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Dayton Allemann

Composer/Performance Artist

 

Dayton Allemann is a composer and performer who has long been fascinated by the intersections of movement and music on stage. A long-time accompanist for modern dance and ballet, his trajectory has carried him from posts at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and Hamburg Ballet in Germany to numerous collaborations with choreographers of modern dance in Germany, Spain and the United States. This frequently involves performing directly with the dancers on stage, seeking to redefine the role of a performing musician. His pet fascination is the use of programming and digital-manipulation in real-time for live performances. He studied composition, piano and flute at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. Over the ensuing two decades, he has received grants and commissions from numerous institutions in Germany and Spain (where he helped create and co-direct the alternative theatre-space La Fragua) to create (and often perform in) works for a wide range of genres and disciplines, including (predominately) dance-theatre, spoken-theatre, puppet-theatre, film and recorded music.

 

More than anything else, his artistic endeavours have been marked by his collaborations with Trinidad Martínez, with whom he founded the Magpai Production Group. Together, they explore a tantalizingly new performance language, incorporating detailed improvisatory structures and experimental technology.