Dance is Music

Thoughts on percussive dance: speciesation, ethnography, embodiment, and the synesthetic blurring of sound and movement; all to inform ostensibly transparent descriptions of the real. Collated by dancer and dance researcher Nic Gareiss.

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Hello from snowy Oregon where duo shoes with #SimonChrisman start this week! We have an updated location and a very special guest announcement: Rushad Eggleston will join us for a split bill show on Saturday, March 4 at the Summit Grange (new location!) See you all soon! March 2 - @labaguettemusiccafe, Ashland, OR March 3 - @thedolphinplayhouse, Coos Bay, OR (Link in bio for tickets!) March 4 - Summit Grange, Blodgett, OR, double bill with @rushadicus March 5 - Abbie Weisenbloom Presents, Portland, OR (Link in bio for reservations!) 📸 by @forgephotographyfilm, design by @marielvandersteel #dulcimer #percussivedance #cello #portland #abbieweisenbloom #abbieweisenbloompresents (at Ashland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpNwfbiLlnB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Such a memorable evening Sunday night with @ultaaan_ at the White Horse for the Ballincollig Winter Music Festival supporting @timobrienmusic and Jan Fabricius! Special thanks to Joe Carey at @thewhitehorsecork for making us all feel so welcome, Chloé Nagle, who so artfully mixed the sound, and @_michael_meade_ who generously shared these photos! TODAY, we perform at the @trad_at_the_academy @irishworldacademy at @universityoflimerick, and next week we visit @flowerfieldarts in Portstewart (10 Feb.) and @echoechodance studios in Derry for concerts and a workshop (11 Feb.)! (👞 by @kathleencirioli) #fiddle #viola #percussivedance #YvonnesaidmagicisoutbutImnotsureafterthisshow (at Ballincollig) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoE3SO3sfMt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Wintersong with @laurelpremo is coming to @crookedtreeartspetoskey Dec. 21, presented by @blissfestmusic! Laurel and I have been thinking, writing, moving, reading, singing, and speaking meticulously, obsessively, festively through historic repertoire which marks solsticetimes. Here’s a few rehearsal photos taken yesterday by @basedkam! Hope to see you this Wednesday in Petoskey! #solstice #yule #winter #electricguitar #fiddle #percussivedance #northernmichigan #puremichigan (at Reach Studio Art Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmUd0_2u7Zc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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www.tapthatbrass.com

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www.stepling.org.uk

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more info here.

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First dancer to win a Grammy!

According to Dance Magazine, “flamenco dancer Nino de los Reyes just became the first-ever dancer to win a Grammy. As one of the band members, de los Reyes made dance history when the album Antidote by Chick Corea and The Spanish Heart Band won the 2020 Best Latin Jazz Album.” 

Here’s the video from their performance: 

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flowerz flowerz flowerz Screen testing at home before tomorrow’s shoot with @hrphotographyus at the @the_plump_pumpkin and found this pattern. (Art by @flat_mountains and #marüshka) #percussivedance #danceismusic #bodymusic #improvisation #extemporaneouscomposition #lansing #lovelansing #517 #eastside (at Eastside, Lansing) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6RGCGMhoM2/?igshid=1821yzvjtdq6i

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Colin Dunne’s Concert Comes to NYC

(photo by Maurice Gunning)

Contemporary Irish dancer Colin Dunne brings his show Concert to New York’s Baryshikov Arts Center Nov. 14-16! In this captivating one-person performance we see (and hear!) Colin encounter the music of Irish fiddler Tommie Potts through his singular movement. Potts’ music, long touted as un-danceable, provides a generative foil for Dunne, whose sisyphean task to percussively and gesturally trace the chassis, squirrely rhythms, and intricate melodies of Potts’ fiddling results in masterful fiddle+dance duetting across time, across sight and sound, and across the grave. Tickets and information here. 

Check out the trailer and the excerpt below...

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Caleb Teicher in The Last Magazine

(Photography by Stefani Pappas for the Last Magazine. Styling by Joseph Episcopo. Grooming by Kazuto Shimomura. All clothing by Berluti. Socks, worn throughout, by Falke.)

“It’s not just about the steps, it’s not just about the æsthetic, it’s about how these people that did this before us felt about the world and what they wanted. It’s a community thing where you feel connected to not just a style of dance, but a lifestyle. It’s a way of life, it’s a way of seeing the world. I guess the pieces I make are my way of saying, ‘I would like the world to look like this. How do you feel about that?’ It’s not utopian, but I’m trying to make the world that I want to be in and put that on stage.”

(Photography by Stefani Pappas for the Last Magazine. Styling by Joseph Episcopo. Grooming by Kazuto Shimomura. All clothing by Berluti. Socks, worn throughout, by Falke.)

(Photography by Stefani Pappas for the Last Magazine. Styling by Joseph Episcopo. Grooming by Kazuto Shimomura. All clothing by Berluti. Socks, worn throughout, by Falke.)

Check out the full article here.

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Teddy Tedholm wins Dance Magazine’s June Video of the Month

Teddy Tedholm’s “Don’t Miss It” has been selected as Dance Magazine’s June Video of the Month. According to Dance Magazine, the piece, “simulates editing glitches to heighten musicality” alongside James Blake’s song of the same name. 

(stills from Teddy Tedholm’s video Don’t Miss It)

Check it out here. 

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Becky Hill, percussive dance

Wu Fei, guzheng

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Fiachra reminds us through his dexterous dancing and harping that *dance is music.* Check out his new single out this week and follow him on Instagram. 

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Nic Gareiss on Get Up in the Cool

Check out this great podcast series by Cameron DeWhitt and hear me speak about working melody as a dancer, about rural LGBTQIA+ traditional musicians and dancers, and some of my influences and teachers. This episode was recorded at the 11th annual Earful of Fiddle Music & Dance Camp in Rodney, Michigan.

Listen here.

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www.halswaymanor.org.uk

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Info, programme, and tickets at dancelimerick.ie.