12 Minutes Max is a curated monthly performance series featuring short works by local artists in many disciplines.
Our July 17 program will celebrate a return to the Main Library Auditorium for a live show. Please join us!
Music composer Devin Maxwell and cellist Noriko Kishi with present Cloudseeding 11, for cello and live electronics, a piece about “convincing yourself to do something at your own destruction based on an outside influence… the essential idea behind weather modification. We are asking clouds to rain at their own destruction. In this case, the piece operates under the idea that if the cloud were a sentient being, how would it convince itself to rain before it’s ready.” Maxwell’s piece is dedicated to Marina Peterson and was written for Norkio Kishi. Maxwell is also a percussionist, conductor, and music technology entrepreneur. He currently is Director of Music Technology and Composition at Westminster, is the chair of the VU Symposium for Experimental, Electronic and Improvised Music in Park City, is the founder and director of the Utah Youth Orchestras and Ensemble’s Young Composers Project, and is a co-founder of Red Desert Ensemble with clarinetist Katie Porter. Noriko Kishi earned her master’s at the New England Conservatory. Formerly Principal Cellist and featured soloist with the New World Symphony, she was a member of the Sacramento Symphony from 1994-1996, and performed regularly with the Utah Symphony from 2001-2015. A strong advocate of contemporary music, Ms. Kishi has dedicated more than two decades to performing the works of living composers both in the Bay Area and Salt Lake City. You can hear Cloudseeding 11 and other pieces on Maxwell’s 2022 self-released bandcamp album entitled Have One. https://devinmaxwell.bandcamp.com/album/have-one
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Jordan Danielle will present Dark Matter, as part of the equation, inspired by “a new book read, a soul guidance check in, and the present moment of what is asking to be shared. An evolving process. This is the product of an envisioned idea.” A New Jersey native, Jordan is a Trans GenderQueer Black Blessing, Artist, Curator, Birth-worker, Sibling, and Gender expressive sun. Jordan says they “value processes and inner dynamic workings of what makes something its final product.. as it can lead to transformation.” Their movement incorporates styles “cultivated from the streets to academic and structured based genres of dance. Developing their own movement practice that speaks to the true nature of their being has been an ongoing evolving journey to discovery of what can be.” They are a part of multiple artist scenes in Salt Lake City, including dance battles, curating events, theatre, videography and DJing.
Choreographer Stephanie García will perform Fuera de mi (Outside myself) “a short self-reflection for what I cannot comprehend and control outside myself”, with music by Syrinx.
García holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance and studies in Cultural Management. She is a multi-awarded Mexican performer, dancemaker, choreographer, performing arts director, cultural manager, producer, co-founder, and co-director of Punto de Inflexión Dance Company and PROArtes México. Stephanie has danced with several of the most important choreographers and venues in Mexico, performed in 11 countries in America, Europe, and Africa, and choreographed more than 30 original multidisciplinary pieces. Currently, García is a Graduate Research Fellow 2022-2023, and MFA candidate in the Modern Dance program at the University of Utah, and a member of The Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network (Yale).
This program is modeled after 12 Minutes Max, a performance laboratory originated by On the Boards in Seattle.
AGE GROUP: | Teens | All Ages | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Virtual Event | Performances & Presentations | Music | Arts & Creativity |
NOTE: The Main Library's Rooftop Terrace is closed for renovations.
Salt Lake City's Main Library, designed by internationally-acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie in conjunction with VCBO Architecture, opened in February 2003 and remains one of the most architecturally unique structures in Utah. This striking 240,000 square-foot structure houses more than 500,000 books and other materials, yet serves as more than just a repository of books and computers. It reflects and engages the city's imagination and aspirations. The structure embraces a public plaza, with shops and services at ground level, reading galleries above, and a 300-seat auditorium.
A multi-level reading area along the Glass Lens at the southern facade of the building looks out onto the plaza with stunning views of the city and Wasatch Mountains beyond. Spiraling fireplaces on four floors resemble a column of flame from the vantage of 200 East and 400 South. The Urban Room between the Library and the Crescent Wall is a space for all seasons, generously endowed with daylight and open to magnificent views.
