Green Room Ensemble @ St. John’s in the Village, Revelation Gallery at Saint John’s in the Village – New York, NY

Viet Cuong: Wax and Wire (2015)

Tania León: Arenas d’un Tiempo (1992)

inti figgis-vizueta: shapes in collective space (2021)

Lotta Wennäkoski: Päärme (2015)

Marcos Balter: À vis (2007)

Christian Quiñones: Loud Music for Quiet Places (2020)

Nathan Meltzer, violin

Leland Ko, cello

Anoush Pogossian, clarinet

Mika Sasaki, piano

“I think the capacity to hold multiple truths in one space (a fundamental experience of the liminal and erased) is essential to experimental/liberatory practices. I believe bending and twisting sound & notation, or communicative structures in general, is a path towards achieving a limitless/borderless/joyous (sonic) world.”

– inti figgis-vizueta, from “shapes in collective space” (2015)

On February 6th, in the gorgeous atmosphere and acoustic of the Revelation Gallery of St. John’s in the Village, The Green Room Ensemble will be continuing its season with a program designed around multiple truths – how they can interact, how they can contradict, and how they can coexist.

Viet Cuong’s Wax and Wire is inspired by metal wire sculptures that, through a wax foundation that is melted away, depict dancers held in gentle poses, contrary to their innately harsh material. Tania Leon’s Arenas D’un Tiempo describes the striking change that the strength of wind can have on the patterns of sand. In Loud Music for Quiet Places, Christian Quiñones decontextualizes elements of Afro-Caribbean Bomba music, a traditionally loud and visceral genre, by containing them in intimate and quiet settings until they “can no longer contain their loudness.” The program will also feature Lotta Wennäkoski’s Päärme (“Hem”), a work that’s energy is, fittingly for its title, bursting at the seams. Finally, inti figgis-vizueta’s shapes in collective space is a meditative and joyous reflection of togetherness.

The program will be performed by violinist and co-founder of The Green Room Ensemble, Nathan Meltzer, along with cellist Leland Ko, clarinetist Anoush Pogossian, and pianist Mika Sasaki, all making their debuts with the Ensemble.