Join us for an evening of thrills, chills, derring-do, and what-have-you as music and movement collude and collide in heretofore unknown realms. Many will recall bassist extraordinaire “YOU’RE Evan” Lipson, who lived among us for a decade or so, spreading musical joy through the community.. Evan is teaming up with Birmingham-bred/NYC-based dancer Susan Hefner for a Southeast Tour which is sure to be incendiary. Most of you know the in-house duo of Ann Law and Bruce Kaplan, who will host and a bit of “je ne sais quoi” to the evening.

Susan Hefner began performing dance improvisation at the age of 16 with multi-media artists in Birmingham, Alabama, including Davey Williams and LaDonna Smith. From New York City she toured worldwide with Nikolais Dance Theatre, and served as the dancers’ union representative. Her work has been presented in many NY venues, as well as other US venues and in Europe. In the duo MESH with her late partner musician Michael Evans, she co-developed a uniquely zany performance vocabulary of sound, movement and theater, often using found objects and junk. She curates Susan’s Salon for improvisation in Brooklyn and in Birmingham.

Evan Lipson (b. 1981) has lived with the incurable disease of music since early adolescence, seeking the liminal realms in which intellect and instinct, history and myth, and creative and destructive force intersect. Drawn towards aberrant perspectives at an early age, his formative activities were primarily rooted in extreme and discordant forms stemming from various traditions of “underground” and ancient musics. He may or may not have some degree of affiliation with Rev. Fred Lane and a social scientific think tank known as MEINSCHAFT. Other presently active outfits: RAWL, SONS, Wrest, Roughhousing, Virtual Balboa, and various ongoing collaborations with David Greenberger (Duplex Planet). Massimo Ricci, of Touching Extremes writes, "Lipson easily stands among the best bassists I've heard lately, his terrifically strapping tone epitomizing the decision to really learn how an instrument works."

Ann Law and Bruce Kaplan have collaborated in dance/music improvisation since being part of a group of part of a group of folks gathering every Saturday at PS 122 in NYC. They’ve performed together in Nashville, Knoxville, Birmingham, Miami, and likely many more places that elude memory at the moment. And, of course, many times at Barking Legs.