Cafe OTO presents three evenings of improvised music and visual performance/movement: three duos of one instrumentalist and one physical performer. All 6 performers are affected and inspired by Butoh, the post-war Japanese dance form. The musicians are regular performers at OTO, and all have had enriching experiences developing their music through working with dancers. The dancers come from a range of backgrounds and are all creating exciting original work in London and Europe in various fields including, sculpture, dance, film, and theatre.


HANNAH MARSHALL / cello

Hannah Marshall is a cellist who is continuing to extract, invent, and exorcize as many sounds and emotional qualities from her instrument as she can. She has been a regular member of Alexander Hawkins’ Ensembles and has toured in Europe and South America with Luc Ex and Veryan Weston’s ensembles – SOL 6 & 12. She plays with ‘String Terrorists’ - Barrel (a trio with Violinist Alison Blunt & Violist/poet Ivor kallin). And has been invited by Fred Frith and Suichi Chino in their residencies at café Oto. She also plays with Terry Day, Tim Hodgkinson, Roger Turner, Paul May, Kay Grant, and the London Improvisers Orchestra.



www.hannahmarshall.net


MILDRED RAMBAUD

Rambaud is a London based French artist whose practice encompasses a range of mediums including sculpture performance and film to explore archetypal imagery, fragility and the impossible. She has presented pieces at The Place, and Liverpool's 'Physical Fest'.

www.mildredrambaud.co.uk/


CHARLES HAYWARD / drums

Charles Hayward is known as the pioneering drummer with This Heat and Camberwell Now. In 1976, Hayward and fellow Radar Favourites and Dolphin Logic member, Charles Bullen began practising with bassist Gareth Williams under the name This Heat. They began to experiment with tape loops, found sounds and keyboards on several sessions (recorded from 1976 to 1978, but not released until 1979). Finally, in 1979, This Heat released their self-titled debut album. 1981's Deceit marked the final new album from This Heat, Williams leaving just after its release.

While Bullen began working as a studio engineer, Hayward did sessions for Lora Logic, the Raincoats and Everything But the Girl before forming Camberwell Now with bassist Trefor GORONWY and tape manipulator Stephen RICKARD. The trio released several albums through the Swiss Recommended label.

When Camberwell Now disbanded in 1987 Hayward embarked on a solo career which has continued to the present day. He debuted with Survive the Gesture (1987), Skew-whiff (1989) Switch on War (1991) and My Secret Alphabet (with Nick DOYNE-DITMAS) in 1993. Committed to song 'but the shapes have to change', the current incarnation of his one-man show is an intoxicating mix of percussive attack, swirling electronics and lyrical fragment collage.

"Telepathic magic……. Hayward is one of the most life-affirming people who stalks this dark globe." - SOUND PROJECTOR

MIREI YAZAWA

"I perform with improvisational body movement. However, when I dance, whatever my self image is, I certainly exist in the world. When I dance, I stop watching things and shift my attention to my internal sensation or to different parts of the world. For example, I sense how my muscles and bones move, or I focus on sounds. By doing that, I feel as if I investigate the boundary between myself and the world."


DOMINIC LASH / double bass

Dominic Lash has performed with Tony Conrad and Evan Parker; other currently active ensembles include a duo with Alex Ward, a trio with John Butcher and John Russell and The Convergence Quartet (with Taylor Ho Bynum, Harris Eisenstadt and Alexander Hawkins). He also leads The Set Ensemble (an experimental music group mainly devoted to the work of composers from the Wandelweiser collective). Recent CD publications include work on the Another Timbre, Cathnor, Clean Feed and Psi labels. He was resident in New York for much of 2011, where he performed with musicians including Michael Pisaro, Fay Victor and Nate Wooley.




SELINA PAPOUTSELI

Selina Papoutseli is a London based Greek performer. She trained with Philippe Gaullier, Adon Adassinsky, Kazuo Ohno, Min Tanaka, Masaki Iwana and Mladen Materic. Her work focuses on exploring bodies as objects in space and time, creating visual narratives & playing with humour, stillness and emotion.


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OTO PROJECT SPACE

The OTO Project Space is located just around the corner from Cafe OTO at 1-7 Ashwin Street - E8 3DL.

It was created as a space for artists to develop new work and for OTO Projects to present workshops, talks, film screenings and installations relating to the core programme at Cafe OTO. The building was designed by Assemble - a young, critically acclaimed design practice based in London - and built by a team of more than 30 volunteers.