NOMINATIONS!

The Monkey’s very own Nathaniel Schmidt and his collaborator David Burnett have been nominated for TWO Western Canadian Music awards! Instrumental Artist of the Year for our album “Oh Thank God You’re Here” which was the soundtrack for our Night Play Karl Nimeni is not Dead – I Killed Karl NImeni And Visual Media Composer […]

REAWAKEN – New Music by Nathaniel Schmidt and David Burnett

This new music will debut as part of Meghann Michalsky‘s new choreography, REAWAKEN, that will premiere at Springboard Performance’s FLUID FEST on October 26th and 27th, 2018. Composed by David Burnett and Nathaniel Schmidt Engineered by Warren Tse Produced by Warren Tse and Donovan Seidle Donovan Seidle – First Violin Laura Red – Second Violin […]

The Un-Birthday

On April 11th. Dancing Monkey had a little get together at Village Brewery’s Tap Room to celebrate the past 5 years of work and to bring together many of the artists we’ve had the honour of working with. Before the pics, here’s a list of those artists: Larry Lamont, Laura Allen, Steven Evanik, Jason Galeos, […]

New Music from Nathaniel Schmidt

Musician, composer and Dancing Monkey, Nathaniel Schmidt, has been working with Project InTandem, creating the score to RESIDUE created by Meghann Michalsky & Matt Hall. Project InTandem is a double-bill dance theatre production – the performances will take place at the Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary from November 9 to November 11. Along with RESIDUE, the event will […]

(IN) VISIBLE COLLISIONS – A New Short Film

(IN) VISIBLE COLLISIONS is a short film – or a photo-collage – based on Dancing Monkey’s workshop of WE MUST COLLIDE. This work is created to allow the production to have a life past the stage and into new mediums. WE MUST COLLIDE is a high energy, kinetic, interdisciplinary piece exploring the violence of stillness […]