The BIG ROOM
COMING UP:
Take Your Time Performance Series
Saturday May 19, 2012 at 8pm
$15/admission ($10 students/seniors)
Roost
Robert Bergner & Pamela Newell
&
Quartet Collective (working title)
Rachel Bernsen, Taylor Ho Bynum, Abraham Gomez-Delgado, and Melanie Maar
In their first performance in New Haven since relocating from Montreal, veteran dancers, improvisers and performing artists Robert Bergner and Pamela Newell take on the roles of musician and dancer respectively in their new work Roost. Featuring visual artist Chris Joy.
Quartet Collective (working title) is two dancers and two musicians investigating principles of roles, craft, pleasure, story, risk and meaning in performance. They practice spontaneous action as a way to experience and share composition and choreography live.
For more about these artists click NEXT at the bottom of the screen to go to the artist's bio page.
BIG ROOM Studio Show
Saturday June 9, 2012 at 8pm
$10/admission
-Emily's Tiny Theater
Dance artist Emily Coates & violinist Charlie Burnham
-Trumpeter Stephen Haynes & dancer Olivia Iliano-Davis
Featuring:
Kyoko Kitamura (voice)
Joe Morris (guitar)
Ben Stapp (tuba)
-Oh Solo
A newly reconstructed solo by dance artist Rachel Bernsen
The Uncertainty Music Series at The BIG ROOM
Sunday June 10, 2012
7:30pm
$10/admission
Rhymes With Opera (RWO)
Baltimore based RWO, is a chamber opera company presenting three short contemporary chamber operas including a new work by New Haven based composer Adam Matlock
RWO:
Ruby Fulton, composer
Elisabeth Halliday, soprano
George Lam, composer
Bonnie Lander, soprano
Robert Maril, baritone
BIG ROOM RECENT PRESS
Read the article in the New Haven Independent on our December 2011 Take Your Time Series.
The TAKE YOUR TIME Series was profiled in The New York Times
Read it here
ABOUT
The BIG ROOM was founded by dance artist Rachel Bernsen in 2010. It is a studio and performance space that offers a low-tech platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, experimentation and research in dance and performance. It has quickly become known as a “showcase for groundbreakers” (New Haven Advocate), while the Take Your Time series has been described as part of what’s “keeping dance vibrant year round in New Haven” (New Haven Register).
The BIG ROOM is home to Take Your Time, an interdisciplinary performance series presenting the work of local and regional performing artists who are challenging the boundaries of their discipline in imaginative and thoughtful ways through experimentation and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The series is a co-presentation of The BIG ROOM and The Uncertainty Music Series
CONTACT
thebigroomnewhaven@gmail.com
Click here to join our email list
For more pix visit us on facebook
LOCATION
The BIG ROOM
Erector Square
319 Peck St.
New Haven, CT 06513
Directions
PAST EVENTS
Saturday Feb 18, 2012 at 8pm
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone
On tour to support their new CD: Departure of Reason out on Thirsty Ear.
Guitarist Mary Halvorson and violist Jessica Pavone's longstanding duo embraces a wide range of musical traditions to create what Time Out New York describes as "a challenging fusion of oblique art song, reflective chamber music and thorny free improv."
TAKE YOUR TIME
An Interdisicplinary Performance Series
Sat & Sun, Dec 3-4, 2011
8pm Saturday / 7pm Sunday
$15/admission ($10 students, seniors) / $20 2-night pass
The weekend’s concerts will examine improvisation across disciplines: each night will offer a different line-up of artists, scholars, and filmmakers who are using and thinking about improvisation in different ways. After each show there will be an informal reception with the artists.
December 3
- A short lecture by Danielle Goldman, professor of the Arts, Dance at the New School, discussing improvisational practices and relationships in dance and music.
- Performance by Action Theory, an improvisational collective featuring Rachel Bernsen (movement), Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Abraham Gomez-Delgado (guitar, percussion), and Melanie Maar (movement).
- Two new works by New Haven based composer Carl Testa incorporating electronic and acoustic music, set design, and dynamic lighting, featuring Anne Rhodes (voice), Nathan Bontrager (cello), and Bill Solomon (vibraphones).
December 4
- New Haven based MeND Motion Pictures, Tiffany Hopkins and Denise Santisteban, will show an excerpt of their new documentary film Complete In Itself, which takes a close look at the meaning of art, the complexities of being an artist in America today and the many ways that artists are engaging with the larger world.
