Surround:Visual - A Multimedia/Dance Performance with Live Music

Tonight in Buffalo a true multimedia event is taking place over at Babeville. You can check out the Facebook page for all the info, but here is the quick rundown if you don't already know what's up.

Photo originally from Artvoice.com

Surround:Visual a Multimedia/Dance Performance with Live Music will feature a total of 25 performers across 3 mediums: dance, video, and music. The performers will present a collaboration that is intended to, from the sound of it, engulf the audience in a sensory overload experience. The audience is in the middle, enclosed by a circle of video projections and surround-sound audio. Dancers will then roam in between the screen and the audience.

There will be two 50-minute improvisational performances.The show is free, but a donation is encouraged.

List of performers:

Dancers: Erin Bahn, Beth Elkins, Nancy Hughes, Angela Lopez, Leanne Rinelli, Bonnie Jean Taylor, and Elyssa Bourke.

Video artists: Cory Gath, Courtney Grim, Carl Lee, Tammy McGovern, Brian Milbrand and Vince Mistretta

Musicians: Jim Abramson, Kathleen Ashwill, Steve Baczkowski, Michael Basinski, Gabe Beam, Kevin Obrien Cain, Jenece Gerber, Mike Kimaid, Keir Neuringer, KG Price and T. Andrew Trump 

Check out this video of the group rehearsing for tonight's show:

Both performances are supported in part with funds from the Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds which are supported by The New York State Council on the Arts and the Strategic Opportunity Stipends Program through New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. The project also received a generous donation of steel from ALP Steel Corp.

Reactionary Ensemble Blog:

http://reactionaryensemble.blogspot.com/

Presented by Beyond/In WNY:

http://beyondinwny.org/

THE EVENT IS A BENEFIT FOR HALLWALLS !!!!!