Cilla Vee Life Arts "Psychic Bandwidth"
an inter-disciplinary collaborative structured improvisation project
Psychic Bandwidth – chance operations of cross-disciplinary performance modes.
Improvized collaborations of Sound with Movement, Spoken Word and other Performance Arts test the Psychic Bandwidth of artists and audience alike.
Duos, Trios, Quartets and All.
Picked randomly on the spot.
Unpredictable.
Each artist could do anything at any moment.
Do we have the Psychic Bandwidth to absorb it all?
To see everything. To hear everything.
To catch and process each interaction.
Casting our psychic net wide and reeling it all in to our consciousness.
Cilla Vee - http://cebhomepage.blogspot.com
Gino Robair - http://www.ginorobair.com/
Cheryl E Leonard - http://www.allwaysnorth.com
Amy Reed - https://amyreedartist.wordpress.com/
Rent Romus - http://www.romus.net/
Ivy Johnson - https://ivyjohnsonblog.wordpress.com/
Tongo Eisen-Martin - http://www.blackfirepress.com/
Eric Kupers - http://www.dandeliondancetheater.org/
Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble - https://www.facebook.com/CSUEBIIE/
Photo: Matt Jamie
Claire Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla Vee) is an inter-disciplinary artist with a performing arts background. She is the director of Cilla Vee Life Arts – an arts organization with a focus on cross-media collaboration. Her work utilizes artistic disciplines of dance, music, text, media, visual and installation art.
Claire has presented her work in venues as diverse as Jacob’s Pillow, the New York
Botanical Gardens, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center and Art Basel Miami. She has performed and taught throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, Japan and Pakistan.
Claire received her professional training in London at The Laban Centre For Movement and Dance and at the London Studio Centre For Performing Arts. Her pre-professional training includes the Royal Academy of Dance and the Royal Schools of Music examinations. She also served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute with Plymouth University, UK.
On moving to the USA in 1992, Claire held the positions of Dancer for Unto These Hills drama on the Cherokee Indian Reservation and for Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater in North Carolina, as well as serving as a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and as Choreographer for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee.
Once based in New York in 2002, Claire founded Cilla Vee Life Arts and, with the support of arts advocates such as Chashama, Bronx Council on the Arts and Arts for Art, began to develop and present her signature modes of work – including Motion Sculpture Movement Installations and The Sound Of Movement projects.
She is the creator of the Living Art pedagogy for performance art.
Claire now uses Asheville NC as her home-base.
Cost: $8-15 sliding
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Gino Robair and John Butcher, 2008