Three things as we get close.

a reminder about Double Bill #1, an announcement of Thinking Out Loud, and a very good music show tonight (Saturday) - not in that order.

We are close now – Double Bill #1 is just a few days from opening (details below) – and things are going really very well – a run of both pieces yesterday with tech and costume and hair at the Dancemakers studio – the works are, I think, rare and wonderful. The pieces are very different and yet the connections are some of the best parts. The dancers are so generous, invested and present that I could watch them all day and just be happy with that.

And the music. The music is astounding and beautiful. It's performed (not live - for that, see below - but the recordings are magic) by The Reveries - The Reveries play sweet-jazz standards and the music of artists Nick Cave, Willie Nelson and Sade (to date). They perform with small, adapted cell-phone speakers inside their mouths. The speaker signal is filtered in a wild array of wah-wah effects caused by the changing shape of their mouth cavity. The mouth speakers also re-route the sounds of one another’s instruments. For example, Eric’s guitar is heard through Doug’s mouth and Ryan’s thumb reeds/vocals are heard through Eric’s mouth.

They will break your heart if you let them.

And you have a chance to do that tonight - The Reveries are releasing their third album on the Rat-drifting label: Matchmakers Volume 1: The Music Of Willie Nelson tonight at the Tranzac. Doors at 9:30 (Details below.) There will be a reggae dance party after.

And then Friday - at 7 pm at the theatre, we (myself, Micheal Trent and Ame Henderson) will be doing a Double Bill version of Thinking Out Loud - a series of conversations about dance and ideas that Dancemakers is doing around all our shows. Because we feel we don't talk about the art enough, and that it's hard to move forward without talking about what you're doing. These conversations will be about some of the bigger ideas contained in the work - not to explain away, or tell you what you're about to see, but to place the art in context and generate discussion about the form itself and it's place in art and social history. And it would be better if you were there. It doesn't matter if you see the show that night, you can come to the event anyways, even if you saw the show Wednesday and then were going to see it again on Saturday, you could come Friday to think out loud.

ok. Time to finish the programs.

hope to see you at least once this week.
and if you feel inclined to pass this along, we'd like that too.
thanks
Jacob

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New from Dancemakers
Double Bill #1

New dances by Ame Henderson (It Was A Nice Party) and Michael Trent (And The Rest)

Created with and Performed by: Clinton Draper, Kate Hilliard, Kate Holden,
Benjamin Kamino and Steeve Paquet

Music performed by: The Reveries
Scenographer: Trevor Schwellnus
Rehearsal Director: Bonnie Kim
Dramaturge: Jacob Zimmer
Costume Designer: Claudia Fancello

April 9-12 at 8pm & April 12 at 3pm
Premiere Dance Theatre, part of Harbourfront Centre’s NextSteps series;
Harbourfront Centre, 207 Queens Quay West

PLUS!
April 11 from 7-7:45 pm, all ticket purchasers are invited to a special edition of Thinking Out Loud - our new series of conversations about art and ideas, animated by Michael Trent, Ame Henderson and Dancemakers Dramaturge/Animateur Jacob Zimmer.

Tickets: Regular: $22-$38; Students/Seniors/CADA:$20-$33
Call/Click: 416.973.4000 or www.harbourfrontcentre.com

A little more information:
Dancemakers website: http://www.dancemakers.org
Dancemakers blog: http://www.blogspot.dancemakers.com
Public Recordings/Ame Henderson website: http://www.publicrecordings.org
Reveries website: http://www.rat-drifting.com/
Reveries Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/thereveriesoftoronto

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The Reveries are pleased to announce the release of their third album on the Rat-drifting label:
Matchmakers Volume 1: The Music Of Willie Nelson

The Reveries use mouthspeakers, saws, streetsweeper bristles, voices, guitars, pieces of balloons, hamonicas, drum machine, drums, and tangled wires to recapture the essence of popular love songs.
The Reveries are Eric Chenaux, Ryan Driver, Doug Tielli, and Jean Martin.
This is their first CD dedicated to the music of a single songwriter, one for whom we should all have a very special place in our hearts.

"If a songbird flew into his mouth and opened cans of cooing Pepsi cola in the depths, Willie Nelson's lungs would be two blustering nests buzzing with the sonorous voices of buried chirp and indigestion. The Reveries play the music of Willie Nelson half way between dyspepsy and marble-mouth on the instruments they've given their breath to hallow."

~Andrew Zukerman

Chris Harper will be the spinning fine reggae music following the Reveries' performance!

Saturday April 5th
at Tranzac Main Hall (292 Brunswick Avenue)
9:30 pm
$10

Please come!