Text by the producers of this event
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
“Skana, Goddesses and More.” is a new live performance that will take place at Galapagos Arts Space in NYC on Sept 27, 2011. The event gathers original female performers with an engaging presence to weave together a web of music, dance and theatrality that is wavering, ethereal, poetic.
The evening is divided in 2 parts:
“Goddess chronicles” is a show written and performed by composer Milica Paranosic that features Milica’s intimate views and interpretations of Goddesses from Roman, Slavic, Ewe, Hindu, Brazilian and Egyptian mythologies, in collaboration with Visual Artist Carmen Kordas.
Muriel Louveau’s performance “Skana and more” is an extended and theatrical show with live vocals music and dance. Muriel will perform songs of the album Skana produced with american composer Charles B Kim and other selected pieces, all in foreign languages inspired by far off lands, and coming from liturgical as well as poetic sources.
For this new version, the choreographer dancer Emily Pope Blackman joins Muriel to create dance works in response to her singing.
Special thanks to our collaborators Dale Knoth, conception &lightings design, and Shyamal Maitra, sound design & live effects.
THE BACKGROUND
It all started when French singer, Muriel Louveau , and American composer Charles B Kim produced and wrote “Skana ” a CD entirely recorded in cyber space. Despite the music having groundings in the past, the production of this album was a very 21st century endeavor. Thanks to modern technology, the end result is the same as if Louveau and Kim had worked in the same studio in the same city. So the concept of staging “Skana” as a theatrical journey, with compatible, innovative artists who follow the same cyber creative process, came as a natural consequence. And this is what has been happening: Muriel, Milica as well as the dancer Emily are using Skype to draft ideas and transfer video files to conceive the synopsis of the performance.
Now we have this unique opportunity to make our project evolve from the virtual to the physical world and to get it ” tangible” to create an extended format called “Skana, Goddesses and More”. Through the sparse use of new technologies, scenography and creative lightings in response to the live elements, we will explore new contemporary territories and together write and perform a new score and story, across many medium.
THE GOAL
We need your financial support to cover the production costs, for rehearsals, studio sessions, equipment rental for sound & video recording, and payments to the composers, performers, sound and lighting designers, for the research, work and preparation time of the project. We’d also need to cover post production expenses for video editing and DVD making of the live performance. Our Kickstarter campaign is vital to launch this new performance and meet the audience.
This project is a” work in progress ” the first step towards a future multi media performance we’d like to develop that contributes to awareness of “re-interpretation” from ancient languages rooted in time, while projecting future artistic language that everyone will feel. We need a successful exposure at Galapagos to make the work progress, present it in other US venues and possibly in European countries.
We are looking forward to it and we want you to get involved and make you dream!
We’d also appreciate if you spread the word, post the information about our project on your blogs, Twitter, FB pages. We hope to hear from you soon!
Links to know more about the artists :
Skana web page http://www.skanamusic.com
Muriel Louveau http://www.myspace.com/mothertongueprojects
Milica Paranosic http://www.milicaparanosic.com
