Static invites you to go back in time for the night with the return of the retro party of the year! On SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, be prepared to flashback as the 23RD Big 80s Flashback Bash celebrates all genres of 80s music all night long! Each band performs selected songs in their various styles.
TWITCH – The return of the almighty Twitch as the Twitchet Men performing a tribute to the Minutemen!
RED SEPTEMBER - (various) Bringing on the mix of punk, metal and more!
WALKIN’ TALKIN’ TOXINS - (various) Punk classics!
THE DDTS - Performing their tribute to The Ramones!
THE ZOTZ – The power rock trio will smash it up!
The party starts at 8 p.m. at PJ'S LAGER HOUSE, located at 1254 Michigan Ave. in Detroit. Call 313-961-4668 for info or check out www.pjslagerhouse.com 21 & over are welcome and cover is $6 and partial proceeds benefit the Hater Kitty Rescue Army, a local cat rescue group. www.HaterKitty.com
Detroit's only performance artist SATORI CIRCUS will celebrate his
30th Anniversary with performances from a 30-year oeuvre of avant-garde
musical theatre.
On Friday and Saturday, September 28th & 29th, 2018, come
celebrate this performance career milestone for two performances at The
Tangent Gallery/Hastings Street Ballroom. These eclectic performances
have graced the art galleries, black box spaces, streets, churches, and
stages big and small in the Detroit area and throughout the U.S.
SATORI CIRCUS was conceived as a one-man orchestration early in 1988,
coming to fruition the fall of that year. Hard to define, this artist is
not clown and not mime. Just a ball of energy, this life-force started
inhabiting a myriad of characters from man to woman, to child, to
things. Along with music and pantomime, film elements and words (spoken
or sung), slapstick and movement and cloaked behind clown white and
various facial accents, SATORI CIRCUS’ world came to life wherever the
stage.
He celebrates a performance career that has exceeded 25+
self-written/produced stage shows that included performances in 1515
Broadway, Detroit Artist Market, Scarab Club, College of Creative
Studies, Detroit Institute for Arts, St. Albertus Church (a 146year old
historic church), Oakland University/MeadowBrook, on America’s Got
Talent and a 25 anniversary show at the Detroit Institute of
Arts/Detroit Film Theatre.
It has also taken him across the country to perform in Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh and New York.
SATORI CIRCUS creative director and main performer, Russell A. Taylor
has been on the scene for 38 years. Starting back in 1980 as lead singer
for the rock band, The Nasties, and then as co-founder of alt-art-punk
band, Fugitive Poetry in 1983. SATORI CIRCUS spoke, sung and moved for
the first time at the Michigan Gallery in 1988 and found a home at the
original black box-art theatre space, 1515 Broadway, Detroit. Thru the
years he has been recognized for his work and has received accolades
from local and national press. He won a Detroit Music Award for
"Outstanding Live Performance," in 1994 and in 2012. His photo has
graced the cover of the Metro Times and he has been called “…easily the
Best Performance Art Group Detroit has produced. It should be seen if
only to witness a New Direction in Art.” - Detroit Free Press and “A
love for the absurd, SATORI CIRCUS is a singularly uncanny theatre-going
experience that’s a little bit Performance Art and a little bit Rock
Opera.” - Metro Times.
The 30th Anniversary show will feature some of the vignettes from his
past shows such as “EQUILBRIUM”, “MOSES:39”, “Child-Proof”, “Funy As
Hell”, “Twilight Barks”, “63mins (of random balance)”, “…poems we tell
ourselves…” and a most recent performance art piece, “Stroke”. There
will even be a couple surprise selections from the myriad of guest
appearances SATORI CIRCUS as made throughout the years that include
Theatre Bizarre (Det.), DAMNED (Det.), Dirty Show (Det.), Michigan
Burlesque Festival (Det.), Atrocity (Pittsburgh), WIZBANG (Cleveland
& Det.), Performance Art Festival (Cleveland) and the Erotic Poetry
& Music Festival (Det.).
Featuring dear friends throughout the evening:
Brain Dambacher - light and stage design
Tim Suliman - sound design
Sadaat Hossain - keyboards and vocals
Marcus Concernicus - keyboards
Ryan McInnis - performer and vocals
Robin Schweihofer - performer and vocals
Matthew Ryan Surline - keyboards and vocals
Lushes LaMoan - performer and vocals
Scott Dambacher - performer and vocals
Contributing to these evenings will be other dear friends. Photographers
Brett J. Lawrence, A. Owen Layne and Rick Bielaczyc, who will have
photographs on site for sale, and the wonderful clothing designs and
fashions of Ivy’s Corsetry.
SATORI CIRCUS is also the subject of a film documentary on his art
called "Being Satori Circus", currently being filmed for release in
2019. Also, to honor this legacy the local Motor City Brewery has issued
a commemorative limited release featuring his likeness on cans.
Be prepared for the unknown and come with an open heart and head to
witness a hybrid of performance art rarely seen in this Detroit Metro
Area. We guarantee that you have never seen anything like this and you
may never again. Sometimes, journeys end where they begin and begin
where they end
September 28th and 29th, 2018
Tangent Gallery/Hastings Street Ballroom
715 East Milwaukee Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 873-2955
Entrance on Oakland
Doors @8P Performance Promptly at 9:30P
$15 in advance
Brown Paper Tickets… https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3609254
$20 at door
18+ or Accompanied with Parent
