East Bay Open Studios

I've got a kick-ass space for the East Bay Open Studios and I'm really excited to be finally having a show again!

I'll be hanging my work in the old Barnes and Noble space (now called the Pavilion) in Jack London Square, 98 Broadway, Oakland CA 94607.
TWO WEEKENDS:
June 5 & 6, 10am-5pm
June 12 & 13, 10am-5pm

I'm madly painting new works, all inspired in some way by nature and it's myriad of forces. Some will be motion studies of dancers, some plein-air homages to nature's beauty, and some illustrative pieces based in pure fantasy.

Come check it out!

Also, I have a new blog site: http://cassandraseeger.blogspot.com/
Be my first follower! (I don't have any yet, boo hoo!)

Amber @ Amoeba

So in November I did an in-store performance at Ameoba Music store in San Francisco with Sixto Rodriguez before headlining at The Great American Music Hall. These were some photos from the preview show.

This was a super fun show, playing in killer band as the only woman in an eleven piece band backing a blind folk singer from Detroit who was drunk and high most of the time. I'm going on tour with the dude for a weekend this summer. what fun. Rolling Stone has been writing about him lately, pumping the tour. He was quoted as saying that we "cleaned up well". You tell me.

http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/performances/san-francisco/2008-november-23/rodriguez/photos.html#

-Amber Lamprecht via Tanya Vlach

MONDAY AT THE MAKEOUT ROOM

This Monday, 4/13 from 9-11pm, is our monthly night to take performance improvisation to the Make Out Room! Come watch dancers and musicians explore the art of improv in structured sets with some of the city's greatest performers. The coolest part is that its FREE. That's right, no cover.

Each set of improv is explained before hand so the performers and the audience get the same information as to what ideas, constraints and inspirations the artists are working with. Come see what dancers and musicians do if they don't discuss, plan or set a piece of work and have to create them spontaneously by watching, listening and sensing each other. Its beautiful and its not happening any where else in this city in a live venue!

This month's featured dancers are David Harvey, Janine Trinidad, Katie Scherman, Daniel Howerton, Leslie Schickle and Kara Davis. This month's featured musicians are Michael Bello on sax and drums, Marc Capelle on flugelhorn and melodicas, David Petrelli on the turntables, Amber Lamprecht on oboe and flute as well as Charith Premawardhana on viola. The last section of the night invites other dancers and musicians to join in so bring your axes, if you are feeling it.

The Make Out Room, 22nd Street between Mission and Valencia. FREE, 9-11pm

With (& Without) Words

a performance by Kara Davis and Katy Stephan

PRESS:

Kara and Katy, in the SF WEEKLY

Kara and Katy

By Bonner Odell

Published on March 13, 2009 at 4:30amThose who don’t count themselves fans of local modern dance have never seen Kara Davis move. This jewel in the crown of some of S.F.’s gutsiest companies carves space with the intricacy of a master carpenter, nailing with paradoxical precision the frenetic life of the heart. So when Davis co-founded her own performance project in 2006 with local favorite Bliss Kohlmyer Dowman, dancegoers sat up and took notice. More than an outlet for its directors’ choreography, however, project agora pools artists from different disciplines for hybrid collaborations. The group’s latest, With (& Without) Words, pairs Davis with virtuoso pianist and singer Katy Stephan, a recent Oakland East Bay Symphony soloist whose voice graces the movies Catwoman and The Time Machine. The audience surrounds the artists in an intimate, low-tech evening of songs and dances extolling the terror and the ecstasy of romantic love. Some of the dances, though choreographed to music, are performed in silence, and some songs are sans dance, but the effect portends one unbroken hymn to all things desirous and nostalgic.

March 20-21, 8 p.m., 2009