Unstill Life
Mar
7
to Mar 24

Unstill Life

Five celebrated artists from across different mediums – dance, music, theater, visual art – are collaborating for the first time to create Unstill Life, an evening-length work. What was initially an intimate duet for Jaroslow and Shick has grown into a vibrant quintet. The five come together as equal partners in the making and performing of this work after decades of experience directing and being directed. They will pay particular attention to physicality, endurance, compromise and the joy and loss surrounding their lives now. 

March 7-10: New York City, NY — Arts on Site

March 7 Tickets
March 8 Tickets
March 9 Tickets
March 10 Tickets

March 21-24: Oakland, CA — Dresher Ensemble Studio

March 21-24 Tickets

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Kissing The Floor
Feb
23
to Mar 12

Kissing The Floor

BY Ellen McLaughlin
Directed by Ianthe Dems
Movement Director: Natalie Lomonte

See Rinde perform in Kissing the Floor -- a radical radical retelling of the Antigone myth. Set in Depression Era America, the play investigates the relationships among a set of siblings, all survivors of their family’s agonized, infamous legacy. Annie and her disturbed and disturbing brother, Paul, are knotted together by fate and a tortured love as their sister Izzy and their brother Eddie look on with dismay and all too much understanding. Can one extricate oneself from a terrible past? What do we owe those who share our blood, however tainted?

Cast: Leon Ingulsrud, Christina Bennett Lind, Akyiaa Wilson, Rinde Eckert

At Theater Row
7:00 PM

Photos by Russ Rowland

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Global Moves - The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company ​
Jun
16
to Jun 19
Performance, Upcoming

Global Moves - The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company ​

Rinde Eckert will be playing as a Guest Performer in MJDC’s ambitious new work, Global Moves. This work brings companies from different parts of the globe together to respond through movement and dialogue to this current atmosphere of heightened fear. Representing countries facing their own turmoil and disunity, these artists gather to make a spirited new evening-length dance in June 2022.

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Aging Magician at the San Diego Opera
May
13
to May 14
Performance, Upcoming

Aging Magician at the San Diego Opera

Rinde Eckert plays Harold, a clockmaker working on a book called The Aging Magician. He has a bicycle he rides around his shop. He plays the accordion. His sister calls him a lot. He takes the F train home. He hears the voices of children.

Aging Magician is a meditation on the gifts we leave behind for those who come after us, and the hope that they pick up where we left off. It is also a celebration of youth, imagination, and the peculiar magic of ordinary life.

PERFORMANCES

FRI, MAY 13 at 7:30PM
SAT, MAY 14 at 2PM
SAT, MAY 14 at 7:30PM

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Jeremy Schonfeld's The Father Who Stayed at Howland Cultural Center
Apr
30
8:00 PM20:00
Performance

Jeremy Schonfeld's The Father Who Stayed at Howland Cultural Center

A concert performance of The Father Who Stayed featuring the songs and music of Jeremy Schonfeld and additional text by Rinde Eckert.

Following the tragic death of his young daughter Emily Rose, Theseus is left lost and alone in the empty void of their old home. As Theseus re-ignites the magic of the bedtime storytelling ritual they used to share, the house fills with the ghosts of past occupants sharing stories of those who lived and died within its walls. The Father Who Stayed is a musical journey of everyday life, death, and the afterlife in America.

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My Lai Suite at Carnegie Hall
Apr
23
to Apr 24
Performance, Upcoming

My Lai Suite at Carnegie Hall

  • Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Kronos Quartet’s virtuosity and sense of adventure are on full display in this performance. George Crumb’s Black Angels, the iconic work that inspired the founding of the ensemble, is a powerful parable written in response to the Vietnam War, scored for amplified string quartet with percussive sounds, spoken-word passages, and other special effects. Crumb’s work is pointedly paired with the My Lai Suite, written by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto) for Kronos Quartet, Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, and vocalist Rinde Eckert. Adding to the excitement are new works by Aleksandra Vrebalov (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall) and inti figgis-vizueta.

Tickets from $65 to $80.

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My Lai Suite at the San Francisco Jazz Festival
Apr
8
7:30 PM19:30

My Lai Suite at the San Francisco Jazz Festival

The San Francisco–based Kronos Quartet is thrilled to present the return of its annual KRONOS FESTIVAL to live, in-person performance. This year’s 3-day/night showcase is inspired by the Bay Area’s rich diversity and continues Kronos’ commitment to artistic and cultural breadth—with featured composers and guest artists representing 10 nations.