- NYC Choreographer and performer Melanie Maar will present a new duet, Same Selves, dealing with the performers’ presence mediating between the mysterious and the common, also featuring dancer Marylin Maywald.
- New York City based composer and multi-instrumentalist Abraham Gomez-Delgado presents his solo project EJE, a multi-dimensional kinetic work of performance art using homemade instruments.
Saturday November 19, 8pm
Positive Catastrophe, a trans-idiomatic ten-piece little big band co-led by Taylor Ho Bynum and Abraham Gomez-Delgado
$10 admission (all tickets cash only)
Positive Catastrophe is:
Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, co-leader), Abraham Gomez-Delgado (vocals, percussion, co-leader), Jen Shyu (vocals, erhu), Matt Bauder (tenor sax, clarinets), Michael Attias (baritone sax), Mark Taylor (french horn), Reut Regev (trombone), Pete Fitzpatrick (guitar), Alvaro Benavides (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums)
Tuesday September 13, 8pm
Mark Dresser/Jen Shyu Duo
SYNASTRY CD RELEASE TOUR (PI RECORDINGS)
The Uncertainty Music Series at The BIG ROOM
$10 suggested donation (cash only)
Uncertainty Music Series
TAKE YOUR TIME
Interdisciplinary Performance Series
Friday and Saturday 27-28 May, 2011
8pm
Featuring an evening of new dance works
by Rachel Bernsen and
Adele Myers & Dancers
Co-presented by The BIG ROOM and The Uncertainty Music Series.
Rachel Bernsen’s Corridor, with a cast of six dancers and musicians, weaves together simultaneous duets that take place both within tight spaces and across the room from each other. Occurring both in the center of and along the edges of the theater space, the piece delves into tightly delineated phrases that can be viewed from multiple perspectives. The effect is a multi-dimensional layering of sound, space, and movement. Corridor invites a kind of disorientation on the part of the viewer wherein, without any tricks or audience participation, the spectator becomes part of the work. Music composed by Taylor Ho Bynum and Carl Testa.
Performers: Rachel Bernsen (dancer), Taylor Ho Bynum (composer, cornet) , Shola Cole (vocalist, dancer), Kellie Ann Lynch (dancer), Jean Carla Rodea (vocalist), and Carl Testa (composer, bass clarinet)
Adele Myers and Dancers will present a 30-minute excerpt from their most recent work, Theater in the Head—a quest for intimacy between performers and their audience. The dance offers spectacle then reveals its mechanics by stripping them away. Developed with composer Josh Quillen of So Percussion, the evening-length work incorporates Myers' robust athleticism fused with personalized theatricality and humor. The evening-length version of Theater in the Head will premiere at the Progressive Performance Festival June 2-4, 2011, presented and co-commissioned by the Vermont Performance Lab. The dance will continue on a six-venue tour throughout New England in 2011-12.
Performers: Adele Myers, Philip Montana, Rebecca Woods
Friday April 8
Broadcloth
Nathan Bontrager (cello), Adam Matlock (accordian, recorders), Anne Rhodes (voice)
8pm
$10 (cash only)
Sunday March 13th, 2011
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet
7pm
$10 (cash only)
Friday and Saturday Oct 29-30, 2010.
Take Your Time Fall Festival,
Co-presented by The BIG ROOM and The Uncertainty Music Series
Friday Oct 29th:
Return engagements of work by Rachel Bernsen, Carl Testa with vocalist Anne Rhodes (If you missed us in May, this is your chance)
New work-in-progress by Taylor Ho Bynum with vocalist Kyoko Kitamura
Featuring Brooklyn based composer / singer-songwriter Pete Fitzpatrick performing from his Falcatross songbook
Saturday Oct 30th:
Playwright and poet Aaron Jafferis offers a first look at his new hip-hop theater piece about teenagers dealing with chronic illness
Choreographers Emily Coates and Lacina Coulibaly present a New Haven premiere of a new work-in-progress, Ici Ou Ailleurs/Here Or Anyplace Else, a collaboration investigating the possibility that diversity and human connection can coexist simultaneously between individuals and cultures.
Friday May 28, 2010
TAKE YOUR TIME
THE BIG ROOM AND THE UNCERTAINTY MUSIC SERIES CO-PRESENT THIS NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE SERIES.
