About this Event
TENSE PRESENTS, produced by Beckett Rosset and Cara Seymour...readings and performances by Gary Indiana, Nico Walker, Will Chancellor, Sophie Dess, Matilda Berke, Cara Seymour, Kitty St. Remy, Gordon Glasgow, Beckett Rosset, Colin Brookes and more.
This event WILL BE SOLD OUT. Please buy your tickets here, online, because they will be $30 cash at the door and probably won't be any available anyway!
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Praised as “master of the strong lines”, concert violist Colin Brookes is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he made his solo debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony at the age of 17.
A founding member of the award-winning Ulysses Quartet, Colin has performed regularly with A Far Cry, The Knights, and other critically acclaimed ensembles. Festival appearances include Kneisel Hall, Appalachian Chamber Music Festival, Geneva Music Festival, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Manchester Summer Chamber Music, and Tanglewood. In June 2013 he gave a solo recital with pianist Euntaek Kim for the St. Gaudens Concert Series in Cornish, NH.
Traveling and performing allow for many unexpected opportunities to capture moments in time. Colin is an avid photographer, both film and digital, and exhibits of his work have been featured at the Castleton Festival, Virginia and the Art Gallery at Valley Cottage Library, New York. His mentors include Ettore Causa, Heidi Castleman, Misha Amory, Nicholas Cords, Larry Dutton, Marylene Gingras-Roy, Roger Chase, Jeffrey Irvine, and Carolyn Hills.
He currently plays a 19th-century Italian viola generously on loan from the Maestro Foundation, and a Thomas Tubbs bow.
Cara Seymour is a NYC based freelance dancer, performer, and producer. She began dancing in Ashtabula, Ohio and continued her training at The Juilliard School where she earned her BFA in Dance in 2011.
She is currently a principal dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. Additional credits include performing with Company XIV, MOMIX, Spiegelworld, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Ballet Nepantla, Brian Brooks Moving Company, White Wave Dance, House of Yes, and Performa 15; among others.
She works as a close collaborator with many artists, musicians, filmmakers, interior designers, and choreographers; bringing their vision to life. Cara is passionate about creating work that explores the possibilities of cross genre collaborations and the power of bringing classical art forms to unconventional spaces. Her events fuse the high-brow and low-brow, uptown and dowtown, dive bars and 5 stars. She is thrilled to be collaborating with Beckett.
Matilda Lin Berke born in Los Angeles, currently living in NYC, is at present working on a collection of machine essays; a novel titled Industry Plant, and Girlblogging, a column at Filmmaker Magazine. She also writes for Spike and has been a frequent reader at past TENSE events.
Beckett Rosset is an NYC writer, producer and creator of The Tense Reading Series, has had short stories published in Ars Interpres and The QPB Calendar amongst others, is currently working on a book of non-fiction that he wishes was fiction called Stray and is always on the look out for new writers and performers.
Gordon Glasgow is a writer born, raised and based in lower-Manhattan. He loves his dog, Alfie. After studying at NYU Tisch, Gordon decided to become a neo-Freudian Shakespear-esque hyper=sincere Jewish novelist. He has two older sisters. His new novel, I Prefer the Inside , will be released in early 2025. He is currently at work on his new non-fiction novel, Sanctity, Serenity, Dichotomy. Gordon did not grow up rich, he grew up middle class. His favorite song is After Laughter Comes Tears by Wendy Rene. Gordon also runs tbe popular interview seriesw 12 Questions For. He is the future of literatire; deal with it. Read more here-https://calendance.substack.com/
Nico Walker is the author of the acclaimed novel Cherry. He lives and writes in NYC and is just finishing up his second novel.
Will Chancellor is the author of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall. He edits fiction for the Brooklyn Rail and is working on his next novel, an alternate history of the Soviet space program called The Meaning of Certain Dreams.
Sophie Madeline Dess is the author of the novel What You Make Of Me (Penguin Press) and has written for a host of literary magazines including The Paris Review, The Drift, KGB Literary Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Forever Mag, The New Republic and Off Chance. Besides her Novel she writes plays, short stories, essays and critiques. She currently lives in NYC.
Kitty St. Remy is a poet, essayist and researcher who is in many different places often. Her writing can be found in Fence, Byline, Shitwonder and others. She is currently working on a full length book of poetry and a 90th anniversary anthology in honor of Bataille’s Blue of Noon - if you are interested in contributing or publishing, find her somehow. Kitty apropriately has two amazing cats named Miss Beans and Yakuza.
Gary Indiana is a writer, actor, critic, artist and an American cultural legend. Indiana is best known for his classic American true-crime trilogy, Resentment, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story, and Depraved Indifference. Some of his other novels novels include Rent Boy and White Trash Boulevard . He also was the art critic at the iconic weekly newspaper The Village Voice from 1985-1988 as well as performing in numerous films as well as making the critically acclaimed video Stanley Park (2013) that was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. And this sampling is just the tip of the iceberg!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
373 1st St, 373 1st Street, Brooklyn, United States
USD 20.00
