Kadan rockett biography definition
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Mongol invasion of Europe
1220s–1240s military campaign
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Bossa Nova All Stars at the Venice Performing Arts Center
The Venice Institute for Performing Arts and the South County Jazz Club are pleased to present an evening of sizzling jazz samba with the Bossa Nova All Stars! Join us at the Venice Performing Arts Center on Saturday, March 31st at 7pm for this performance featuring nylon string guitarist Nate Najar, vibraphonist Chuck Redd, tenor saxophonist Harry Allen, and the stunning Maucha Adnet on vocals. The gorgeous Brazilian sounds of Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd sound as fresh and new as when they took the world by storm with The Girl From Ipanema, Desafinado, and many more hits.
Bossa nova is a genre of Brazilian music, which was developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s, and is today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad. The phrase bossa nova means literally “new trend” or “new wave.” A lyrical fusion of samba and jazz, bossa nov
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Nikita Kadan grapples with ghosts of the Soviet past in Japan
Nikita Kadan. Stars of the Province, 2022. Courtesy of the artist
Kyiv-born artist Nikita Kadan has created a new site-specific installation and two solo exhibitions in Japan. In all three projects, as throughout his career, Kadan grapples with ghosts of the Soviet past.
A rocket and a satellite. Objects chewed by the toothless gums of time. Metallic objects of bent stainless steel that look like playgrounds from Soviet courtyards. This new installation by Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan (b. 1982) in a cozy valley in Japan’s Echigo-Tsumari region serves as a startling monument to the failed Soviet project and its main symbol, the unexplored cosmos.
In early July, the young, dark-eyed artist, having temporarily escaped from his war-torn country, stood against the retro-futuristic outline of a Japanese power plant. He told local reporters about the monstrous crimes committed by Russian artillery, about the bomb