A Literary Evening
Steve Clorfeine and Brenda Bufalino

Where: Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank St, enter through courtyard

When: Thursday May 23, 2019 at 7PM

Writer, Director, Teacher and Performer, Steve Clorfeine will read from his latest book, Simple Geography. Over a period of 8 months, Steve create a collage journal of written notes and cut up images on alternating pages.”Occasionally one informed the other, but the image sometimes created its own story.”
Steve has published his writings in Parabola, and Contact Quarterly. His four books of poetry have been published by Station Hill Press, and Codhill Press.
He studied with Barbara Dilley – a member of Merce Cunningham’s company, and writing with Alan Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, and Diane Di Prima.
He has taught at SUNY in New Paltz, Naropa University, Amsterdam Theater School, and the Dance Therapy Institute of Switzewrland.

Brenda Bufalino‘s latest book, Song of the Split Elm, re-creates and imagines the life of her great grandmother who lived on the Penobscot reservation on Indian Island in 1853… “Madeline was born singing. She sang melodies like chants, like forecasts, like conversations with flowers and birds.” Madeline’s father Jeremiah, a Calvinist preacher, lived in fear of his daughter’s unique voice and spirit, which could not be contained. Madeline’s Penobscot mother, Hannah, wove her baskets in silence far from Jeremiah’s hope for her redemption”.
Brenda is leading exponent and innovator in the tap world, performing, lecturing, teaching master classes and workshops throughout the United States, and the world.
​She has appeared as a guest soloist atCarnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, The Apollo Theater, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Smithsonian Institute and the Kennedy Center.
Ms. Bufalino created The American Tap Dance Orchestra. They have appeared on PBS “Great Performances/Tap Dance in America,” “A Night of Tap At The Apollo Theater,” “The International Festival of the Arts in Central Park,” and seasons at “The Joyce Theater,”and “Dance Theater Workshop.”
A writer of essays and numerous articles, Ms. Bufalino also wrote the forward and afterword for the reissue of “Jazz Dance.”