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BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance Intensives
BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dances holds Summer and Winter Intensives and invites movers of all kinds, professional and pre-professional dancers to train with them. Their classes include Modern Technique and Composition classes. I collaborated with other composers for the composition classes and provided sound for the participants’ composition works.
BodyStories Summer Intensive 2021 – Watch Here
Body Stories Winter intensive 2022 – Watch Here
Muriel’s new album The Waking Dream
Released September 2, 2020
The Waking Dream’s compositions are inspired by” 1816 ,The year without Summer” when Mary Shelley imagined her novel, Frankenstein.
At the time Shelley wrote most prolifically, the world had been plunged into semi-darkness, crop-failure, famine, and a significant increase in riots, murders, and fatal illnesses by the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Tambora, in Indonesia. In this time of Global Pandemic and Grief, looking back to the history and collective dramas is a resonating and a learning process. Hopefully, Awareness can open a room for solace and arouse our vital energy.
For each sonic piece, my creative process is the same: the voice is a spatial and dramatic language.
Words and body sounds become layers, textures, sculptural elements inducing trance-like movement and images.
This audio project is not a direct, detailed storyline but a meditative exploration awakened by the present echoing to the past events that generate a dystopian vision in which poetry is merging with soundscapes and vocals.
Not then, not yet
World Premiere November 13–16, 2019, at The Flea Theater NYC
Tiffany Mills Company returns to The Flea with the world premiere of Not then, not yet, an evening-length work that explores states of transition and transformation.
Choreographer Tiffany Mills’s Not then, not yet, created in collaboration with Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negrón and French vocalist/composer Muriel Louveau, examines states of transition, drawing inspiration from the liminal space between endings and new beginnings. The artists’ initial interest in liminality comes from Mary Shelley’s life and early writing—specifically her examination of the threshold between creation and destruction, integration and isolation. Ruminating on what it means to be in between, the collaborators now look at portals and passageways through a 21st-century lens. Weaving movement, an electronic score, poetry and live vocals, the artists map internal landscapes, as well as external ones ( as they consider the often surreal space one dwells in between past/future, young/old, and even life/death). Negrón’s blend of electro-acoustics mixed with classical instrumentation and found sounds, Louveau’s extreme vocal registers and foreign influences, and Mills’s raw and unhinged movement create a kinetically charged world that speaks to the subconscious.
Not then, not yet features choreography by Tiffany Mills, dramaturgy by Mills’s longtime collaborator Kay Cummings, original composition by Angelica Negrón and vocalist Muriel Louveau, lighting design by Chris Hudacs, and costumes by Pei-Chi Su. Not then, not yet is performed by Mills, Jordan Morley, Kenneth Olguin, Nikolas Owens, Emily Pope, and Mei Yamanaka.
” it was not so much a jungle gym to be explored, but a landscape with which to co-exist, Louveau’s live vocal trills and high-register cries hinting at some barren, subconscious topography.”
Listen to My Baby piece composed by Muriel Louveau & Angelica Negrón
Isterika Premiere November 6 at National Sawdust , NYC
This project brings together singer/composer Muriel Louveau with dancer Emily Marie Pope and composer/multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón for a series of collaborative improvisations exploring the historic and socio cultural dynamics of hysteria. “Hysteria” — which comes from the Greek word for womb, hystera — was one of the first mental health conditions attributed to only women.
“We’re interested in exploring archetypes of women and delving deeper into perceptions of gender, transgression and emancipation via inquiry driven physical embodiments and sonic and poetic realizations of these ideas. We’ll also consider the significance of female body in theatre, music and dance, the role of rituals both in the ancient and contemporary worlds and the cathartic function of performances both on the ancient and modern stages.”
The show will move fluently from solo to duo structured improvisations between Angélica Negrón and Muriel Louveau combining voices with electronics and unusual instruments. Emily Marie Pope will be responding real time to these soundscapes through the physicalization of these different states of hysteria oftentimes in close proximity to the audience to heighten the intense and immersive trance like nature of this experience. The movement component as well as the musical soundscapes will range from stillness and gentle articulations to more dynamic and dramatic gestures exploring the inward vs. outwards expressions of these extreme emotions and altered states.
Vocals in the Dark
“Vocals in the Dark” is a multi layered vocal & sound piece that combines words inspired by Elizabeth Christopher poems and singing in imaginary languages. It is a sound installation and a performance inviting the audience to experience a series of multi layered vocal explorations in an intimate environment with no visual distraction. This meditative and immersive artistic experience is set in darkness and transports the visitor to foreign territories. Presentation at Fivemyles gallery (2017-2018)