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Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble with Legendary Bassist & Composer Rufus Reid

Presented by Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble at Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex

May 16, 2010

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Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble performs with Legendary Bassist & Composer Rufus Reid. The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble premieres two new works: CARESS THE THOUGHT featuring choreography by Michele Brangwen and music by Rufus Reid; and THIS BELONGS IN THE GARAGE with choreography by Michele Brangwen and music by Tim Hagans.

Rufus Reid (pictured)is one of today's premiere bassists on the international jazz scene and a celebrated composer. He is a recipient of the Chamber Music America New Works Commission; Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Award; The Sackler Commission Prize, and the ASCAP/IAJE Commission for Established Jazz Composers. Mr. Reid was named a Guggenheim Fellow in June 2008. As a bassist he has traveled, performed and recorded with Eddie Harris, Sonny Stitt, Don Byas, Philly Joe Jones, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Dexter Gordon, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Farmer.

His most recent CD as a leader, Out Front, was released on Motéma records “The album's centerpiece, the 12-minute suite "Caress the Thought," opens with rich, reverberating bowed bass; cinematic and shimmering at some points, fateful and insistent at others.” - Aarik Danielsen, The Columbia Daily Tribune.

CARESS THE THOUGHT has been arranged specifically for this performance with the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble. Brangwen describes the collaboration: “I heard Rufus speak about this composition and it has a very intimate and emotional arc to it, raw and yet refined. I can best describe this work by saying what if we can remember things before they happen. There is magic that comes from the intangible ways in which people connect to each other…perhaps there is no such thing as time, only togetherness.”

The program also includes the premiere of THIS BELONGS IN THE GARAGE, with choreography by Michele Brangwen and music by Grammy-nominated trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans. THIS BELONGS IN THE GARAGE is a high-energy rebellion against the marginalized places that art is relegated to in our current society. The work follows the form of a traditional jazz tune with the choreography and composition sandwiching a middle section of wild improvisation and interaction by all performers.

Performers are Brooke Barnes-Meeks, Scarlett Barnes, and Michele Brangwen, dancers; Rufus Reid, acoustic bass; and Tim Hagans Subversive Jazz with Tim Hagans, trumpet; Seth Paynter, saxophone; and Richard Cholakian, drums.

KUHF Radio Announcer Eric Ladau will introduce the performances. Performances are Sunday May 16, 2010 at Barnevelder Theater at 6 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 General Admission and $15 Students & Seniors, and can be purchased at the door with cash or check or in advance via credit card at www.brangwendance.org.