Brooklyn Next
Three days of performance presented in association with BAM and generously supported by the New York State Music Fund.
In February the Brooklyn Academy of Music presents a three-day performance festival throughout Brooklyn, as part of its Brooklyn Next program.
The following events take place at five myles:
Thursday, February 22, 2007, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Great Performances
Matt Freedman and Tim Spelios - performance
Wayne Hodge – performance
David Kramer - film, Bobby Hirschhorn – live piano
Zach Rockhill, - video
Sabir Mateen - saxophone
Hanne Tierney, Jane Wang and Mac Wellman - performance
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Friday, February 23, 2007, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
African Music, Dance and Songs
Masauko Chipembere - acoustic guitar and vocals,
Mongezi Ntaka - electric guitar
Yolanda Sangweni - vocals
Jamie Philbert - dance
Ezra Mabengeza - photographs
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Saturday, February 24, 2007, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Haitian Rara Music, Dance and Performances
Djarara – the band
Jee Hui Chang - performance
Zach Rockhill - performance
St. Johns Place Dancers with Chana Adams
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All performances take place at five myles, 558 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn
Tickets: $10, seniors and students $5
Reservations necessary: 718-783-4438
Thursday, February 22
Artist Matt Freedman, the successor of the 19th century fair ground news hawkers and lightning sketchers, presents a history of religion: a witty commentary with accompanying drawings. Artist Tim Spelios adds his own version on the drums.
Hanne Tierney’s theater w/o actors and the playwright Mac Wellman join in a ten-minute work-in-progress of Wellman’s play “The Lost Glove”. Composer/musician
Jane Wang performs on the double bass.
A funny, short, Chaplin-esque film by artist David Kramer about the plight of a luckless artist compared to the ease of one is favored by fortune. With life piano accompaniment performed by Bobby Hirschhorn.
Zach Rockhill has built an environment that twirls in gravity-defying ways. The video of a performance in this construction is both funny and unnerving, with objects flying from floor to ceiling and a man securely standing on his head.
The improvisation-jazz musician Sabir Mateen performs on the saxophone.
Wayne Hodge’s performance once again takes on the mythology of Colored People in early cinema. He will perform with his re-creation of the half rooster, half minstrel costume worn by the famous black entertainer Burt Williams in a film from 1910.
Hanne Tierney’s theater w/o actors and the playwright Mac Wellman join in a ten-minute work-in-progress of Wellman’s play “The Lost Glove”. Composer/musician
Jane Wang performs on the double bass.
Friday, February 23
The musician Masauko Chipermere and a group of young African artists, mostly living in Brooklyn, have come together to present The African Story Told by Africans, through music, dance, songs, stories and photography.
Saturday, February 24
Djarara, five myles’ resident band, was formed by a group of young Haitian immigrants eight years ago. The band members are proud to be the only band in New York performing traditional Haitian rara music on traditional homemade instruments. They perform throughout the U.S. and have livened up this Crown Heights neighborhood for the last five years with their weekly rehearsals at five myles.
Several short performances will be part of the evening: Zach Rockhill, who has been known to have red paint drip on himself for an hour, Jee Hui Chang, who moves through the space inside an eerie red tongue, and the FiveMyles’ summer dancers, a group of local kids who work with Chana Adams during the summer months, and then perform at the annual end-of-summer St. Johns Place on Stage event.