60x60 Dance
Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 – 7:30 pm
Sheldon Concert Hall
3648 Washington Blvd.
The Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation is proud to underwrite the second production of 60x60 Dance in St. Louis. The event is produced by HEARding Cats Collective.
Created by New York-based composer and new music impresario Robert Voisey, 60x60 Dance, is a masterfully coordinated multimedia collaboration that features a surprising diversity of aesthetics. The work pairs 60 unique 60-second music compositions—each by a different composer—with 60 St. Louis choreographers for a continuous one-hour concert of music and live dance. 60x60 Dance is constantly evolving: for the 2010 mix, Voisey received more than 600 one-minute musical submissions from national and international composers, which he narrowed to 60, 60-second pieces to form the one-hour recording. Because local choreographers and dancers are given artistic power to create their own expression for their 60-second piece, the production is different every time it’s produced.
60x60 Dance will unite the finest dancers and choreographers in St. Louis for an opportunity to create an evening of magical abstract expression. Both experienced and budding choreographers and dancers will be exposed to the sophisticated patrons of the American Arts Experience in the perfect acoustics of the Sheldon Concert Hall. In the past, the 60-second “musical haikus” have ranged from avant-garde sampled/re-mixed found sounds, to smooth jazz. In performance, this wide musical variety results in a mixture of dance pieces that involve individuals as well as groups in very traditional, but also futuristic, creative dance techniques.