The International Street Cannibals present 'A Place in France'

St Mark's in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, NY, 10003
United States

performed by:
Taka Kigawa (piano), Inna Faliks and Kathleen Supove (piano).
Dan Barrett (cello, conductor), Lynn Bechtold (violin), Dan Cooper (7-string electric bass), Dmitri Dover (piano), Joe Gallant (6-string electric bass), Patrick Grant (electric keyboards and synthesizer), Gene Pritsker (DI.J., conductor), Edmundo Ramirez (viola d'amore), and Michiyo Suzuki (clarinet and alto saxophone).

vocalists:
Lynn Norris, Charles Coleman, and Brittany Fowler

dancers:
Megan Sipe (dance-captain/choreographer/dancer),
Amanda Mottur (dancer and belly dancer)
and Megan Sipe's Dancing Fish Productions.

puppeteer:
Benjamin

The International Street Cannibals perform the multi-genre concert event, "A Place in France", on December 4th at 7:30pm, at the legendary venue of the main space of St. Mark's in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street, New York City.

On December 4th, the ISC present "A Place in France", a program where clichés become anti-cliché, through the means of both intensification and de-contextualization. The event includes elements such as the can-can, the rituals of fencing, French culinary motifs, the image of the salon, and various American perceptions of French culture. Within a concert fabric that covers a range of familiar symbolic and iconographical vocabularies, the ISC mingle the traditional cultural tropes with the more vital components of the arts of France, producing both a friction and harmony between cliché and viable content. This aesthetic operation points up the actual processes of art, rather than its effects and exteriority.

Gene Pritsker : Digital Debussy
Gene Pritsker : Euro Trash Can
Olivier Messiaen : Intermede
Erik Satie : Choses Vue a Droit et a Gauche
Claude Debussy : L'isle joyeuse