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BAD MANNERS

A first look at a new play by celebrated French writer, director and actor Nathalie Schmidt, with music by Jed Distler

Nathalie is the writer and director of the feature film Après la pluie, le beau temps, and has been featured in numerous French films and TV series.

Jed is Serial Underground's curator and a composer/pianist (“the downtown keyboard magus,” The New Yorker).

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Tempus Continuum Ensemble: Corrine Byrne, Anne Goldberg, Matthew Montana, and Raphael Lucas, are all Masters of Music candidates Manhattan School of Music, where they became close friends and founded the mixed quartet. Performing and premiering a wide range of music from standard repertoire to Anne’s and Raphael’s work, the Ensemble embarked on its first five city tour of New York and Massachusetts. Tempus Continuum is dedicated to performing new music and repertoire from the Twentieth Century that is often overlooked.

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Pianist Melody Fader enjoys a busy career as a soloist, chamber musician and freelance artist in New York City. Miss Fader has performed in such New York venues as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Cornelia Street Café, and the Joyce. Miss Fader earned her Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, and Master of Music in Collaborative piano at the Juilliard School where she studied with Margo Garrett. Melody has a new CD, Music of Frederic Chopin, which was released by Centaur Records on February 1, 2012.

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Dorothea Hutton Scher was born in Vienna and moved to New York as a child. She came to poetry when she retired 14 years ago. Dorothea chairs the Epiphany Poets group. She has recently published her book "Trapped in Black and White" and has been published in various journals.

CHRISTIAN GARAUD has published poems, essays, short stories and translations (from English into French) in a dozen French periodicals. He also published in France a book of poems: Les pommes clochards (Décharge/GrosTextes, 2009). An English translation of that book will be published in 2012 by Finishing Line Press under the title: Feather Brain. D'où vient la voix? (Where Is The Voice Coming From?) has been accepted by the Editions des Vanneaux. The last completed set of poems is The (More Or Less) Well Attached Ciccada.

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Michael Quadland graduated from Dartmouth College and received a Master of Public Health degree from Yale University and a PhD in psychology from New York University. In addition to his private psychotherapy practice, Quadland taught human sexuality at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and consulted with many organizations about AIDS prevention and the emotional-psychological aspects of the disease. He has published many articles in professional journals on AIDS and sexuality. He left AIDS work in 1995, reduced the size of his psychotherapy practice, and turned to writing fiction. His first novel, That Was Then, was published in 2007, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His new novel Offspring will be released by Red Hen Press in March 2012.

Janice Eidus has won two O. Henry Prizes, the Independent Publishers Award in Religion for her novel, The War Of The Rosens, and numerous other awards for her writing. Her other books include The Celibacy Club, Vito Loves Geraldine, Urban Bliss, and Faithful Rebecca. Her most recent book, The Last Jewish Virgin, was released by Red Hen Press in 2010. Her work also appears in such anthologies as The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories; Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex; and Desire: Women Write About Wanting, and in leading newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Jewish Currents, Tikkun, and The Forward. She lives in New York City and Mexico with her husband and daughter.

Amelia Kahaney’s short stories have appeared in Best American Non-Required Reading, One Story, Crazyhorse, and other publications. She has recently ghostwritten three bestselling young adult novels, but her next book will have her name on its cover. She lives in Brooklyn.

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“Some young jazz musicians find their style and move in lock, stock and barrel, making little refinements over the years but basically keeping their place. Ingrid Laubrock, a German saxophonist who started her career in London and has spent the last 15 years playing there, sounds happily unsettled. On tenor and soprano, she’s omnivorous and pointed, slouching and precise, humorous and austere (…) You didn’t walk away thinking, well, that sounded like a certain person, place or time. Ms. Laubrock encouraged its constant sense of renewal.”--Ben Ratliff,New York Times

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"a low-key marvel...bracing improvisation, a strangely intuitive group dynamic...selfless and deceptively effortless" --JazzTimes

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David Rothenberg, author of WHY BIRDS SING and SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL (“ecstatic” says the Wall St Journal, “triumphant” says the Guardian) will tell us why evolution is as much about survival of the beautiful as it is of the fittest; why Charles Darwin said the peacock’s tail made him sick. Showing us bowerbird sculptures and playing animal sounds from whales to cicadas, he explains why beauty is a necessary part of nature.

Which leads most naturally to a surreal performance by Irene Moon, of the Museum of Natural History and the Begonia Society, “What is Beautiful?”. In vignettes, biological organisms act out short PowerPoint plays emerging out of the creative fascination with detail that could only come out of the intimate relationship a scientist has with his or her subject. Song and imagery will make the disgusting beautiful – believe us. Moon’s actors include internal parasites--tapeworms, hookworms--and blood-sucking insects and their mouths--mosquitos, fleas, and, since this is New York City, bedbugs.   www.davidrothenberg.net ,  www.begoniasociety.org

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