PRESENTING RACHEL BERNSEN, CARL TESTA, AND SPECIAL GUESTS TAYLOR HO BYNUM, MATTHEW WELCH, AND BROADCLOTH
Take Your Time Performance Series
Saturday May 19, 2012 at 8pm
$15/admission ($10 students/seniors)
Roost
Robert Bergner & Pamela Newell
&
Quartet Collective (working title)
Rachel Bernsen, Taylor Ho Bynum, Abraham Gomez-Delgado, and Melanie Maar
In their first performance in New Haven since relocating from Montreal, veteran dancers, improvisers and performing artists Robert Bergner and Pamela Newell take on the roles of musician and dancer respectively in their new work Roost. Featuring visual artist Chris Joy.
Quartet Collective (working title) is two dancers and two musicians investigating principles of roles, craft, pleasure, story, risk and meaning in performance. They practice spontaneous action as a way to experience and share composition and choreography live.
For more about these artists click NEXT at the bottom of the screen to go to the artist's bio page.
BIG ROOM Studio Show
Saturday June 9, 2012 at 8pm
$10/admission
-Emily's Tiny Theater
Dance artist Emily Coates & violinist Charlie Burnham
-Trumpeter Stephen Haynes & dancer Olivia Iliano-Davis
Featuring:
Kyoko Kitamura (voice)
Joe Morris (guitar)
Ben Stapp (tuba)
-Oh Solo
A newly reconstructed solo by dance artist Rachel Bernsen
The Uncertainty Music Series at The BIG ROOM
Sunday June 10, 2012
7:30pm
$10/admission
Rhymes With Opera (RWO)
Baltimore based RWO, is a chamber opera company presenting three short contemporary chamber operas including a new work by New Haven based composer Adam Matlock
RWO:
Ruby Fulton, composer
Elisabeth Halliday, soprano
George Lam, composer
Bonnie Lander, soprano
Robert Maril, baritone
BIG ROOM RECENT PRESS
Read the article in the New Haven Independent on our December 2011 Take Your Time Series.
The TAKE YOUR TIME Series was profiled in The New York Times
Read it here
ABOUT
The BIG ROOM was founded by dance artist Rachel Bernsen in 2010. It is a studio and performance space that offers a low-tech platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, experimentation and research in dance and performance. It has quickly become known as a “showcase for groundbreakers” (New Haven Advocate), while the Take Your Time series has been described as part of what’s “keeping dance vibrant year round in New Haven” (New Haven Register).
The BIG ROOM is home to Take Your Time, an interdisciplinary performance series presenting the work of local and regional performing artists who are challenging the boundaries of their discipline in imaginative and thoughtful ways through experimentation and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The series is a co-presentation of The BIG ROOM and The Uncertainty Music Series
CONTACT
thebigroomnewhaven@gmail.com
Click here to join our email list
For more pix visit us on facebook
LOCATION
The BIG ROOM
Erector Square
319 Peck St.
New Haven, CT 06513
Directions
PAST EVENTS
Saturday Feb 18, 2012 at 8pm
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone
On tour to support their new CD: Departure of Reason out on Thirsty Ear.
Guitarist Mary Halvorson and violist Jessica Pavone's longstanding duo embraces a wide range of musical traditions to create what Time Out New York describes as "a challenging fusion of oblique art song, reflective chamber music and thorny free improv."
TAKE YOUR TIME
An Interdisicplinary Performance Series
Sat & Sun, Dec 3-4, 2011
8pm Saturday / 7pm Sunday
$15/admission ($10 students, seniors) / $20 2-night pass
The weekend’s concerts will examine improvisation across disciplines: each night will offer a different line-up of artists, scholars, and filmmakers who are using and thinking about improvisation in different ways. After each show there will be an informal reception with the artists.
December 3
- A short lecture by Danielle Goldman, professor of the Arts, Dance at the New School, discussing improvisational practices and relationships in dance and music.
- Performance by Action Theory, an improvisational collective featuring Rachel Bernsen (movement), Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Abraham Gomez-Delgado (guitar, percussion), and Melanie Maar (movement).
- Two new works by New Haven based composer Carl Testa incorporating electronic and acoustic music, set design, and dynamic lighting, featuring Anne Rhodes (voice), Nathan Bontrager (cello), and Bill Solomon (vibraphones).
December 4
- New Haven based MeND Motion Pictures, Tiffany Hopkins and Denise Santisteban, will show an excerpt of their new documentary film Complete In Itself, which takes a close look at the meaning of art, the complexities of being an artist in America today and the many ways that artists are engaging with the larger world.
