Sax House // 1992
Revised in 1994
Premiered
1992
1992
Location(s)
- 1992
- 1994
Choreography
Pat Graney
Music
Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet
Amy Denio
Babs Helle
Marjorie deMuynck
Stacy Loebs
Performers
Kara O'Toole
Kathryn Stewart
Deb King
Nancy Burtenshaw
Pat Graney
Peggy Piacenza
Revised Performers
Pat Graney
Amy LeGendre
Robin Jennings
Kim Root
KT Niehoff
Michelle Miller
Peggy Piacenza
Revised Music
Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet
Amy Denio
Jessica Lurie
Barbara Marino
Marjorie deMuynck
Pam Barger
Edit:
Seattle Times
September 8, 1991
Curtains Going Up -- Broader Horizons Offer Enticement To Local Devotees Of The Dance -- Dance
The Allegro! Dance Festival specializes in contemporary dance. It features the works of both nationally renowned choreographers and emerging regional artists. As the season opener, Pat Graney, recently returned from an East Coast tour, will be premiering "Sax House," set to music composed and performed by the Billy Tipton Saxophone Quartet. Also on the bill but in a totally different vein is "Jesus Loves the Little Cowgirls," set to the live country-Western tunes of Ranch Romance.
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Seattle Times
September 27, 1991
Live (And Lively) Music Works Well With Graney Dance Group
Graney is a thinking person's choreographer. Her gift is her ability take big handfuls of seemingly disparate inspirations and meld them into richly textured and almost seamless works. The images that emerge from this process are striking both visually and emotionally.
Her latest work, "Sax House", premiered last night and is a collaboration with the Billy Tipton Memorial Sax Quartet. It's the first time that she has worked with live music, and she has taken advantage of all the opportunities presented. The musicians are an integral part of this piece, and they take the stage before the dancers do.
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Seattle Times
November 22, 1991
Graney Dancers To Join Tipton Saxes On UW's Meany Stage
Except for the saxophone cradled in front of her, its mouthpiece clamped between her lips, Amy Denio could have been mistaken for a modern dancer. She lay on the rehearsal hall floor with her legs stretched in front of her - one knee up - her weight resting on one elbow in a come-hither pose.
As the three other members of the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet backed her up, Denio finished her solo and slowly rose to her feet, playing all the while.
Meanwhile, four members of the Pat Graney Company, a Seattle modern dance troupe, ran, hurtled and sometimes slunk around Denio and the other musicians. Later on, in a move that might be called pirouetting saxophones, each dancer lifted one of the sax players - while they were playing - and slowly turned her around.
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Seattle Times
December 15, 1991
All Fall Down -- Breaking Through To A New Dance Aesthetic
It is rehearsal at Dance Centre Seattle, a storefront studio on Capitol Hill. The few spectators have been absorbed by the opening sections of "Sax House," the latest creation of Seattle choreographer Pat Graney, who has been standing at the side, hands on hips, scrutinizing her troupe like a coach. She gives instructions with authority but softens it by being silly. "I am the princess,"she says, faking a little-girl voice and doing a tiny curtsy.
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