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Cellist Zoe Keating will perform live with the Oklahoma City Ballet during the company’s 2015-16 season opener, “Exurgency — A Triple Bill.” Photo provided by Chase Jarvis A version of this story appears in the Sunday Life section of The Oklahoman. Oklahoma City Ballet, cellist Zoe Keating team to open season with ‘Exurgency’ Once Zoe Keating carefully layers together her intricate songs and sends them out into the world, she has no idea where her music might end up - or who it might inspire. “I know a lot of dance companies dance to it, but I don’t usually know about it.
I feel like the music goes off and it’s like a child: It’s grown up and has a life of its own; it’s graduated from college and it has relationships with other people,” she said with a laugh. “I’m tickled by it. I always like it when I find that it has this other life that I didn’t know about and then I get to participate in it and be part of its life again.” The innovative cellist, composer and technophile will make her solo debut in Oklahoma Friday and Saturday when she performs on stage with the Oklahoma City Ballet. The company is opening its 2015-16 season with “Exurgency - A Triple Bill,” headlined by an encore performance of Matthew Neenan’s ballet based on three of Keating’s songs. “It’s always great when you can see how other people interpret your work. And no two artists will interpret it the same way, so that keeps it fresh in a way. I have my own sort of meanings for these pieces that I’ve gotten over the years, and then somebody who choreographs to it has a completely different idea,” Keating said in a phone interview from the redwood forest outside her home about 70 miles north of San Francisco.
“That’s what culture is, really. It’s like we’re all influencing each other, and one thing leads to another to another to another and it’s like each iteration is something new.” Oklahoma City Ballet principal dancer Alvin Tovstogray and corps de ballet dancer Daina Gingras perform in 'Exurgency — A Triple Bill,' the opening production for the company's 2015-16 season. Photo provided Triple bill Artistic Director Robert Mills said OKC Ballet will grow this season from four full-scale productions to five, a level he hopes to sustain. An add-on production, the opener will take the dancers for the first time to Oklahoma City Community College’s new Visual and Performing Arts Center Theater. The triple bill also will bring back “Exurgency,” an abstract contemporary piece that Neenan, the Pennsylvania Ballet’s esteemed resident choreographer, created with OKC Ballet. It was a big hit in the company’s successful 2013-14 season, Mills said. “It’s showing the type of audiences we have in Oklahoma City.
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I think, whether they realize it or not, they have a real hunger and an innate sense for contemporary art,” he said. Featuring two world premieres, the triple bill opening this season will give local dance devotees a chance to indulge their love of contemporary ballet. Brian Enos, who has worked with the Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Ballet Met, choreographed “Speaking in Spheres” to the music of living composers Lera Auerbach and Gabriel Prokofiev as well as German Baroque composer Johann Paul von Westhoff. And OKC Ballet principal dancer Yui Sato makes his first full foray into choreography with “Ambiguous,” which he created to the music of famed German Johann Sebastian Bach and current Australian composer Rob Dougan, whose music was in “The Matrix” movies. “It’s really interesting to see the choices that Yui has made,” Mills said.
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“And the company’s enjoying working with Brian right now. It’s yet another choreographer that’s coming in and kind of imparting his new and different ideas and I just love to see what that does with our dancers, how it opens them up further.” Along with the three contemporary pieces, Mills has added a fourth selection to the triple bill. Two of the company’s new dancers - principal dancer Julio Concepcion and soloist Milena Garcia, both of Matanzas, Cuba - will perform the third-act wedding pas de deux from the ballet “Don Quixote.” “It’s one of the most famous pieces of classical ballet repertoire, and I’m excited to see our audience’s reaction to these two dancers, because they’re pretty spectacular,” Mills said.
Still, Neenan’s “Exurgency” will be the centerpiece of the season opener. “He’s wonderful in selecting music, creating a mood within a piece, working with a lighting designer in regards to creating an overall cohesive ballet.
The piece itself struck a chord with people because I think they sense the emotional overtones. They see the really interesting, inventive choreography, our dancers perform it beautifully, and Zoe’s music is incredible,” Mills said. “It’s just another really amazing element to be able to have the person that composed the music for the ballet here in Oklahoma and performing live in what is her really interesting way.” Cellist Zoe Keating will perform live with the Oklahoma City Ballet during the company's 2015-16 season opener, 'Exurgency — A Triple Bill.' Photo provided by Jared Kelly Energy surge When he was in OKC last year working on “Exurgency,” Neenan called Keating “an it composer for choreographers.” Keating said she’s not sure how she obtained that status, but a few years ago, a YouTube representative contacted her because the site’s content identification robots had found her music in 10,000 videos - most of the dance videos.
“I didn’t know. I was kind of floored,” she said. “It’s wonderful to know that my work, people like it.
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It’s very satisfying.” A veritable one-woman orchestra, Keating’s live performances are reminiscent of dancing even when she’s not sharing the stage with ballet companies in San Francisco; Los Angeles; Boulder, Colo.; Valencia, Spain; and now Oklahoma City. Along with her cello, Keating, 43, brings a foot-controlled laptop to the stage, creating layers of haunting music in concert. “I use the technology as a writing tool, that’s sort of the mechanism of it. Like right now I’m working on a score for a TV show, so I get all my equipment out and I improvise and I try things out,” said Keating, who uses computer software to record musical phrases as she plays them and then layers the sounds into her contemporary classical songs.
“I still like having that one voice multiplied 20 times. I like the sonic quality of one person looping.” For his ballet, Neenan put together three of Keating’s songs - “Arrival, “Exurgency” and “Sun Will Set” - that she said she would never have combined. The OKC shows will mark the first time she has ever played “Arrival” live. “What’s challenging about it - and it’s very, very different - is that I can’t screw up,” she said with a laugh. “When I play solo, I get to improvise, and I can improvise myself out of most bad situations - and there’s a fair amount of improvising that happens sometimes. And that’s part of the performance. When I’m working with dancers, I can’t throw them off, especially ballet.
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Ballet is very precise, so I have to play it exactly the way it’s recorded.” Although she typically closes her eyes when she performs live, Keating said she tries to watch the dancers during rehearsals and enjoys the energy of sharing the stage with them. “It is like doing it for the first time for me a lot of times and I know from talking to the dancers that they love having the music be live, that it makes it sort of more vivid for them,” she said. “Electrifying is the word I would use because it is so intense.” Oklahoma City Ballet principal dancer Yui Sato and corps de ballet dancer Amanda Herd-Popejoy perform in 'Exurgency — A Triple Bill,' the opening production for the company's 2015-16 season. Photo provided ON STAGE Oklahoma City Ballet’s “Exurgency - A Triple Bill” Featuring: Zoe Keating. Friday and Saturday. Where: Oklahoma City Community College Visual and Performing Arts Center Theater, 7777 S May Ave. Information: 848-8637.
Your browser does not support iframes. Oklahoma City Ballet principal dancer Yui Sato and corps de ballet dancer Amanda Herd-Popejoy perform in 'Exurgency — A Triple Bill,' the opening production for the company's 2015-16 season. Photo provided Cellist Zoe Keating will perform live with the Oklahoma City Ballet during the company's 2015-16 season opener, 'Exurgency — A Triple Bill.' Photo provided by Jared Kelly Oklahoma City Ballet principal dancer Alvin Tovstogray and corps de ballet dancer Daina Gingras perform in 'Exurgency — A Triple Bill,' the opening production for the company's 2015-16 season. Photo provided Cellist Zoe Keating will perform live with the Oklahoma City Ballet during the company’s 2015-16 season opener, “Exurgency — A Triple Bill.” Photo provided by Chase Jarvis.