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From concert and album reviews to feature articles, Third Coast Percussion is in the news.
We are fortunate to have garnered critical acclaim and recognition for so many of our performances and projects. See for yourself what the buzz is all about by reading what the press has to say! Browse reviews, articles, and much more below.
Philip Glass and Third Coast Percussion launch a world premiere for Humanities Fest
November 6, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
November 6, 2018 by Howard Reich Come Friday night, Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion will make a bit of music history. For as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival,the unconventional quartet will play the world premiere of Philip Glass’ “Perpetulum,” which the ensemble commissioned. Not that it’s easy to get a composer of Glass’ stature to write music for you. “We kind of never dreamed he would actually say yes,” explains TCP ensemble member and executive director David Skidmore. “We hoped he would, of course.” Why Glass? “One of the really important artistic missions for our organization is commissioning iconic composers – composers who are in the history books already and still writing music,” explains Skidmore. “Because no one asked Bartok to write a percussion quartet, no one asked Stravinsky to write a percussion quartet, no one asked Shostakovich to write a percussion quartet. “If we don’t ask them,” adds Skidmore,…
OU Wind Symphony to collaborate with Grammy Award-winning percussion ensemble
October 30, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
October 28, 2018 by Sydney Walters Ohio University is known for connecting its students to world-renowned groups and individuals, and the School of Music is next in line to provide such an opportunity. On Tuesday, the Ohio University Wind Symphony with be performing a concert with the Grammy Award-winning ensemble, Third Coast Percussion. Third Coast Percussion is a quartet of percussionists from Chicago that also serves as the ensemble-in-residence at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. “We bring excellent performances of percussion music to audiences of all ages and backgrounds across the country and around the world,” David Skidmore, the executive director of Third Coast Percussion and an ensemble member, said in an email. Skidmore said he hopes the ensemble shows students’ similar exciting performances to those he experienced when he was a student listening to professionals. “It was always thrilling when professional musicians were brought to campus so…
New York Times: 10 Dance Performances to See This Weekend
October 22, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
October 18, 2018 by Gia Kourlas Thanks to the New York Times for including our performances with Seán Curran Company in "10 Dance Performances to See This Weekend"! We are looking forward to performing at BAM's Next Wave Festival, October 24-27 at 7:30pm. If you're in NYC, stop by and say hello! SEAN CURRAN COMPANY AND THIRD COAST PERCUSSION at BAM Harvey Theater (Oct 24-27, 7:30 p.m.). Curran celebrates his company’s 20th anniversary with live music by Third Coast Percussion and, naturally, some dances. Along with two early works, “Abstract Concrete” (2000) and “Quadrabox Redux” (2001), the choreographer unveils the New York premiere of “Everywhere All the Time.” Featuring a set by the landscape architect Diana Balmori, who died in 2016, and percussion music by the Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy, “Everywhere” promises to be lively: Curran, a former member of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, started out as a traditional Irish step dancer. 718-636-4100, bam.org…
Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton on Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
October 17, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
We are thrilled to get on the road with our long-time friends at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, presenting THERE WAS NOTHING / FOR ALL ITS FURY, a collaborative project more than five years in the making. Our first stop is Ann Arbor, MI, where we will perform with HSDC on one night of their two-night presentation: "Two Different Programs." We will tour with HSDC to six more cities this year, including New York and L.A., but Ann Arbor is the only place where this dual performance will take place. Read this interview below with HSDC Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton to learn more about the company, about "Two Different Programs," and about the inspiration for THERE WAS NOTHING choreographers Movement Art Is (Jon Boogz and Lil Buck) and FOR ALL ITS FURY choreographer Emma Portner. Catch the next performance of THERE WAS NOTHING / FOR ALL ITS FURY, part of Hubbard…
Review | Seán Curran, Third Coast Percussion
October 8, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
October 6, 2018 by Michael Huebner It’s hard to imagine a more integrated merger of dance and percussion than that presented Friday at the Alys Stephens Center. Two dynamic ensembles, each a powerful force in their respective art forms, combined for two retrospective works, then let loose in a world premiere with boundless expression. No stranger to premieres, the New York-based dance troupe Seán Curran Company has presented 27 of them around the world, according to its web site. Third Coast Percussion, by its very nature, has commissioned a long list of composers on its way to a 2017 Grammy award. “Everywhere All the Time,” an ASC commission, was presented for the first time at this event, and represented an expansive departure from the two works presented earlier in the program, each reworkings from 2000 and 2001. Three large movable gates, adorned with black patterns suggestive of woody vines, pervaded “Everywhere.” They were a…
