We interviewed monologist Mike Daisey in 2007 about his work “Invincible Summer”. His newest monologue is titled “If You See Something, Say Something”, a work about security and what we are willing to sacrifice for it. You can see it at The Public Theater in New York City through November 30th, 2008.
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John Gros of the New Orleans-based band Papa Grows Funk has redefined the funk-jam band. Starting as a series of Monday night jam sessions among friends in 2000, the band has become one of the hottest acts on the concert circuit, most recently headlining the Garden Stage at the 50th Monterey Jazz Festival.
In this interview we talk with John about the beauties of the Hammond B-3 organ, Mardi Gras Indians, and their most recent CD release, Mr. Patterson’s Hat.
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Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Maya Azucena is well on her way down the funky soulful road to success.
In this interview we talked with Maya about her travels with Rhythm Road, a cultural diplomacy program that took her to Burma, Sri Lanka, China and the Philippines. We also asked her about the state of the music industry and her upcoming projects.
Maya Azucena has also been kind enough to allow us to feature her new song, Get It Together as a free download for all members of the KadmusArts community – here is what she has to say about it:
GET IT TOGETHER, an offering:
This is a love letter to our past. This is a love letter to our future. I have been to countries where the right to vote is stripped from the people, where their voices are howling in the night, begging the world to hear. We, in America, have gone through a lot to be here today. YOU count. So, listen to this song and consider deeply your right to vote. And do it. Don’t you ever forget your power to affect the world around you. — Maya Azucena
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Gonzalo Orihuela’s childhood years took him from South Africa to Patagonia, Argentina. In this new and different environmental and geographical context, he studied drama and discovered his great passion: Tango dance. Buenos Aires was his next destination, where he started thinking about how to link tango and drama, a goal that he eventually achieved, together with Solange Chapperon, his dance partner. Now they both live and work half of the year in Europe, and half in Argentina.
In their latest visit to the tango capital, Gonzalo and Solange talked with KadmusArts about how they approach tango dance from an acting perspective, and discussed El Sonido de las Caricias (The Sound of Caresses), a dance-theater piece that combines traditional tango with improvisation, sarcasm, irony and humor, as well as their interactive abstract piece iTango.
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