Laurie Anderson

This fall, Laurie Anderson, one of the world’s most accomplished performance artists, will embark on a North American tour with a new solo work The End of the Moon. Anderson, who is currently serving as NASA’s first artist-in-residence, launches her 30 city tour on September 29th, and comes to The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts for one amazing show on Sunday, November 14th at 7:30 pm. The End of the Moon is the second in a trilogy of new solo performance works that combine stories, songs, and music in an intimate and low-tech setting. Anderson’s new show will also include music for violin and electronics creating a “duet” between the spoken word and her signature musical sound. Following the first piece in this series Happiness (2002) in which Anderson told stories about her time spent working at a McDonald's in New York City and living on an Amish Farm, the new work also draws upon Anderson's recent experiences and research. Part travelogue, part personal theories, history and dreams, “The End of the Moon” looks at the relationships between war, esthetics, spirituality and consumerism. Collectively, Anderson envisions this solo trilogy as an 'epic... more...