Season 41 Fall Series Review- Hubbard Street Dance Chicago with Third Coast Percussion
October 3, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
September 28, 2018 by Debra Davy Hubbard Street Dance Chicago presented a strong and stirring modern collaboration of music, choreography, spoken word, dance, and percussive performance at its Season 41 Fall Series opener on September 27th, 2018. The program is to be repeated September 29th and 30that the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 East Randolph Street, Chicago. This double World Premiere of dance featured live music on stage a by 2016 Grammy-award winning Chicago-based musical marvels Third Coast Percussion, who are incidentally ensemble-in-residence at Notre Dame University. The 4 virtuoso rhythmists (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin and David Skidmore) interacted with each other, multiple instruments and trays of tuned objects during the entire evening’s engagement including starring in an orchestral interlude called Perfectly Voiceless in-between the 2 dance works. All the music was composed by British pop icon Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange), arranged/interpreted by Third Coast Percussion, and it was all of a piece- ethereal, sonic- spacey, throbbing and intensely cerebral; in…
Hubbard Street Dance’s latest has a nod to mushrooms and a message about Mother Earth
, by Third Coast Percussion
September 28, 2018 by Chris Jones Hubbard Street’s Season 41 Fall Series asks a lot of its audience: The new environmentalist collaboration between the choreographers Emma Portner, Lil Buck and Jon Boogz runs close to 90 minutes without a break, a relative rarity in the world of contemporary dance. Alas, there is no discreet exit from the Harris Theater, and thus the price paid by that decision Thursday night was a stream of people heading variously and loudly for the exit, all the way up to the top of the theater. They were missing a very interesting collage of diverse talents, given that the original music here was composed by Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange) and performed live by Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion. I suspect the artists, most of whom are new to Hubbard Street, wanted to encourage their viewers to make sustained narrative connections about their stated theme of…
Hubbard Street’s Percussion-Driven Experiment Probes Heaven and Hell on Earth
, by Third Coast Percussion
September 28, 2018 by Hedy Weiss Just hours after a high-stakes drama unfolded Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. (and around the world), Hubbard Street Dance Chicago brought up the lights on its interlocking three-part fall season program that harkened back to the creation of the universe and the ascent of man and then proceeded to conjure an apocalyptic vision of where it all went wrong. The entire undertaking took 80 intermissionless minutes of stage time, but the final section of the work began to feel like an exercise in eternity. The Hubbard Street dancers are never less than flawless in their execution of whatever they are given by one choreographer or another. And in this case, the opening work by Jon Boogz and Lil Buck (the co-founders of Movement Art Is, or MAI), which included a partly audible text and a scene of placard-carrying protestors whose posters were…
Reaching for the Light: A Review of Hubbard Street Dance Fall Series
, by Third Coast Percussion
September 28, 2018 by Sharon Hoyer Those seeking light hearted diversion from our present moment, turn elsewhere. For their Fall Series, Chicago’s leading contemporary dance company commissioned works—which unfolded as one evening-length collaboration—from young, emerging choreographers around themes of the physical and political environment. The resulting theater was potent, urgent and, with opening night falling on a particularly emotionally turbulent day in the news cycle, highly topical. The collaboration included an extraordinary performance of compositions by Devonté Hynes from Third Coast Percussion, who, from a row of xylophones, gongs, bells and bowls flanking the stage, poured a ceaseless river of sound through the Harris Theater from well before the lights came up to after the curtain fell. The scene opened on “There Was Nothing,” a vision of creation as imagined by Lil Buck and Jon Boogz, the creative partnership known as Movement Art Is. Boogz and Buck are street dancers by…
Mycelium as Metaphor: A Preview of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s “Season 41 Fall Series” at the Harris
September 27, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
September 24, 2018 by Alyssa Motter We are thrilled to be working again with the brilliant artists of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, performing live for their Fall Series September 27, 29 + 30 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. We have been planning this collaboration for almost 5 years! Check out this preview to learn more about the choreographers' inspirations for the show and the messages they want to share. Click here to purchase tickets for the Chicago shows - but don't worry if you don't live here: the show will be touring nationally all season! Check our event schedule or our Facebook page to find the concerts near you. Contemporary dance is categorically difficult to define. While the term broadly refers to dance occurring in the later half of the twentieth century, there is not a singular definition that encompasses the complex web of global forms, cross-disciplinary influences and historical…
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