The Boundaries of Sound
A score composed for and alongside the choreography of Malia Detar Cheung’s senior dance thesis, Between Animals (Wesleyan University, 2025).
Between Animals explores what it means to “dance with horses.” The composition consists of field recordings of Malia’s horse Violet alongside recorded and live instrumentation.
The compositional process of both the choreography and sonic world bridge dance and music in a conversation of movement and sound across bodies and interspecies relationships.
Dancers
Adam Cyzner, Ry De Guzman Jr., Eleanor Kanengiser, Sana Lee, Violet Detar (“Five-Mile Fortune”)
Live Musicians
Ellis Carter (trumpet), Xavier Samuel (saxophone), and Gavin Cui (Flute)