Artist: Brendan Swanson & Sid Eillers
Song: [improvisation]
Recorded at Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre (coexisDance #113), February 28, 2026.
Brendan Swanson & Sid Eillers - [improvisation]
The coexisDance series, which has been bringing together improvisers from Toronto's music and dance scenes for more than a decade, seems to have been thriving lately. Settled into Cabbagetown's CCDT, there's a proper floor and room to set up a large illuminated circle for the performances, musicians strewn around the perimemter and getting a chance to improvise with two different dance artists over the course of the evening. Raphael Roter has brought curatorial energy to the series, with a passion for bridging two vibrant communities that might not rub elbows enough. [Do note that these field recordings are, by necessity, "incomplete" without the dancers' physicality, but I think it's worth preserving this work from some excellent players in the community.]
Brendan Swanson was on piano for his pieces, here joined by Sid Eillers, who created a stereophonic narrative with moving pronouncements from across the range of the dance floor.

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