Upcoming Performances:
- Friday September 5th, 2025; Windhover Center for the Performing Arts. With special guests Sarah Slifer Swift and Derick Melander. 8pm. Tickets and information.
- Saturday September 6th, 2025; Movement Arts Gloucester Mass (MAGMA). Workshop – Rehearsing the Unknown: Collective Improvisation Improvisatison Techniques. 1-4pm. Tickets and information.
Locomotors is a music and dance group inspired by both the practice of Dalcroze eurhythmics and the jazz tradition of open-form improvisation, sometimes known as ‘free jazz’. The group also has a special interest in the somatic connection between sound and movement, and in using that connection as a basis for artistic creation and exploration. The core members are myself, Michael Joviala, piano and composition, and Dawn Pratson, dance and choreography. The group was in residence as part of a pilot program of the New York Chapter of the Dalcroze Society of America in 2023. Some of that work has been collected on a Youtube playlist, and I’ve written about us on a couple of occasions on this blog.
On October 27 2023, we were joined by legendary saxophonist/woodwind player Marty Ehrlich in a performance at the Mark Morris Dance Center. The following day we offered the final workshop in our series on collaborations between improvising musicians and improvising dancers at the Lucy Moses School, Kaufman Music Center, New York City.
Here’s a video of our performance at the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS) held at Carnegie Melon University in August of 2023:
Locomotors is Expanding!
On September 5th, 2025 Dawn I will be joined and director of Movement Arts Gloucester Massachusetts (MAGMA) Sarah Slifer Swift and visual artist Derick Melander at a special performance at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts in Rockport, Massachusetts. For tickets and information, click here.
The next day, Saturday September 6th, Dawn and I will offer a public workshop at MAGMA, Rehearsing the Unknown: Collective Improvisation Techniques. This is a lovely space (we performed here two years ago). The class will culminate in a short performance. You can read more about it here.
The transformative power of collaboration through improvised music and dance is available to all. We’d love to work with you or your group. Drop us a line below…
