A fundraiser for us..
Our friend Rosie Langabeer is in Philadelphia for a short visit working on Pig Irons' up coming show Franklin’s Key and we are glad to be able to host her performance, while raising some much needed funds for our series! Rosie has assemble a great band for the occasion with Tara Middleton (Sun Ra Arkestra & Jupiter Blue), Josh Machiz (TJ Kong & the Atomic Bomb) & Gregg Mervine (West Philadelphia Orchestra). Don't miss this rare Philly appearance by Rosie!
Hailed by the New York Times for her ability to time bend, Rosie Langabeer is a rare combination of musical intelligence and practice along with irreverence and risk-taking. A multi-award winner as a composer and performer, her wonderfully honest voice can make you want to cry and then she’ll sprinkle in some robot bird monsters.
Langabeer’s work is collaborative and interdisciplinary, often combining live musicians onstage with physical theatre and dance. She is a hyperactive piano player and also plays accordion, sings her lungs out, plays trombone, ukulele, synthesizer/electronics, objects and more. Her love of participation and exchange are at the heart of her sound which is at once familiar and strange, beautiful and discordant, mysterious and absurd. She has performed throughout NZ and the USA as well as Mexico, the UK, France, Japan and Sri Lanka.
From 2010 to 2015 Langabeer lived in Philadelphia, USA where she became highly regarded for her work in the performing arts. Her collaboration with Philly’s experimental theatre giants Pig Iron Theatre Company earned her two Barrymore Awards in 2012 and she has an ongoing relationship with BalletX, Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet company with whom she has created three critically acclaimed works since 2011.
Currently based in Tamaki Makaurau, New Zealand her current projects include: a duo OUTER SPACE FOOD FIGHT with musical instrument inventor and Guggenheim Fellow Neil Feather, nervous system/flow state research with Lily Linton and producing experimental big band and marching band performances in Wellington called The Best Most Happiest Fun Sexy Cabaret Of Good Fortune and Prosperity and PARADEAMONIUM!
accessibility: ramp into lobby, then 7 stairs into theater
You may also like the following events from Fire Museum Presents:
- This Sunday, 18th May, 08:00 pm, Lia Kohl & Carrie DeCunzo in Philadelphia
- Next Friday, 23rd May, 08:00 pm, Take Me To Fendika - Documentary screening in Philadelphia
- Next month, 1st June, 03:00 pm, East Kensington Spring Festival with Mariposas Galácticas, Hodgepodge & Darling Damselfly in Philadelphia
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