Wormhole Superette @ the Rotunda, October 27th

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Kohoutek on WPRB 103.3 FM

I will be joining Kohoutek on Thursday, September 15th, for a performance on WPRB. Tune in around 3:30PM for  "Late Night" with Da D-Train Radio Extravaganza!, and get in on the spontaneity.

Fringe Festival 2016 (Venue Change!)

Photo: Suncan Stone

RHIZOMAS, Improvisational Music and Movement

Ryuzo Fukuhara + Wormhole Superette

New Central Baptist Church

2139 Lombard St.

Philadelphia, PA

19146

September 22nd & 23rd: 7:30pm

September 24th: 4:00pm &  7:30pm

Price: $18 / Duration: 60 minutes

Ticket Info: fringearts.com

Credit: Tracy Lisk

Rhizomas is a performance piece conceived by Ryuzo Fukuhara and in collaboration with Philadelphia Improvisation outfit Wormhole Superette, a free improvisational quartet. Ryuzo, who comes from a tradition of Japanese Butoh, visualizes the relationship between the aural and spatial environment and his body as rhizomes, a horizontal subterranean stem system that sends out both roots and shoots from it’s nodes at serendipitous intervals. The imaginary rhizomes penetrate the space and people, becoming the connections between the bodies of the audience, and the body of the dancer. Using this concept, the musicians and Fukuhara make bridges between gaps in every object/human present in the performing field. The rhizomes, conveyed through the body of the dancer, are the conduit to understand, recognize and accept sound in the space. Ryuzo Fukuhara began to dance with two significant Butoh dancers, Semi-Maru of Sankaijuku and Min Tanaka. He obtained his Butoh technique while studying with the two masters. In 2000, Ryuzo started work as a dance/artist in Europe. During his residency in Europe, he was awarded 2nd prize for the solo dance contest in 11MASDANZA, the International Contemporary Dance Festival of Canary Islands, Spain in 2006. Ryuzo was invited as a teacher of a dance master class at directed by Ismael Ivo in La Biennale di Venezia in Italy in 2010. He is currently teaching Butoh as a faculty member in the Art Department of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia since 2013.

Wormhole Superette is a Philadelphia based improvisational unit consisting of four individuals from diverse backgrounds (post-punk, extreme metal, experimental, jazz, visual art). The finished product is unique, flexible and often extremely unpredictable. Members include: Tracy Lisk: MFA, exhibiting visual artist, curator, percussionist. Christian Moehring: BFA drummer, composer, teacher. I (Domino) Peck: electric bassist, self taught writer. Travis Woodson: composer, arranger, improviser, multi-instrumentalist.

KOHOUTEK / PhilaMOCA, 12/5/15

Scott Verrastro (drums, precussion)/Julius Masri (percussion)/Travis Woodson (guitar)/Griffen Drutchas (bass)/Scott Allison (electronics)

Erik Ruin's Ominous Cloud Ensemble / AUX Performance Space, 11/21/15

For this performance: Ashley Tini - vibraphone / Dan Blacksberg - trombone / Eric Carbonara - pedal steel / Julius Masri - drums, percussion / Lindsay Baukert - violin / Nick Millevoi - guitar / Reid Books - prepared guitar / Travis Woodson - guitar / Erik Ruin - projections, tapes

NowHere Festival, October 19th - 25th

The Impermanent Society of Philadelphia (ISOP) is pleased to announce the NowHere Festival of Free Improvisation in Sound and Movement, October 19th - October 25th 2015 to be held at the Mascher Space Cooperative (155 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA)

Dedicated to promoting the Free Improvisation art form, the festival will include world-class movement and sound artists from across the US and Philadelphia.

The week long festival includes a wide range of programming:

   • 3 days of Performance

   • Week long Adult Master Classes

   • Youth education

   • Panel Discussion at Temple University

   • Scholarly presentation throughout the festival

The following list represents confirmed performers for the NowHere Festival. Additional performers and workshop facilitators will be added to the roster soon. Please join our mailing list to stay tuned for all of the updates. (Link)