No Hay Banda plays Steven Kazuo Takasugi’s “Sideshow”

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Enter into Steven Kazuo Takasugi’s imaginative world of spectacular chaos. 

Artists transform into actors and take the stage to perform Sideshow, which merges theatrics and chamber music for an adventure filled with absurd tragedy. Designed to be over-the-top, Steven Kazuo Takasugi’s work tackles the dark side of the circus sideshows from Coney Island in the early part of the 20th Century. Witness each character of the octet give it their all and embody their deformed clone. You’ll be caught up in this bizarre and eccentric world, and if you let it, you’ll revel in the enthusiasm towards “the strange, the unfamiliar, and all that which defies convention.” (Steven Takasugi)

You won’t want to miss this provocative, strange, and audacious work!

 

Featuring Jeff Stonehouse (flute), Lori Freedman (clarinet), Yves Charuest (alto saxophone), Geneviève Liboiron (violin), Jean René (viola), Émilie Girard-Charest (cello), Daniel Áñez (piano), Noam Bierstone (solo vocalizing percussionist), Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière (electronics), and Steven Kazuo Takasugi (staging)