Artist Benefit Dinner & Opening of the Inter-format Symposium
Revisiting the Roaring Twenties 1920/2020: Art, Culture and the École de Paris
For the opening for the Inter-format Symposium, L’AiR Arts will host a benefit dinner to commemorate the centenary of the Roaring Twenties. Inspired by the Bal de la Horde in Montparnasse Bal Bullier - an annual benefit ball organised by the artists of Montparnasse during the 1920s, this benefit dinner will help to support international artistic community of the 2020s.
The event will take place in the iconic restaurant of that glorious era - La Coupole. A historical symbol of Montparnasse, it is known as a meeting place for artists from around the world, while serving international cuisine and hosting legendary multicultural spectacles. Listed as a heritage site, the pillars that support the ceiling of the art deco style dining hall are painted by artists of 1920’s Montparnasse.
In keeping with the spirit of the Bal de la Horde and La Coupole, the event will offer an evening of food, music, and dance, generously co-hosted by local and international artists from diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic expressions.
The event will take place in the iconic restaurant of that glorious era - La Coupole. A historical symbol of Montparnasse, it is known as a meeting place for artists from around the world, while serving international cuisine and hosting legendary multicultural spectacles. Listed as a heritage site, the pillars that support the ceiling of the art deco style dining hall are painted by artists of 1920’s Montparnasse.
In keeping with the spirit of the Bal de la Horde and La Coupole, the event will offer an evening of food, music, and dance, generously co-hosted by local and international artists from diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic expressions.
Spaces are limited
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We invite you to join us in this historical celebration of the open and creative energy of the 1920s and support the intercultural dialogue and artistic exchange of today.
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2020 Time: 19h - 23:30h Location: Dancing de La Coupole, 102, boulevard de Montparnasse, 75014 Paris
All proceeds from this event will go towards L’AiR Arts international residency programs and future scholarships for artists and cultural professionals. L’AiR Arts is a not-for-profit organisation, registered as une association à but non lucratif soumise à la loi 1901, and your contributions are tax-deductible in France. |
Music Program
Recalling the days when Tango was just brought to Paris and filled the Dance Hall of La Coupole with its profound energy, Paris-based Argentinian musicians Federico Sanz, Juan Guerra and Fernando Brufal will introduce us to a new tango creation, called PRISMA. Inspired by world music, rock, tango and jazz, this new type of computer-based music is able to express the richness of the modern violin, the bandoneon and the saxophone. With a special approach to improvisation in their original compositions, musicians will invite us to experience spontaneous sound-sensations on a journey to a new world of tango.
Dance Program
L'AiR Arts dancers in residence Kunji Mark Ikeda (Canada), Tsolak Galstyan (Armenia) and Mayumi Lashbrook (Canada) will present solo pieces as part of the inter-format symposium opening program.
/ Kunji Mark Ikeda uses dance theatre to invite audience to experience and unfold the complexity of the human experience. Ikeda’s deep study of theatre, contemporary dance, and spoken-word poetry allows unique access to multi-faceted methods of storytelling and communal learning. Ikeda's work engages with the ever-evolving landscapes of body-based performance for the purpose of communal dialogue in societal and political awareness. His original pieces of dance theatre fearlessly explore topics by combining choreography (bodies in space and time) and theatricality (objectives, relationships, and narrative arcs). Through L'AiR Arts, Ikeda intends to apply his permeable methodologies to create a new piece of work to reflect his experience.
/ Tsolak MLKE-Galstyan is an accomplished choreographer, director, dance artist, painter, playwright, art manager. His aim is to speak to the audience in the language of movement that is understood on the sensual level. Tsolak builds a creative space on stage, making it more multi-layered, and multi-coloured, for which the most important problem is not to enchant, but to give powerful emotions. He seeks to merge the beautiful and the influential, connect movement and other art forms to get a product that brings the performers and audience to a new sensual dimension becoming a source for self-exploration. Tsolak will present a dance piece called ‘’Inspiration’’ in action-painting format: he will dance by painting to show the artistic influence of the Roaring Twenties on his art and to explore the ways how this exceptional period becomes the source of inspiration for creators.
