As part of its STAGED series, Ensemble Dal Niente is presenting the world premiere of Argentine composer Tomas Gueglio’s Proa (“prow”), on December 2 and 3 at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. Proa features harpist Ben Melsky (of Dal Niente, the Joffrey Ballet) and four dancers…
By Anna Pulley In the culmination of its tenth anniversary season, Chicago-based contemporary-music collective Ensemble Dal Niente went out with a literal bang. The group’s Party 2016 event on April 30 featured the North American premiere of Stefan Prins’ Generation…
By Anna Pulley “Life is fleeting and transformation to another state is inevitable.” This is the underlying concept of Memento Mori, a series of new works for solo viola featuring Ensemble Dal Niente violist Ammie Brod. This quest to stop time as…
By Anna Pulley A musician from Ensemble Dal Niente described German composer/conductor Enno Poppe as “having five elbows,” and watching this video, it’s easy to see why. Here Poppe conducts Alexander Schubert‘s “Point Ones” (2012) with Ensemble Mosaik, a visual and…