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MALIK GAINES AND ALEXANDRO SEGADE — STAR CHOIR

Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade —founding members of the performance collective My Barbarian—”work at the intersection of theater, visual arts, critical practice, and performance to play with social difficulties, theatricalize historic problems, and imagine ways of being together. Realized as drawings, texts, masks, videos, music, installations, and audience interactions, their projects employ fantasy, humor, and clashing aesthetic sensibilities to cleverly critique artistic, political, and social situations.”*

Gaines and Segade present STAR CHOIR, a new work developed while serving as Park Avenue Armory artists-in-residence. The 45-minute musical performance “tracks a group of humans who attempt to colonize a hostile planet after the Earth’s decline. Following some wonder and violence, a hybrid species is formed.” STAR CHOIR is performed by six singers and six musicians—Hai-Ting Chinn, Tomas Cruz, Tomas Fujiwara, Ariadne Greif, La Toya Lewis, Anthony McGlaun, Ethan Philbrick, Riza Printup, RaShonda Reeves, Kyra Sims, Luke Stewart, and Jorell Williams.*

MALIK GAINES and ALEXANDRO SEGADE—STAR CHOIR*

Thursday, May 23, at 7 pm and 9 pm.

Park Avenue Armory

643 Park Avenue (at 66th Street), New York City.

See “Questions of Representation: Malik Gaines in conversation with Barlo Perry, PARIS LA 16 (2018), 178–181.

Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, Star Choir in performance at the Levitt Pavilion on the opening night of Radio Imagination: Artists in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, with video and sheet music from the exhibition. Images courtesy and the artists.

LA BELLE, LA BÊTE, AND PHILIP GLASS

Jean Cocteau has always been an artist whose work was central to the modern art movement of the twentieth century. More than any other artist of his time, he again and again addressed questions of art, immortality and the creative process…

Blood of a Poet, Orphée, and LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE are all extremely thoughtful and subtle reflections of the life of an artist… La Belle is the most openly allegorical in style. Presented as a simple fairy tale, it soon became clear that the film had taken on a broader and deeper subject: the very nature of the creative process…

“The chateau itself is then seen as the very site of the creative process where, through an extraordinary alchemy of the spirit, the ordinary world of imagination takes flight.” — Philip Glass*

This weekend, the L.A. Opera presents three performances of Glass’ remarkable transformation of Cocteau’s 1946 masterpiece, which jettisons the film’s original score and dialogue. Glass’ 1994 soundtrack will be performed by his ensemble, and sung onstage by Gregory Purnhagen (la Bête), Hai-Ting Chinn (Belle), Marie Mascari (Félicie, and Adélaïde) and Peter Stewart (le père, and Ludovic). Michael Riesman conducts.

 

LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE

Saturday, October 28, at 8 pm. Tickets include admission to Beastly Ball.

Sunday, October 29, at 2 pm.

Tuesday, October, 31, at 8 pm. Tickets include after-party and costume contest.

THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL, 929 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles.

laopera.org/season/1718-Season/Belle

 

Tonight, join Philip Glass in performance and conversation at Whittier College.

 

AN EVENING WITH PHILIP GLASS, Thursday, October 26, at 7:30 pm.

WHITTIER COLLEGE, 13406 East Philadelphia Street, Whittier.

shannoncenter.org/realnewmusic_glass.htm

*See  artsmeme.com/2014/04/29/philip-glass-on-cocteaus-la-belle-et-la-bete

From top: Josette Day as Belle in La belle et la bête (1946); Marcel André, Belle’s father, visits the château; Jean Marais, as la Bête; Marais and Day.

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