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"Stress Positions" is the latest in a series of performances using dance/movement (by Julie Fotheringham) integrated with video and music/sound (by Jarryd Lowder). Julie's performance is amplified by technology, and humanized by her flesh experiencing pain, pleasure, tension, relief, numbness, exhaustion; the raw elements of physical experience. Jarryd combines live camera imagery and live instrumentation using stringed instruments, percussive instruments and found objects, played in conventional and unconventional ways.



Jarryd Lowder is an artist working with electronic audiovisual media (integrating forms such as video, sound and music) primarily for live performance. His performances and other works have been presented in the US and countries such as Spain, France, Japan, Finland, Korea and the Netherlands. At the School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Art department, he works as an instructor of studio classes in Video and Sound/Music. For more information - http://www.jarrydlowder.com/



Julie Fotheringham performed as a dancer/acrobat in Cirque du Soleil before coming to New York to make her own work. Here she has shown her contemporary dance/performance art pieces in various venues including Dance New Amsterdam, Galapagos Art Space, and Monkeytown. She also brings her work to unsuspecting audiences with her uninvited guerrilla improvisations. To view video of these performances, or for more info, go to http://www.juliefotheringham.org/

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Jeffrey Schanzer w/ Billy Bang (violin), Ned Rothenberg (woodwinds), Lindsey Horner (bass), Warren Smith (percussion) AND a Special Guest!

Jeffrey Schanzer is a composer and guitarist involved in a wide variety of music, ranging from fully notated to fully improvised. He has studied composition with Morton Feldman and Anthony Davis and guitar with Oswald Rantucci. No More In Thrall, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, where his father was a prisoner, performed by the Sirius String Quartet with percussionist Kevin Norton, was released on the CRI label in 1997. Jeffrey performs with his wife, composer/pianist Bernadette Speach, in Schanzer/Speach Duo, and leads the Jeffrey Schanzer Ensemble. Within the context of the Duo and his Ensemble, Jeffrey has worked with such musicians as Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, Bobby Previte, Ned Rothenberg and Wadada Leo Smith.

The composer/guitarist reunites the Jeffrey Schanzer Ensemble for the first time in over a decade to perform Leroy Jenkins' Bluejay on the Firescape along with other old favorites. Featuring: Billy Bang- violin, Ned Rothenberg - woodwinds, Lindsey Horner - bass and Warren Smith- percussion. Then he performs with baj, a cooperative improvisation trio with flutist Andrea LaRose and pianist Bernadette Speach, which will feature new soundtracks to recent recorded commentaries by death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.