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March 6, 2008	CONTACT: 
Edward A.  Broms
broms@verizon.net
(617) 548-3974	

The Order Of The Artists To Premiere Two New Multimedia Works April 8

(Quincy, MA) The Order of the Artists (OA), the multimedia ensemble founded by director Edward A. Broms (ACM Recording Artist and former Blue Man Group Musician) in 2002, presents two new works, Animals, and Mess Up, to be premiered as part of the Musica Eclectica Series at Eastern Nazarene College (Mann Student Center Auditorium) on Tuesday, April 8, 2008.  Animals will begin at 7pm; Mess Up will premiere at 8:00pm.  There is a $5 donation at the door.

The OA is founded on the principles of explicit integration of various artists and art-forms, art as the highest expression of the divine, and performance as ritual.  The OA's previous work has concentrated on the exploration of improvised mythic archetypes through a series of rituals on the major feast days of the solar calendar such as solstices and equinoxes.  Other work has included small units of the ensemble performing completely improvised club sets, where the audiences have been know to sit in awed silence for up to an hour in otherwise normally noisy bars.

After a long hiatus wherein OA members have moved on to the far flung corners of the world including Costa Rica, Paris, India, and Barcelona, they are reforming with new local members, but also continuing to work long distance with current members.

The current works are based on the electronica explorations of Fraction (Shikatapult, Platiqpassion) of Paris, France, who has recently released two completely improvised electronica albums, Animals and Mess Up, each about 45 minutes in length.

Animals explores themes of following "instinctual orders" over conventional artistic intentions, and Mess Up explores aspects of the quintessential performance nightmare actually happening: essentially arriving to perform completely unprepared, and without any of the proper equipment, a scenario which played itself out at a recent Fraction show, which in turn generated this ingenious recording.

The cast, after a period of studying and living with these recordings, offers composed additions to, and improvisations based on, these recordings, performed in real-time against the sonic backdrop of the recordings themselves, suspending the belief that Fraction is really on another continent sipping espresso and caring for his newborn son; and not hunched over in the eerie half-light of the computer somewhere near the back of the stage.

These works feature choreography by DeAnna Pellecchia, danced by Mary McCarthy and Danielle DiVito and mythic storytelling and music by longtime OA regulars Ed Broms, Dani Dalnian, Maria Orlova, and Marty Levin, and special guest, NYC vocalist/model Maria Tegzes; further supported in spirit by other members of the OA diaspora: Carine Saut, Ignasi Corella, Nandlal Nayak, and Shira Wohlberg.

Dubbed a true, ‘Renaissance Man’ by The Boston Globe, Ed Broms (founder) has performed with a 'who's who' list of the world's leading rock, jazz and classical musicians on bass, organ and voice. He is currently the Music Director at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.  He is also now Artist-in-Residence at Eastern Nazarene College, after recently completing a seven-year run as a musician with Grammy-Nominated Blue Man Group. He leads several of his own ensembles including The Broms Organ Trio, BROMS (rock) and Rooster (blues), and Michael’s Daughter (celtic). 

Fraction (aka Eric Raynaud, composer) is a new activist of the French electronica and experimental music scene, currently living in Paris. After a 10 year career as an indie rock band leader with Mary Lake, he started the Fraction project while he was living in Boston in 2005 and began playing noisy-dancy-electronica in clubs all around USA and Europe.   Beside his solo project, he's involved in a lot of collaborations for which he develops his particular style, influenced by past and present artists like John Cage, Aphex Twin, Monolake, J.Coltrane and the french tradition for the concrete and experimental research. He's the author of sound installations and movie soundtracks. Known as well for his rocky style live set, he composes without codes, from electronica to techno, from the noisy and experimental music to very classic melodic tracks.   Fraction moved back in Paris in 2006 and is now working on new productions, multimedia installations, and collaborations. He  debuted with the label Plastiqpassion with his experimental and free electronica release "Animals" in 2007, and recently released a second work "Mess up", a live performance improvised and recorded in May 2007.  On tour, recently, he met T-Raumshmiere who invited him to release some materials on his famous Berlin based electronic label Shitkatapult.

Maria Orlova was born and raised in Russia by mountaineer/musician parents.  After emigrating to the US, she graduated from Brooks School, where she was New England small indep. school champion in long distance track.  Years of linear competition, an aching body and hungry heart began her exploration of the healing arts, including dance and movement.  She completed the Sivananda Yoga Teacher’s certification course and the Foundation Year of Waldorf Teacher Training.  She studied full-time at Harvard University and Goddard College but finds the school of life a much more candid and interesting teacher.  Currently, she homesteads in midcoast Maine with her partner and their toddler.  They raise animals and plants and collaborate with friends and neighbors in building a sustainable, progressive local community.   Maria works as a residential councilor and Yoga instructor at a wholistic treatment facility for troubled teenagers.  She is grateful for the opportunity to be a contributing member of Order of the Artist since 2005.  For Maria, art is a lens continuously refitted and refocused to understand and refine our capacity to love and to heal life.  

