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Tapestry Dance to premiere ‘All the Notes Are Already Here’ April 21 at the Rollins Theatre

Tapestry Dance to premiere ‘All the Notes Are Already Here’ April 21 at the Rollins Theatre

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Tapestry Co-Founder Acia Gray will join interdisciplinary artist Zell Miller III and New Yorkbased Bessie Award winner Nicholas Van Young for “All The Notes Are Already Here” at the Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre, April 21 - 24, with performances 8 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The three artists bring artistic questions to the stage, emphasizing the common bonds of music and rhythm through the lenses of their different day-to-day lives.

“Music is the one thing we all share,” said Gray. “We all feel music. It pulls us together. We have more in common than we have no in common, so this is a musical production as a tool to give people an opportunity to listen and feel a room together.”

“All the Notes Are Already Here” pays homage to the jazz legend Thelonious Monk, who said, “When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You got to pick the notes you really mean.”

Gray said, “In putting this show together, it’s a tribute to Thelonious Monk who said, of all those things you want to play, it’s all right there. When you think about where we are as a society — with everything that’s going on, with the war in the Ukraine and COVID — the communications tools are already there as well, but people aren’t listening.”

Therefore, when Gray, Miller and Young began to talk about what they wanted from their show, they discussed how to bring people together in a place of listening and vulnerability.

“The creative sandbox of this performance will be a rhythmic and poetic and perhaps perilous path of questions, memories, perceptions, dreams and solutions to the human condition and the fragile foundation of self-awareness through rhythm,” Gray said. “We all just need to listen and play and get a little dirty.”

“All The Notes Are Already Here” artists will be joined on stage by Austin musicians. Each artist will have elements of spoken word in their performances. “It’ll be an environment of play and discovery,” Gray said. “We’re looking at what we have in common, not at what’s different. When people are all in the same frequency, or all the same key, then it all comes together. That’s what Tapestry means. It was because we are tap dancers, but also because it’s about pulling all these things together. We all feel it. It’s deep, deep, deep in our bones, if we listen to it. It’s all from the inside out.”

“All the Notes Are Already Here” will be performed in jazz style, after the genius of Thelonius Monk.

“We all come together and do our thing, and we meet on stage,” Gray said. “We choose a tune, and we play. We don’t know what it’s going to be until we get there. Every show will be a little different, guaranteed.”

Tickets for “All the Notes Are Already Here” are available at the Long Center box office, starting at $39. They are available at TheLongCenter.org, by phone at 512-474-5664 or at the Long Center box office. Box office hours are Monday - Friday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and 90 minutes prior to showtime weekdays/weekends. For more information, visit TheLongCenter.org.

“Music is the one thing we all share. We all feel music. It pulls us together.”

Acia Gray, Tapestry Dance Company

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