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May 2025
Revolutions, (2025) was recently selected for screening at the Viva el Cine Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina (May 12-18) and the Latino and Native American Film Festival in New Haven, CT (Mar. 25). The screendance work was a collaboration between the Texas State University Merge Dance Company and the Body Shift Collective, "A diverse, daring, and accessible community dance performance group that cultivates choreography through respecting individuality, developing human connections, and advocating for social change." (Taken from the organizations website). Richard D. Hall composed and recorded the music for the project.
Apr. 2025
Richard D. Hall was invited as a guest artist to perform at the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) in San Antonio, TX. Richard performed several of his live electro-acoustic pieces that included On A Siezing Sky for Sparrow Hawk Flute and Laptop, Rain Delay for Electric Guitar and Laptop, and Machina Ratiocinatrix for Tongue Drum and Laptop. The performance ended with an improvisation featuring Richard and Wesley Uchiyama-Penix, Lecturer at UIW.
Apr. 2025
Michelle Nance, Texas State University Dean’s Seminar Recipient and Director of Dance in the School of Theatre, Dance and Film, was invited to present for the Dean Seminar “Dancing in the Creative Zone: Collaboration, Sensing and Play." During the seminar, Michelle and Richard D. Hall performed Twilight Tear, a collaboration of dance and sound. Michelle performed/choreographed the movement and Richard composed/performed the music. Written for choreographer and dancer Michelle Nance, Twilight Tear is an adaptation of a musical fragment/poem from Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925-2000). The piece features sounds from various metal lids and bowls being struck or bowed and then manipulated with granular synthesis. A student of Edgard Varèse, Lucia was a poet, writer, inventor, choreographer, musician, and composer. She often utilized “found” musical instruments and invented over 100 instruments. She was the composer-in-residence of the New York based Erick Hawkins Dance Company from 1953 until her passing. Virgil Thompson once described her music as “Far out music of great delicacy . . . ” Lucia was friend of Michelle Nance and wrote the following poem for her: Thanksgiving sidewalks, Ruffles of ginko gold, And the high wild throb of the twilight tear"
—Lucia Dlugoszewski, Nov. 27,1997
Mar. 2025
The TXST Mysterium for New Music Ensemble performed their Spring 2025 performance titled “Los Inocentes - River Soundscapes,” an electro-acoustic work collaboratively composed by the ensemble featuring sounds and videos of the San Marcos River. The ensemble is directed by Professor of Instruction Richard Hall. The performance also included to ambient pieces, Elidosta and Border of the Wind . Both written by composer Wesley S. Uchiyama-Penix. And the ensemble also performed the minimalistic work Effulgence composed by Thomas Clark.
Mar. 2025
The screendance piece London Vignettes (2024) was recently show at the Merge Dance Company Spring show titled "Cinedance," at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX (Mar. 20-22). The work is "An embodied site exploration, engaging with the dynamic flow and the urban textures of the city. Filmed on locations across London." (Taken from the organizations website). The work was a collaboration between Texas State University and . It was filmed in and around London. Richard D. Hall composed and recorded the music for the project as well completing the sounds mixing and sound design.
Mar. 2025
The TXST Mysterium for New Music Ensemble performed at the closing concert for the Performance Media Fest (PMF) in South Bend, IN. Mysterium performed “Los Inocentes - River Soundscapes,” an electro-acoustic work collaboratively composed by the ensemble featuring sounds and videos of the San Marcos River. Mysterium members include undergraduate students Josh Nepote, Chelsea Perez, Kyle Stocking and graduate students Hannah Bradley and Gabe Durand-Hollis. The ensemble is directed by Professor of Instruction Richard Hall. The PMF featured artists, musicians and performers from all over the world. The fest was sponsored by the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at Indiana University South Bend, the South Bend Museum of Art, and the DeBartolo Performing Arts, University of Notre Dame. Mysterium was also given a personal tour of Sweetwater Music in Fort Wayne, IN. Sweetwater is considered the largest music store in the world, with multiple recording studios, state-of-the-art performance venues and around 3000 employees. The tour also featured information about career opportunities at Sweetwater and other commercial music companies such as Fender, AVID and Selmer.
Mar. 2025
Richard D. Hall was invited to speak at the American College Dance Association's 2025 South-Central Conference at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX (Mar.12-15) . The session titled "Ask the Composer Anything" was a panel discussion about dancers working with composer and musicians. Topics included terminology, budgeting, interdisciplinary collaboration as well as questions from the audience. Richard was joined on the panel by composer/musician Wesley S. Uchiyama-Penix, Lecturer of Musi, University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX.
Feb. 2025
TerraMontes, (2025) was recently selected for screening (Feb. 22) at the Life in Motion: A Colorado Dance Film Festival held in Lakewood, Colorado. TerraMontes is a meditative site-specific screendance which explores an embodied sense of healing with the environment. As with the two previous works from the WECreate Productions’ Terra series, (HinterTerra, and UrbáTerra), the dancers and camera explore the poetics of place through improvisation. In a matter of hours, The Lower North Fork Fire blazed through more than four thousand acres of pristine forest. Thousands were displaced, the fire destroyed almost thirty homes and resulted in three fatalities. The fire began on March 26, 2012 when firefighters lost control of a planned burn in Foxton, Colorado. Some of the fire was classified as high intensity, making the recovery of the land a very long process or impossible in some cases. Richard D. Hall was the head sound mixer for the project.
Jan. 2025
UrbáTerra Bartzelona was chosen for the 2025 Coctelito Videodanza Festival with , several screenings in Yucatán, and Ensenada MX, and the Filmarte Short Film Festival in Porto, Portugal (Jan. 1). Synopsis - "Intrigued by collectively encountering the Catalan capital Bartzelona, three women immerse themselves in the vibrant atmosphere of this Mediterranean metropolis. In dialogue with street-art murals, colourful mosaics, avant-garde and historic architecture, the dancers are-being-moved by the design of public spaces and the flow of daily life of its inhabitants." Cast/Crew - Dancer/Choreographer: Amanda McCorkle, Michelle Nance, Heike Salzer; Cinematography/Editing: Ana Baer; Funding Partners: TXST Theatre and Dance + CRACE, Roehampton; Direction/Production: WECreate Production. Richard D. Hall composed and recorded music for the project.