NACL PRESENTS
Tell Me Something
Tell Me Something is an improv show like no other. Strike Anywhere’s ensemble of musicians, actors, dancers and a live costume designer create subtle, nuanced compositions that span a wide range of genres all based on audience suggestions. Audience members might share a poignant story, a set of movements, a text message, a photo or a chord progression which launches the group into each live composition. The pieces are sculpted via Soundpainting, the universal sign-language for live composition. Audiences actively decipher the sign language while watching their suggestions come to life in unexpected ways.
Strike Anywhere is the preeminent Soundpainting ensemble in the U.S. and has performed and taught in over 200 venues in 16 states and 8 countries.
“I’ve never seen anything like it. Totally unique!”
About the Artists
Since 1997, Strike Anywhere has been creating nuanced and polished improvisations with its collective of world-class jazz musicians, dancers and actors. SA's prime compositional tool is Soundpainting - a sign language for live composition that allows a conductor to sculpt a composition in real-time with improvising performers.
Strike Anywhere production POP UP in Fort Greene, Brooklyn in 2019