Gloria Contreras TCUNAM , Ionizacion Edgar Varèse. Taller coreográfico de la UNAM Ionisation

Taller Coreográfico de la UNAM Company. Facebook page   / 143026482383487   -Dancers: Valería Alavez, Adriana Caballero, Claudia Hernandez, Rocio Lafuente, Maria O´Reilly,Olga Rodfríguez,Diana Sanchez. (2005) Coreographer: Gloria Contreras Music: Edgar Varese Company: Taller Coreográfico de la UNAM Dancers: Valería Alavez, Adriana Caballero, Claudia Hernandez, Rocio Lafuente, Maria O´Reilly,Olga Rodfríguez,Diana Sanchez. Reposición: Claudia Castañeda Sala Miguel Covarrubias 13 de Noviembre de 2005 website- http://www.tcunam.org/ Dancers GLORIA CONTRERAS: is founder and director of Mexico's preeminent ballet company, the Taller Coreográfico de la UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). In 1957, Contreras moved from Mexico City to New York, where she studied at the School of American Ballet and became a disciple of George Balanchine, the renowned choreographer and co-founder of the New York City Ballet.. She went on to found the Gloria Contreras Dance Company and, also choreographed for the NYCB and other companies in the U. S. and abroad. Contreras's pieces were reviewed by critics such as Clive Barnes for The New York Times, who, when he viewed the Joffrey Ballet's performance of Huapango in 1966, lauded the piece for its "tequila-like potency,"adding that "Miss Contreras, using just four dancers in simple leotards, no scenery and no story, manages to keep her dancers joyously afloat. . . just the four of them [manage] to fill out the large City Center stage." The recipient of numerous awards and honors in her native country as well as abroad,including in Europe and Russia, (The Diary of a Choreographer by Gloria Contreras Translated from the Spanish by Mitchell Snow and Lucinda Gutiérrez, Edition by Daniel Shapiro) Edgar Varèse December 22, 1883 -- November 6, 1965) was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound", a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of music. Edgard Varèse challenged traditional conceptions of noise and instead found ways to transform noise into music; Varèse believed that noise was simply "any sound one doesn't like",[2] and he perceived music as a mere organized collection of noises, with composers being responsible for organizing noises in a pleasing way for the listener . Ionisation (1929--1931) is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse written for thirteen percussionists, the first concert hall composition for percussion ensemble alone (although Alexander Tcherepnin had composed an entire movement for percussion alone in his Symphony No. 1 from 1927) .[1] The premiere was at Steinway Hall, on March 6, 1933, conducted by Nicolas Slonimsky, to whom the piece was later dedicated. One critic described the performance as "a sock in the jaw Frank Zappa often claimed that Ionisation inspired him to pursue a career in music. Jack Skurnick, director of EMS Recordings, was the first to produce recordings of Varèse. This piece appears on the first Varèse recording, EMS 401: Complete Works of Edgar Varèse, Volume 1. It was, incidentally, the first album purchased by Frank Zappa. Sidney Finkelstein wrote in the liner notes about the work: [Ionisation] is built on a most sensitive handling and contrast of different kinds of percussive sounds. There are those indefinite in pitch, like the bass drum, snare drum, wood blocks, and cymbals; those of relatively definite musical pitch, such as the piano and chimes; those of continually moving pitch, like the sirens and 'lion's roar.' It is an example of 'spatial construction,' building up to a great complexity of interlocking 'planes' of rhythm and timbre, and then relaxing the tension with the slowing of rhythm, the entrance of the chimes, and the enlargement of the 'silences' between sounds. There are suggestions of the characteristic sounds of modern city life.