Cangue League Orchestra at Pyramid Scheme April 20th!

CLO members: Mike Saunders, Hugo Claudin, Rebecca Rodriguez, Mickey Mackenzie, Kyle Colter and Gary Perrine.

Cangue League Orchestra will join Spydre Murphy, Jake Stilson, Bearcat, Faux Fur & The Extra Texture and Petals Rang the Bell in a fundraiser to support the decriminalization of Marijuana laws in Grand Rapids, MI.  This will be Cangue League Orchestra's first appearance at the Scheme and has all the makings of a great show. For half a sawbuck ($5) you could do a lot worse.  The music and chatter starts at 9:00pm and the doors open sometime before that.

In 2010, 750,591 Marijuana possession arrests were made in the US. In Michigan in 2002, 17,708. In Kent County, 1507.  Even if there were no arrests it is still absurd that marijuana carries such a steep punishment.

Cangue League Orchestra is in the process of recording vibrations unusual. Maybe you will buy it at Vertigo.  Remember: April 21st is National Record Day!

Skwert of Blud

March 1, 2, 3 (Thurs., Fri., Sat.) at Dog Story Theater (7 Jefferson) 

Doors: 7:30 Show 8:00 $10

Skwert of Blud is an amalgam of seemingly disparate performance pieces and probably are. The anchor play is a version of Antonin Artaud's "Jet of Blood" written in 1925 and still seems as fresh today as it did then. Cangue League's Skwert of Blud features Josh Burge, Mary Brandt, Kyle Colter, Katherine Marty, Bobbie Gilbert, Don Mangione and Hugo Claudin as the Priest!

Also we have Katherine Marty doing a presentation of one of her monologues.  Don Mangione will show another de-re-constructed russian video with music by Mike Saunders.

Cangue League will reprise the popular LTD.

"LTD" from "Flowers" with Katherine Marty, (left) Ben Brandt (center) and Mike Saunders

Our most experimental pieces, Stand-up Tragedy, will run throughout the night where Josh Burge, Katherine Marty and Gary Perrine will take turns trying to make you cry. PLUS! Surprises!  

Once again Nate Neal did our poster art. We are grateful to everyone that contributes. Certainly the actors receive immediate gratification through your applause but Nate is one of the many behind-the-scenes Cangue Leaguers that merely gets a pat on the back and a swig of bourbon. Thanks, Nate. 

New this time behind the curtain helping things run smoothly is Amanda Mitchell. Welcome Amanda.

Naturalment - Cangue League Orchestra will do their thing with new pieces by Rebecca Rodriguez and Hugo Claudin with assistance from fellow orchestra members, Mike Saunders, Micky Mackenzie, Kyle Colter and Gary Perrine.

 Come join us for some weird fun March 1st, 2nd or 3rd (Thur.,Fri., or Sat.) Doors: 7:30 Show 8:00 $10

You can order online at dogstorytheater.com. Ciao!

past + future

"The idea was for everyone to be treated like flowers, without punishment when they did badly, without praise when they did well. Things didn't work out."

We wanted to see if there was any interest in avant-garde theater in GR with our first production, "Flowers". It was a reasonable assumption that there was indeed.  After all, Hugo Claudin had been hosting avant bands at Mexicains Sans Frontieres for quite some time and a lot of the art in GR leans that way. Thanks to the people that came out. Below is contact info to participate in our next show.

Thanks to Eric Tank for documenting "Flowers".  We did get a lot of positive feedback for the band's set. Our tune "Bowls" with Wil Lucy, Mike Saunders, Hugo Claudin and Gary Perrine using marbles acoustically whilst Rebecca Rodriguez worked the melody on her classical guitar was received well.

Katherine Marty lit up the stage. I don't think I've ever worked with a pure theater person until Katherine. Her poetry was engaging, challenging and thought provoking.

Unfortunately there aren't any stills of Wil Lucy in Filters: Love. He brought deeper dimension to a simple piece.

Ben Scott-Brandt sat in for Gary Perrine on Friday in Spot-Light-Vast-Dark and LTD (above). Bobbie Gilbert and Mike Saunders appear as Box People.

 

Here The Noble Blue and Hugo Claudin color some

16mm clear leader for the performance piece Communion.

Review in the Rapidian!

We are planning our next show for June.  Any of you that would like to submit any 'stage actions', poetry, music, film, video, performance art or installations contact Gary Perrine. email: cangueleague@gmail.com  FB: cangue league.

Invasion of the Box People!

FLOWERS is on your heals!  Less than one week and Cangue League will invade your psyche. 

Eric Tank will document it.

The Cangue League Orchestra is our soundtrack.  

Dog Story Theater is our venue.
 

The miasma of the universe is our milieu.

 

The Poster Has Arrived

Comic Book Artist / Graphic Novelist / Social Critic: Nate Neal lent his talented hands and twisted mind to the "Flowers" poster.  Contact Gary Perrine for a photo quality 11 x 17 copy for only $2.00! Wow! Support the Cangue League by buying some of our junk like the cool posters, "cangue" dictionary pin back badges, T-shirts, etc. or coming to the performance March 3rd, 4th or 5th 7:30 pm at Dog Story Theater. They are just south of Fulton St. next to the Chinese restaurant. Yow!

The Infamous Link Post!

 Cangue League is benefiting from a diverse and amazing group of forward thinking artists.  Witness these intricate drawings donated by Ted Klug to the "Flowers" project.  You may have heard him do some interesting stuff  with James Rodriguez on their "Monera" cds.  Check out Elsie and Jack for some nice vibrations.

The first cat to join the Cangue League Orchestra (CLO) was Mike Saunders from the experimental / psychedelic band Moss Folk and of Chance Jones fame.


  Next is Hugo Claudin, creator of Mexicains Sans Frontieres the venue for music with new ideas whilst being percussionist for many groups, most recently- The Fainting Generals.

Wil Lucy joins us with his melodica and banjo that he claims he can play simultaneously!  He basses for Semi-Casual Bedtime. His day job is with the Skywalk Deli who without hesitation let me have their empty cans.

Rebecca Rodriguez has played mucho musica around town as a soloist and with bands such as The Tiger Passion and now with The Icicles.

 Nate Neal, who has just had his graphic novel, Sanctuary published by Fantaghaphics is providing art work to our little show the first week-end in March.

 DAST the aural abstractionists in town will perform with a Stan Brakhage film playing in "Flowers" on Saturday night only !
 
Thursday and Friday night The CLO will provide the live score to Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon".

Poet / Writer / Performance Artist Katherine Marty will perform two of her spoken word pieces with the incomparable CLO providing some aural assistance.

Filling in on Friday night in two of the theater pieces is Ben Scott-Brandt, a musician of note currently with Ribbons of Song.

 You, the audience will color and draw and write on some 16mm clear leader in the lobby of Dog Story Theater that will be used in a performance piece entitle "Communion".

We'll tell you about other talented Grand Rapidians that are joining the League in the future.

We're just starting, but we want to continue to bring alternative theater to the area.  See you March, 3,4,5 Downtown GR.