28th Annual MATA Festival: Night One: Positive Void – Evolving Things

Transformation is the keynote of this year’s opening concert, an encounter between instrumental performance and movement. The Bang Group executes Steve Reich’s Clapping Music with tap shoes, and reimagines Feldman’s For John Cage as a tap dance. The program features new solo and duo scores for violin, flute, voice, and electronics by Yifan Guo, Liann J Kang, Anselm McDonnell, Kaleena Miller, Sami Seif, and Zihan Wu, performed by MATA Mavens. Bang choreographer David Parker interprets Pauline Kim Harris’s Sparkle Too with 10 pointe and eight tap shoes, and caps the evening with Schlemiezel, a duo for dancers in Velcro-covered suits.