The
Indeterminacy
Festival

ABOUT THE FOURTEEN PORCHES PREMIERE

Each year The Indeterminacy Festival features an opening event created by festival Artistic Director Stanzi Vaubel. This year's performance, Fourteen Porches, was set on the fourteen porches of the historic Victorian homes that wrap around Nolan Park on Governors Island in NY Harbour. From this location, singers from the New York Choir Project, the Grace Chorale and other choirs from across the five boroughs performed alongside members from the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra and the Brooklyn Conservatory Youth Suzuki Program to premiere an original forty minute composition by Philippe Treuille and Stanzi Vaubel. The cast of over one hundred performers attempted to communicate across the distances between porches with this musical composition. In the process they incorporated the ambient sounds of the island and physical distances that are not normally part of a traditional orchestral arrangement. At the center of it all, was a new choreographic work, created by Melanie Aceto and her choreo-lab ensemble, with costumes by Emilie Clark.

Positioned in between the drama of the metropolis and the merging waterways of NYC, the layers of this work extended to the very makeup of the ensemble built from a wide cross section of professional and amateur artists ranging in age, skill level, background, and experience. The performance emerged from the belief that a complex score can be written to involve a wide range of skill levels, including children, and that they will do more than just execute the work, they will activate it in an entirely unique and exciting way.

Bill Gilbert: Walking Constellation Maps
Melanie Aceto: Material Brainstorming
George Ferrandi: Be Coming Birds
Jonathan Golove: Learning Experimental Instruments
Sandy Silva: Rhythm, Voice, Movement
Kathy Kennedy: Echolocation
Vincenzo Di Nicola: The Manifesto in the 21st Century
Selected Emerging Artists:
Adalia Pemberton-Smith, Michaela Neild, Ben Zucker, Sari Hoke,
Matias Homar, Dominic Giambra, Max Erwin, Thelonius Garcia, Jasmine Nagano, Ana Kim

Co-Produced by sarah jm kolberg, and hosted at The Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Preserve. In collaboration with the Physics, Geology, Engineering, Dance, and Music Departments at University at Buffalo alongside local partners: The Parkinson Dance Ensemble, Buffalo String Works, Starlight Studios, 5 Loaves Farms, Cradle Beach and Our Lady of Hope Youth Choir.

Collaborators learned about sound, electromagnetic, and gravitational waves, developing strategies to perform these waves as music and movement. The week of events included hands-on workshops, film screenings, lectures, and performances with local and international guests around the festival theme. Sponsors included: Penn Dixie Fossil Park, Pierre McAloon Award, John and Shelley McKendry, and UB Media Study.

Co-Produced by sarah jm kolberg.
Hosted at Silo City in Buffalo NY.
Workshops presented in partnership with Techne Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies, with visiting international artists Sophie Krier (Netherlands), Aurelien Gamboni (Switzerland), Sandrine Teixido (Brazil), Stephane Verlet-Bottero (France).

Co-produced by Sarah JM Kolberg, engineering design and implementation Patrick Sears, Choreography by Jenna del Monte, Melanie Aceto, and Kara Mann, aerial choreography by Nina Vega-Westhoff, Physics advisor Professor Doreen Wackeroth, Geology collaborators Carolyn Roberts, Nate Marshall, and Jeremy Stock, projections by Brian Millbrand, architectural design by Justina Dziama, welding and fabrication by Chris Siano, on site support by Jim Wattkins with collaboration from: The Indeterminacy Ensemble, UB Choir, Our Lady of Hope Youth Choir, Buffalo String Works, Starlight Studios, Just Buffalo Literary Center, West Side Bazaar, Indigo Productions with advisory support from John Shottwell.

Sponsors included: Arts Services Initiative of WNY, Mark Diamond Research Fund, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Just Buffalo Literary Center, John and Shelley McKendry, UB Media Study and Physics Department, NYSCA, and Silo City owner and founder Rick Smith.

Architectural design by Justina Dziama.
Choreography Jenna Del Monte and Courtney Barrow.
Sound and lighting design by John Shotwell and Indigo Productions,
with collaboration from The Indeterminacy Ensemble.
Musical composition by Lucas Segall,
with collaboration from: The Parkinson Dance Ensemble.
Fundraising and media support via the Mark Diamond Research Fund, Techne Institute.
Indiegogo crowdfunding coordinated and managed by students of the Arts Management at UB, class of 2017.