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A “Performance of Poetry with Sign Language & Music Improvisation”

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A “Performance of Poetry with Sign Language & Music Improvisation”

by August Vanderbeek & Max Vanderbeek
November 22, 2024, 8 p.m. Rockland Center for the Arts

This sister & brother lived at the Gate Hill Co-op (“The Land”) from the late 1950s to 1976. Their parents were part of the founding members, Johanna (artist) & Stan Vanderbeek (film). Their house was a Quonset hut with a large, round multimedia dome theatre and art studio in the backyard. Our performance is a visual and musical celebration of the creative energy that was present and influenced us as children. . . .

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A “Performance of Poetry with Sign Language & Music Improvisation”

by August Vanderbeek & Max Vanderbeek.

November 22, 2024, 8 p.m. Rockland Center for the Arts

This sister & brother lived at the Gate Hill Co-op (“The Land”) from the late 1950s to 1976. Their parents were part of the founding members, Johanna (artist) & Stan Vanderbeek (film). Their house was a Quonset hut with a large, round multimedia dome theatre and art studio in the backyard. Our performance is a visual and musical celebration of the creative energy that was present and influenced us as children.

August Vanderbeek supports the Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, working with them, on and off, for the past 43 years. As a child in the 1960s, she was inspired by her father’s interest in a universal visual language and human hand puppetry. She created and taught home signs to communicate with a Land friend. She also heads the Not-For-Profit, Connecting Thru Sign Language, in California.

Max Vanderbeek is a percussionist/ pianist, composer, and educator. He has composed music for film & dance and most recently he scored a new digital music composition (with live percussion) for a film of Merce Cunningham dancing solo, which was filmed by his father, Stan Vanderbeek in 1965 and released in 2019. He is currently a staff musician for the University of Maryland Dance Department in Baltimore.