Before After

Two days ago, on Saturday the 8th of September, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's choreography 'Before After' had its Swedish premiere at the Gotenborg Opera in Gotenborg, Sweden. The music that I composed for this ballet is made up from different samples of audio recordings some of which have been recorded by my friend Joshua while walking the streets of New York City with Daffy the street poet and the Dera village in India. Other sounds have been added in the studio; a mix of noise sounds, voices, city sounds and Annabelle's voice.

The piece has been performed at the Fall For Dance Festival in New York the 28th and 29th of September one year ago. Reviews have been very good, including a review in New York Times:

"Annual Sampler Ranges From Tableaus to a Pas de Deux
By John Rockwell for The New York Times

Thursday night’s bill was particularly weighted toward big names and elaborate productions. Yet it could be argued that the shortest and simplest number (an eight-minute pas de deux in plain costumes on a bare stage) was the most moving, the most mysterious, the most heartily cheered."read more...,

a review in Village Voice: "The most arresting thing about Ochoa's duet to a score by Mark van Roon is the quiet, dramatically charged suppleness of Julie Gardette and François Rousseau. I'm not referring just to their limber bodies, but to their responsiveness to changes in the emotional weather." read article...,

and another on the Exploredance.com website: "The best piece of the night was from the Dutch National Ballet. The duet...was magnificent and blew the audience away...The music and simple costumes added to this striking and powerful duet. The techno beat by Marc van Roon, involved variable musical notes along with the words "before," "after," "just," and as the light changed the sound changed." read the article..

Comments

[Patty]

You write very well.