Monday Night Experimental Cabaret

Monday February 12


Sara Worden
& Friends
Rearticulated Skeleton
Costumery and movement unite behind a drawn curtain casting anthropomorphic shadows across a vaudevillian stage. The shadows (the language between performer and audience) speak of allegorical relationships and magical encounters. These hybridized creatures and distorted figures are manifestations of the costumes created by Sara since her return to the Hudson Valley. 

For the evening Sara will be joined by dancers Tonya Abernathy, Jim Clark, Cullen Kasunic, Bomi Lee, and Ingrid Staats.   Music by Chris Harvey & Ryder Cooley.

Sara Worden grew up in Albany and currently lives in Troy, NY.   Her primary artistic interests are costumes and dance which come together for the occasional performance.   Sara studied fiber arts at SCAD and received a BA in geography & planning from UAlbany. Sara was a core organizer of Trashion (a recycled fashion show to benefit the arts), is active in the local contact improvisation community and works for Capital District Community Gardens.

Nicole Peyrafitte & Dan Wilcox
Fire & Ice
...and we will tell you nothing else about this, but you will not be disapointed. Lots of your senses will be satisfied. You can also draw on your memories few years back when a festival of that name happened in a cold February night in Albany....

Dan Wilcox is the host of the open mic at Social Justice Centerin Albany, N.Y. on the third Thursday of each month and is a member of the poetry performance group "3 Guys from Albany". As a photographer, he claims to have the world's largest collection of photos of unknown poets. He has been a featured reader at all the important poetry venues in the Capital District & throughout the Hudson Valley and is an active member of Veterans for Peace. He was a finalist for the 1998 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. He also started a blog and you should pay him a visit there: http://dwlcx.blogspot.com/

Nicole Peyrafitte is your host & a full time multimedia performance artist . She was born in Luchon (French Pyrenees) into the 5th generation of a family of restaurateurs.
As an autodidact, she considers each step of her work an attempt to fulfill her compulsion to learn through a process of immersion that generates performances incorporating voice / paintings / videos / writing & often cooking. Her cd La Garbure Transcontinentale/The Bi-Continental Chowder will be released at the Linda Noris auditorium February 16th. The full performance will be at the Steamer 10 Theater March 2-3-4. Then she will take off to Southern France to release her cd there. Visit her website: :http://www.nicolepeyrafitte.com/


Tess’ Lark Tavern
453 Madison Avenue
Albany, New York 12210 (Map)
Phone: (518) 463-9779

mondaycabaret@mac.com