What Better Than Call a Dance? | April 20, 2018

What Better Than Call a Dance? April 20, 2018 At the Chapel Performance Space KSD collaborated with longtime friends/colleagues/collaborations Kin of the Moon (KOTM) and Beth Fleenor to create “What Better Than Call a Dance,” a performance inspired by the relationship of dance to music, and how they two inform one another. One of the fascinating aspects of the classical music tradition is examining and reworking historical practices. KOTM reworked Renaissance dance, the waltz, the tango, and EDM through its own lens, utilizing electronics, clapping games, recorded and filtered samples, multiple acoustic instruments, and improvisation, as well as through-composed new music by Heather Bentley and Kaley Lane Eaton.

What Better Than Call a Dance?
Friday, April 20 at 8PM

Chapel Performance Space
4649 Sunnyside Avenue North
Seattle, WA

Our dear friends Beth Fleenor, clarinetist/improviser extraordinaire and Kin of the Moon joined Karin Stevens Dance to wildly reimagine dance music from the Renaissance, the waltz, to tango, to Electronic Dance Music (EDM) and the present. Newly created music from KOTM’s technology-friendly, improvisation-centric minds alternated with improvised music/dance from Beth and Karin in an uninterrupted performance at our beloved musical living room, the Chapel Performance Space.

Press for What Better Than Call a Dance?
Women in New Music: What Better Than Call an Interview? - Laura Freman, Second Inversion

What Better Than Call a Dance? April 20, 2018 At the Chapel Performance Space KSD collaborated with longtime friends/colleagues/collaborations Kin of the Moon (KOTM) and Beth Fleenor to create “What Better Than Call a Dance,” a performance inspired by the relationship of dance to music, and how they two inform one another. One of the fascinating aspects of the classical music tradition is examining and reworking historical practices. KOTM reworked Renaissance dance, the waltz, the tango, and EDM through its own lens, utilizing electronics, clapping games, recorded and filtered samples, multiple acoustic instruments, and improvisation, as well as through-composed new music by Heather Bentley and Kaley Lane Eaton.

What Better Than Call a Dance? Part 3 April 20, 2018 At the Chapel Performance Space KSD collaborated with longtime friends/colleagues/collaborations Kin of the Moon (KOTM) and Beth Fleenor to create “What Better Than Call a Dance,” a performance inspired by the relationship of dance to music, and how they two inform one another. One of the fascinating aspects of the classical music tradition is examining and reworking historical practices. KOTM reworked Renaissance dance, the waltz, the tango, and EDM through its own lens, utilizing electronics, clapping games, recorded and filtered samples, multiple acoustic instruments, and improvisation, as well as through-composed new music by Heather Bentley and Kaley Lane Eaton.

What Better Than Call a Dance? Part 4 April 20, 2018 At the Chapel Performance Space KSD collaborated with longtime friends/colleagues/collaborations Kin of the Moon (KOTM) and Beth Fleenor to create “What Better Than Call a Dance,” a performance inspired by the relationship of dance to music, and how they two inform one another. One of the fascinating aspects of the classical music tradition is examining and reworking historical practices. KOTM reworked Renaissance dance, the waltz, the tango, and EDM through its own lens, utilizing electronics, clapping games, recorded and filtered samples, multiple acoustic instruments, and improvisation, as well as through-composed new music by Heather Bentley and Kaley Lane Eaton.

What Better Than Call a Dance? Part 5 April 20, 2018 At the Chapel Performance Space KSD collaborated with longtime friends/colleagues/collaborations Kin of the Moon (KOTM) and Beth Fleenor to create “What Better Than Call a Dance,” a performance inspired by the relationship of dance to music, and how they two inform one another. One of the fascinating aspects of the classical music tradition is examining and reworking historical practices. KOTM reworked Renaissance dance, the waltz, the tango, and EDM through its own lens, utilizing electronics, clapping games, recorded and filtered samples, multiple acoustic instruments, and improvisation, as well as through-composed new music by Heather Bentley and Kaley Lane Eaton.

What Better Than Call a Dance? Part 6 April 20, 2018 At the Chapel Performance Space KSD collaborated with longtime friends/colleagues/collaborations Kin of the Moon (KOTM) and Beth Fleenor to create “What Better Than Call a Dance,” a performance inspired by the relationship of dance to music, and how they two inform one another. One of the fascinating aspects of the classical music tradition is examining and reworking historical practices. KOTM reworked Renaissance dance, the waltz, the tango, and EDM through its own lens, utilizing electronics, clapping games, recorded and filtered samples, multiple acoustic instruments, and improvisation, as well as through-composed new music by Heather Bentley and Kaley Lane Eaton.

Photo: Karen Mason Blair