| IMP Fest '99 -> Performers -> Sorrel Alburger |
Performing Saturday Sept. 18:
Sorrel Alburger has been creating media/performance
pieces for the past 15 years. Often combining simple elements such
as whistling with text and video, her work blends high and low technology using deadpan irony and humor.
Sorrel is a Philadelphia native, now living and working in NYC. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and has studied at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Pennsylvania, and Indonesia Arts Institute in Yogyakarta. She has received numerous grants and fellowships including awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Movement Theater International, Harvest Works NYC, and National Public Radio.
She has shown her work nationally and internationally at The DIA Center for the Arts (NYC), The Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), The Seattle Orcas Festival, The Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia), The Heartlands Center for the Arts (San Francisco), and the Kaernterstrasse (Vienna).
As a whistler, Sorrel has performed at the top of the World Trade Center and the bottom of the Grand Canyon. In 1992, Sorrel was keynote speaker and guest of honor at the National Whistlers Convention in Louisburg, NC. Most recently, she was the recipient of a Meet the Composer grant for a performance at TONIC on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.