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Feeling the Illinoise, This Time Through MovementSufjan Stevens’s album becomes a transcendent theater-dance-music piece. By Sara Holdren theater Apr. 24, 2024 Staging SufjanHow playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury turned a classic indie-rock album into a Justin Peck–choreographed dance piece that...
The solo studio LP is billed as Stevens’ first true singer-songwriter album since Carrie & Lowell
Sufjan Stevens, has put out Christmas EPs each year for his closest group of friends, and then they eventually make their way out to the public via now two EP box
Release Date: 2020 | Tracklist Review Summary: Have space suit -- will shit my pants 👨🚀Sufjan Stevens’ greatest strength throughout his discography, maybe, has been his ability to elevate modest melodies and concepts into a sphere of wonder and speculation. Like shining light into ...
Having employed almost every instrument known to man to explore the vast history of the state of Illinois, and having followed a muse into the depths of nu rave with a Day-Glo sideshow of interpretive dance, and then having pushed Christmas music past of the point of good taste, Stevens’...
Peck and Stevens are currently collaborating on a dance theater piece based on Stevens' songs from the acclaimed album, Illinois, to premiere at Fisher Center at Bard in June of 2023. There is a long tradition of using pianos to accompany dance – whether it is during lessons at the barre...
Sufjan Stevens’ latest album The Age of Adz is a radical departure from his usual softly spoken, banjo plucked albums as he takes in a range of electronics and experimental sounds. To the pluses first and there are many. This is a major change from the likes of Illinoise and Greetings ...
Stevens himself has frequently reinterpreted this material over the years. If you caught his 2006 tour with the “Illinoisemakers” band, you may have seen him emerge on stage with wings affixed to his back, leading his accompanists through an electric, Crazy Horse-style overture that ...
Almost as if his musical weirdnesses and melodic genius insulated the listening public from his deeply personal explorations of faith, Stevens maintained indie OK!-ness until Illinois. That record was highly researched, sumptuous, and wide-ranging, empathising humanely with a serial killer ("John ...