Cookin' It Up - Cline, Dresser, Melford, Oguri, etc.

Monday October 4th
Two seatings: 7pm and 9pm (auction from 4PM - 9PM)
Tickets: $65 (includes music, dance and food)

Cookin’ It Up is a multi-course performance and tasting event featuring Master Chefs Paul Canales & Kelsey Bergstrom of Oliveto Restaurant in Oakland, dancer Oguri, and musicians Myra Melford - piano, Mark Dresser - bass, Alex Cline - percussion, Nels Cline - guitars, Jeff Gauthier - violin, and Yuka Honda - electronics and sampling.

This collaborative event will illuminate the ways in which improvisation informs music, dance, food preparation and presentation. Before the performance the musicians will provide chefs Canales and Bergstrom with compositional forms, musical themes and improvisational ideas. The chefs will respond with feedback, cues, and sparks from their own creative processes, while the dancer provides improvisational commentary. During the performance, the chefs will design and present generous "tastes" of food to be sampled by the audience. The evening will include a discussion about the collaborators’ processes and approach to improvising, and will reveal the ideas and materials used to create the food, music, and dance.

From 4pm to 9pm there will be an art auction featuring works by artists including Yoshitomo Nara, Dave Muller, Norton Wisdom, Gerald Hartwig and many more. The auction is open to the general public as well as the guests of Cooking it Up. All proceeds will benefit Angel City Arts, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. More information at angelcityarts.org

Royal/T, 8910 Washington Blvd, Culver City - (310) 559-6300