temptation

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Continuing on the dance front, choreographer Cherice Barton had me sound designing, mixing and mastering her Tom Waits influenced production of Temptation, a ballet performed and commissioned by Canada’s Ballet B.C.

A review straight.com:

But it’s New York–based choreographer Cherice Barton’s Temptation that seems custom-made for the venue’s old-style cocktail atmosphere. Set to Tom Waits’s booze-soaked “Temptation”, “The Piano Has Been Drinking”, and “Jockey Full of Bourbon”, it finds the troupe decked out in speakeasy-vintage fedoras, satin dresses, and garters, twisting and strutting in vignettes that cover the stage, with Léon Feizo Gas lurching around to the drunken opening number. It’s seedy and smoky, with Marianne Grobbelaar’s red-dressed vixen at one point laughing maniacally until she collapses in a crying jag. It could easily fill a much bigger stage, but it’s so much more fun watching it in the faded Legion hall.