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Lun*na Menoh performs Maurice Ravel's Bolero

The Velaslavasay Panorama welcomes back experimental artist, designer and musician Lun*na Menoh for her première performance of Maurice Ravel's Bolero, reimagined using sampled sewing machine noise and found sound.

Opening the show are Les Sewing Sisters (Atsuko Yoo and Saori Mitome), an artist collective using the sewing machine and voices to create music surrounding matters of dress, fabric and fashion.

Formal attire encouraged but not at all required.

ON LUN*NA MENOH
Lun*na Menoh is a Japanese born singer sewing artist who lives in Los Angeles. Her work deals with fashion, clothing and exposing the invisible thread between performance and fabric by making sculpturesque dresses, paintings, and a series of fashion shows with her conceptual but wearable outfits.

Starting in 1999, She made a number of paintings, of men's white dress shirts that are given a dirty stained ring around the collar. In early 2000, she started making music with the bands Seksu Roba and her own group Jean Paul Yamamoto. Currently her band is Les Sewing Sisters which creates pop songs about dresses & dress making approached with experimental touches such as using the sewing machine as a musical instrument. WWW.LUNNAMENOH.COM

http://panoramaonview.org/events/lunna-menoh-performs-maurice-ravels-bolero

Programming at the Velaslavasay Panorama has been funded in part by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.