Sponsored by High Wire Lab Eighth Blackbird, Blackbird Creative Lab Join Eighth Blackbird for a celebration of the Blackbird Creative Lab, a summer program Eighth Blackbird initiated in 2017. Eighth Blackbird will be joined by three lab alumni groups — ~Nois, Juxtatonal (who formed at the Lab in 2017) and The Furies — in a performance featuring several lab alumni composers who represent some of the most innovative and appealing voices of a new generation: Gemma Peacocke, Molly Joyce, Nina Shekhar, Fjola Evans and Danny Clay. The evening will start with Björk’s The Pleasure is All Mine and culminate in a performance of Julius Eastman’s seminal 1971 work, Stay On It, performed by everyone.
BJÖRK | The Pleasure is All Mine PEACOCKE | Dwalm PEACOCKE | Cicada JOYCE | Less is More CLAY/PARK/PARK | Opposites SHEKHAR | Food Fight EVANS | Eroding EASTMAN | Stay On It
