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Ace cellist Leo Grinhauz sez:
"The present throng of performance artists and new music groups just don't seem to get it, don't want to get it, or simply never got it: there's a gaping void that's existed in the N.Y. art scene that's been there for decades. These long time rookies need to step back, fish their pencils out of their lunch-boxes and take some notes. Then maybe they'll apprehend as to exactly why the International Street Cannibals fill that void, and fill it emphatically. You get a sense that here, "Music" stops being one-dimensional, suddenly becomes color, craft, gesture, psychology, and ritual, but never mere sound. Dan Barrett's assembled simply the most extraordinary and versatile performers in the world -- musicians, dancers, singers, actors and pupeteers -- who all share his commitment, and grasp that this is a very, very big venture."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Convention-slaying diversity!"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"The remarkable scope, open minded variety, and depth of artistic vision are some of the more outstanding characteristics of The Cannibals...as a composer/performer, what has impressed me is the incredible level of quality in the individual performances time and again -- always on the dramatic edge, taking artistic chances and breaking new ground wherever needed." - Jay Elfenbein, composer, bassist, viola da gamba and vielle player----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"All civilised nations must struggle against such unscrupulous men as Mr Wotan and his International Street Cannibals. Stirred by the present exigencies, we must determine that their influence will not, cannot prevail upon the morality of the nation." - Winston Churchill, 1913, as First Lord of the Admiralty---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Among us, Bozzy, one cannot discover truer example of adscititous excellence than these, our International Street Cannibals. Only with greatest anxiety might their example be in any way dismissed...." - Samuel Johnson, to Boswell, October 3, 1765---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"After attending one of their events, you begin to wonder if there's been something like this since the age of Dada. You get a sense that this is not the usual gang of gimmick pedlars and their prize-adorned half-composers which you have here, but something else."---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Having two disciplines as different as music and boxing in the same room brings up and creates a variety of emotions, feelings, impressions.""STRIKE!, the creation of fabulous cello player and visionary Dan Barrett, shows not only the richness of creating new synergies and combining seemingly different energies, even more it stands as a parable of action, action in life as well as in art."
"STRIKE! is a celebration of motion and emotion"
"Focus unites the disciplines of chamber and contemporary music and of fighting..............seeing those two worlds merge opened up a whole new world in my own small universe."
"STRIKE!" stands for unity -- between cultures, ideas, age groups, men and women: it makes us all just people, which is a very good thing."
- quotes by Denise Riedlinger
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"The International Street Cannibals is a performing group as unique as its name."-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"The Cannibals present multidimentional programs of music from many different areas of time, space and culture, in spaces as highly diverse as historic churches and boxing gyms."-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" Programs with REAL theatrical and political edge."-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"The ISC reflects all the probable realities we all live in today." - composer Dary John Mizelle
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"The International Street Cannibals are at the forefront of pioneering the use of non-traditional concert spaces."-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"these music rituals break the wall of pretentiousness that prevails in much of the concert world." - john mulkerin -- trumpet player with Defunkt and Liquid Hips-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Propelled by visionary Dan "Wotan" Barrett, the Street Cannibals create a ritual laboratory for artistic expression, with no regard for constraints created by formal and social dogma." - bassist John Feeney---------------------------------"Though the citizens cannot conceive it, I hold Mr.Wotan and his Cannibals as a perpetual danger to our Commonwealth. Within their proximity the republic can own neither security nor tranquility. I urge the the citizens, therefore, to lock their doors, as the shit shall surely hit the fan. - Ben Franklin------------------"These Street Cannibals are unbridled seducers of the public........." - Jean Rousseau
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