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Billboard
#1 Dance Artist Vanessa Daou
To Visit MCCC Campus March 27
3/11/09
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The Theatre
and Dance Programs at Mercer County Community College are hosting
a campus visit by #1 Billboard Dance Artist Vanessa Daou on Friday,
March 27 at 12:30 p.m. The community is invited to join Ms. Daou
for a Q&A session in the Studio Theatre (CM 122), located next
to Kelsey Theatre on the college's West
Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road. The event is presented
free of charge.
According to MCCC Theatre Program Coordinator Jody Person, Ms. Daou's
visit to campus represents an extraordinary opportunity for Mercer
students and members of the community who are musicians, graphic
designers, dancers, programmers, visual artists, performers and
writers. Says Person, "Vanessa has performed everywhere from
the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles to the Olympia Theatre in France.
She's also an interdisciplinary artist who works with music, poetry,
visual art, graphic design, and interactive digital art. Most importantly,
she's a thinking artist, and this is precisely the quality we are
working to nurture in students of the Theatre and Dance Programs
at MCCC."
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Vanessa
Daou
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Daou's
newest album, "Joe Sent Me," is the premiere release on her
current imprint, Daou Records. She has five other successful solo albums,
recorded for both major labels and as an independent artist, including
"Zipless," her definitive 1994 breakthrough debut and collaboration
with lauded feminist writer and poet Erica Jong. Known internationally
for her signature breathy vocal style, Daou mixes musical influences into
a unique hybrid of jazz, blues, rock, folk and electronica.
Daou was a Visual Arts and Art History major at Barnard College who approaches
her art as a synthesis of sight and sound, written word and song. She
began her career recording for NuGroove Records, one of New York's seminal
underground experimental electronica labels.
In further collaboration with the MCCC Theatre and Dance Program, Daou's
music will be featured in "Joe Sent MDE," a performance by the
Mercer Dance Ensemble, composed of MCCC Dance students and dancers from
the community. The event takes place on Saturday, May 16 at 8 p.m. and
Sunday, May 17 at 2 p.m. at MCCC's Kelsey Theatre. The show is choreographed
by MCCC dance instructor Janell Byrne with additional choreography by
Jody Person. For ticket information, visit the Kelsey Theatre website
here.
Directions
to MCCC
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