SHE DARES TO DRUM
A
SOLO MUSIC/THEATRE PIECE
PERFORMED BY
BARBARA BORDEN
CREATED
BY
BARBARA BORDEN & NAOMI
NEWMAN
DIRECTED
& SCRIPTED BY
NAOMI
NEWMAN
She Dares To Drum is an 80-minute 'percussion
play' about the making of a woman drummer in America,
and a tribute to the mother who nurtured and embarrassed
her...When Barbara Borden finally speaks, her words are
also instruments of percussion…Borden makes you
feel that the world is her drum... She's a personable
and engagingly open narrator as well...Borden interweaves
her life story with eloquent percussion passages."
---
Robert Hurwitt, SF Examiner
"A synthesis of theater and music, She
Dares ToDrum combines the language of
the drum and the spoken word weaving the stories of
her Russian Jewish ancestry, identical twin show-biz
sisters, a trail of bands and eight years with the
women's jazz ensemble, Alive! The story, told in rhythm
with text as concise as a lyric sheet, provides the
context for her bravura musical performance, revealing
how her life experience is the wellspring of her music.
---Dennis Harvey, SF Bay Guardian
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"Whether she's satirizing her own adolescent attempts
to drum her way through "My Fair Lady" or spinning
out a gorgeously complex meditation on three hauntingly
tuned drums at the end of the piece, Borden draws you
into a supple rhythmic intelligence and intuition."
--Steven
Winn, SF Chronicle
"Drum is a peach. It's arresting, confident,
and stringently non-indulgent…She drums; nothing
else matters...humor and a lot of other qualities --
confusion, anxiety, joy, drama -- surge out of her playing...She
Dares To Drum is a true original hybrid, conveying
both subtle emotional atmospherics and a full range of
musical genres ond instruments that range from a traditional
drum kit to Tibetan singing bowls. Borden 'speaks' through
mixed aural media that hold our full attention."
---
Dennis Harvey, SF Bay Guardian
"Barbara Borden is a fabulous drummer. She plays
a dizzying variety of percussion instruments, along with
her own body (thighs and chest) to keep time as she tells
the story of her life."
-- Mari Coates, SF Weekly
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