The Zero Lab #3 | Tia Kushniruk | FEED

This new curatorial initiative by Mile Zero Dance features local artists/groups who receive production residency support in our Warehouse venue, and present their new work in process. Join us for the final Zero Lab production of the current season!

MAY 30 + MAY 31
Tickets | $25/$20 MZD Members
7:30 PM
MZD is located at 9931 78 Ave NW, Edmonton

Zero Lab #3: Tia Kushniruk | FEED
May 30 + 31

FEED is an ensemble work of Sisyphian nightmares around being Albertan, culminating in joyous reverie for the little things in life. HYPER/improvisational/EXPERIMENTAL in usage of text, movement, costume, soundscore, lighting and set, FEED is the fetal culmination of 5 years of research by choreographer Tia Ashley Kushniruk 亚 女弟 held and manifested into the space by some of Alberta’s most virtuosic and venerable performers.

ZERO LAB #3 | FEED | TEAM

Tia Ashley Kushniruk 亚 女弟 (Choreographer/Director)
Pigeon Breeders/ Myles Bartel & Will Scott (Composers)
Morris Ngyuen (Sound Design & DJ)
Ainsley Hillyard (Producer/Rehearsal Director)
Erin Pettifor (Performer)
Jocelyn Mah  (Performer)
Michael Watt  (Performer)
Philip Hackborn  (Performer)
Dayna Lea Hoffmann (Performer)
Trent Crosby (Lighting Designer)

O.N.C.E. • February 22

The Inaugural O.N.C.E.

The inaugural O.N.C.E. (Operations in Non-Permanent Collective Extemporization)

event will take place on February 22, 2025, at Felice Café in Edmonton. Doors open

at 7:00 PM, with the show starting at 7:30 PM.

Inspired by the late British guitarist and improviser, Derek Bailey and his Company

Week, this event promises to be an enriching opportunity for musicians to come

together and create innovative and captivating music through free improvisation.

Derek Bailey formed COMPANY in 1976, “Not only its specializations but the

increasingly diverse nature of freely improvised music came to attract me, and it

was in order to take advantage of – plunder – its expanding resources that I formed

Company.”

It’s an association of improvising players – not a fixed group but an assortment

musicians who come together in various combinations from time to time. The fir

Company Week was in 1977 and, with a couple of exceptions, was an annual event

in London until 1995. Throughout, the structure and intention of ‘Company’ had

remained the same. Everything is designed to avoid as far as possible any

preconceptions as to what the music might be and to make improvisation a

necessity.

“COMPANY is about mutual music-making and, at times, demands the sacrifice

individual preferences. It calls for musical generosity, curiosity, and sensitivity; the

ability to respond instinctively and constructively to new and unfamiliar situations.”

– Derek Bailey (Derek Bailey’s Incus Records website).

The format will feature random groupings of ten musicians who will collaborate

in the spirit reminiscent of Company Week.

LEARN MORE & BUY TICKETS

Next Up: Noisecafé w/ John Charles Tactic

Noisecafé at The Aviary (9314 111 Ave NW)
Special Edition

Playing with John Charles Tactic (members of Vertrek Trio)
Stacked bill with:
I.O + Pet Retina
Sainerine
Thrtdsply

$20 at the door
$15 advance tickets • Buy tickets here

Doors at 7:30 PM
Music promptly at 8:00 PM

Next show

Next show w/
–ce qui nous traverse– (Montreal)

🗓️ Tuesday, August 8
🏠At The Aviary (9314 111 Avenue NW)

🔑$15 advance / $20 at the door
🚪7:30 PM doors
🎟️Tickets at https://www.the-aviary.net/

Next performances: Mudweed @ Nextfest

We’ve been busy in the past while working on an exciting new work with collaborator Max Hanic on a performance called “Mudweed”.

It’s part of this year’s Next Fest!

