Word: musication
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...Momentum.” Schreier’s work will feature live piano accompaniment and inventive costuming. In a similarly unique fashion, Koch—who performed with HBC throughout her undergraduate career and currently directs her own dance company—has collaborated with electroacoustic specialist and Harvard Music Professor Hans Tutschku to create a piece tailored to Tutschku’s original, HBC-commissioned score...
...incredibly lucky to be paired with [Tutschku],” Koch says. “He’s a really responsive composer, so I wasn’t just creating a dance to music that already existed...
Stoller-Lindsey set her work to three pieces of music by percussionists Tigger Beford and Peter Jones, whose contemporary dance compositions highlight funky, eccentric sounds from prepared piano. “My [choreography] is not that balletic, though a lot of my dancers are ballet-trained,” says Stoller-Lindsey, whose choreographic background is rooted in modern dance. “It’s theatrical, gestural, and athletic...
...struggle for choreographers to take something [they] create on [their] own bodies and put it on someone else.” During the first rehearsal, Stoller-Lindsey asked her dancers to improvise to “get a sense of the way they move and respond to the music...
...music begins, heightening as each of the “statues” is brought to life with powerful “fouette” jumps and fluid promenades on black boxes-turned-platforms. The subdivisions of the beat are inaudible, but the dancers move with a rhythmic cohesion built on a collective understanding of musicality and awareness of each others’ bodies...