“The purest rhythm must be the purest expression of life … all expressions of rhythm are true.” (Piet Mondrian)

Live
Painting
Music
Word
Dance
Performance

Daniel Geiger (painting)
Oleksiy Koval (painting)
Thomas Rieger (painting)
Veronika Wenger (drawing)

Steve Coleman (alto saxophone)
Kokayi (wordsmith)

Alina Sokulska (dance)

The Beautiful Formula Collective is a group of international artists who produce and stage group works not only in the studio, but also as live painting performances in front of an audience. The Beautiful Formula Collective deals with painting and creates collective works, in a combination of spontaneity, improvisation and the logic of rhythm.

Steve Coleman is an American saxophone player, spontaneous composer, bandleader and music theorist. Since 1994 Steve has done a series of performance and educational residencies around the United States and in many other countries (Cuba, India, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Brazil, France) through his non-profit, M-Base Concepts, Inc. This non-profit also has a an online music community website; m-base.net, which promotes educational activities through various multimedia formats and interactive media events.

Kokayi the Grammy nominated artist, preeminent improvisational vocalist, producer, educator and CEO/Creative Director of Less Talk More Walk LLC. Pronounced "Ko-Kah-Yee" his name is taken from the Swahili word meaning "to summon the people". Kokayi keeps busy on multiple fronts with several solo and side projects.

Alina Sokulska is an international dance artist, choreographer, performer, instructor and researcher. She has elaborated on her dance language through the inspiration and deep research and more than 12 years of practice of social dances, in a mix with contemporary dance techniques and movement research concepts.
 

Gefördert durch:
Bezirk Oberbayern, München
Stiftung van de Loo, München
Sooya Arts and Sophia Wong, New York
Saudades Tourneen GmbH, Jenbach
Creaventis, München