WHAT WAS LUMINOUS GESTURES?
A NIGHT OF MUSIC AND DANCE
“Luminous Gestures” was a performance of brand new music compositions at The Array Space on Sunday Nov 27th inspired by themes of light and movement.
Performers
cheryl o Cello, Composer
Bill Gilliam Composer, Pianist
David Story Composer, Pianist, Percussion
Eugene Martynec Laptop
Alison Keery Dancer
The first set was trio compositions with Cheryl O, Bill Gilliam & David Story. In the second set dancer Alison Keery performed improv dance and musician Eugene Martynec played deep electroacoustic sounds in collaboration with our trio.
Show Details:
Luminous Gestures, Sunday, Nov 27th at 8:00pm, Admission $15
Array Space, 155 Walnut Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6J 3W3
http://binged.it/17cmW6P
Tickets: $15.00 at the door. Arts workers PWYC
Cellist cheryl o has been improvising ever since a sudden breeze blew her music away while busking in Spain. She got a classical music degree, and used to play respectable, serious stuff. Now she can be seen picking up litter and attaching it to her cello. cheryl has been part of Toronto’s improvising scene for many years. When she’s not deep in a music theatre pit somewhere in the city, she can be found in various states of cello (un)dress. She has played with Mark Feldman (NY) Taylor Ho Bynum, Eric St.Laurent, Lina Allemano, Barry Prophet, Rick Sacks, Octopus, Dj D-Sisive, Satoko Fujii and KAZE, and many others. cheryl is a dedicated multi-media collaborator and has blended her improvisations with live theatre, dance, film, text, poetry, painting and electronica. She has created for Distillery Jazz, Guelph Jazz, Nuit Blanche, Summerworks and Rhubarb festivals, films in Toronto, L.A, Montreal and Europe, with dancers Sasha Ivonotchko and Alison Keery, and many others. She completed a two week run of live solo improvisations for José Rivera’s Sonnets for an Old Century; 22 monologues for souls between life and the afterlife for Column 13. www.cellojuice.com/
Bill Gilliam is a Toronto based pianist and composer originally from London, England who moved to Toronto after studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has composed for film, dance and theatre and produced contemporary jazz CDs with assistance from the Canada Council and FACTOR. His compositions have been performed by Canadian new music ensembles with assistance from the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. Bill's ongoing music projects include collaborations and performances with the Toronto Improvisers Orchestra, Glen Hall, Joe Sorbara, Cheryl O, David Story, Kayla Milmine, Ambrose Pottie, Eugene Martynec, Penn Kemp and other artists. www.bill-gilliam.com
David Story is a Toronto based musician and educator. A graduate of Berklee College of Music and the Royal Conservatory of Music. David currently teaches adults the fine art of Classical, Jazz, Blues and Boogie Woogie piano in Toronto and online. On weekends he can be found playing music around town with a large range of creatively eclectic musicians and dancers in the New Music, Jazz, Free Improvisation, and Americana scenes. He does likes variety! www.davidstory.ca
Eugene Martynec has been performing computer assisted improvised electroacoustic music for more than twenty years. He has performed solo, with small ensembles and improvising orchestras in London, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Madrid, Toronto, Wuppertal and Beijing. He studied composition, orchestration and electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto under Dr. Samuel Dolin. He is the recipient of Canada Council and Toronto Arts Council awards for composition. He also enjoyed a successful career in commercial rock and folk music as composer, guitarist and record producer in Canada with Bruce Cockburn, Lou Reed, Edward Bear, among many others. Producer of the Year 1981 Juno Awards. The "instrument" he performs with is a hybrid of legacy and contemporary software and is a "work in progress" called The Intergalactic Ratoli.(Mouse) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Martynec
Alison Keery, originally a BC girl but now based in Toronto, is a performer, educator, administrator, choreographer and improviser. She graduated with a BFA Honours in Dance Performance and a specialization in Dance Science at York University and co-founded Lila Ensemble, a music and dance improvisation co-op, with whom she toured Europe in June 2012. She has performed with Karen Kaeja, Mi Yong Kim, Holly Small, Meredith Thompson and Peggy Baker a well as many other Canadian artists and presented choreography at various festivals and events in Toronto and BC such as 60×60, Summer Works Opening Night, Prince George Dance Festival and most recently a duet co-choreographed by musician and partner Naveed Ali entitled The Poe Project. Keery teaches at the School of Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, a guest teacher at Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and was on faculty at George Brown College as a Dance Science professor. Keery performs on a regular basis with CoexisDance, Meandering Streams of Consciousness and The Cat & The Queen. She is co-Artistic Director of NonExistentTheatre and is on the organization committee of CoexisDance. alisonkeery.wordpress.com/
