"Nine-Patch" (Excerpts) by Cynthia Lee and David Cutler

A collaboration between jazz/new music composer David Cutler and contemporary/kathak dance choreographer Cynthia Lee, Nine-Patch is a composition for piano, bass, drumset, timekeeper, and dance. Veering between in-your-face funk, explosive extremes, and poignant gestures, Cutler composes wildly new harmonies, melodies, and textures based on traditional kathak rhythms. Meanwhile, Lee plays a dancing trickster who gleefully engages in cultural identity theft, shape-shifting between different gendered characters and movement vocabularies while staying impeccably in time. Based on traditional kathak compositions learned from Anjani Ambegaokar and Bandana Sen.

www.cynthialinglee.com
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Music

Tags:

• jazz
• kathak
• Post Natyam

[triaxialstudios]

David this piece intrigues the soul. I dig how you utilize harmonic tension to catapult through the meter changes. Great presentation at the Lamont School of Music today. I only attended the 10am class, but your approach to stimulating business is brilliant and concise. Your methodology was questioned, ethically, by professors and colleagues, with whom I disagreed with. Your aggressive liberal approach to music business, compared to the tenure-salaried DU profs', is practical and inspiring!