Saturday, October 15 * 4pm * TICKETS
Rhizome DC and OTS Productions present…
Calligrapher Setsuhi Shiraishi (Chiba, Japan), performing in an intimate afternoon setting with improvising musician Sarah Hughes (DC). DC’s Claire Alrich will kick things off with a movement-based performance.
Setsuhi Shiraishi - Professional Calligrapher. She continues to pursue the beauty of the lines and spaces that influence the viewers momentarily. She sublimes calligraphy as a comprehensive art, such as collaborating with other arts in a unique style while transmitting the world of traditional calligraphy, is highly appreciated. Her live performances created by fusion with live music attract many fans all over the world.
She designed the concept of the new uniform for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Japan National Team, "Circle". With Shiseido Co., Ltd. for Clé de Peau Beauté, she was selected as "6 women", and works to transcend the frame, such as producing TRM of Panasonic and wall paintings of Oracle Japan Co., Ltd.
She worked at Installation at the Japan Pavilion certification event at Expo Milan. Performed at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. She was invited artist at Abiko International Outdoor Art Exhibition Installation.
She did solo exhibitions at Paris, NY, SF, JICC Embassy of Japan in the United States, live tours in 6 cities in the United States, and was also invited overseas to France every year.
Sarah Marie Hughes is a performing artist who resides in Maryland. She plays the saxophone, flute, and clarinet and also creates on the guitar and piano. Her improvising vocabulary is influenced by jazz music and contemporary improvisation.
From 2004-2008 Sarah studied classical saxophone performance with Dale Underwood at the University of Maryland and earned a bachelor's degree in music education. She received a master's degree in jazz saxophone performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston where she studied with Jerry Bergonzi, Donny McCaslin, Ran Blake, Anthony Coleman, and Ben Schwendener.
Sarah has performed extensively in various concert settings in venues throughout Washington DC and Baltimore, with occasional concert performances in NYC and Chicago. Before studying jazz formally at NEC, she shared the stage with an impressive list of jazz luminaries, including but not limited to Lee Konitz, Dan Tepfer, Matt Wilson, Freddie Redd, Mary Halvorson, and Alison Miller. After graduating from NEC, Sarah continued to have opportunities to share the stage and bills with great improvisers, including Joe Morris, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Daniel Carter, and Fay Victor. In 2015 she traveled to Sweden with Amy K. Bormet's ensemble Ephemera, to participate in their first Women in Jazz Festival.
In 2018 Sarah released her first album, Coy Fish, containing free improvisation and poetry, with Sam Burt on daxophone, Daniel Ostrow on bass, and Nate Scheible on drums. Live performances by the quartet invited audiences to participate in collective improvised drawings and balloon playing. In 2019 Sarah released her second album, The Drag, which included Sam Burt on bass clarinet, Steve Arnold on bass, and Joseph Leo Arkfeld on moog. The album includes performances of Sarah's graphic scores and improvised singing/reading of her prose. In 2019 Sarah participated in an interdisciplinary collaboration at the D'Clinic Studio Residency in Zalaegerszeg, Hungry which resulted in the creation of a book containing her visual art and prose.
Claire Alrich is a DC artist, working in the mediums of dance, performance, costume-design, textile, and paint. In addition to making her own work Claire is: one-third of the performance collective Area Woman, a teaching artist with ArtStream inclusive theater, Site Coordinator for The Field/DC, and a studio resident at Hole in the Sky (HITS). Claire is a 2017 and 2019 recipient of an Artist Fellowship through the DC Council of the Arts and Humanities.