You may not know, but the past few months I have been really working like mad to get more dance work here in Cologne. This means wading through acres of German to try to figure out which dance festivals and residencies I can apply for and sizing up everyone I meet for performance possibilities. Some of it has paid off!
The first thing is that I am choreographing a pop music video! The shooting keeps getting delayed, but I really think this thing will happen end of July/early August. The artist is a local Cologne guy, and his name (and the name of the band) is Roman. I'm making 3 different dances about 30 seconds each-- one athletic modern sequence, one sexy Cabaret sequence, and one contredanse. That's right, baroque is going to infect pop!
Here is the fabulous Roman demo from youtube:
My friend Beate from ballet class-- who just happens to be a professional baroque flute player!-- and I met with two other musicians (viola de gamba and theorbo/baroque guitar) this morning to work out what kind of show we can put together. I was dancing around this couple's living room, and it was rockin'. We are going to try to get something off the ground this fall.
And I'm going to Berlin July 10-15 and Paris July 15-19 to work on more baroque stuff...
Yay!
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You have been busy! Roman has a very nice voice. I'd like to hear more of his work. Is it all in English? Who will be doing the dancing that you're choreographing?
I'll tell him you like his singing! Not a lot of his stuff is on the internet-- well, maybe I should look harder. I would love to post the song for our video, but I don't think that is kosher since the album isn't out yet.
All the songs are in English!
I'll be dancing, and I am trying to find a couple other people right now... it's not easy because everyone is on vacation...
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