Museum of Calm is a solo by extended-technique vocalist, performer, and composer Holland Andrews. Integrating vocal music composition, meditation, and performance art video, the work generates interior worlds to offer strategies for navigating through chaos, accessing freedom within fantasy, and sustaining the energy required to survive in a reforming society.
Creator and Performer: Holland Andrews
Filmmaker: Tatyana Tenenbaum
Film Location: Baryshnikov Arts Center's John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio
Holland Andrews was a collaborator of 2017 BAC Presents Artist and BAC Resident Artist Dorothée Munyaneza.
In Conversation: Holland Andrews with Morgan Bassichis
BAC presents a live-streamed conversation with Andrews and performer Morgan Bassichis on Wednesday, March 24 at 8PM ET.
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BAC Artist Commissions made possible with generous leadership support from Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Thompson Family Foundation, and Robert and Kathleen Wallace.
Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.
As of January, 2021.
Mar 24, 2021, Live on ZOOM: In conjunction with the premiere of "Museum of Calm," extended-technique vocalist, performer, and composer Holland Andrews talked with performer Morgan Bassichis.
Holland Andrews’ “Museum of Calm” Meditates on Chaos and Realignment
This Week in New York: Holland Andrews
Holland Andrews
Holland Andrews is an American vocalist, composer, improviser, and performance artist whose work is based on emotionality in its many forms. In their work, Andrews focuses on the abstraction of operatic and extended-technique voice to build soundscapes encompassing both catharsis and the interplay between dissonance and resonance to tell stories of the interior worlds of humanity.
Photos: Maria Baranova