Wesleyan University will celebrate the incoming students in the Class of 2015 at the fourth annual Feet to the Fire Common Moment on Friday, September 2, 2011 on Andrus Field on the Wesleyan campus in Middletown.
The Common Moment will feature the world premiere of a new work by the Asphalt Orchestra entitled "Trading Futures" commissioned by the Center for the Arts, as well as a special performance by up to 800 Wesleyan students. The night will conclude with a performance of fire dancing by the Wesleyan student performance group Prometheus.
The Common Moment will be preceded at Noon by a free, 20 minute "flash concert" by the Asphalt Orchestra in downtown Middletown, starting at the North End Farmers Market on Main Street.
Asphalt Orchestra is a radical street band that brings ambitious processional music to the mobile masses, created in 2009 by the founders of the relentlessly inventive new music presenter Bang on a Can.
Following the premiere at Wesleyan, "Trading Futures" will be performed by Asphalt Orchestra on October 5 at Keene State College in New Hampshire, part of a New England tour. Past Feet to the Fire works have included exhibitions and performances by visiting artists including Marion Belanger's "Landfill", Ann Carlson's "Green Movement", Barbara Croall's "Messages (Mijidwewinan)", Cassie Meador's "Drift", and Stan's Cafe's "Of All the People in All the World, USA (The Rice Show)"; as well as works by faculty including Hari Krishnan's "Liquid Shakti", Ronald Kuivila's "The Weather, at Six", Alvin Lucier's "Glacier", and Nicole Stanton and Gina Ulysse's "Threshold Sites: Skin to Skin".
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