Opening Reception: Poetry Reading and Musical Performance

Thursday, July 6, 6:30-8:30 PM

Poetry reading by Willa Goettling and Musical Performance by Nava Dunkelman.

Organized by Maya Jeffereis & Willa Goettling

In person at EFA Project Space
323 W 39th St, New York, NY 10018
Free and open to the public.

Musical Performance
Nava Dunkelman will perform a short improvisational percussion set at the opening reception of The World is Before You. Dunkelman's music features in the soundtrack for Maya Jeffereis' films Fields Fallen from Distant Songs and Passages I, including solo instrumentation and her electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA with Amma Ateria.

Nava Dunkelman is a percussionist and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother. Her musical approach is innovative and dynamic, combining virtuosity and intuition. Meticulous in an intrinsic way, she uses her distinctive sound palette to explore and give life to a vast spectrum of musical possibilities.
Nava's current projects are electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA with Amma Ateria, and percussion duo NOMON with her sister Shayna Dunkelman. She also has performed and collaborated with Fred Frith, John Zorn, William Winant, Ikue Mori, Brandon Seabrook, Angélica Negrón, Pauchi Sasaki, and gabby fluke-mogul and many others. She has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, Joan Jeanrenaud, Raven Chacon, San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and others.

navadunkelman.com