Show Details:
Luminous Gestures, Sunday, Nov 27th at 8:00pm, Admission $15
Array Space, 155 Walnut Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6J 3W3
http://binged.it/17cmW6P
Tickets: $15.00 at the door. Arts workers PWYC
Cellist cheryl o has been improvising ever since a sudden breeze blew her music away while busking in Spain. She got a classical music degree, and used to play respectable, serious stuff. Now she can be seen picking up litter and attaching it to her cello. cheryl has been part of Toronto’s improvising scene for many years. When she’s not deep in a music theatre pit somewhere in the city, she can be found in various states of cello (un)dress. She has played with Mark Feldman (NY) Taylor Ho Bynum, Eric St.Laurent, Lina Allemano, Barry Prophet, Rick Sacks, Octopus, Dj D-Sisive, Satoko Fujii and KAZE, and many others. cheryl is a dedicated multi-media collaborator and has blended her improvisations with live theatre, dance, film, text, poetry, painting and electronica. She has created for Distillery Jazz, Guelph Jazz, Nuit Blanche, Summerworks and Rhubarb festivals, films in Toronto, L.A, Montreal and Europe, with dancers Sasha Ivonotchko and Alison Keery, and many others. She completed a two week run of live solo improvisations for José Rivera’s Sonnets for an Old Century; 22 monologues for souls between life and the afterlife for Column 13. www.cellojuice.com/
Bill Gilliam is a Toronto based pianist and composer originally from London, England who moved to Toronto after studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has composed for film, dance and theatre and produced contemporary jazz CDs with assistance from the Canada Council and FACTOR. His compositions have been performed by Canadian new music ensembles with assistance from the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. Bill's ongoing music projects include collaborations and performances with the Toronto Improvisers Orchestra, Glen Hall, Joe Sorbara, Cheryl O, David Story, Kayla Milmine, Ambrose Pottie, Eugene Martynec, Penn Kemp and other artists. www.bill-gilliam.com
David Story is a Toronto based musician and educator. A graduate of Berklee College of Music and the Royal Conservatory of Music. David currently teaches adults the fine art of Classical, Jazz, Blues and Boogie Woogie piano in Toronto and online. On weekends he can be found playing music around town with a large range of creatively eclectic musicians and dancers in the New Music, Jazz, Free Improvisation, and Americana scenes. He does likes variety! www.davidstory.ca
Eugene Martynec has been performing computer assisted improvised electroacoustic music for more than twenty years. He has performed solo, with small ensembles and improvising orchestras in London, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Madrid, Toronto, Wuppertal and Beijing. He studied composition, orchestration and electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto under Dr. Samuel Dolin. He is the recipient of Canada Council and Toronto Arts Council awards for composition. He also enjoyed a successful career in commercial rock and folk music as composer, guitarist and record producer in Canada with Bruce Cockburn, Lou Reed, Edward Bear, among many others. Producer of the Year 1981 Juno Awards. The "instrument" he performs with is a hybrid of legacy and contemporary software and is a "work in progress" called The Intergalactic Ratoli.(Mouse) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Martynec
Alison Keery, originally a BC girl but now based in Toronto, is a performer, educator, administrator, choreographer and improviser. She graduated with a BFA Honours in Dance Performance and a specialization in Dance Science at York University and co-founded Lila Ensemble, a music and dance improvisation co-op, with whom she toured Europe in June 2012. She has performed with Karen Kaeja, Mi Yong Kim, Holly Small, Meredith Thompson and Peggy Baker a well as many other Canadian artists and presented choreography at various festivals and events in Toronto and BC such as 60×60, Summer Works Opening Night, Prince George Dance Festival and most recently a duet co-choreographed by musician and partner Naveed Ali entitled The Poe Project. Keery teaches at the School of Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, a guest teacher at Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and was on faculty at George Brown College as a Dance Science professor. Keery performs on a regular basis with CoexisDance, Meandering Streams of Consciousness and The Cat & The Queen. She is co-Artistic Director of NonExistentTheatre and is on the organization committee of CoexisDance. alisonkeery.wordpress.com/