Marianna Buchwald Jam session in Peter Vicent's Studio

Marianna Buchwald, MIME Artist, musician performing for the jam session in Peter Vicent's Studio. Marianna Buchwald was born in Germany; her parents, the artists Hella and Hans-Ulrich Buchwald, founded the mask theatre SCHARNIER-Theater Hannover in 1969. The Scharner engages dancers, actors, and musicians as well as choreographers and directors from all over the world. In 1980, she moved to Chicago. There, she taught Dynamic Mime at MoMing, the Goodman Theatre, and the Cultural Arts Center at CCS St. Mels.


Since childhood, Marianna has also studied singing. She learned international folklore, German traditional songs, and chansons by Bertolt Brecht, Degenhard, and Bellmann. Later on she studied extensively the songs of the natives, the Batks. In America, she was drawn to black music and culture and became familiar with the music of Meredith Monk. With particular interest, she observes Meredith’s way of integrating voice and dance into performances.

"Intersections" Kaleidoscope Cultures Connecting at Mauersegler Park

The International Art Group and Phantom Gallery Chicago, and the Lunkenheimer Gallery presented "Berlin Chicago Kaleidoscope Cultures Connecting" at Mauersegler Park, on Saturday, July 16, 2011, 8pm - 10pm, Sommergarten, Bernauer Strasse 63-64, 13355 Berlin, http://www.mauersegler-berlin.de/

Host- Sylvio Kruger, owner of the Mauersegler Park Kultur, sponsored the project with space and technical support. This park is located in the memorial space where the Berlin Wall once separated people. "Cultures Connecting" Chicago artist held discussions with Berlin artist about that era of their lives, and how, at that moment, they were able to walk through it, and help knock it down.

We have to give special thanks to Mauersegler for their generous contribution of the SommerGarten, an outdoor beer garden. They provided all the technical help we said we wouldn't need.

Susan Fox, of Elastic Sound and Vision Gallery, presented "Intersections" by Hanah Jon Taylor.

Hannah Jon Taylor performed in this alternative venue, the SommerGarten, which was not the traditional venue for a jazz artist from Chicago, but he approached it as an adventure, and was willing to truly improvise with Berlin artist Daniel Goritz, and Dan Casillas (Chicago); neither one of these "Cats" knew each other. They gathered for a pow-wow about 1/2 hour before their performance, which was new to all of them. But music is a universal language, and they vibed off each other.





Berlin musician Daniel Goritz and Dan Casillas (Chicago)

Alan Emerson Hicks, Performance Art

Alan Emerson Hicks presented his Plastic Bombs, Destruction of Video Tapes, "Run Lola Run", which was a huge hit, because of the soundtrack, and the energy he brought to the performance. This was climactic for Alan, as he was working it out with me to make the "Intersection" of "Kaleidoscope" happen.

Jayve John Montgomery

 Jayve John Montgomery flew into Berlin at 2:15 PM and was at the park before we made it there, set up and ready to go. He, on the spot, put his presentation together, "The United States of America", "Kaleidoscope," his filming of Berlin from the airport in the taxi to the "Wall Park", adding images from Chicago's landscape, dubbing to his computer ended the night.

Jayve John Montgomery

"I thinking working with these guys was a experience. I had to trouble-shoot, they had to trouble-shoot, as I'm not a producer/promoter so to speak. I had to find my own location to present "Berlin Chicago Kaleidoscope", musicians that were to play canceled, the gallery canceled the venue while we were on our way to Berlin. Cell-phones were off, Iphones didn't work, we had to resort to using pay phones, and ESP. Our computers ran out of power, artists blew circuits, ran out of adaptors, couldn't find a simple boom-box even. You name it, it happened. But, on Saturday the sun came out and gave us a wonderful day, a perfect day, we all got together and sent out "Positive Vibrations" until the police shut it down at 10pm."

Visual artists had our own area set up in front of the stage, painting the "vibrations sound narratives" of these performing artists, who were up for an international art adventure, and creating art to be presented for October's exhibitions during Chicago Artists Month.

Lewis Rice, International Art Group

Renata Bummer, Pankow Berlin

"INTERSECTIONS" BERLIN - CHICAGO at Mauersegler Park Kultur

Berlin, Chicago,o Kaleidoscope Cultures Connecting, Presenting Performance Artist
"INTERSECTIONS"

Elastic Arts and AMP-CHI present the next concert of "Intersections: A series featuring musicians from the AACM and Asian Improv aRts Midwest" on Saturday, July 16 at 6 PM, featuring the Hanah Jon Taylor Trio performing in the SommerGarten at Mauersegler Park Kultur, Bernauer Strasse 63-64, 13355 Berlin, Germany. This exciting cultural and musical event brings together musicians from the U.S. and former East Berlin for a true international "Intersection".

Chicago native son, Hanah Jon Taylor

World-class saxophone/flutist and Chicago native son, Hanah Jon Taylor, travels to Germany for his Trio's performance on July 16. His unique and lyrical persona on flute, saxophone, and wind synthesizer has warranted him as a true innovator of the contemporary jazz idiom. He will perform pure improvisation on the saxophone, flute, and wind synthesizer, accompanied by Dan Casillas (guitar) from Chicago and Peter Vicent (double bass) from East Berlin. From Berlin, Taylor travels to Nimes, France, where he will perform in the "Jazz à Junas Festival". Taylor currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he teaches Music History at the Madison Media Institute.



Daniel Göritz was born in 1965 in East Berlin.


Winner of numerous prices and stipends, among them: the contemporary music price of the jury at the International Guitar Competition Kutna Hora 1988, first price winner of the Huddersfield International Composition Competition at Britain's most important contemporary music festival 1994, winner of a City of Berlin Composition Price 1995, winner of the 24th Artists International Competition (New York) in 1996 with the Zephyrus Duo (resulting in their debut recital at New York's Carnegie Recital Hall in the 1997 Season), composition stipend at the Academy of Arts and Letters Berlin 2000-2002.

Being also active in the field of early music studies, he is the editor of SONATE D'INTAVOLATURA DI LEUTO OPERA PRIMA- a collection of the lute works by Italian baroque composer Giovanni Zamboni, published by Peters Edition.

As an ensemble and orchestral musician, Daniel Göritz also performs regularly with some of the most distinguished Orchestras and Ensembles under the direction of renowned conductors. His credits have included (among others):

Berlin Philharmonic (Sir Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez), Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Marek Janowski), Ensemble Modern (Peter Rundel), Staatskapelle Berlin, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Crosstown Ensemble New York, Absolute Ensemble New York.



For more information, contact producer Susan Fox at 011 33 1 42 79 91 87 (in Paris) or via email at mccca@sbcglobal.net.

Alpha Bruton, 01 577 531 1138 (in Berlin),  phantomgallerychicago@gmail.com, via Skype alpha.bruton

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