featuring the return of Norte Maar’s acclaimed durational
performance mashup of poets, painters, performers,
and a meteorologist.

Sat, Jun 3, 7-9pm

The MUSE
350 Moffat Street

Seating Limited: $40 for Reserved Seating in Front Row / $20 General / $15 Seniors + Students

Directions: L Train to Wilson Avenue Stop.

Media Sponsor: Bushwick Daily

featured appearances include:

Maria Chavez, sound artist

Poets/Writers:
Bob Holman
Dara Mandle

Artists:
Maria Calandra
Jeri Coppola
Mimi Gross
Hermine Ford
Roy Fowler
Ellie Murphy

Performers:
PT Barnum as played by Ara Fitzgerald
Singer/Song Writer Chris Blacker
Dancer/Choreographer Brandon Collwes
Douglas Dunn + Dancers
Dancer/Choreographer Molissa Fenley
Gleich Dances
konverjdans with musician Max Kanowitz
Racoco Productions
with
Aerialists from The MUSE
Jason Andrew’s niece, Kate Arbuckle, the harpist

and special guest WABC-TV Meteorologist Amy Freeze

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Norte Maar presents the return of its ambitious collaborative event The Brooklyn Performance Combine, a mashup of poets, painters, performers and this time includes aerialists and a meteorologist! The two-hour durational event will take place at The MUSE (350 Moffat Street, Bushwick), on Saturday, June 3, 7-9pm. Tickets are $20 General / $15 Seniors + Students. All proceeds to benefit the collaborative mission of Norte Maar.

Not so unlike the historic Theater Event #1 that took place at Black Mountain College during the summer of 1952, and Norte Maar’s own End of the World performance at English Kills, The Brooklyn Performance Combine Event unites all art forms in a fusion of poetry, sound, dance, and performance in a single cohesive 120-minute event. It will be epic.

A timer will start the countdown for the performance. Each artist will be programmed to begin and end at a time designated through chance operations within the 120-minute interval. At times a poet will be reading while a sound artist is performing. A dancer will enter, perform and depart. Sounds will overlap. There will be silence. Every aspect of the performance will be unrehearsed, live, spontaneous, and uninterrupted. Audiences can come and go as the event clock ticks out of time.

Highlights include:
Critically acclaimed sound artist, Maria Chavez, who will set the pulse for an evening of coincidence, spontaneity, and reverie. “Over the last decade, Chavez has pursued pristine and thoughtful turntablist work.”- The WIRE

Douglas Dunn + Dancers will push the theatrical experience. No body knows how to do it better.

Maria Calandra (Pencil In The Studio) will enlarge her intricate drawing practice to a grand scale by sketching onsite with an overhead projector.

Dancer/Choreographer Molissa Fenley and poet Bob Holman performing Rue Surf, a collaborative poetry dance with a painting by Roy Fowler.

Gleich Dances presents Solo with Step Ladder.

Ara Fitzgerald performing excerpts from ‘Watch The Bullies Dance’ starring circus impresario PT Barnum, who is angry that he is being compared to fellow showman Donald Trump. They both love to sell tickets but PT has principles. In a reverse of her usual process, Ara created the material first as a series of short films with Peter Cunningham whose grandmother was famous for handing out condoms in Harvard Square for Planned Parenthood.

Racoco with cotton candy, tall dancers and the inimitable Leighton Edmondson.

A timelapse of the last Combine performance:
VIDEO: The Brooklyn Performance Combine 2014 at the Brooklyn Museum

Related Press from the last Combine:
How Brooklyn missed Brooklyn, by James Panero, The New Criterion, December, 2014

Competition in Common: Art Around New York, by Susan Canning, Sculpture Magazine, December, 2014

Norte Maar to take over the Brooklyn Museum, by Katie Killary, Bushwick Daily, Oct 29, 2014