Photography by Kenny Johnson
My next body of work dismantles patriarchal systems and toxic gender binaries by recontextualizing the Hero’s Journey. I have created a fantasy world of my own imagination that explores the heroine’s journey throughout many ages, characters and landscapes. The concept for the piece was created while I attended the ArtHouse Holland residency in the Netherlands in October 2022. The piece offers its own folkloric tale seen through the eyes of women and provides an alternative history that is in stark comparison to the heroism society has internalized.
The first iteration of the work titled She Breathes Fire, was written for women and non-binary vocal octet and utilizes electronics through vocal sampling and manipulation. Though the piece integrates acoustic and electronic methods, all of the material in the piece is generated through the voice. The piece premiered in partnership with Owen/Cox Dance Group in Kansas City, MO in October 2023 after receiving an Artistic Innovations award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mid America Arts Alliance. In November 2023 the Prologue written for voice, string trio and electronics was performed at Berklee College of Music at the Splice Electroacoustic Music Festival.
It is my intention to create a She Breathes Fire 3 part Opera Cycle along with numerous complimentary works written for various ensembles.
Stay tuned for news regarding upcoming performances and developments in the world of She Breathes Fire.
Photography by Lindsey Clipner
She Breathes Fire: Prologue
Performed Live at Berklee College of Music, Splice Electroacoustic Festival
November 2023
Composed by Stacy Busch
Performed by Stacy Busch, Sascha Groschang, Boris Vayner, Zsolt Eder
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MASS Live Performance and art Exhibition
Mass: Live performance and exhibition
Multimedia artist and performer Stacy Busch is collaborating with Australian experimental artist Jade Suine and choreographer/dancer Tianna Morton to create Mass, a new music concert and exhibition. The project is born out of Busch’s recent, month long journey at the Listhus Artist Residency in northern Iceland, in which she experienced silence, isolation and extreme natural landscapes, which allowed Busch to uncover a more honest connection with her artistic voice and connect it to her spiritual practice. The full live performance is an evening length concert of new music largely composed during her time in Iceland.
Gilda's Club KC brings together Owen/Cox Dance Group, Charlotte Street Foundation, poet Jen Harris and composer Stacy Busch for a multi-disciplinary production of "Collective: Our Stories of Cancer."
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