Friday November 13 * 7pm * TICKETS

OUTSIDE IN THE BACKYARD. ADVANCE TICKETS REQUIRED.

Donald Davidson is a spoken word artist singer/songwriter and percussionist for his band Drum Coven, and former Takoma Park resident. Drum Coven is off-alt, alt-blues, alt-gospel, alt-folk, drum and bass poetry alt-jazz, tree-hugger, stick play indie lounge laughs free-form cave-primal liminal hypnotic psychodelphic, Jewish-Pagan, afro-centric, afro-pop, palm-reader. Davidson started as an accompanist for modern and African dance classes across the Washington, DC area. The combination of sound and aesthetic form brought him to poetry, later working as the accompanist for early experimental performance art groups, such as Hungry Fetus. Davidson’s “paint the picture” approach to writing recalls his earlier work in painting and illustration.

Peter Redgrave and Khristian Weeks (Baltimore)

Peter Redgrave is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. He is interested in limits, interruption, narrative, and what it is to be human. His current work involves physical exploration and presentation of the body as a tool for collective memory - a theater of movement. Khristian Weeks is a parent, artist, musician, educator, and caregiver. He has a degree in Theoretical studies and composition from the New England Conservatory of Music. He has been performing and presenting his work as well as spending his days playing with very young children since the late 1980’s. It is Weeks’s intention in all of his work to provide a sensory rich environment and experience for those in his care. He lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. In this collaboration, movement, sound, lighting, and the space itself are used as materials. Their pieces are constructed with highly adaptable and improvisational scores. Character and dialogue become elements to construct and enact purposeless task-oriented spectacles. vimeo.com/475640063

Short opening performance by Nancy Havlik’s Dance Performance Group