International Body Music Festival :: Artists :: Sandy Silva, Nic Gareiss & Evie Ladin

Sandy Silva | Montreal, Canada »
Nic Gareiss | Mount Pleasant, MI / Limerick, Ireland »
Evie Ladin | Oakland, CA »

Sandy Silva Montreal, Canada

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A veteran of dance for over 20 years, Sandy Silva currently performs with Quebec megastars La Bottine Souriante and The Red Rabbit Project with Charmaine Leblanc.

Through improvisation, body percussion and original choreography, Sandy draws from the drum and dance traditions of Celtic step dance, Spanish Flamenco, American tap, Hungarian legenyes, Appalachian buck dance and modern dance. The result is rich and riveting, full of rhythmic and visual inventiveness.

She has performed internationally at festivals including the Montreal International Jazz Festival as a special guest with Bobby McFerrin; WOMAD Festival in Australia; Midsummer Night Swing, Lincoln Center, New York; Celtic Connections, Glasgow, Scotland; Galway Arts Festival, Ireland; WOMEX, Brussels; and NPR's 'A Prairie Home Companion.'

She has worked with the Human Rhythm Project, as well as with a wide variety of acclaimed musicians such as Rick Haworth (guitarist for Lhasa), jazz saxophonist Remi Bolduc and new music composer Guy Klucevsek. Sandy has also appeared with the Irish band Altan, fiddlers Kevin Burke, Martin Hayes, Laura Risk and Bruce Molsky.

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Nic Gareiss Mount Pleasant, MI / Limerick, Ireland

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Nic Gareiss is a performer, teacher and researcher examining the cultural employment of the feet as musical instruments. Lauded by the Irish Times as "the human epitome of the unbearable lightness of being," and "the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene" by the Boston Herald, his work re-imagines aesthetic movement as a musical activity, morphing dance into a medium that appeals to both the eyes and the ears. He has an enduring fascination with sonic aesthetic movement phenomena, their role in different societies and the remarkable concurrent existence of percussive foot articulation in so many disparate cultures - this has led him to study shoe-sounds and grooves internationally, tracing the roots of American vernacular dance abroad in a rhythmical adventure using the body as the ethnographic tool and improvisational dance traditions as the lingua franca. He has performed throughout the US, UK, Europe and Canada, on Irish national television and CMT, for Irish head of state Brian Cowen and American Energy Secretary Steven Chu. In addition, he holds degrees in Anthropology (Central Michigan University) and Ethnochoreology (University of Limerick). Informed by fifteen years of study and performance, Nic's dancing reflects his love of improvisation, traditional footwork vocabulary, and musical collaboration.
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Evie Ladin Oakland, CA

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Evie Ladin is a banjo player, step-dancer, singer, songwriter and square-dance caller with a lifetime of experience in traditional American cultural arts. She grew up in a trad folk scene up and down the Eastern Seaboard of the US, travels the world, and calls the rich arts scene in Oakland, California home. She tours solo, duo and with her expansive stringband Evil Diane performing her original and traditional material; is known as a driving force behind the all-gal old-time teardown The Stairwell Sisters; and performs and choreographs with Keith Terry & Crosspulse, rhythm-based multi-cultural music & dance. The polyrhythmic heat and funk of Evie Ladin's clawhammer banjo, resonant voice, real stories and rhythmic dance have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Celtic Connections, Lincoln Center to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Evie teaches banjo, singing and dance at home in Oakland when you can find her there, and is working on her second solo CD.

Clogger Evie Ladin set the house afire.
-- Dance Magazine
I don't know who's better, your wife or Sammy Davis, Jr.
-- Neighbor Charles

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