What happens when creativity multiplies? Find out when Green Space Studios hosts the Cross Pollination Jam in Long Island City on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 7 pm.
Presented with Vox Nous, this three-hour blow out features dance, music, improvisation, models, and sketching. (Individually and together.)
The soiree kicks off with “15 Minutes of Fame,” a salon presentation of 15 one-minute dances by 15 different choreographers to 15 one-minute pieces for toy piano performed live by Yumi Suehiro.
Then, audience members and dancers are invited to “Cross Pollination,” during which sketch artists draw dancers as models-in-motion. Meanwhile, dancers improvise with one another, while being inspired to move by the visual art in the making. Musicians will also improvise as they create a sonic landscape watching art and dance unfold before them.
Attendance is free.
Organizers inform that the goal is to provide a relaxed environment for spontaneous, free expression and improvisation between the different forms while encouraging synergy among visual, motion-based, and audio arts.
Vox Nous is an NYC-based coalition of composers, musicians, and enthusiasts who support live music. It was founded in 2000 by Robert Voisey who composes chamber music and electronic music. Here are the composers set for Jan. 25: David Bohn; Daniel Carpenter; Amelia Kaplan; Michael Todd Kovell; Pablo A. Rago; Melinda Faylor; Blair Whittington; Anicia Kohler; Oleh Harkavyy; Ivan Moody; Edward Ruchalski; Susan Brewster; Josh Schmidt; Yehuda Yannay; and Rainer Berger. Under the direction of Rachael Kosch, here are the scheduled dancers: Miki Orihara; Kendall Rileigh; Kevin Predmore; Laurie Hockman; Leann Gioia; Kristen Klein; Valerie Green; Nicole Y. McClam; Izzy Hanson-Johnston; Rina Rinkewich; Emily Bunning; Virginie Mecene; Nadia Manuela Fischer; Vanessa Knouse; and Rachael Kosch.
Green Space is located at 37-24 24th St. (Ste. 211) in LIC’s Dutch Kills section. The venue’s owner, Valerie Green, is one of the night’s dancers.
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