June 3rd, 2010
photo by Omer Yukeseker
I’m doing some transmission and tech work for a wonderful show by Toronto dancer extraordinaire Susie Burpee– A Mass Becomes You.
It’s a solo piece, inspired by Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #122 (1983), featuring Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D Minor and a host of boomboxes. Susie is an amazing performer with such intensity and a laughing-to-keep-from-crying Beckett-like sensibility that really drives this absurd and beautiful work.
My job involves some composing, a lot of boombox wrangling, and keeping all the little radios working as they should. Designing Mozart-meets-radioworld has caused some weird musical organisms to occupy my inner ear– like a choral reef, you might say.
For those of you in Southern Ontario, the show happens at the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival at the River Run Centre in Guelph on Friday June 4 at 8PM, and at the Canada Dance Festival at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on June 9 at 4PM.
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October 17th, 2009
October 25, 2009, at the Hysteria Festival of Women at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, I’ll be performing as part of Evalyn Parry’s fantastic new bicycle piece– she has written a new suite of songs, stories, and spoken word about bicycling today and in the roaring 1890’s. Brad Hart plays the bicycle, and I play the pedals and lights, as well as some other free reed instruments like accordion, harmonica, and melodica. If you’re in Toronto, it’s one night only (at least for this time around), but look out for more dates to come.
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August 4th, 2009
Mid-August means back to work for a couple of weeks of workshopping with Public Recordings and dancemaker and director Ame Henderson on her Faction project. Through a residency at the Theatre Centre in Toronto, Faction is a piece in development over the course of three years (2008-2010). I’m doing some interesting sound design/sound choreography using micro-cassette recorders, and other kinds of magnetic tape tricks. Here’s the official blurb:
“Public Recordings are very pleased to be a new resident company at the Theatre Centre with the project Faction, a collaboration with writer Bobby Theodore, sound artist Anna Friz, designer Trevor Schwellnus and the performers Joe Cobden, Frank Cox-O’Connell and Brendan Gall.
Faction is a work that explores the murky territory between truth and fiction, and choreographed and unrehearsed movement. Using personal stories as the starting point, the work interrogates the relationship between artifice and authenticity in a theatrical event.”
The piece should be premiering in the fall of 2010, details to come!
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