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Images: andrea haenggi and On Ka’a Davis (photo credits top to bottom: photo by Gianluca Rigamonti and Enid Farber)

Day 4 PROGRAM:

5-7PM: Swamp Smartweed, a real-time vegetal composition
A new work by choreographer/dancer andrea haenggi
joined by guitarist On Ka’a Davis

7-9PM: METROPOLIS
Original live score by Joe Fee, Ed Fritz, Mike Sojkowski

Day 4 of the IMPROV SPACES MUSIC FESTIVAL will start off with a real-time vegetal composition (5-7PM) initiated by andrea haenggi, a choreographer/dancer collaborating with plants, and joined by guitarist On Ka’a Davis. The improvisation will allow the audience (the guests) to actively engage in creating a relationship with plants, movement, and sound. They will be immersed in the search for the endangered plant Swamp Smartweed (Persicaria setacea). This plant may be found in the Village by the Round Lake, according to sources.

Swamp Smartweed, a real-time vegetal composition

In a swamp-campground atmosphere, the guests (audience) will join us in search of the endangered plant Swamp Smartweed (Persicaria setacea). This plant may be found in the Village by the Round Lake, according to sources. Emerging from long-term, deep encounters with spontaneous urban plants, artist, dancer, and choreographer andrea haenggi will collaborate with them in their research, creating a dynamic flow of actions: dancing, speaking, listening, touching, and reflecting to develop a poetry of bodies and establish relations with Swamp Smartweed.

PERFORMER BIO:

andrea haenggi

andrea haenggi (she/they), born in a Swiss farming village and residing half of her life in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, is a body-based transdisciplinary artist, choreographer, dancer, improviser, embodied scientist, teacher, land defender, and co-founder of the Environmental Performance Agency (EPA) artist collective. Her self-developed and distinctive research-based ‘ethnochoreobotanic’ performance practice is rooted in co-creating movement with land, plant life, with their inherent intelligence, and more-than-human kin, all oriented to building relationships in the present. Since 2015, urban plants have been her guides, teachers, mentors, and performers; she draws from queer ecology embracing its politics of desire and speculative world-building. Her work responds to decolonization, climate change, feminism, liberation, and care. Her recent work – for instance, “bladderwrack (to be with the shore is all we ask)” (2023), at the NYU Bobst Library, and “Speed Dating your EX” (2022) at the Zurich Botanical Garden in Switzerland – combined art and historical and scientific research to address extinction and the climate emergency. She holds an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute/Plymouth University UK and is a Swiss Canton Solothurn Dance Prize recipient. She is on the faculty at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (NYC) and The New School, where she teaches the courses Improvisation & Collaboration, Socially Engaged Artistry, and ARTSCI-Environment Lab.

On Ka’a Davis

Guitarist On Ka’a Davis has been a participant in an eclectic world of music making. His directions have been that of a trained concert artist of the classical guitar, something that he pursued as a young adult, while simultaneously exploring garage band rock and playing in a successful R&B group. 

He has had experiences playing everything from theatre show music to reggae bands to avant garde and experimental art, along with the deepest reaches of jazz culture having been a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra.

He has recorded extensively with a plethora of notable artists over the years. His contributions as a leader include most notably records on the the labels, Tzadik (John Zorn) and Live Wire Music.

Davis has also amassed nearly 30 self produced releases for his label On Mu Music.

His book, “Exerciricle; Keys to Museo-Ontology “ is perhaps a first attempt to examine and describe the creative process from a metaphysical perspective. When he can, Davis offers study examinations based on this book.

Davis also plays violin and an assortment of other instruments that compliments his efforts.He has also composed for film and stage productions.

Davis has a new release due out on the Tzadik label entitled, “Here’s to Another Day and Night for the Lwa of the Woke” which features the trumpet of the grandson of Miles Davis.

The Day 4 evening performance will present a special screening of a unique cut of the Fritz Lang classic METROPOLIS edited by Joe Fee with an original live score by Joe Fee, Ed Fritz, and Mike Sojkowski.

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