EXILKABARETT

The NYC-based performance ensemble EXILKABARETT merges historical and present-day explorations on the theme of exile. For contemporary artists across the globe, as it was for exiles traveling across countless borders, cabaret is a crossroads of disciplines that offers limitless possibilities for creative expression. Cabaret artists create their medium between artistic borders--not in theatre or satire or dance or strip tease or art songs or film or stand-up or clown--but somewhere in between.

EXILKABARETT has performed at various downtown NYC venues including Dixon Place, The Brecht Forum, and le Petit Versailles.

Contact: exilkabarett@gmail.com

ARTISTS:

DARREN CHASE is a singer, writer and teacher. Recently, he sang the roles of Alfredo, Nemorino, Lenski, Don Ottavio, and Edgardo with small opera companies in the New York City area. He also recorded an eighty-minute CD of Debussy songs, "The Young Debussy," available at albanyrecords.com. In addition to his appearances in opera, concert and recital, Darren teaches English and history in New York City's public school system and is finishing a book about his experiences titled, "Inside School." He has degrees from UC Berkeley, Boston University and the City College of New York in literature, music and education. www.darrenchase.net

JESSICA GOLDRING holds a B.A. in Italian Language and Literature from Smith College and received Masters’ degrees in voice performance and in theater from The University of Missouri--Kansas City. Her Fulbright Grant (2007-2008) allowed her to explore lesser known cabaret works from the Weimar Era. As an opera singer, Jessica performs internationally. Recent performance include: Sprechstimme in Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with the University of Missouri Chamber Orchestra, Jessie Keppie in Russell Currie’s opera Mackintosh with the New Opera Ensemble of Scotland, the Premiere of Bret Wartchow’s chamber piece The Hidden World at the Oregon Composer’s Forum, and her participation as a soloist in Quixotic Fusion and Elementa with the Kansas City Ballet.

NOE KIDDER studied filmmaking at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Her films have been screened at such venues as Lichtblick Kino in Berlin, croxhapox Art Center in Gent, Belgium, St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, le Petit Versailles, Millenium Film Workshop and Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side. Some of her short films can be watched online at: http://noekidder.blogspot.com/

LAURETTA POPE is a wide-eyed chanteuse-comedienne. She was born and bred in the middle of nowhere, and when she came to the Big Apple, she had only her high heels to guide her. Thanks to the guidance of one LFX Solomon, she met the founding members of EXILKABARETT one fateful night in a seedy club below Houston. Could it be that she, too, would join that infamous band of kabarettists? What ensued will forever be a mystery, but what we do know is that in the weeks that followed (with the help of one purple boa) the ENFANTS TERRIBLES show was born. The rest, as they say, is history.

BILL SOLOMON Bill Solomon is a freelance percussionist and pianist residing in Connecticut. His main interests are new music, improvisation and world music, and he frequently performs throughout New England, the US and Europe. As an accompanist, he frequently collaborates with vocalists and is active as a musical theater pianist and musical director. He is currently working on his doctorate at The Hartt School in percussion performance, and teaches at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, CT.

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