February 8th 7PM
a very crowded night
@
Monday Night Experimental Cabaret
at Tess' Lark Tavern

Host: Nicole Peyrafitte

"Actions and Words " by Amy Hallorand & Jack Magai
Amy Halloran is a writer who lives in Troy. Jack Magai is a dancer who lives there, too. Together they will make a storydance - she will write to his dance and he will dance to her narration.

Belle Gironda will present "Another Poetics of Space" a poetry performance piece that explores the movement of information in domestic space and the transformation of information into emotion. Belle is a poet living in Brooklyn and she sais:

"I have long been interested in, and playing around with, writing that "rethinks" itself, in response to new media. I was one of the editors of The Little Magazine Volume 21, one of the first literary magazine produced in multi-media format. I have given media-enhanced performances in Providence, R.I., Albuquerque, N.M., Karlstaad, Sweden, Newark, New Jersey, Nottingham, U.K., and Albany, NY. My new poetry book, *Frame Works,* is out looking for a publisher.

Ryder Cooley
"Songs for a weathervein stormcloud
Windy spells and stormy chatterings will spin through
through the backward wings of time during this epitaph
of songs set upon accordion fingers and singing saw
tones"
C. Ryder Cooley is a multi-diciplinary artist and musician from San Francisco. She is currently a graduate student in combined Media at SUNY, Albany. She performed and recorded with numerous bands and ensembles in SF including: Down River (a gypsey dirge duet), Corner Tour (rag-tag circus folk quartet) and The Darklings (accordion-banjo serenades). She has performed accordion apparitions at fountains and turrets around Tabor, Czech Republic, as well as hovering above and below bridges in Vermont and Massachusetts. As an accordionist, Ryder Cooley is infinitely inspired by fluttering sounds of hummingbirds and vintage folk music from Eastern Europe. The singing saw is her newest musical endearment. To unearth some earlier recordings please visit www.outofroundrecords.com.

Video of Ryder Cooley's Performance
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Tess’ Lark Tavern
453 Madison Avenue
Albany, New York 12210 (Map)
Phone: (518) 463-9779

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