DELHI - Bushel hosts The Traveling Salon, a lively performance event with music, words, characters, and movement by the talented Lanny Harrison, Christopher Krotky, and Steve Clorfeine.. For this trio, collaboration is key, with old, new, and improvisatory work. The evening will culminate in a dance and music jam party. Performance will take place on Friday, Aug. 16, 5 to 7 p.m., at Bushel, 106 Main Street in Delhi.
Doors open at 4:30 p.m. Performance begins at 5 p.m. Tickets are $20. Seating is limited; reserve your tickets in advance on Bushel’s website, bushelcollective.org/events.
Lanny Harrison has created various one-woman shows and has been a member of Meredith Monk’s theater company since 1969. She is a character actress, dancer, poet, and visual artist. Harrison taught theater and movement for 25 years at Gallatin/NYU. She is a founding teacher at West Kortright Center. Her original workshop Intro to Acting is still alive and cooking. Her East Meets West workshop met for many seasons in her studio barn in East Meredith. Harrison has collaborated with musician Christopher Krotky for the past six years.
Christopher Krotky is a drummer, producer, and engineer working out of his recording studio in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. As a drummer and Bay Area native, CK has been playing since he was 10 years old. He studied composition and theory at College of Marin and then on to Musicians Institute in Los Angeles. CK has cultivated an approach leading to a love of listening to what a song or piece of music needs while being spontaneous. He believes that sensitivity and force should co-exist in drumming. As a producer and engineer CK has recorded and produced over 250 projects in the last 25+ years ranging in styles from Pop and Rock to Latin jazz, Funk ,Folk, Klezmer, Middle Eastern to Blues, Electronica, Devotional and Brazilian.
Steve Clorfeine has been making work with movement, theater, improvisation, film, words, clay, and collage, for most of his life. He recently published a new collection of poems/short prose – Seeing You Again– and is working on a collection of travel pieces. Fortunate to have Buddhist teachers; to have the opportunity to present my work in many countries; to create gallery installations; and to host a local writing group that’s been meeting for almost 20 years. He has been in theater partnership with Lanny Harrison since 1987.