/ Mayumi Lashbrook is an accomplished dance artist, choreographer, teacher, arts administer and artistic director. Her different roles are all encompassing and overlapping. This enables her to approach projects and communities with openness, curiosity, excellence, skill and deep satisfaction. Choreographically Mayumi is interested in how the body holds trauma and how it can be identified, released, and healed. Through research of Mayumi's family traumas of the 1940s WWII era as Japanese Canadians, she's investigating what we can learn from the past to shape our future. Mayumi will present a dance piece exploring the way performer meets audience, seeking connection, vulnerability and awareness of self to jointly uncover areas of misconception and ignorance.
Recalling the days when Tango was just brought to Paris and filled the Dance Hall of La Coupole with its profound energy, Paris-based Argentinian musicians Federico Sanz, Juan Guerra and Fernando Brufal will introduce us to a new tango creation, called PRISMA. Inspired by world music, rock, tango and jazz, this new type of computer-based music is able to express the richness of the modern violin, the bandoneon and the saxophone. With a special approach to improvisation in their original compositions, musicians will invite us to experience spontaneous sound-sensations on a journey to a new world of tango.
Dance Program
L'AiR Arts dancers in residence Kunji Mark Ikeda (Canada), Tsolak Galstyan (Armenia) and Mayumi Lashbrook (Canada) will present solo pieces as part of the inter-format symposium opening program.
/ Kunji Mark Ikeda uses dance theatre to invite audience to experience and unfold the complexity of the human experience. Ikeda’s deep study of theatre, contemporary dance, and spoken-word poetry allows unique access to multi-faceted methods of storytelling and communal learning. Ikeda's work engages with the ever-evolving landscapes of body-based performance for the purpose of communal dialogue in societal and political awareness. His original pieces of dance theatre fearlessly explore topics by combining choreography (bodies in space and time) and theatricality (objectives, relationships, and narrative arcs). Through L'AiR Arts, Ikeda intends to apply his permeable methodologies to create a new piece of work to reflect his experience.
/ Tsolak MLKE-Galstyan is an accomplished choreographer, director, dance artist, painter, playwright, art manager. His aim is to speak to the audience in the language of movement that is understood on the sensual level. Tsolak builds a creative space on stage, making it more multi-layered, and multi-coloured, for which the most important problem is not to enchant, but to give powerful emotions. He seeks to merge the beautiful and the influential, connect movement and other art forms to get a product that brings the performers and audience to a new sensual dimension becoming a source for self-exploration. Tsolak will present a dance piece called ‘’Inspiration’’ in action-painting format: he will dance by painting to show the artistic influence of the Roaring Twenties on his art and to explore the ways how this exceptional period becomes the source of inspiration for creators.
/ Mayumi Lashbrook is an accomplished dance artist, choreographer, teacher, arts administer and artistic director. Her different roles are all encompassing and overlapping. This enables her to approach projects and communities with openness, curiosity, excellence, skill and deep satisfaction. Choreographically Mayumi is interested in how the body holds trauma and how it can be identified, released, and healed. Through research of Mayumi's family traumas of the 1940s WWII era as Japanese Canadians, she's investigating what we can learn from the past to shape our future. Mayumi will present a dance piece exploring the way performer meets audience, seeking connection, vulnerability and awareness of self to jointly uncover areas of misconception and ignorance.
Inter-format Symposium
In addition to attending the opening dinner, you are invited to participate in other events of the Inter-format Symposium hosted the same week. Presented as part of the Multidisciplinary Residency Program, dedicated to the intercultural exchange through the arts, artists and cultural professionals from different countries and a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines will come together to revisit the cosmopolitan spirit of the 1920s. The symposium will offer a series of inclusive cultural events, including open studio, showcases and talks. Learn more
In addition to attending the opening dinner, you are invited to participate in other events of the Inter-format Symposium hosted the same week. Presented as part of the Multidisciplinary Residency Program, dedicated to the intercultural exchange through the arts, artists and cultural professionals from different countries and a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines will come together to revisit the cosmopolitan spirit of the 1920s. The symposium will offer a series of inclusive cultural events, including open studio, showcases and talks. Learn more
If you are unable to attend, please consider other ways to get involved.
Image: “Des Montparnos” by French artist, Nicolas Vial (detail, featuring international artists of the 1920s: Blaise Cendrars, Lee Miller, James Joyce, and Chirico)