For Immediate Release

September 10, 2008

Marie (718) 797-3116

Micro Museum Hosts International Artist Benoit Maubrey in

One Week in The Life of a Solar Ballerina.

Performance at Micro Museum® - September 17 at 3 PM

123 Smith Street between Dean and Pacific Streets

Additional locations Brooklyn Bridge Park on September 18 at 3 PM

Coney Island Boardwalk September 19 at 3 PM

Mr. Maubrey is part of a concurrent art initiative

THE CANARY PROJECT

40°, 73°: WORKS AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART & ECOLOGY

Artists’ Talks & Discussion: Sat Oct 5, 2008

at the Old American Can Factory (232 Third St., Brooklyn, NY)

Benoît Maubrey - Solar Ballerinas with dancers

Radiant Jasmin, Faith Pilger, Jessica Weiss

Benoît Maubrey ‘Solar Ballerinas’ is a sound installation performed by dancers whose solar-powered tutus (wearable amplification  systems that are powered by sunlight) -- augmented with light sensors, miniature radio receiver, contact mics, and digital recorders——transform the body in its environs into a responsive instrument that steals and mixes ambient sound. By acoustically responding to sounds, surfaces, and topographies of space, the ‘solar ballet’ questions the conventional balletic focus on the discrete body and instead suggests ‘choreography’ (in Greek: khorous = body + graphein = to write) as an environmental record.

Micro Museum is a founding member of the Brooklyn Cultural Circuit, Registered Trademark with the US Patent and Trademark Office, and a 501© 3 Organization and Registered Charity with the State of NY as Promote Art Works, Inc.