Saturday, Februrary 12, 2000

We are happy to announce the initiation of our performance program by offering a free concert of music and dance on Saturday, February 12th at 8pm. Ned Rothenberg and Yves Musard will collaborate on an exploration of the new exhibition space: Ned, with music and Yves, with dance. We will broadcast the performance over the Internet.

These two original performers have worked together previously at the Cartier Foundation in Paris, the Bolzano Festival in Italy and at Dia Center for the Arts in New York. They have developed a fascinating and complex interaction. The audience will experience a spell cast by Rothenberg’s quasi-polyphonic solo saxophone music in Location One’s beautifully reverberate acoustic space. Musard’s movement functions both to outline and interweave with the physical and sonic environment.

Ned Rothenberg composes and performs on saxophones, clarinets, and shakuhachi. He has been internationally acclaimed for his solo music, presented for the past 18 years in hundreds of concerts throughout North America and South America, Europe and Asia. He currently leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris, guitars and Samir Chatterjee, table and the ensembles Double Band, and Power Lines Close collaborators have included Sainkho Namchylak, Paul Dresher, John Zorn, Masahiko Sato, Samm Bennett, Elliott Sharp, and Katsuya Yokoyama.

Yves Mustard has been based in New York since 1979. In 1990 he began to create a series of “dance itineraries” in relation to specific views and details of architecture in public spaces. His most recent projects are “Spots and Loops” (1999), a guided visit through the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAMCO) in Geneva, Switzerland and “Between 19th and 14th” (1999), a promenade starting at the Kitchen in Chelsea, produced by the Downtown Arts Festival.