3 Drops of Blood - Installment IX

Fri, Feb 3 - Sat, Feb 4
8:00pm
$16 advance/$19 door

NANOS OPERETTA PRESENTS:

3 DROPS OF BLOOD

Installment IX

Two intimate evenings of performance curated by Ali Tabatabai

Friday & Saturday, February 3 & 4, 8PM


PAUL DRESHER

NANCY KARP + DANCERS

KOICHI TAMANO & HIROKO TAMANO

NANOS OPERETTA

EDMUND WELLES: The Bass Clarinet Quartet


Project Artaud Theater
450 Florida Street at 17th Street

TIX: $16 advance/$19 door
Reservations available at (415) 561-1444


"...verged on mystical"
SF Weekly


bull Paul Dresher will be performing new music from "Slipping
Glimpse", a collaboration in progress for the Margaret Jenkins Dance
Company, with electronic percussionist Joel Davel.

bull Nancy Karp + Dancers will be performing "Jaisalmer", the second
of three sections from Karp's full evening collaboration with Paul
Dresher, "KALASAM", accompanied by Paul Dresher and Joel Davel.

bull Koichi Tamano & Hiroko Tamano will be performing "Our Breath is
as Thin as a Humming Bird's Spine", an excerpt from Nanos Operetta's
"The Spoon on the Table", accompanied by Nanos Operetta and Edmund
Welles.

bull Edmund Welles will be performing sections from their Chamber
Music America commissioned work "Agrippa's 3 Books", inspired by
occult philosophy and heavy metal music.

bull Nanos Operetta will be performing excerpts from their work "The
Spoon on the Table" with special guest aerialist Abigail Munn and
selections from their score to Bahman Kiarostami's film "Persian
Garden".


PAUL DRESHER is an internationally active composer and musician noted
for his ability to integrate diverse musical influences into his own
coherent and unique personal style. He has pursued many forms of
musical expression including experimental opera and music theater,
chamber and orchestral composition, live instrumental electro-
acoustic chamber performances, musical instrument invention and
scores for theater, dance, and film. Dresher has performed and had
his works performed throughout North America, Asia and Europe. As
Artistic Director of his contemporary chamber group, the Paul Dresher
Ensemble, he has guided the creation of the "American Trilogy", a set
of experimental operatic works in collaboration with writer/performer
Rinde Eckert. Dresher has worked extensively with many choreographers
including Margaret Jenkins, Brenda Way/ODC San Francisco, and Nancy
Karp + Dancers. In 2001 Dresher built and composed "Sound Stage", a
music theater work performed on a set comprised entirely of very
large-scale invented musical instruments.

Artistic director/choreographer NANCY KARP has been making work in
San Francisco for over two decades, creating more than 70 dance works
for her San Francisco-based company Nancy Karp + Dancers. Karp and
the company have toured throughout the U.S. and abroad, including
extended artist residencies in Germany, the former Yugoslavia, India,
and Japan. Karp has received numerous grants and awards for her work,
including the Bay Area Dance Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005
and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to India. Karp's evening-
length work, "Kristallnacht", created in collaboration with composer
Alvin Curran premiered before sold-out houses. Other major works
which have toured internationally include "Prima Materia" with music
by Ingram Marshall, "First Light" with sound score by Bill Fontana,
and "Dot Bunch" with music by Charles Amirkhanian. "hellipwork of the
utmost intellectual rigor and refinement" (DANCE MAGAZINE). This
year, Nancy Karp + Dancers celebrates its twenty-fifth season.

Butoh masters KOICHI TAMANO & HIROKO TAMANO are the directors of
Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theatre. Former students of Tatsumi Hijikata,
one of the original founders of butoh, the Tamanos devotion to the
mastery of dance is expressed through works that are at once
beautiful, graceful, shocking and grotesque. Koichi has worked
closely with numerous musicians, visual artists and designers, most
notably, with Grammy Award winning musician Kitaro in their acclaimed
collaboration "Tamayura". Japan's famed author, Yukio Mishima,
considered Koichi to have the most perfect body of all the dancers in
Hijikata's studio. Harupin-Ha's captivating performances have been
lauded by audiences worldwide.

EDMUND WELLES: THE BASS CLARINET QUARTET has the distinction of being
the world's only original, composing band of four bass clarinets. Led
by composer/arranger Cornelius Boots, Edmund Welles uses the sonorous
timbre of this potent instrumentation to invent and perform their
unique brand of heavy chamber music, muzak for conspiracy theorists,
and songs of lunacy and purpose. This unique configuration of bass
clarinets is comprised of the Bay Area's most virtuosic clarinetists.
From Satie to Sepultura, Edmund Welles' melodic, frenetic music is
an exploration into the remarkable tone and range of this rarely
featured instrument.

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
Tamano & Hiroko Tamano, Shinichi Momo Koga, and Ledoh. They are 2004
Isadora Duncan Award recipients for their score to Harupin-Ha's
evening length work "Serei".


dresherensemble.org
nancykarp.org
harupin-ha.org
nanosoperetta.com
edmundwelles.com


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

These performances are made possible in partnership with Project
Artaud and the generous support of the San Francisco Arts Commission,
the Zellerbach Family Fund, and the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation.

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