2nd Hour
Live Performance with Mira Cook
Mira Cook is a choreographer and dancer living in San Francisco. With over twenty years of training in classical ballet and contemporary movement, Mira has danced and created choreography for companies such as: City Ballet of San Diego, the Austin Dance Ensemble and SUSHI Performance and Visual Arts. Mira has enjoyed dancing lead roles in Balanchine's "Rubies," City Ballet's "The Rite of Spring," and Double Vision's "Thicket." She has participated in programs at Ballet Austin, Boston Ballet, LINES Ballet, ODC Dance, and Kunst-Stoff. Mira currently performs with Double Vision Dance and Intermedia, Capacitor, Brooke Broussard and Liss Fain Dance in San Francisco. She also writes and records music from home.
In comparison, her music is like a massage for the soul. Cook creates it by layering loops of her voice as she chants or sings simple lyrics. Sometimes, she weaves in piano, an instrument she has played since childhood.
At first, she employed the almost diabolically painstaking process of singing into a hand-held tape recorder, then sticking the cassette in a second deck and using that as backing for the next step. Now, she uses a loop pedal, a device that lets her devise loops on the fly.
http://www.myspace.com/miracook
http://www.transcontinentaldance.org/
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070325/news_lz1a25view.html
3rd Hour with Mira Cook and DJ 6th Degree
