Sadiq Bey
Experience:
2002
Bowery Poetry Club, solo performance in Motormouth Review and as sadiqbeythemusesboyfriend with David Gilmore. (New York)
Tonic, performance with Harriet Tubman group. (New York)
Tonic, performance at with Brandon Ross. (New York)
Brooklyn Academy of Music, performance with David Gilmore. (New York)
Tour of France and Italy with the Uri Caine Group.
Contributor, NKA African Arts Journal, Cornell University.
2001 Contributor to Exhibition Catalog for “Unpacking Europe”, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Artist in Residence at Performance Garage/Wooster Group. Re-write of libretto for Otello with composer Uri Caine for Teatro Manzoni, Milan, Italy. (Work in progress)
2000 Recorded “the i poem” for the ‘Bach: The Goldberg Variations’ with the Uri Caine Ensemble. (Winter and Winter)
PS 122, solo performance. (New York)
Artist in Residence at Columbia College (Chicago).
Brooklyn Academy of Music performance with David Gilmore (as sadiqbeythemusesboyfriend). (New York)
1999 Lyricist collaborator with composer Don Byron for Bebe Miller Company’s “From the Wall” at Joyce Theatre. (New York)
Wolf Trap, performance with Don Byron and Existential Dred. (Vienna, VA.)
1999 Painted Bride performance with Don Byron and Existential Dred. (Philadelphia)
Hot House, performance with Don Byron and Existential Dred. Included workshop at Columbia College. (Chicago)
Recorded “Sidewalks of New York” with the Uri Caine Ensemble. (Winter and Winter)
1998 Don Byron/Existential Dred European Tour included France, Italy, Germany, and Netherlands.
Tour of England with Don Byron and Existential Dred.
Television performance for Canal + (Paris) with Don Byron and Existential Dred.
New Morning Club performance with Don Byron and Existential Dred. (Paris)
Live performance for BBC (London) with Don Byron and Existential Dred.
1997 The NextWave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, performance with Don Byron and Existential Dred.
Recorded “Nublaxploitation” with Don Byron and Existential Dred. (Blue Note)
Lyricist collaborator with composer Don Byron for the “Nublaxploitation Project”.
JVC Jazz Festival at the Bottom Line, performance. (New York)
Contributor to Callaloo Quarterly. (University of West Virginia)
Completed manuscript “a thousand days a year” for Past Tents Press.
1996 Garage/Wooster Group, solo performance. (New York)
PS 122, solo performance. (New York)
The Knitting Factory, solo performance. (New York)
Trumbull Theatre, solo performance. (Detroit)
Berlin Jazz Festival, performance with Don Byron and Six Musicians. (Berlin)
Other accomplishments include:
Co-founder/Artistic Director of the African World Festival (Detroit)
Co-founder/Artistic Director of the Stroh Signature Jazz Series (Detroit)
Founding Editor of CityArts Quarterly (Detroit)
Educated at Wayne State University. (Detroit)
Sadiq Bey participates in
curated by Agricola de Cologne