Fruit Flies Like a Banana – Virtual Style!
Donations welcome
Hilary Abigana, flute
C. Neil Parsons, bass trombone
Greg Jukes, percussion & accordion
Few musical ensembles earn top marks for their "deft choreography," (The Wall Street Journal) but this is no ordinary ensemble. Part chamber music group, part devised theatre company, part modern dance troupe, part circus act, The Fourth Wall blends music, theatre, dance, and acrobatics into a new hybrid art form. In their award-winning variety show, Fruit Flies Like a Banana, this trio of musicians creates new interdisciplinary works and reinterprets classic repertoire – all performed in an order chosen by the audience – to make music that leaps off the stage. Interactive online performances of Fruit Flies Like a Banana put everyone in a front-row seat, and all are invited to help create a show that leaps off the screen.
Announced during the performance, the repertoire is always eclectic and unexpected. J.S. Bach may be followed by Camille Saint-Saens, John Philip Sousa, or Stefanie Lubkowski. (Stefanie wrote a fascinating chamber opera for The Fourth Wall and soprano Elisabeth Halliday-Quan, based on poetic texts from Moby Dick and choreographed around a unique circus-style apparatus affectionately known as "The Hamster Wheel." Sounds interesting, yes? We think so too!)
The livestream will take place at 6pm Eastern / 3pm Pacific.
Watch the livestream here: https://www.facebook.com/TheFourthWallEnsemble/
This version of Fruit Flies will be hosted both on Zoom and then livestreamed to Facebook. To be a part of our Zoom audience, please message us through the Facebook event or send us an email at thefourthwallensemble@gmail.com. We would love to have you join us in our audience to help choose the show order and participate in a few pieces! Please note that we request all our Zoom audience members to get in touch with us prior to the event so we can send you the meeting room link and password. Additionally, we would like to request that Zoom audience members be willing to have their videos on and be ready to participate as some pieces we perform only work if our crowd is involved in all our shenanigans.
Link to donate: https://www.patreon.com/thefourthwallensemble