West, North, East, South, which directional points are yours?
Launch into an ongoing international exploration in music, word, laughter,
performance, image and dance; four evenings of intuitive, fated and chosen
bearings.
Hosted by singing poet
Sandra Sarala (who’s presenting four different ranging perspectives of
musical-poetic-performance forms across the series), and thematically curated
around the cardinal points, each multi-disciplinary evening will formally
commence with the communal breaking of a circular loaf of homemade bread,
uniting all present. Every show has been designed to
showcase individual performers, to offer complementary contrasts and
interconnections, and will close with collaborative improvisation. Choose
your resonant points and bring your good self /selves along.
Thursday 24th WEST
'West, Seeking Balance, and the Balancing East'
Wordy offerings from balancing story-telling time-traveller Skiz-um Hequ, and the poetic eastern tongues of MC Jabber
and Moon (Stephen Mooney), while Sandra Sarala explores the maze and dark
mystery of Western life alongside wildcard Wests, singer of sweetness Cera
Impala, musician/video artist Peter Newman, and concert pianist Kim Hye Jin,
taking us to her west with Rachmaninoff.
Friday 25th NORTH
‘North and a Balancing South’
Touch
your philosophy with spoken word from mr oCean and Anja Zeilinger, some
storytelling and a touch of song from Kerri Mullen, music and candlelight from
Wasp Summer, bridge Lieder and the avant-garde with Alexis Baker, and be danced towards love, joy and melancholy by (India-born) Southerner Manish Pathak.
Sandra Sarala takes up alter-ego Loki as host.
Saturday 26th EAST
'East with a Rogue West'
Well-considered
words from several stalwarts of Berlin’s literati – spoken
word mega-presence Lady Gaby aka Gaby Bila-Gunter, and poets Alistair Noon and Frank Alkämper, the latter in confluence
upon ‘Ausgerechnet Armenien’ (‘Ironically, Armenia) with musicians Michael Gross and Leonid
Soybelman (rogue West in the East!). Sandra Sarala heads for the archaic
folksong hills, someone lets
Volcanick, the hairiest oriental belly-dancer in town, into the
house, and special rules come into play this evening for special guest,
intuitive singer AlinK.Sarit, bussing over from Poland… which may have a little
something to do with film from Marta Jurkowska.
Sunday 27th SOUTH
‘South with a Deliberately Contrary North’
Verbal dexterity in the shining
poetry-stories of Claudia Emmingham, dextrous lunacy
from singer, songwriter and comedian David Cassel, and electro-art-pop duo Trike (Xania Keane and Stephen Paul Taylor), some measure of Northern
contrariness from performance artist Daniela
Gast, and a sprinkling on the ivories from composer and pianist Phil Cooksey,
also in collaboration upon the southern seas with lyric poetry from Sandra
Sarala.
Berlin COMPASS: Thursday 24 – Sunday 27 November, 2011,
Club der polnischen Versager, Ackerstraße 168 (next
to Schokoladen), 10115 Berlin, (U8 Rosenthaler
Platz)
Doors open 20:15, Doors close and bread-breaking begins
20:45
Entry: 8 euros, and an extra special
collection on Saturday night.
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