"Blood Sweat Drum n' Bass" concert

Blood Sweat Drum n' Bass  

concert 20^th of September

Tuesday evening Performers House had a visit of some dear friends, a Big Band called Blood Sweat Drum n' Bass. They have used our big stage to practice with their band and on tuesday they returned the favor by performing a free concert for all of the students from Performers House. 

The feeling you got when you walked into the Big Stage that Tuesday, was amazing. You could feel the energy from all of the artists, you could tell immediately that these people are true artists. They live for their music, and their creativity. When the music began, people were blown away by their abilities in working together. The band present itself as being a classical orchestra but the sound was also fused with contemporary electronic music. Which gave the experience a completely different twist and made the performance a lot more exciting than expected. The songs were sung and played beautifully. What made the experience even better was that sometimes some of the artists got in the front of the stage and performed a duet or a solo. One of these performances were made by two saxophonists who made a very entertaining duet where they interacted with sounds and attitudes as two birds in a very typical Jazzy and comic way. In the end they were playing some new tracks from their new CD, called “ASI NISI MASA”, with incredible sound and beautiful vocals.

All in all, a perfect concert, a roller coaster of feelings. 

for more info:  http://www.bloodsweatdrumnbass.com/

written by: Lina Beekhuijzen and Rebecca Turini

A month of review of daily life at Performers House and a cauliflower stench

After 35 days in Silkeborg at Performers House we have discovered, besides the extremely creative people, that there often occurs a certain smell of cauliflower  meanwhile white cups and red briefcases and ham disappears . No one knows why.

Everyday Gert cries out: “PLEASE BRING BACK THE WHITE CUPS!” But no one ever does! Our theory is that it is because no one knows where the white cups are.  Rumors say that a layer of white cups are hidden in room number 17. But we believe otherwise. Strange persons have been spotted wandering in the halls of Performers House. And often, when they pass by, they leave a stench of cauliflower…

One day, not long ago, a red briefcase was stolen. Line was devastated; “Where is my briefcase!” Line cried. Soon she received small notes saying: “Here is your briefcase, have a nice day - from the house elf<3”. Line got her briefcase back but the question is still unresolved.

Last night we saw a very professional performance by the theater line. We enjoyed it but a very suspicious person caught our eyes. She was dancing on stage like a madman with toilet paper hanging out of her leather trousers!

- Could this toilet paper somehow be an indication of her being the source of the cauliflower?  We think so!

Furthermore a teacher has found a long blonde curly hair in one of the white cups! Coincidence? We think not.

As for the disappearance and appearance of the red briefcase this blonde crazy-dancing toilet paper-girl called Britney Spears must be a kleptomaniac with conscience and possibly also in love with Line.

After all those shocking and disturbing events we can hereby conclude, that this ‘Højskole’ is not normal! And this crazy blonde woman must be stopped for the sake of Gert’s health and the future of the school reputation …..and the smell!

Written by Frida Malmø and Rebekka Bohse Meyer, 22/9 2011, Performers House

African Footprint CD’ release: Journey

Saturday the 3rd of September 2011 African Footprint International had a Cd-release at Performers House, where students, staff, the press and many others were invited.

African Footprint International (AFI) is a professional cultural group from Ghana. Their vision is to bridge the gap between the less privileged and privileged, the physically challenged and able people through African traditional music, dance, drumming, story telling education in Information Technology, English, music theory, vocational training etc. to make them functionally literate, self confident, productive and acquire the necessary skills to cope successfully in the modern world.

African Footprint played some tracks from their new cd, and made a great show with both music and dance.
Both the show and the group African Footprint conveyed a lot of history and meaningful purpose.
It was obvious that all members of African Footprint put their lives ands souls into the music and dance, and the music was both toughing and soulful. Everyone in the audience found it difficult to remain seated and it was a great relief (and great fun) when we were all invited to dance to the last song. What a blast!

Visit African Footprints
http://www.africanfootprint.dk/