DeAnna Pellecchia (choreographer) is an artist working in the medium of live performance. The Boston Herald has called her “stunning…one of the area’s finest artists”.  The Boston Globe has described her as “a committed and daring performer”.  Bay Windows has defined her as “muscular, mesmerizing…unforgettable”.  DeAnna has performed throughout the United States in venues including horse arenas, convention centers, shopping malls, churches, gardens, cemeteries, museums, sidewalks, parking lots, night clubs and some of the most prestigious theaters in the country.   She is a dancer, an athlete, an aerialist, an actress, and a choreographer creating and performing collaborative works that blend movement with visual arts, martial arts, performance theater, and spoken word.  Her mission is to expand the understanding and perception of “dance” as an accessible art form by engaging audiences of all kinds.  In the process of achieving this goal she has danced with horses, in trees, on stilts, under water and through air; she has been featured in rodeos, operas, plays, fashion shows, movies and music videos; and she has taught and been taught by movers of all kinds.  DeAnna makes dances as Co-Choreographer / Director of Kairos Dance Theater with Ingrid Schatz.  Ted Bale of the Boston Herald has dubbed them “the sexiest and most ironic duo on the local scene” and declared “they represent a new wave in contemporary dance”.  She also dances with internationally acclaimed Paula Josa-Jones / Performance Works (original cast member:  RIDE – An Equestrian Dance Theater Performance), Kinodance Company (listed as one of Dance Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch in 2008”) and Bennett Dance Company (Rehearsal Director /Assistant Choreographer /  Founding Member).  DeAnna received a BA in Dance / Performance from Roger Williams University.  She resides on dance faculty at Boston University and is a practicing ACE-certified Personal Trainer.

Mary McCarthy (dancer) began her formal ballet training at the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Natick. She attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where she received her bachelor's degree in Sociology. While in Western Mass, Mary took dance classes with the Five College Dance Department and collaborated with two MFA candidates on the creation of their theses at Smith College. She has been a member of the Lisa Leizman Dance Company since 1997, performing at such venues as The Northampton Center for the Arts, Hampshire College's Elderhostel, and First Night Northampton. During the summer of 2000 Mary participated in the invigorating Doug Varone and Dancers summer intensive at SUNY-Purchase. Upon returning to Boston Mary joined the Cambridge based Kelley Donovan & Dancers company has performed at such venues as Green Street Studios in Cambridge, Salem State College, The 92nd Street Y in Manhattan and WAX Works in Brooklyn. In addition to the performing element of dance, Mary enjoys the behind the scenes costume design and construction and has presented several workshops on stage make-up design and application.

Danielle DiVito graduated magna cum laude from Roger Williams University with a BA in Dance/Performance Studies and Secondary Education. While at RWU she received the Dance Theatre Performance Scholarship and the Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award. Danielle dances for Snappy Dance Theater and Turnpike Project and has performed with Bennett Dance Company, Ellis Wood Dance (NYC) and in Island Moving Company’s Flight of Steps in Newport, RI. She has also presented work for the Emerging Artist Program at Green Street Studios. Currently she teaches dance and tumbling at Broadway Bound Dance Center in Natick, MA. 

With her performances of exacting virtuosity and sensual earthiness, Maria Tegzes' voice has been described as having a "dark and highly emotional...quality" (The Worcester Telegram & Gazette), while being capable of skipping from "ionospheric high hums to a sultry baritone with verve and nerve." (The Boston Globe). She has performed with a variety of new music ensembles including Taller Instrumental of Spain, The New York Arts Ensemble, CUBE of Chicago, and The Princeton Ensemble of Princeton University. About her interpretation of Berg's Lulu, Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe wrote "...you can't take your eyes off her."
An artist with an extremely eclectic sensibility, Maria has received enthusiastic response to her innovative cabaret performances in the US and Europe, particularly in Spain, England, and Switzerland. Currently she is the vocalist and collaborative lyricist/ composer/arranger with a new group called Impetus, at present a trio comprised of voice, piano (Geoffrey Burleson) and electric guitar (David *Knife* Fabris). Blatant genre mixers are they (Ravel with guitar distortion, Reznor with a bit of a conservatory twist). And don*t forget the critical acclaim for her opera performances too, yeah - "dominating," "heroic," and even "enchanting." Recordings on Neuma, CRI, and BDF Sound Studio. 

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Mary McCarthy and Danielle DiVito
deanna’s bio