3 DROPS OF BLOOD VII: Music & Dance Performance

Fri, Nov 4 - Sat, Nov 5
8:00pm
$17 advance/$20 door

NANOS OPERETTA PRESENTS:

3 DROPS OF BLOOD
Installment VIII

Two intimate evenings of performance curated by Ali Tabatabai

-featuring-

Guy Klucevsek NYC
Cyro Baptista NYC
Shinichi Momo Koga & Cassie Terman
Nanos Operetta & Chepikov String Quartet
Serchmaa Byamba & Ulziisaikhan Lkhagvadorj

Project Artaud Theater
450 Florida Street at 17th Street

Reservations available at (415) 561-1444


"A deliciously demented cabaret"
San Francisco Chronicle


Special pre-concert talk with composers Guy Klucevsek and Cyro Baptista
Saturday, November 5, 7:30 pm
Performance ticket can be used to attend this pre-concert talk.


Composer/accordionist GUY KLUCEVSEK has created a unique repertoire
for accordion through his own composing and by commissioning over 50
works from composers including John Zorn, Lois V Vierk, Fred Frith,
Alvin Lucier, and Somei Satoh. He has performed and/or recorded with
Laurie Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Bill Frisell, Kronos Quartet, and
Pauline Oliveros as well as leading his own critically acclaimed
groups, The Bantam Orchestra and Ain't Nothing' But A Polka Band. In
1996, Klucevsek formed The Accordion Tribe, an international line-up
of composer/accordionists, which was the subject of the documentary
film Accordion Tribe - Music Travels. A master of the free bass
accordion, his solo and ensemble recordings and performances have
gained him the reputation of "a rebel with an accordion" (Downbeat)
and a trailblazing virtuoso" (The Wall Street Journal).

Since arriving in the U.S. in 1980 from his native country Brazil,
CYRO BAPTISTA has emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the
country. His mastery of Brazilian percussion and the many instruments
he creates himself, have catapulted him into world renown. With his
own ensemble, the percussion and dance group Beat the Donkey,
Baptista gives free reign to his imagination, mixing his tremendous
musical skills, his natural humor and theatrical ways with
instruments from Brazil, Middle East, Indonesia, Africa and the US. A
recipient of numerous awards as both percussionist and composer,
Baptista has worked with Yo-Yo Ma, John Zorn, Herbie Hancock, Laurie
Anderson, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, and Snoop Dogg.

SHINICHI MOMO KOGA & CASSIE TERMAN play in a highly physical realm
that includes sound and language to explore an often surreal and
dreamlike, yet utterly immediate world together. Comic dilemma, the
pathos of human frailty, passionate engagement and associative
narratives are woven into a cohesive, wild, delicate, and
unpredictable whole. Performances reveal human experiences that are
both archetypal and modern, intricate while steeped in simplicity.
Koga is the founder of the physical theater and Japanese butoh dance
company inkBoat. He has collaborated with Yumiko Yoshioka and TEN PEN
CHii, Do Theatre, Minako Seki, and Sleepytime Guerilla Museum. Koga's
productions, both solo and ensemble, have been experienced throughout
the US, Europe and Japan. Terman is a member of the International
Action Theater Ensemble and founder of the three-woman theater group
Etiquette.

NANOS OPERETTA is a new music ensemble working in extended song
forms, blending cinematic sound collages, seamless juxtapositions,
shifting backgrounds, recurring motifs and vocal narrations.
Employing unconventional instrumentation and found objects, they
incorporate elements of ethnic, film, modern chamber, and cartoon
music into meditations on themes of love, disease, and revolution.
Nanos Operetta has worked with Myra Melford, Frank Pahl, Koichi &
Hiroko Tamano, Ledoh, and Sha Sha Higby. They are 2004 Isadora Duncan
recipients. The CHEPIKOV STRING QUARTET is one of the Bay Area's most
challenging and evocative chamber ensembles. Specializing in the
works of 20th century living composers, CSQ has performed the music
of Arnold Dreyblatt, Boris Kovac, and Hyo-Shin Na. The quartet has
premiered the works of both composers Dreyblatt and Kovac in the US.

Master contortionist SERCHMAA BYAMBA was born in Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia. Through years of intensive and uninterrupted training from
a very young age of 7 in the Mongolian State Circus, Byamba has
performed through out the world since the age of 13. Regarded at the
top of her field, Byamba is a performer whose unique art transcends
boundaries of all theatrical disciplines and endeavors. She was
awarded The Golden Elephant grand prize from the Festival of The
World's Young Circus and a Gold medal from the All Asian National
Festival. ULZIISAIKHAN LKHAGVADORJ is a throat singer and
instrumentalist who performs on the morin huur (horse-headed fiddle)
and ever buree (ox horn trumpet). He is a former member of the
Mongolian National Tuman Ekh Ensemble and a delegate at the Throat
Singers Symposium in Ulaanbaatar.


Cyro Baptista's Rhythm Awareness Percussion Workshop
Sponsored by Nanos Operetta and Meet the Composers
Saturday, November 4, 12 pm at Project Artaud Theater
$15 (workshop)/$28 (workshop + performance on Nov. 4 or 5)

Please rsvp to in order to attend workshop.

guyklucevsek.com
cyrobaptista.com
inkboat.com
nanosoperetta.com
arjiagegeen.com/performers.html


3 DROPS OF BLOOD is an ongoing series of unique and varied
performances in music, dance, and physical performance.

Venue:

Project Artaud Theater
450 Florida Street at 17th Street
San Francisco
(415) 561-1444
www.artaud.org/theater

MUNI - Lines 22 and 37 stop at 16th and Harrison. Line 27 has a stop
at Bryant and 17th.

BART - Nearest Station at 16th and Mission. Go East on 16th (4
blocks) to Alabama. South on Alabama 2 blocks.

By Auto:

* From the South: Take 101 North to Vermont St exit (next after
Ceasar Chevez/Army). Left on Vermont, left on 17th to Alabama (approx
7 blocks)
* From the East: Take the Bay Bridge and exit 9th St.; veer left on
Harrison (one way), left on 17th; one block to Alabama.
* From the North: Take Van Ness south; cross Market St. and continue
on South Van Ness; turn left on 17th; go five blocks to Alabama.

Additional Info:

(415) 561-1444
www.nanosoperetta.com