The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center along with co-sponsors the City of Asheville, Moog Music and Centering on Children are proud to present an outdoor, multi-media, interdisciplinary performance entitled BLACK WHOLE at downtown Asheville’s Food Lion Skate Park on Saturday, April 25th.

The evening will begin at 8:00 pm with an interactive pre-show “Theremin Garden” featuring Moog Music’s Jason Daniello, a celebrated local musician.

At 9:00 pm BLACK WHOLE will commence, featuring Brooklyn based dance artist Janice Lancaster, projection designer Adam Larsen and musician Jason Daniello along with additional dancers from New York City and local skaters. The performance promises to be an extraordinary immersion in video, sound and dance exploring the connections between life and landscape through image, sound and movement. Inspired by the groundbreaking experiments in interdisciplinary performance at Black Mountain College, Lancaster, Larsen and Daniello have designed an event not to be missed. The audience will be in the round with a bird’s eye view looking down into the skate park’s bowl where live projection, sound and dance will envelop the imagination amid the sounds and fragrances of a warm spring night in the mountains.

Saturday, April 25, 9:00 pm (rain date Sunday April 26) at the Food Lion Skate Park – 3 Cherry Street, Downtown Asheville.

$10 / $7 BMCM+AC members, city employees and students w/ID.

Kids under 12 free

Advance tickets/Info: 828-350-8484 or in person at BMCM+AC, 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville

Co-sponsored by the City of Asheville, Moog Music and Centering on Children.

Filmmaker/projection designer Adam Larsen (www.hum-bar.com) and choreographer/dancer Janice Lancaster (www.janicelancaster.com) will lead a three-hour introductory workshop on the philosophy and technique of integrating multimedia into dance performance.

This workshop will explore the synthesis of moving images and performance, and demonstrate basic video camera technique for multimedia use (Panasonic HVX-200), editing (Final Cut Pro), green screen compositing (Adobe After Effects), image masking (Adobe Photoshop) and live video manipulation utilizing the video projection software QLab and Dataton Watchout.

Date: Sunday, April 26

Time: 1pm-4pm

Cost: $30

Venue: Asheville Contemporary Ballet Theater's BeBe Theater

20 Commerce Street (between Church St. and Buncombe St.)

For dancers and media artists (14 years old and up). For more information, or to sign up, contact Alice Sebrell at The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 828-350-8484 or bmcmac@bellsouth.net

BIOS:

Janice Lancaster (www.janicelancaster.com) is a dance artist originally from Oxford, NC and currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA in Dance from the NC School of the Arts and has had the pleasure of dancing as a guest soloist for Shen Wei Dance Arts, as well as dancing with Abby Chan, Satoshi Haga, Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group, and co-founding VIA Dance Collaborative. Her recent commissions include the 2007 Bessie Schönberg Choreographic Residency on the Yard in Martha’s Vineyard and two works for the Hubbard Street 2 Dance Company of Chicago.

Adam Larsen (www.hum-bar.com) is a New York based international artist, projection designer and filmmaker originally from Asheville, NC. Projection designs include: Hal Prince's, LoveMusik (Broadway); the world premieres of The Women of Brewster Place (Alliance Theatre & Arena Stage) and Christmas Carol 1941(Arena Stage) both directed by Molly Smith; Carmina Burana and projection coordinator for Dancing Joni (Alberta Ballet); From the House of the Dead (Canadian Opera Company); Lily Plants a Garden (Mark Taper P.L.A.Y.); Gorecki's Symphony No.3 (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra); Quartet (Aspen Santa Fe Ballet); numerous productions with both Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and the Fulton Opera House including the world premiere of The French Lieutenant's Woman; and most recently big, a collaboration between the Atlanta Ballet and Big Boi from Outkast and The Gospel at Colonus at the Herod Atticus theatre in Athens. He holds a BFA in Cinematography from the North Carolina School of the Arts and currently self-producing a feature length documentary on autism entitled Neurotypical (www.neuro-typical.com).