I’m excited to share that I just had a premiere in Salt Lake City, Utah – I was commissioned by choreographer Shane Urton to score his new dance-theatre creation “Sweetspot” (I called the score “Study II” & made a score-video). This was Shane and I’s first time working together, AND my first time working with pianist Olena Mozil who played wonderfully on the recording! The folks from RDT Utah did a phenomenal job presenting the work; Caleb Daly, Trung “Daniel” Do, Jonathan Kim, Megan O’Brien, Ursula Perry and Caitlyn Richter and even scored us a warm, warm review:
“Shane Urton’s Sweetspot was a brilliant organic study of sweet spots in dance movement that grew in metaphorical complexity, along with dazzling lighting design executed by Pilar I. and an impressive solo piano score by Adam Vincent Clarke and performed and recorded by Olena Mozil.”
“The lighting design beautifully paralleled Clarke’s excellent score, marking how discrete phrases of music appear and eventually form a melodic line, in the first section. As manifested in the lighting, the music accelerates to its most intense drive in the middle section before losing its momentum in the closing section, while calls for a response or affirmation are left unanswered, as they fade into silence.”
Photo: Stuart Ruckman
