#VY MUSICALITY FULL#

#VY MUSICALITY FULL#

In the finale, the full cast of 14 forms two lines, promising the big finish. Among a mass of unison dancers, one or another suddenly leaps high, perfectly timed with an instrument’s solo flourish. Beyond this solemnity, “V” displays plenty of musical wit. When the crawling resumes, dancer after dancer slowly rises, as if enacting our own evolution into humanity.

The women pull away, then return to nestle in their partners’ arms, sometimes in cradling lifts and spins. Counterpointing the crawling, couples dance lyrically to the melodies in the higher strings. As half the dancers, in blue, cross the stage in a row, a single file of dancers in white approaches, rising one by one upon meeting the blue group. Yet it’s no ordinary crawl: they creep on hands and feet, not knees, primed to spring erect. In “V,” his dancers, usually so energetic and airborne, crawl to the second movement’s mysterious, stately cello march. Each triumphs as a natural-looking yet unpredictable expression of the music. 4, and the 2001 “V” to Schumann’s Piano Quintet. The program’s two most recent works looked especially gorgeous - the 2003 “All Fours” to Bartok’s String Quartet No. “Bed Time’s” moods shift as subtly and strangely as images in the unconscious. One dancer spins pleasant dreams above three men curled up like sleeping children, then entrusts each to a mother figure couples court and embrace in the night air and dancers look angst-ridden as in some terrible dream, but one punctuated with exuberant dance phrasing. This emotional map emerges entirely from the dancing, without narrative content.

As Morris explains, its evocation of dream-worlds progresses from lullaby to serenade to nightmare. Morris’s 1992 “Bed Time,” a night piece to three Schubert songs, began the evening. Instead, Morris presented an evening remarkably beautiful in his works’ formal musical sensitivity and his dancers’ balletic expressiveness. Find Eli Smart on Instagram and catch him live at The Lexington for BBC Introducing on 5 May.SARATOGA SPRINGS - The Mark Morris Dance Group made its main stage debut at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Monday night, with none of the comic antics that have sometimes earned his dances notoriety. This tune is for that feeling wherever you are and however you feel it.” “AM to PM” is out now via Polydor. It’s ok sometimes to accept the flow and let yourself float downstream. It’s a beautiful cycle that happens almost on the daily, it can put you into a cosy almost limbo-like state of mind that can be sometimes hard to get out of, but there’s an absolute comfort in the whole thing. “This song is meant to soundtrack the transition from the AM sun-baked state of mind through the magic shift to PM when the full moon comes up and the stars start to do their thing. His vocals recall greeting the morning sun with a sleepy smile and stretch, while the unhurried rhythm and chilled guitar line mirror how the day gradually transitions to evening. Sometimes it gets so hot here that it feels like the sun is casting a lethargic spell upon everything and the only cure is jumping in the water or waiting until the sun goes down,” Eli offers into the inspiration his native home lent to the track.Ĭreating a gorgeously hazy ambience, “AM to PM” perfectly captures the aforementioned island mentality and his approach to the journey of each day.

“This tune is about cruising around Kauai from sunrise until the early hours of the next morning. The result is a track so captivating that each listen will have you fanning your face as if you were on a scorching summer beach close your eyes and you can picture the mirage on the horizon, even though we’re only just on the cusp of Spring. His newest release, 'AM to PM', embodies this original sun-soaked sound, while Smart’s vision was brought to life as he joined forces with acclaimed producer Gianluca Buccellati (Arlo Parks). His unique musicality is drawn from the psychedelic sounds of Jimi Hendrix, the rock n’ roll of The Beatles, and the soul of Gladys Knight, coming together with his own vibrant lo-fi twist. Kauai, Hawaii born and raised, Eli Smart has been making waves in the UK with his charming self-described “aloha soul” sound.

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