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PAST EVENTS
2220 welcomes back to LA the NYC-based large ensemble collective EXO-TECH. In the theater, in the round, as always featuring a dynamic cast of local musicians in collaborative, ecstatic reverie. EXO-TECH’s performance in September of 2024 was one of last year’s highlights at 2220 – don’t miss it! In Weathering, ten performers move and morph on a raft-like stage, surrounded by audiences that witness the awe-inspiring evolving tableau of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids, and objects. Dancers gradually shift from barely perceptible gestures to high-velocity sprints and collisions, in what choreographer Faye Driscoll terms “a multi-sensory flesh sculpture surging through the Anthropocene.” As a vocal score resonates throughout the space, dancers spill and careen into the spiral of a hurricane. The audience is drawn into this storm, close enough to smell the sweat, hear the labored breathing, and feel the rising energy of the living symphony of bodies. In our contemporary moment when movements and forces that shape lives can seem difficult to grasp, Driscoll and her collaborators ask: “How do we feel the impact of large events in the intimacy of our own bodies?” Created by Faye Driscoll “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” A conversation between a Rabbit and a Professor Furious, erotic, political, surreal, poetic, hopeless, hopeful, absurd, humorous, sophisticated, welcome to 50 Minutes, the War War, Jaw Jaw, Bunny Play, Zurich, newly written by acclaimed British author, Deborah Levy, for Theater Neumarkt. Starring Susanne Sachsse, Hauke Heumann. Director: Tine Milz. Set Pieces is a new project exploring the evocative interplay between words and music. It features New York-Australian interdisciplinary performer, vocalist, and composer Sophia Brous (EXO-TECH, The Invisible Opera), in collaboration with Mercury Prize–nominated pianist, organist and ECM recording artist Kit Downes. The project draws on a deep alchemical dialogue between the two musicians, where a gradually evolving song cycle is created in real-time, using a libretto created especially for each performance, highlighting the work of a particular twentieth-century modernist poet. In Set Pieces, the duo create show-specific compositional cycles, working in collaboration with text dramaturg, author and Yale University Press senior editor Jessie Kindig. This New York premiere performance will feature a cycle of prose poetry written by Argentinian Russian-Jewish poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), in English translation by Yvette Siegert. EXOTECH 9/12 at Public Records 2220 presents the LA debut of NYC-based collective EXO-TECH. The large EXO-TECH ensemble evolves and changes with each event, and LA’s version contains an amazing cast: Sophia Brous (voice, musical director), Kimbra (voice, electronics), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (violin), Shags Chamberlain (synths), Benjamin Lazar Davis (organ, keyboards), Will Graefe (guitar), Taylor Graves (keyboards), Jeremy Gustin (drums), Dave Harrington (guitar, electronics), Jeff Parker (guitar, electronics), Nicole McCabe (saxophone), Cole Kamen-Greene (trumpet, electronics), Mauro Refosco (percussion), and Spencer Zahn (electric bass). Greg Fox – drums The Invisible Opera at Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre, Perth International Arts Festival February 22-26. 
Sound and Music Direction by Sophia Brous
(Sigmund Freud)
50 Minutes investigates the psyche of contemporary panic
What does it feel like to live in a world on fire?
But, hang on, there are so many anxieties. Where do we begin?
What shall we do with everything we feel?
Co-creator, Dramaturg and Music: Sophia Brous
Sophia Brous – voice, musical director
Kimbra – voice, electronics
Zoh Amba – saxophone
Nels Cline – guitar
Mike Haldeman – guitar, electronics, clarinet
Yuka Honda – synthesisers, electronics
Shahzad Ismailly – percussion, bass
Will Graefe – electric guitar
Jeremy Gustin – drums
Cole Kamen-Green – trumpet, electronics
Mauro Refosco – percussion
Lex Sadler – electric bass, moog bass
Kaoru Watanabe – shinobue flutes
Doug Weiselman – saxophone, bass clarinet
Kenny Wolleson – vibraphone, percussion
Review in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/23/perth-festival-invisible-opera-scarborough-beach