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The music department Music Now! concert series presents

egg by César Alvarez and Emily Orling

egg is a theatrical staging of César’s album alongside live ceramics by Emily Orling. This performative salad of sound, poetics, anecdotes, and real-time collaboration calls up unthinkable thoughts about creative kinship, small-town futurism, trans-middle age, mediocre parenting, and the ancient unreliable religion of art-making.

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César Alvarez, vocals, saxophone, guitar, synthesizer
Emily Orling, live ceramics

Brian Shankar Adler, percussion
Eli Hecht '23, bass, synthesizer
Katie McCabe '21, violin
Justin Rodig, accordion, guitar
Bethany Younge, synthesizers

Projection design by Piper Hill GR '22
Sound engineering by Raegan Padula '24

César Alvarez (they/them) is a composer, lyricist, playwright, and performance maker. They create big experimental gatherings disguised as musicals, in the key of inter-dimensionality, socio-political transformation, kinship and coexistence. With a background as a jazz saxophonist, bandleader and sound artist, César's work inhabits a space between the worlds of theater, music, performance art and social practice.

Emily Orling (she/her) is a visual artist, designer, poet and mother working primarily with paint, clay, fabric and performance. Emily works at the intersection of queer domesticity, motherhood, mental illness, metaphysics, and esoteric spiritual pursuit. Her work is an ongoing process of externalizing the intuitive, shaping the invisible/energetic through the the visible/material, and locating the sacred in the profane.  Emily’s writing, thinking, spiritual practice and creative labor infests, alters and seeds the work of her partner César Alvarez. They have been creating experimental and participatory music theater performances in collaboration since 2008.

www.cesaralvarez.net