Mudweed is an improvised physical and sonic dialogue between Max Hanic and Pigeon Breeders. This exchange will travel a structured score devised from investigating the violence of springtime and personal genesis. How is the body a site for change in spirit and what does this require of one’s vitality?

Come check out this work as part of the Marvel program on:

  • Tuesday, June 6 at 8:00 pm 
  • Thursday, June 8 at 5:00 pm 
  • Friday, June 9 at  7:00 pm

Where:
Nancy Power Theatre in the Roxy Theatre in Edmonton, AB

Get tickets here.

Next show: Sun, Mar 12 – Bug Incision in Calgary, AB

Hi friends, we’re very excited for our next show coming up! It’s our first Bug Incision presented performance since 2015 and we are playing with some great guests.

SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2023
High Line Brewing: 1318 9 Ave SE, Unit #113
(access via Minh Chau parking lot off 9th Ave SE)
7-10pm, 18+, $10 cover at the door, CASH ONLY

Pigeon Breeders (alone and with guests Waters and Dadge) + Nate Waters solo

PIGEON BREEDERS
We are very excited to have Edmonton’s Pigeon Breeders (Myles Bartel and Will Scott) back after too-long of an absence. The last time they graced a Bug Incision stage was back in 2015, but they’ve been busy ever since. Most recently working as a trio with fellow Edmontonian Matt Belton’s Ghost Cars project, they released Stasis last fall on the Pseudo Laboratories label.

This group has been active since the early ’10s, and when I say active, I mean active: they’ve played tons of shows around Alberta (they were in Calgary not too long ago on a juicy double bill with Jung People) and have released an impressive pile of cassettes and CDRs over the years, all documenting their increasingly refined vision of bric-a-brac-laden, electro-acoustic improvised music. As we wrote in an earlier write-up about them, “Edmonton’s kings of drift, this trio has honed in on a compelling mixture of liberally-effected guitars, assorted amplified junk and household objects, and electronics.”


They will perform a set on their own, and then another joined by Nate Waters and Chris Dadge.



NATE WATERS
One of the city’s busiest and consistently excellent musicians, Waters spends equal amounts of time in Calgary’s jazz and indie rock scenes. He fronts his own angular art-pop project Eye of Newt, plays in Temps, Victrix, Ryan Bourne & The Plant City Band, and Samantha Savage Smith’s backing band. In the jazz world, he gets around equally mightily, and can be seen most Tuesday nights at Betty Lou’s Jazz Library with his own quartet. Aside from ripping on most members of the woodwind family, he can also handle most rhythm section duties with equal aplomb. His solo set on this night will likely involve saxophones, pedals, and other electronic goodies.

For more information on Bug Incision, visit their website.

Pigeon Breeders & Ghost Cars album release – Calgary

Pigeon Breeders & Ghost Cars / Jung People collaborative show
November 5th
90 min set
ALL AGES
50 seats
Experience the individual and collective expression of two celebrated Albertan experimental rock acts, Calgary’s Jung People and Edmonton’s Pigeon Breeders & Ghost Cars. The two bands will be presenting a special 90 minute* sonic experience, with Pigeon Breeders & Ghost Cars opening and closing the performance, and Jung People performing in the middle, and the two acts crossing over on both sides.
*Approximate time.

Calgary’s Jung People and Edmonton’s Pigeon Breeders have been artistic partners for over a decade. Since 2012, the two acts have been performing on bills together and this kinship was cemented by the development of “crossover” sets where the two bands would collaborate during the transition between each of their sets. The two bands went on a mini-tour to promote Jung People’s third album, Gold Bristle, which included a lush wintry performance at Calgary’s Lantern Church.
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This show will be 90 minutes approximately.
Doors at 8:00 PM^
Performance begins at 9:00 PM^
$20 advance tickets available in-person at The Next Page book store
1217A 9 Avenue SE, Calgary
Limited capacity — [50] tickets available only.
There will be coffee & non-alcoholic beverages available.
The Next Page will be open to shop before and after the show!