2009 charlotte street generative performing artist awards at gem theater thursday, december 10, 8pm

The 2009 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards will be celebrated with a free public event featuring live performances by 2009 Awards Fellows Glenn North and Tiffany Sisemore on Thursday, December 10, 8pm at the American Jazz Museum’s Gem Theater, 1615 East 18th Street.  This event is presented in collaboration with the American Jazz Museum.

The evening will feature a “poetic memoir” by spoken word poet Glenn North, reflecting upon how poetry has shaped his personal development.  This retrospective of sorts will incorporate many poems that North performs on a regular basis along with a selection of new pieces.  It will also weave in music, visual imagery, film, and dance, to demonstrate how spoken word intersects with other art forms.   

Tiffany Sisemore will present four short dance works, representational of her personal movement exploration and invention spanning eight years. These include “Time Dilation,” a work built for nine female dancers, loosely representing the growth, disintegration, and redevelopment of a collection of women;”Tumescence,” a quirky duet performed as a whimsical interpretation of seduction; “Our Story Has Always Been Told Through Beats,” a series of solos developed from conversations with Glenn North surrounding the theme “a percussive approach,” which will be performed in tandem with North’s poem “Our Story Has Always Been Told Through Beats,” as well as a fourth work in progress.    

North and Sisemore received unrestricted cash awards of $5000 each from Charlotte Street Foundation earlier this year. A color brochure is being produced in conjunction with the event, featuring images and essays about the fellows by Michael Humphrey, a New York-based writer/journalist, and Mary Pat Henry, Professor of Dance at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at UMKC and Artistic Director of Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company. 

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