Etudes 1, 2, 3 is the second piece presented in Dance Makers, a music and dance duet conceived by Artistic Director Leymis Bolaños Wilmott and musician Mark Dancigers on the electric guitar. The Etudes are a series of studies aiming to communicate broad and sweeping expressions through music and movement, starting with small ideas and expanding them into sweeping phrases. “I was inspired by Leymis’ choreographic and dance work that we have done together on pieces in the past,” comments Dancigers, referring to his previous work with the company on SCD + NOW (2018) and Propel (2013). “She is unafraid to reach out to the audience and directly communicate, making her work radiate positivity. I was excited for the chance to amplify this quality by revealing it more and more over the course of the three progressive Etudes, with Leymis herself as the amazing dancer at the center of the drama.”
Read on to learn more about our guest musician, Mark Dancigers:
Mark Dancigers is a composer of chamber, orchestral, film, and solo instrumental works, and the electric guitarist for the new-chamber music group NOW Ensemble. Praised for his “entrancing” music in the New York Times, Dancigers creates scores that are melodically driven, texturally imaginative, and sonically vibrant. He holds degrees in music from Yale, the Yale School of Music, and Princeton University, and is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Music at New College of Florida.He scored the film “The Measure of All Things” by Oscar nominated director Sam Green, which premiered at the Sundance Festival with a live soundtrack performed by yMusic. The film score has been performed subsequently in the Netherlands, Greece, the U.K., and venues around the United States. Dancigers also co-scored, with Troy Herion, the feature documentary “The Dog” about the life of John Wojtowicz, the subject of “Dog Day Afternoon”.
Dance Makers – 15th Annual Concert