- NYC Choreographer and performer Melanie Maar will present a new duet, Same Selves, dealing with the performers’ presence mediating between the mysterious and the common, also featuring dancer Marylin Maywald.
- New York City based composer and multi-instrumentalist Abraham Gomez-Delgado presents his solo project EJE, a multi-dimensional kinetic work of performance art using homemade instruments.
Saturday November 19, 8pm
Positive Catastrophe, a trans-idiomatic ten-piece little big band co-led by Taylor Ho Bynum and Abraham Gomez-Delgado
$10 admission (all tickets cash only)
Positive Catastrophe is:
Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, co-leader), Abraham Gomez-Delgado (vocals, percussion, co-leader), Jen Shyu (vocals, erhu), Matt Bauder (tenor sax, clarinets), Michael Attias (baritone sax), Mark Taylor (french horn), Reut Regev (trombone), Pete Fitzpatrick (guitar), Alvaro Benavides (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums)
Tuesday September 13, 8pm
Mark Dresser/Jen Shyu Duo
SYNASTRY CD RELEASE TOUR (PI RECORDINGS)
The Uncertainty Music Series at The BIG ROOM
$10 suggested donation (cash only)
Uncertainty Music Series
TAKE YOUR TIME
Interdisciplinary Performance Series
Friday and Saturday 27-28 May, 2011
8pm
Featuring an evening of new dance works
by Rachel Bernsen and
Adele Myers & Dancers
Co-presented by The BIG ROOM and The Uncertainty Music Series.
Rachel Bernsen’s Corridor, with a cast of six dancers and musicians, weaves together simultaneous duets that take place both within tight spaces and across the room from each other. Occurring both in the center of and along the edges of the theater space, the piece delves into tightly delineated phrases that can be viewed from multiple perspectives. The effect is a multi-dimensional layering of sound, space, and movement. Corridor invites a kind of disorientation on the part of the viewer wherein, without any tricks or audience participation, the spectator becomes part of the work. Music composed by Taylor Ho Bynum and Carl Testa.
Performers: Rachel Bernsen (dancer), Taylor Ho Bynum (composer, cornet) , Shola Cole (vocalist, dancer), Kellie Ann Lynch (dancer), Jean Carla Rodea (vocalist), and Carl Testa (composer, bass clarinet)
Adele Myers and Dancers will present a 30-minute excerpt from their most recent work, Theater in the Head—a quest for intimacy between performers and their audience. The dance offers spectacle then reveals its mechanics by stripping them away. Developed with composer Josh Quillen of So Percussion, the evening-length work incorporates Myers' robust athleticism fused with personalized theatricality and humor. The evening-length version of Theater in the Head will premiere at the Progressive Performance Festival June 2-4, 2011, presented and co-commissioned by the Vermont Performance Lab. The dance will continue on a six-venue tour throughout New England in 2011-12.
Performers: Adele Myers, Philip Montana, Rebecca Woods
Friday April 8
Broadcloth
Nathan Bontrager (cello), Adam Matlock (accordian, recorders), Anne Rhodes (voice)
8pm
$10 (cash only)
Sunday March 13th, 2011
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet
7pm
$10 (cash only)
Friday and Saturday Oct 29-30, 2010.
Take Your Time Fall Festival,
Co-presented by The BIG ROOM and The Uncertainty Music Series
Friday Oct 29th:
Return engagements of work by Rachel Bernsen, Carl Testa with vocalist Anne Rhodes (If you missed us in May, this is your chance)
New work-in-progress by Taylor Ho Bynum with vocalist Kyoko Kitamura
Featuring Brooklyn based composer / singer-songwriter Pete Fitzpatrick performing from his Falcatross songbook
Saturday Oct 30th:
Playwright and poet Aaron Jafferis offers a first look at his new hip-hop theater piece about teenagers dealing with chronic illness
Choreographers Emily Coates and Lacina Coulibaly present a New Haven premiere of a new work-in-progress, Ici Ou Ailleurs/Here Or Anyplace Else, a collaboration investigating the possibility that diversity and human connection can coexist simultaneously between individuals and cultures.
Friday May 28, 2010
TAKE YOUR TIME
THE BIG ROOM AND THE UNCERTAINTY MUSIC SERIES CO-PRESENT THIS NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE SERIES.
PRESENTING RACHEL BERNSEN, CARL TESTA, AND SPECIAL GUESTS TAYLOR HO BYNUM, MATTHEW WELCH, AND BROADCLOTH
