March 13, 2010 Chicago, Thirteen Near-Death Experiences
Saturday, March 13, 2010, at 9:30pm
The Velvet Lounge
67 E. Cermak Road
Chicago, IL
$10
Corey and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) come to the legendary Velvet Lounge to offer the Chicago premiere of THIRTEEN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES, Corey’s art-pop song cycle about hypochondria.
May 9, 2010 New York, Opening for The Fancy
Sunday, May 9th, at 7pm, at Joe’s Pub.
Tix – $15
Performing with violinist Cornelius Dufallo, opening for The Fancy (more…)
May 21, 2010 Brooklyn, New Amsterdam Records Archipelago Series
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and pianist Kathleen Supové join Corey in a performance of songs from Thirteen Near-Death Experiences and Removable Parts as part of New Amsterdam Records’ Archipelago series at Galapagos in Brooklyn, NY. More info coming soon…
Past Performances
11/29/2009 at 8pm
in New York, NY
Composer and violinist Cornelius Dufallo presents a concert entitled Journaling (part one) performing music by Dufallo, Gosfield, Gardner, Dargel, and Clyne.
Cornelius Dufallo (aka Neil) and Corey Dargel will premiere Every Day Is the Same Day, a set of songs about the subconscious motivations behind disaster fantasies. As the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizeck said, “The only way to imagine a Utopia of social cooperation is to conjure a situation of absolute catastrophe.” The piece is scored for singer and violin with digital looping. Dargel will join Dufallo in the performance.
Sunday, November 29th at 8pm @ The Stone, New York, NY
Tickets: $10 at the door
11/19/2009 at 8pm
in Brooklyn, NY
21cLiederabend will showcase a vast array of works by post-classical composers Caleb Burhans, Leah Coloff, Corey Dargel, Osvaldo Golijov, Judd Greenstein, Ted Hearne, David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly,and Milica Paranosic. FEATURED SINGERS include Grammy award winner Hila Plitman, Abigail Fischer, Amelia Watkins, Anne-Carolyn Bird, David Adam Moore, Helga Davis, Kamala Sankaram, and SKIM accompanied by the VisionIntoArt ensemble with very special guest stars ETHEL. The program culminates with the premiere of a new work by composer & singer Kamala Sankaram.
Corey Dargel’s painfully tender song cycle, Sexual Side Effects, puts a quasi-baroque spin on 21st-century themes of romantic dysfunction and inadequacy. Dargel’s take on impotence, patient-therapist transference, and internet cruising, features his trademark balance of earnestness and skepticism. Sexual Side Effects was commissioned by Avian Music who premiered the work in January 2009. On this concert, the piece will be performed by soprano Amelia Watkins and musicians from Vision Into Art and ETHEL.
Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
718-222-8500 | www.galapagosartspace.com
Doors: 7:00pm/Show: 8:00pm | Tix: $20.00
6/13/2009 at 7pm
6/20/2009 at 7pm
6/24/2009 at 7:30pm
in Brooklyn, NY
Laboratory Theater performs “Le Mirage” as part of the Anti-Depressant Festival at The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave. (btw Union & Lorimer in Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
Tickets $15;
To purchase by phone call 212.354.3101
Click to purchase tickets online…
LE MIRAGE is an imagined lecture and demonstration of mystical dance by members of the real-life 1980’s French-Canadian cult, The Order of the Solar Temple. Three members of an alleged Las Vegas chapter of the Solar Temple offer true peace and happiness through a commingling of dance, original new age music, inspirational texts, and ritual. Featuring Rosicrucianism, ecological philosophy, the Holy Grail, and Transit to the planet Jupiter.
“At this Supreme Moment, the ruby power of the Work should rejoin the Levels of the Future. Our transit will be as a passage across a mirror. Our Terrestrial Journey is coming to an end.”
Laboratory Theater’s newest piece is drawn from actual lecture transcripts and ritual texts by The Order of the Solar Temple. The Order was a millenarian cult active in the 1980s and early ‘90s in Quebec, Canada and Geneva, Switzerland. They believed in the continuing existence of the Knights Templar, performed elaborate secret rituals, ran an organic farm, and professed that their members would be reunited one day with an ancient brotherhood of Ascended Masters on the planet Jupiter. In 1994, 53 members were found dead amidst fiery blazes, a combination of mass-suicide and ritual murder, their bodies arranged in star patterns.
Directed by Yvan Greenberg; performed by Corey Dargel, Sheila Donovan, and Oleg Dubson, with original music by François B. Nouvel-Âge, the piece unfolds through Laboratory Theater’s signature layering of choreography, text, complex sound design, improvisation, and imitation.
5/22/09 and 5/23/09 at 8pm (two shows)
in New York, NY
Performance Space 122
150 First Ave. at E. 9th St.
NYC 10009
Phone: 212-477-5829
ICE returns to PS 122 to offer the world premiere of THIRTEEN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES, an art-pop song cycle by Brooklyn composer-performer Corey Dargel.
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), recently described by the New York Times as “one of the most adventurous and accomplished groups in new music,” returns to Performance Space 122 for a genre-eclipsing program of world premieres from four of New York’s most talented young composer-performers.
The program’s centerpiece will be Corey Dargel’s Thirteen Near-Death Experiences, a 45-minute cycle of semi-autobiographical art-pop songs about hypochondria. The piece, which Dargel tailored for ICE’s virtuosic performance style, pairs his distinctive singing voice with a mixed ensemble of winds, strings, piano and percussion, with choreography by Yvan Greenberg and stage direction by Emma Griffin. In Dargel’s original lyrics, with symptom checklists masquerading as love songs, an abnormal anxiety is gradually subsumed into larger issues of longing, alienation, and empathy. The music, meanwhile, presents a radical departure from the glitchy electro-pop for which Dargel is best known, as well as a defiant shift from ICE’s core repertoire. Dargel has been blogging about the piece’s genesis at 13neardeathexperiences.com.
ICE will round out the program with the world premieres of three stunning short (more…)
