Balkan Choir with Bessie Wapp
dd your voice to the bold dissonance & clear sweetness of ancient mulit-part Eastern European a capella songs of love & lust, harvest & hearth, wartime, badly arranged marriages, drunken husbands, & more! No prior experience required. On the last class we’ll enchant an audience with what we’ve learned. Repeat students welcome!
8 classes: February 18 – April 22 (NO CLASSES March 18 & 25)
7 – 9 pm Wednesdays
Course fee: $160 + Equipment fee: $20 + GST/Online Registration fee
TO REGISTER:
Or by Phone: 250-352-2821
Or drop by: Kootenay School of Arts. 606 Victoria Street, Nelson BC V1L 4K9
MORE INFO: E. info@oxygenartcentre.org P. 250 352 6322
Instructor Bio
Bessie Wapp is a theatre maker, musician, educator and City of Nelson Cultural Ambassador for 2015! Bessie was based in Vancouver for 20+ years where she was a core member of two performing ensembles: stilt-dance theatre company Mortal Coil and Eastern European music sextet Zeellia. With these groups Bessie performed throughout North America and in Europe, including New York City’s Lincoln Centre and Zagreb, Crotia’s, DanceWeek Festival.
In 2006 Bessie co-founded Twin Fish Theatre in Nelson, and with the company co-created Hello, I Must Be Going and Loco Phantasmo, two works inspired by stories in her family history.
Local musical theatre and opera roles Bessie has performed include Pontius Pilate (Jesus Christ Superstar, 2012), Hekate (KHAOS, 2012), and Orpheus (Orpheus & Eurydice, 2008).
Bessie plays with local music groups The Bessie Wapp Quartet, Bessie & the Back Eddies (2012 Kootenay Music Award: Best Roots/Blues), Adham Shaikh & the Outworld Orkestra, and Oxygen Orkestar.
Bessie enjoys teaching theatre & music privately & with groups.
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