“Dave De Rose presents…” #2
The versatile sound artist Dave De Rose (Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traoré, Mark Ronson…) created last season at KET a monthly cycle of live performances that was embraced by the city’s artistic communities and the audience of the space.
For the second night of this season, he is joined by Julyen Hamilton, Maria Pisiou and Dimitra Kousteridou.
Julyen Hamilton: dance, movement
Maria Pisiou: dance, movement
Dimitra Kousteridou: electronics
Dave De Rose: bass, fx
Julyen Hamilton is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer and musician. Born and brought up in England he trained in London in the 1970’s, a time of radical experimentation, he has been an exponent of innovative performance since that time. His work is mostly improvised : he composes dance works instantly as well as the texts which often accompany them. His work with text is unique. It fuses naturally his long-term writing practice with his refined skills in dancing. Since the 80’s he has performed constantly in close collaboration with many of the highest quality musicians from all over Europe (Barre Phillips, Fred Frith, Tristan Honsinger, Michael Moore…). He has made over 100 solos as well as 25 years of Company pieces and numerous collaborations with dancers and musicians and theatre performers.
Based in Amsterdam, Maria Pisiou is a performer, choreographer and researcher. Her artistic research is based on an approach to the body as a living/fluid archive, the use of choreographic instructions and the practices of direct composition. She has presented works at the Stedelijk Museum, BUDA Art Centre (BE), 4bid Gallery (NL), MUDA kunsecundair (BE), CODEdans (BE), Athens Video Dance Festival (GR). She has collaborated with Julyen Hamilton, Marina Abramovic, Helena Byström & Anna Källblad, Fenia Kotsopoulou, daz disley, Iris Woutera, Eleonora Siarava, VestAndPage, Sakis Papadimitriou, Agency of Noise, etc.
Dimitra Kousteridou is composer, researcher and sound artist, currently lives and works in Athens, GR. Her work is driven by a desire to invent a language in composition that examines tactile and sound aspects within site-specific installations and performances, originating from improvisation. Through multidisciplinary forms that include ephemeral situations and fractures of objects, she creates a space for research while using the sound and natural attributes of materials in time. Recently working on improvised sound compositions with handmade instruments (interactive sound circuits).
With a career that has included collaborations with renowned artists like Moloko, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traore, and Mark Ronson, among many others, Dave De Rose is a drummer, bassplayer and a producer who has spent the past 15 years pursuing underground music projects. He’s a core member of the space-age Gnawa project Electric Jalaba, Rave At Your Fictional Borders, is the director of international improvisation collective Agile Experiments (2018-present) as well as a prolific producer and dedicated music educator.