World Premiere Performance
Clinard Dance Flamenco Quartet
The new work will feature an original flamenco score by Temo.
Date: Friday November 6, 2015
Time: 7:00p.m.
Location: Instituto Cervantes, 31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Tickets are on sale now at http://clinardquartet.brownpapertickets.com.
CHICAGO – Join Clinard Dance Friday, November 6th at 7:00pm at Instituto Cervantes (31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654) for the world premiere of a piece by the company’s newly-formed flamenco repertory quartet.
The quartet represents an exciting collaboration of nationally and internationally renowned flamenco artists, including Artistic Director/Principal Dancer Wendy Clinard, vocalist/guitarist Marija Temo, bassist Alex Wing and violinist Steve Gibons. The new work will feature an original flamenco score by Temo.
Artistic Director Wendy Clinard says of the work, “Our flamenco collective strives to incorporate traditional flamenco to create original compositions with the spontaneity that lives in contemporary culture. Our vibrant performance honors flamenco and our passion for musical discovery. Lead by an open-minded spirit of collaboration, we build our original compositions in a way that’s familiar and natural.”
Both Temo and Clinard’s bedrock of sound and movement emerges and departs from their early teachers who taught and lived the flamenco traditions of the early 1900′s. These traditions are fused with contemporary American and Gypsy Jazz informed by violinist Steve Gibons and bassist Alex Wing. As a quartet, their outcome transforms the typical flamenco experience into sounds and movement that honor the multiplicity of voices of our current landscape.
“I am delighted to be composing and arranging a flamenco work, Farruca (for violin, bass, flamenco guitar and dance), that will be premiered this Fri., Nov., 6, 2015 with Clinard Dance at Instituto Cervantes. The Farruca, I originally composed as a guitar solo but as I meet with Wendy Clinard and see her dance ideas, the music will change and/or be interpreted differently to match her and the structure including dance will then become formed. ( I am inspired very much by dance movement which sparks melodic and rhythmic ideas that emerge and develop into thoughts and phrases of temperament and feeling.) Much of the music I have composed can be developed and allows for improvisation, which is where I will consult with Steve Gibons, violinist, and Alex Wing, bassist.. After sharing their ideas, the music and form will start to change even more and become something new. As a result, the Farruca will be a work that is arranged and composed from us all. I look forward to see what transpires in rehearsals and what the final product will be when the quartet works together. I am very grateful to Wendy Clinard for the opportunity to create and share the creative process with her and these fine musicians.”
-Marija Temo
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