“Transplant:
France” is a festival touring along the US West
Coast, presenting music and visuals by French and American
artists. It will take place between September 7th and
September 20th, 2004 and includes short residencies,
master classes and performances.
The primary goal for this tour is to establish a creative collaboration between
French and American artists. Five French artists are invited to create and
perform with instrumentalists from Los Angeles and from the San Francisco bay
area, who range from seasoned, world-class performers to younger musicians
with whom a longer collaboration is proposed as part of a residency program.
The secondary goal is to provide the opportunity for these French artists to
generate public awareness of their work to serve as a stepping stone to create
and present future works in the US and in France. Beyond performing in well-established
venues, they are invited to participate in various master classes in major
universities. A video documentary will be created from shoots made during that
period that the artists can, in turn, use as a
promotional tool.
Transplant requires a creative “base of operations” where residencies
can take place. This base of operations is both Berkeley, California (CNMAT,
University of California - Berkeley) and Los Angeles, California (CalArts).These
residencies will take place prior to the performances, and are times during
which the show will be prepared
and rehearsed.
The venues for these performances were determined by the cities where a local
partner was able to provide the performance space, equipment, production staff
and local advertising for the event.
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