Friday, March 21.2008
Standing Wave:
Sarah Weaver - trombone
Asimina Chremos - dance
Sarah Weaver is the Artistic Director of Weave, a contemporary arts performance group based in New York City. Weaver has performed with Soundpainting for 10 years, leading her own groups and as Associate Conductor of the Walter Thompson Orchestra. Weaver plays trombone, didjeridu, and conch shell, and has performed at venues including Roulette (NYC), The Stone (NYC), Lincoln Center (NYC), Now Lounge (Toronto), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Austin Lyric Opera House (Austin), and Trummerflora Festival (San Diego). Recent projects include research and performance of Telematic Music - co-located performance via the internet - with collaborators Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY), Chris Chafe (Stanford University, CA), Mark Dresser (University of California San Diego), and collaborators world-wide in the virtual reality environment Second Life. Performances with other major contemporary music figures include Marilyn Crispell, Karl Berger, David Liebman, and Stuart Dempster, among others. Weaver is Executive Director of the International Society for Improvised Music and an Apprentice of Deep Listening - the sound practice of composer Pauline Oliveros.
Asimina Chremos is an independent dance artist, residing in Chicago since 1997. Her idiosyncratic solo dancing reflects training in ballet and postmodern dance styles; in the past few years, yoga practice and Klein/Mahler Technique (a study of dynamic alignment) have also made their marks. Chremos's semi-improvisational choreographic work emphasizes improvisation and experimental live music. Recent works include Zeibekika, an exploration of her Greek cultural heritage funded by the Chicago Dancemakers Forum; CutUp, an abstract exploration of continuity and Red Swan Red Swan, in which she delved into the psyche of a young ballet dancer. Both latter works were presented in Chicago at Links Hall. Chremos is also known in the free jazz/improvisational music circles as an avid free improvisor. Her perfoming at High Zero Festival in Baltimore (September 2007) was noted in Signal to Noise magazine as "nearly ecstatic in her virtuosic athleticism." She also performed with oud player Mavrothi Kontanis in NYC at the Vision Collaboration Festival in January 2008.

