Sold Out! Joanna Mattrey: New Compositions for Improvisor

Thu 04 Nov, 2021, 8pm

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For the third and final program of her ISSUE Project Room Residency, violist Joanna Mattrey presents an evening of world premieres written for Mattrey and her unique soundscape and modern approach.

The evening features compositions by leading improvisers Leila Bordreuil, Nick Dunston, Weasel Walter, Lucie Vitkova, and a new composition featuring sound and installation by Mattrey. This performance will take place at CPR – Center for Performance Research in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

PROGRAM:

Nick Dunston: A Fleeting Once

Weasel Walter: Dire Consequenzas

Lucie Vitkova: Octavia

Leila Bordreuil: Mirage

Intermission

Joanna Mattrey: Weaver

Joanna Mattrey is a violist working in free improvisation, new music, and classical music. She uses extended techniques, modern compositional approaches, and electronic alterations to challenge the conventions of the viola. Drawing on her certifications in Alexander Technique, Yoga, and Martial Arts, Joanna creates an embodied performance practice centered on ceremony and ritual. Recent album releases include, “Veiled,’ (Relative Pitch Records, 2020), ‘Dirge,’ (Dear Life Recs), and ‘Death in the Guilded Age,’ (Tripticks Tapes 2021). Joanna has a B.A. in viola performance from the New England Conservatory (2009). Alexander Technique Certification (2012), Yogaworks 200-Hr Hatha Teacher Training (2019), Yoga Farm 300-Hr Kundalini Teacher Training (2021-present).

CPR – Center for Performance Research is dedicated to supporting artists in the development of new work in contemporary dance and performance. CPR focuses its activities in three key areas: creative and professional development support; providing affordable space for artists; and public programming. Curated and open-call programs focus on providing artists with rehearsal, residency, and performance support, which generates time and space for research and dialogue, and creates opportunities to share work in a variety of contexts. CPR’s subsidized space rental program helps to ensure that artists can access CPR’s flexible studios and performance space at affordable rates to create and share their work. By presenting work to the public through performances, work-in-progress showings, salon-style discussions, exhibitions, and festivals, CPR exposes local audiences and its community to contemporary artistic practice and process.

CPR is a fully ADA-compliant and accessible venue located on the ground floor, with two gender-inclusive restrooms and one wheelchair-accessible restroom.

ISSUE and CPR both remain committed to supporting the local experimental arts community, while also ensuring the health and safety for our artists, staff, and audience members. While we are excited to welcome you back to in-person events, ISSUE and CPR will continue to act in compliance with direction from Local, State, and Federal government agencies. In accordance with the NYC mandate, ISSUE remains committed to supporting the local experimental arts community, while also ensuring the health and safety for our artists, staff, and audience members. While we are excited to welcome you back to in-person events, ISSUE will continue to act in compliance with direction from Local, State and Federal government agencies. At this time, ISSUE and CPR require all attendees to show proof of an approved COVID-19 vaccine. Additionally, ISSUE and CPR will request: attendees wear face coverings during indoor performances; plus appropriate social distancing, particularly within designated concession areas.

ISSUE Project Room programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. ISSUE gratefully acknowledges additional 2021 season support from a number of funding partners including The Howard Gilman Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, New Music USA's New Music Organizational Development Fund, and Metabolic Studio (a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation).

CPR – Center for Performance Research programs are supported, in part, by Brooklyn Arts Council, Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, as well as generous individual donors and the CPR Board of Directors.