festival artists, curators, staff, volunteers, sponsors, advisory board, prize jury, and all who participated and helped make it a success. Thanks to everyone who came out this weekend – we hope you enjoyed the festival. We’ve been getting great feedback so far. Stay tuned for lots of photos from the festival. See you next year!
Sunday 9/26 3pm: Rob Schwimmer (theremin, piano, composer) – demo w/theremin (after his 2pm concert)
@ Galapagos Art Space post-performance, 16 Main St.
A founding member of the highly acclaimed Polygraph Lounge, Rob Schwimmer is a composer-pianist and thereminist with compositions featured in theater, film, and on tv, and collaborations with music greats as varied Wayne Shorter, Simon & Garfunkel, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Bobby McFerrin. He’ll perform and then offer a theremin demo.
Sunday 9/26, 12-1pm
White Wave Dance
Kids Can Dance
WHITE WAVE’S Kids Can Dance education program will lead a one hour class session of Hip Hop/B-boy and Modern Dance on the waterfront for kids of all ages. FREE and open to the public.
Fulton Ferry Landing whitewavedance.com 718.855.8822
The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre
Sunday 9/26, 11am & 2pm
45 Main St., Ste. 800
JOHANNES DOKCHTOR FAUST, combines masterful animation, new vaudevillean puppetry, fireworks, and lively “penny-dreadful” dialogues.
Dumbo Arts Festival is delighted to host Tom Verlaine with Billy Ficca & Patrick Derivaz.
Sunday Sept. 26th, 8pm @ Galapagos Arts Space, 16 Main St., Dumbo
Tom Verlaine is a legendary singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the front-man for the New York rock band Television. The band is widely regarded as one of the founders of punk and New Wave. They were in the early 70s NY underground rock scene with bands like the Patti Smith Group, the Ramones and Talking Heads. Verlaine has also been Patti Smith’s guitarist and recently played with ETHEL, Patrick Derivaz and others at Lincoln Center Out of Doors’ opening night for its 40th anniversary. His music compositions range from the punk of his past to complex and technically proficient moody music.
Billy Ficca is a Punk Rock drummer and was also a member of Television.
Patrick Derivaz works with musicians from classical, jazz , world, hip hop, rock and other music traditions. He has produced, engineered and played on albums with composers and musicians including John Cale, Will.I.Am, Philip Glass, Jeff Buckley, and Tom Verlaine. Born in France, Patrick studied music at the Conservatoire d’Aix-en-Provence and taught at FIT. He composes, performs, records, mixes and produces a wide range of innovative and cross-cultural styles of music.
Patrickderivaz.com
The Festival has American Muscle.
In this piece by Fawad Khan, two simultaneous projections are set on a long loop. The non-narrative animations depict automobiles and auto parts, Brooklyn and New York symbology, construction elements such as orange netting and orange traffic cones all ricocheting off each other in a non defined space. Shards of glass and random formal elements such as bursts of light and/or explosive bars may pulse out from behind the elements appearing in the animations giving the piece dynamic and captivating elements.
Check it out:American Muscle
fawadkhan.com
The Festival Zipcar is look very arty — thanks to Kaliq Douglas torch@highsocietylife.com
Reema Mitra http://www.flickr.com/photos/rmittynyc
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