"Star Cross'd", based on Romeo and Juliet
Greetings from sunny Miami (Actually from Cutler Bay, as I type this)! The South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center is a beautiful performance venue.
We've been rehearsing our new piece, "Red Weather", this afternoon, as well as the other pieces on the show (in which I do not play). Last night was dinner in Key Largo... who knows where tonight is going?
Orquesta Sin Trabajo
I play bass in a tango band, Orquesta Sin Trabajo, based in Boston. This past week we hit a milestone that will propel us to opportunities and shows all over the place: we have a full length album recorded! It's currently being pressed. We hope to have a few prerelease copies just in time for the Yale Tango Festival, which we're headlining.
Stay tuned for updates on a CD release party!
I am very excited to be working with the wonderful choreographer Alison Chase and her company! Alison and I met this past summer at the Bates Dance Festival.There I got to play for her improv class, and we clicked: our compositional processes are very similar.
Since September, we have been working on a new piece, which now has a name: "Red Weather". The work features seven dancers and me, accompanying the performance with live solo violin and voice. In January we presented a rough version at a work-in-progress showing in NYC, at the APAP conference.
After six months of creating, we're ready to take this show on the road! We have a few shows in the works: one at the end of March in New London, CT at the Garde Theater (read about it here), and one at the South Miami Dade Cultural Center (yep, Miami Florida!) on Sat, April 13th. The choreography is beautiful and the dancers are phenomenal. I can't wait to share this work!
-Rob
