The Animals are Planning an Intervention - Video

Earlier this year dancer and choreographer Lucy Rupert debuted a new piece titled The Animals are Planning an Intervention and was set to original music by Sarah Slean.  The music titled String Quartet no. 2 is for sale and you can now watch dance's premiere on YouTube.  Watch the playlist below for all 3 pieces.

The Sisters of Mercy - Film to String Quartet No. 2

CJ Wallis who directed Last Flowers and music video for The Rose now has a new project in the works featuring Sarah Slean.  Using Sarah's music for String Quartet No. 2 he is creating a film adaptation of Lucy Rupert's The Animals Are Planning An Intervention.  

A short synopsis can be found on the Forty FPS blog.  You can purchase the music on iTunes.

Lucy not only danced in the music video for The Rose but her and CJ worked worked on this music video too:

"The Rose" Named Best Music Video Of 2010

Tonight Sarah Slean's music video for the Rose won best music video of 2010 at Vancouver's Leo Awards.
The video was directed by CJ Wallis and featured dancer Lucy Rupert.  More information on the music video can  be found here and information on the win was posted here.

Sarah's New Quartet piece for Lucy Rupert

Yesterday was the first time Sarah's new string quartet piece for dancer Lucy Rupert was heard.  The free concert at The Canadian Opera Company's Richard Bradshaw theare was packed with an audience made up of both the young and old.

15 minute excerpt of the 30 minute piece was performed.  The title of the dance that will be shown at the Enwave Theatre is titled 'The animals are planning an intervention.'  The music that was was very well received was most closely comparable with The Disarm Suite.  In the Q&A session following the dance Lucy advised the first time she heard the song being played in rehersal she had a connection with it.

The song has been recorded by some familiar names of Sarah's past albums with  Drew Jurecka (The Baroness), Karen Graves  (Day One/Orphan Music/Blue Spruce) Kathleen Kajioka and Amy Laing (Art of Time).

Danceworks performance of the entire piece on April 7-9 at the Enwave Theatre.

The Rose - Music Video launches at Midnight

The Rose music video will be made available online at midnight today (PST?) today following its release on Bravo.  We first started talking about this music video back in early 2009 and have seen pictures and storyboard images for the video on FortyFPS project page for the video.

A behind the scenes video is also set to be released at the same time.

Leading up to the launch, CJ Wallis has posted on his blog some kind words to how he to meet Sarah.  A media release was launched on Facebook that references that music video ties to an almost tragic event that occurred on the set of Last Flowers in which Sarah acted in.

This music video features Lucy Rupert who have mentioned many times before here.  Sarah is currently writing a new string quartet piece for Lucy to dance to in April.  Tickets are available here.

Sarah's New Arrangement for Dance (Video)

Earlier today Sarah tweeted about arranging a string quartet for The Blue Ceiling Dance Co.  The dance event that will host this new arrangement of Sarah's is to take place April 7-9th 2011 at Harbourfront.

Tickets and information for this event can be found here.

Last year we told you about an early look at this project where Lucy Rupert danced to The Disarm Suite found on The Baroness Redecorates.  A video of that dance has been uploaded in promotion of the new season.

Dancing to The Disarm Suite - Jan 29/30

Lucy Rupert will be choreographing to Sarah Slean's music again. We have previously mentioned Lucy as she had danced to Sarah's poem, the Abecedarian and as the choreographer for the music video of The Rose.

At the end of January a new choreographed piece will be shown.

I have been able to confirm that the composed song for this performance will be a recording of The Disarm Suite from The Baroness Redecorates. A new compostion by Sarah is in the works for a dance at a later date.

Jan. 29 – Jan 30, 2010
Blue Ceiling Dance - The Sneak
in association
with Rebecca Carney
& Caroline Niklas-Gordon

Choreographers:
Lucy Rupert, Rebecca Carney, Caroline Niklas-Gordon
Performers: Rebecca
Carney, Caroline Niklas-Gordon, Lucy Rupert
Composer: Sarah Slean

A sleek, minimalist production of new dance-theatre works by three of Toronto’s
most accomplished indie artists. Rebecca Carney offers two short works drawing
on her vast experience with the extraordinarily inventive Circus Orange;
Caroline Niklas-Gordon delves into the abyss of human emotion with A-VOID: a
solo; and Lucy Rupert collaborates with lauded Juno-nominated singer-songwriter
Sarah Slean on square inch, a solo that draws on Rupert’s passionate
expressivity and Slean’s lush orchestration for string quartet and piano.

- Dance Works