Performance that makes significant use of dance and/or choreographed movement.

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Night Edge I

Photos from Night Edge: 1. Aurora Josephson in organ loft; 2. Dancer paige starling sorvillo with Aurora Josephson; 3. final scene, left to right: Aurora Josephson, Myra Melford at the piano, paige starling sorvillo on the floor.

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Cenzontle (Mockingbird)

Roberto Morales, Cenzontle

Skilled improvisers are able to shape in real time a music discourse by continuously modulating pitch, rhythm, tempo and loudness to communicate high-level information such as musical structures and emotion.

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lumen

“Lumen” is an hour-long composition in three movements. Using shadow screens, precise mime-like movement, and a unifying musical language, the movements work together to create a narrative form inspired from both Javanese shadow play and early silent cinema. The three movements can also be performed individually.

I. Lumen Prelude -- in which we are introduced to our

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Crosstalk

crosstalk
(duet for pianist and piano)
composed by jay cloidt, 2007

commissioned by nancy karp + dancers
programming by barry threw
performed by marja mutru, piano

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Playback

Playback, (seven evening-length performances), Agora Festival, IRCAM, Paris, June 7-13, 1999
Playback, IRCAM production, Lausanne, Switzerland, September
Playback, IRCAM production, Metz, France, March, 2000

Année de composition : 1999
Durée : 90 mn
Information sur la création

Commande : SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques - Action culturelle) et Ircam