SCP’s 2011-12 season

AMERICAN CHAMBER DANCE

SCP presents rarely performed ballets conceived for chamber ensemble and dancers by maverick American composers Charles T. Griffes, Henry Cowell, John Cage, George McKay and Lou Harrison. The performances will showcase rarely heard works that these diverse American composers created especially for dance. The project exhibits the uncommon genre of chamber ballet, with intimate-scale music composed specifically for choreographic staging. The project includes a significant amount of research spent locating, studying and reconstructing the music scores as well as in the development of new choreographic interpretations. Project is supported by a substantial grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Kairn of Koridwen
Co-production with the Olympic Ballet Theater (OBT)
Saturday, April 14, at 2pm, Everett Performing Arts Center (2710 Wetmore Ave, Everett)
Sunday, April 22, at 5pm, Edmonds Center for the Arts (410 4th Ave N, Edmonds)
(this production is not part of the OBT school shows on April 13)

Marriage at the Eiffel Tower
Wednesday, November 2, 2011, at 8pm
Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle)

ICEBREAKER VI: New Music from The Mediterranean

February 25 and 26
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall

Experience ICEBREAKER VI: New Music from the Mediterranean, SCP’s celebrated festival of emerging music from around the world. The sunny energy of Southern Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa generates new music from some of the world’s oldest cultures. SCP brings fascinating composers and virtuoso performers to Seattle to join in the fun.

Composers attending the festival:

• Nabil Benabdeljalil (Morocco)
• Sanja Drakulic (Croatia)
• Mohammed Fairouz (Egypt/Lebanon)
• Yann Robin (France)
• Uroš Rojko (Slovenia)
• Luis Tinoco (Portugal)
• Yitzhak Yedid (Israel)

Works by the following composers will also be performed:

• Georges Aperghis (Greece)
• Benet Casablancas (Spain)
• Luciano Berio (Italy)
• Salim Dada (Algeria)
• Aleksander Peci (Albania)
• Fazil Say (Turkey)

For more information click here