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- CT: The Dance Project is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded during the Summer Music concert series at the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin on July 8, 1990, and released in 2008 by FMP. The album documents a multimedia event that featured Taylor, bassist William Parker, percussionist Masashi Harada, and a group of four dancers. Taylor's fascination with dance dated back to his youth, when he saw The Four Step Brothers and Baby Laurence. In the early 1950s, he worked with Bill Bailey and Buck Washington of Buck and Bubbles, and he would later go on to collaborate with a variety of choreographers and dancers, such as Dianne McIntyre, Heather Watts, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Min Tanaka, and Cheryl Banks-Smith. One of Taylor's most frequently quoted statements is "I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes". The album liner notes provide a recollection of the first few minutes of the event: Rustling and rattling in the background. Three musicians creeping about, a scene which turns into a ritual for a few moments. Voices communicating with each other – way beyond words. Steps which merge into a sequence of images and sounds, before the first key of the piano has been struck. From the far back of the room four dancers advance with wave-like movements... The combination of music and dance, mirroring each other, mutual inspiration. After the rustling beginning with sparse gestures, voices and percussive sounds, the three musicians formed into the trio... (en)
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- CT: The Dance Project (en)
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- CT: The Dance Project is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded during the Summer Music concert series at the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin on July 8, 1990, and released in 2008 by FMP. The album documents a multimedia event that featured Taylor, bassist William Parker, percussionist Masashi Harada, and a group of four dancers. The album liner notes provide a recollection of the first few minutes of the event: (en)
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- CT: The Dance Project (en)
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