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Blog › FALL ARTS CONCERT

November 8, 2017
Cassandra Smith

FALL ARTS CONCERT

Fall Arts Concert

Experimental / Versatile / Fierce / Celebration FEAT.

Friday Night

Bonte Lane Path of Kindness – singing bowls, recorded track & rap
w/ Pamela Rosenthal
Mihaito – weirdos doing weird cat stuff
w/ Chie Saito & Ryan Mihaly
JKS performance reading
w/ Eric Shoemaker
West Coast Swing/Modern Partner dance
w/ Dennis Kerr & Casandre Elyse Medel
‘Lights On’
w/ 1st yr cohort, MFA Performance
‘Wisdom of the Body’
w/ class ensemble
‘UnderConstruction’ – Musical number and Barbershop Quartet
w/ 2nd yr cohort, MFA Performance
‘Breathing is Meaning’
w/ class ensemble
‘Wisdom of the Body 1’
w/ class ensemble
Duet: Voice & Guitar – original composition
w/ Brittany Wolfe & Alvaro Saldaña
Dance Studio I – Lights, Thematics, Dance!
w/ class ensemble

Saturday Night

DolphinHawk & Purple Lightning Bolts – indie improv. fusion
w/ Levi Marinucci
Piano & Vocals
w/ Morgan Kusmer
Original music for piano, bass, and trumpet
w/ Layla Ghiasi
Hugh Manatee Band
“The Fiddle and the Drum” by Joni Mitchell – a cappella
w/ Fiona Small
Nasty Women – Aerial Dance, Acro dance, Video
w/ Casandre Elyse Medel & #CreativeCollaborative thesis performers

Event held by the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

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