interesting danceable 20th century music

[Tash]

my sis is really into choreography and is looking for some really different cool music she can use, except i'm not of much use yet because i'm pretty unkowledgable on really recent composers. she loves philip glass and that kind of thing, so if anyone has any suggestions of composers (not really crazed weird dissonant stuff, like imagine someone dancing (of the contemporary/balletish variety) that could be interesting to follow up?thanks!!

[brewtality]

S Club 7.

[sevencircles]

Astor Piazolla

[brahmsian]

S Club 7.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[I Love Xenakis]

Nancarrow ¿Tango?

[arensky]

Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Instruments". If she likes Phillip Glass, she might REALLY like this. It's phase music, the sames "sets" keep repeating , displaced and juxtaposed ever so slightly as the music "develops". This could be reflected in the dancing in a very interesting and fascinating way...

[pita bread]

Rite of Spring 

or check out Christopher Fox's llik.rellik
there's also plenty of Gershwin

[JCarey]

What about the fourth movement of Ginatstera's Sonata #1?

[etudes]

What about the fourth movement of Ginatstera's Sonata #1?

3rd movement from Ginastera sonata no.2 also


actually the 3rd sonata also abit!

[ahinton]

As someone whose overall responses to the entire panoply of manifestations of the dance medium are, shall we say, "challenged" (and if this strikes anyone as as any kind of pejorative, let me assure them that it is intended to be against me rather than the medium itself), I still cannot quite resist questioning what each individual may mean by the use of the term "danceable"; let us not forget, for example, that Michael Finnissy's Fourth Piano Concerto (a work for solo piano without orchestra) was originally composed for dance, specifically for the choreographer Siobhan Davies, for all that it obviously retains its own independent identity as a concert work. Dance means many things to many people, so I cannot help but suspect that it would be difficult to generalise about this in any meaningful way in the sense that the thread initiator may have intended or hoped.

Best,

Alistair

[pita bread]

Speaking of the Ginastera Sonata #1, I have watched a solo-dance choreographed to the 3rd movement of that sonata. Terrifically eerie.

[cherub_rocker1979]

Steve Reich: Piano Phase
Steve Reich: Music for Mallet Instruments, Voice, and Organ
Steve Reich: Six Pianos

I think Reich is the most interesting Minimalist composer

[pita bread]

Samuel Barber - Souvenirs

[Tash]

ok she's got piazolla, gershwin's too obvious, i'm trying to get her into reich though shes a bit hesitant, and she did a contemporary to the barber conzone which was really lovely so she does like him! but will check out ginastera and finnisey. cool keep the suggestions coming!!

[brokenagraffe]

there's always the Barber Piano Concerto but there's already a dance piece called "Configurations" and Baryshnikov comissioned it when he was still the artistic director of ABT. there's a video of him dancing it, which is totally awesome.

one of my ballet teachers liked to use Yanni's music which i didn't like but it's easy to set dances to.

[pita bread]

there's always the Barber Piano Concerto but there's already a dance piece called "Configurations" and Baryshnikov comissioned it when he was still the artistic director of ABT. there's a video of him dancing it, which is totally awesome.

one of my ballet teachers liked to use Yanni's music which i didn't like but it's easy to set dances to.

The Barber Canzone is basically the 2nd mvt of the Piano Concerto set to voice.

[Tash]

oh nice! i did not know it was part of the piano concerto man it's so lovely i wanna go play the concerto now!

[pita bread]

The second movement is lovely indeed, but the rest is Brutal. Possibly my favorite piano concerto.

[g_s_223]

I don't know whether it might be "too simple", but the "Still Life at the Penguin Cafe" cd by Simon Jeffes is incredibly danceable: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000E42T/qid=1136681693/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-7114300-3526330?s=classical&v=glance&n=5174

[Tash]

oh man jeffes! i forgot about him, i have his perpetuum mobile on a random cd somewhere and love it!! not sure about my sis but omg that's cool i will make her listen to it before she leaves tomorrow!

[shasta]

Ernesto Lecuona's music is great for dancing!  I'm thinking of these cuban dances of his:

Andaluza
El Baile de la Muneca
Bacanal de Munocos
Danza De Los Nanigos
La Conga De Media Noche
Danza Negra
Danza Lucumi
Y La Negra Bailaba
En Tres Por Cuatro
Carousel
Lola Is Celebrating
Gitanerias

[Tash]

cool will check that out too

you know, randomly, i was checking out the still life at the penguin cafe to see who choreographed it and stuff, and funnily enough it happened to be the artistic director of the birmingham royal ballet- my sis is at their ballet school! so she knows the guy, and has seen the ballet, and has the music! so i was like sweet i'm stealing the cd off you hahaha (depsite this whole thing being about her getting music!)