Music For Dance Companies
Music for Dance
I recently enjoyed a show where a number of different dance groups presented themes for dancing. Each theme represented a feeling or a natural body of some sort. So for example we had happiness as a feeling, and the planets as natural bodies.
I was struck by the affect that the music had on the whole presentation. The quality of the PA system and the way that the music was mixed in and out and how the dancers synchronised their dancing to match the passion of the music as it flowed.
I also noticed how with some shows it was hard to be drawn into the dance and to understand how it connected to the theme. For example the planets dance I found suffered because the music didn’t have anything that would connect our emotions and give a good feel for planets in motion and circling our sun.
This then made the dance ambiguous to my eyes, I would have thought I would see arcs & rotating shapes within the choreography.
I thought to myself, something ‘spacey’ would do well. If dance companies had a collection of music online that they could just press a button and listen to music from different genres to find something that sounded like it was representing heavenly bodies in motion within our solar system, not quite ‘Star Wars’ theme, but more ambient and longer in length enabling a dance piece to run without needing to have audio edits because the tracks were too short.
Well, that’s exactly what we have here at Ambient Music Garden. You can browse the categories and click to listen to each of the pieces of music ranging from ambient and relaxation, through more meditative music to chillout and downtempo mp3s. All for instant download.
The license we have designed to meet the needs of live shows like this is called the Royalty Free Production Library Music License which means that you have the agreement of the music artist to use their music in a public place and play it to an audience there. Cds that you buy from shops and mp3s you download from iTunes do not come with that agreement.
Click here to view Ambient Music Garden’s Royalty-Free category. But don’t forget all categories hold royalty-free music, the royalty free category only presents the most popular chosen pieces for business use.
