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Two performances left of SPIRIT HOUSE with Kate Mitchell's dance company at ODC Theater in S.F. tonight (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday) night. (Saturday there's a reception after the performance, and I will be there.)
So far the performances have gone really well. Considering all the details and challenges to putting this thing on, thankfully I only had to worry about the music.
It's our third collaboration -- I supplied some of my own music and suggested music by others. This time I claimed the first and last of the seven sections. And it's still really exciting to see dancers interpreting the sounds I produced in my cramped little studio. Even better to hear it all over four large speakers and really loud. And there's also some wallpaper music I made for the entrance to the ODC theater, while people mill around before and after the performance.
Kate also choreographed two pieces I had suggested to her: Evan Ziporyn's Pondok from his Typical Music release on New Albion (with Sarah Cahill performing), and Alarm Will Sound's reconstruction of Blue Calx by Aphex Twin (Richard James) on their Cantaloupe release, ACOUSTICA. What she does with them was a great surprise.
I don't know how the dancers do it, tho. How do you remember an hour's worth of complicated movements, stage positions, entrances and exits? It's an exceptional group of seven young women that Kate has assembled for Spirit House.
