RSVP: Improvisation for Uncertain Times
Schedule
Thu Feb 20 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Art Share L.A. | Los Angeles, CA
RSVP: Improvisation for Uncertain Times is a collaborative art and sonic performance experience featuring the work of some of the finest, most unique and cosmic performers Los Angeles has to offer for the Art Share LA Theatre Stage. Poetry and Performer Descriptions below as a transplendent guide to a wonderful evening. No cover. Bios of performers are on the discussion page.Improvisation: A Poem
by Josie Roth
Its a dance… a collaboration
Off the cuff?…not really…
A conversation — with the moment
The art of being IN the moment
Listening…
Responding…(if you please)
Stepping out of a pre-planned agenda
Questioning a belief system
The role of listening and responding to what is happening in the present moment? Resolve,
Dissolve.
The suspension of the ego - in disbelief, for the sake of creative collaboration.
What role does the body play in sonic expression?
In life we go on day after day. One day blends into the next. When changes occur it can be,
literally, unsettling….
unless we are flexible and can quickly respond to a new situation we perish or at best become
inconsequential and irrelevant. As humans we are, at our best, adaptable creatures. Those
most adaptable to changing environments have the best chance of survival.
We see change and the unexpected as a chance for new beginnings, creation and growth.
Josie Roth
JJ-ETC - Jeff Boynton, Cello and Bent Instruments; Josie Roth, viola/vocals
Hookah - Russell Chaput (Skylarks): guitar/ tape loops and effects; David Foster (Extra
Fancy): guitar/theremin; John Mortl keyboards; and Warde Randall: keyboards
Latent Tendencies - Bruce Friedman, Trumpet; Josie Roth, Viola/Vocals; Alicia Byer,
Clarinet/etc.
Joe Baiza, with Matt Crane on drums
Fraser - Friedman Duo
- Scott Fraser - guitar; Bruce Friedman - Trumpet/Fluglehorn
Live performance painting by Norton Wisdom!