The program concludes with the world premiere of My Lai Suite, adapted from composer Jonathan Berger and librettist Harriet Scott Chessman’s opera about Hugh Thompson, the Vietnam War Army helicopter pilot who courageously intervened in the U.S. Army massacre of unarmed Vietnamese civilians. Guest vocalist Rinde Eckert and master instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Võ join Kronos on stage.

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My Lai at the San Francisco Kronos Festival
Feb
15
1:30 PM13:30

My Lai at the San Francisco Kronos Festival

See the world premiere of the 18-minute concert version of My Lai Suite, adapted from My Lai: An opera for tenor, string quartet and Vietnamese instruments.
Jonathan Berger, composer
Harriet Scott Chessman, librettist
Rinde Eckert, vocals
Vân-Ánh Võ, t’rưng, đàn bầu, đàn tranh

This year’s festival highlights Kronos’ commitment to creative collaboration, an inclusive repertoire, and to deep, longstanding relationships with artists from around the globe. The three-day celebration features five world premieres; signature works from Kronos’ far-reaching repertoire; an anniversary celebration; and three compositions commissioned as part of Kronos’ groundbreaking Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire project.

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Jeremy Schonfeld's 'The Father Who Stayed'
Nov
10
7:00 PM19:00
Performance

Jeremy Schonfeld's 'The Father Who Stayed'

A concert performance of The Father Who Stayed featuring the songs and music of Jeremy Schonfeld and additional text by Rinde Eckert.

Following the tragic death of his young daughter Emily Rose, Theseus is left lost and alone in the empty void of their old home. As Theseus re-ignites the magic of the bedtime storytelling ritual they used to share, the house fills with the ghosts of past occupants sharing stories of those who lived and died within its walls. The Father Who Stayed is a musical journey of everyday life, death, and the afterlife in America.

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Moon Tea - Commissioned by OTSL New Works, Bold Voices Lab
Jun
10
to Jun 18

Moon Tea - Commissioned by OTSL New Works, Bold Voices Lab

Even the rich and famous often long for escape. And in an age when science makes everything seem possible, why not reach for the stars? This new opera by composer Steven Mackey and librettist Rinde Eckert beautifully and wistfully re-imagines a meeting between Queen Elizabeth, her husband Prince Philip, and the Apollo 11 astronauts following the 1969 moon landing.

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ODC Theater Presents: This is Also the Art with Margaret Jenkins and Rinde Eckert
Dec
17
9:00 PM21:00

ODC Theater Presents: This is Also the Art with Margaret Jenkins and Rinde Eckert

On Thursday, December 17, Margaret Jenkins and Rinde Eckert will be in conversation with their long time collaborator Michael Palmer. Together, they will discuss Jenkins and Eckert’s current process leading up to the future premiere of Migratory Passages, a new duet thematically related to their previous 3 duets, with the weight of death and transfiguration now countered by the lightness of migratory birds rising from a clear lake to disappear in the distance on their way from one home to another. Migratory Passages was slated to premiere in ODC Theater’s 2020 Walking Distance Dance Festival.

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Postponed: Breathing at the Boundaries
Nov
20
to Nov 22

Postponed: Breathing at the Boundaries

This is an unprecedented time, yet here we are. At once confined in place yet hurtling towards an unknowable future, awaiting embrace!​

This new filmic/live streaming event – with dancers isolated and in touch, present and remote – together we are sharing the moment, if not the room. Here we are in the stream, live streaming, living form within the limits imposed by the moment.

Music is filling the air, words fly up and out along with limbs and hands, movement is everywhere. Live music by Paul Dresher and Joel Davel, image-construct and visuals by Alexander V. Nichols, words by Rinde Eckert (appearing live) and Michael Palmer, movement by the MJDC dancer/collaborators. All breathing at the boundaries, even if not always together.

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Robert Dick with Rinde Eckert: Robert: Seriously Amused at Roulette
Feb
13
8:00 PM20:00

Robert Dick with Rinde Eckert: Robert: Seriously Amused at Roulette

Photo credit: Martin Phillips

Robert: Seriously Amused will be acclaimed flutist/composer Robert Dick‘s first foray into the world of performance art. Developed with the alchemical performer Rinde Eckert, Seriously Amused is part biographical, part philosophical, and more than a bit strange and weird. Along with his famous flute playing, Robert will be singing, moving, thinking, monologuing, and giving his inner voices free play.

Performer: Robert Dick
Director & Co-writer: Rinde Eckert

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