Text by Sylvain Leroux
Date: Friday, September 6, 2013
Times: 9:30, 11pm and 12:30am
Venue: Zinc Bar (82 West 3rd Street (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets)
Ticket: $10
Interview by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (DooBeeDooBeeDoo’s chief editor), August 20, 2013
All photos by John Pietaro
Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (S): John, let’s talk about your festival “baby” first: the annual Dissident Arts Festival 2013. Why and when did you start this festival?
Supernatural Love Story is Set to Music of Blues Legend Howlin’ Wolf
By Mando Alvarado and Directed by Alfred Preisser
Music Direction & Composition By Tomás Doncker
Date: Thursday, August 1, 2013
Time: 5 p.m.
Venue: St. Peter’s Church (619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, NYC)
Ticket: suggested donation of $25
The music world lost another great musician: jazz drummer/percussionist and Ft. Apache founding member Steve Berrios passed away, July 25, 2013. The born and bred New Yorker (February 24, 1945) was a founding member of the groundbreaking Ft. Apache Band alongside brothers Jerry and Andy Gonzalez and pianist Larry Willis and often performed in the Afro-Cuban jazz medium.
Berrios was highly regarded amongst the community of musicians and also played and recorded with Randy Weston, Art Blakey, Kenny Kirkland, Michael Brecker, Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, Joe Panama, Mongo Santamaría and others.
War torture survivors from Africa and The Middle East overcome their traumatic pasts through movement and dance therapy, in Ireland.
It is our goal to create a film that uses dance and movement as it’s first language. “Fall and Recover” is a film project working with refugees who have overcome their traumatic pasts through the power of movement and dance. We will be working with a group of war torture survivors from different parts of Africa and the Middle East who have found peace within Ireland. This group of individuals started dancing as a form of movement therapy, under the direction of John Scott, head of the Irish Dance Theater. Together they created critically acclaimed performances pieces that have toured internationally. John Scott has asked us to come to Ireland with hopes of creating a cinematic version of the project. One of the primary objectives of this film is to explore what film can capture and express that live performance cannot. We hope to create a film that is beautiful and poetic as well as thought provoking and inspiring.
