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ACCLAIMED BALLET-POP ARTIST RACHAEL SAGE CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL DANCE DAY
NEW
ALBUM CHOREOGRAPHIC
OUT
MAY 20th.
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New York, NY: Award-winning recording artist and School of American Ballet alumna Rachael Sage is celebrating International Dance Day this year with a choreography contest for dance schools as she gears up for the release of her forthcoming full-length studio album, Choreographic. The album is inspired by her lifelong relationship with dance and is due May 20 (MPress/ILS/Caroline). The dance contest runs from now until May 23, and the school with the best choreography to a song from Choreographic will win $500. You can find more details about the contest at http://bit.ly/RS_DanceContest
Sixteen of Sage’s songs have appeared on the controversial reality TV show “Dance Moms” (including 5 solos by the series’ star Maddie Ziegler), which ignited the idea for Sage to compose an entire album fueled by her own imagined choreography. After so much of her work was embraced by the dance community – with over 9.5 million combined hits on YouTube – she started to wonder if something subconscious in her composer-DNA was inherently geared toward choreography. Rachael said, “As I was thinking about recording a follow-up to my last album ‘Blue Roses’, I asked myself: what if you set about making a whole record with the intention for it be combined with dance?” A few months later, the former-dancer holed up in a London hotel room on tour and wrote an entire album from scratch, inspired by the “ballet-pop” concept, combining orchestral elements with folk, pop and rock.
Currently on tour in support of the new album, Sage has been busy filming a dance-centric music video for the new song "I Don't Believe It", which explores the topic of bullying and will feature 3-time national dance champion Kaci King, an eleven-year-old performer who reached out to Sage on Facebook. You can read the piece the Chicago Tribune recently wrote about Kaci and her experience at the “I Don’t Believe It” video shoot here.
On April 28, PopWrapped exclusively debuted the first behind-the-scenes video from the “I Don’t Believe It” shoot, featuring Kaci and Rachael. You can view it here. Two more behind-the-scenes videos will follow, leading up to the full video premiere in May. .
Photo credit: John Shyloski
During her tour, Rachael Sage has also been stopping by dance schools in some of the cities along her tour. You can see some brief clips of Sage’s appearance at the Nashville School of Dance and Music on Sage’s facebook page, and you can also view the school’s entry into the Choreographic dance contest on YouTube.
ABOUT
RACHAEL SAGE:
A
soulful
vocalist and
innovative
multi-instrumentalist,
singer/songwriter
and producer
Rachael Sage
has become one
of the busiest
touring
artists in
independent
music,
performing
100+ dates a
year with her
band The
Sequins
throughout the
US, UK, Europe
and Asia. She
has earned a
loyal
following for
her dynamic
piano playing,
delicate
guitar work,
soulful vocals
and
improvisational
audience
interaction.
Sage
has shared
stages with
Sarah
McLachlan, A
Great Big
World, Judy
Collins, Shawn
Colvin, Marc
Cohn, Jamie
Cullum, The
Animals and
Ani DiFranco.
She has
performed at
the Edinburgh
Fringe
Festival and
received
numerous
songwriting
awards
including The
John Lennon
Songwriting
Contest (Grand
Prize) and
several
Independent
Music Awards.
Her songs have
appeared on
MTV, HBO, the
"Fame"
soundtrack,
and 16 of her
songs have
appeared in
the last 3
seasons of
Lifetime's
controversial
reality
series, "Dance
Moms"
(including
several songs
accompanying
breakout Sia
video star Maddie
Ziegler's
winning
routines).
Rachael
Sage Social
Media
FOR
ALL PRESS
INQUIRIES PLEASE
CONTACT
On
Tour Now (More
Dates TBA!) *
#ChoreographicTour
| Apr
30 |
The
Last Waltz
Live @ Bethel
Woods Center
for the Arts |
Bethel,
NY |
| May
04 |
Ethel's Stage Left Lounge |
Columbus,
OH |
| May
05 |
The Lovin’ Cup |
Rochester, NY |
| May
06 |
First
Unitarian
Church |
Pittsburgh,
PA |
| May
07 |
Cyber
Cafe West |
Binghamton,
NY |
| May
13 |
Rockwood
Music Hall -
Stage 2 |
New
York, NY |
| May
14 |
Muses
in the
Vineyard
Festival |
Columbia,
NJ |
| Jun
02 |
How The Light Gets In Festival |
Hay-On-Wye, UK |
| Jun
05 |
Hotel Utah |
San Francisco, CA |
| Jun
07 |
The
Hotel Cafe |
West
Hollywood, CA |
| Jun
09 |
Uncommon
Ground -
Edgewater |
Chicago,
IL |
| Jun
11 |
The Ark w/ Mary Fahl |
Ann
Arbor, MI
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| Jun
12 |
Seven
Steps Up |
Spring
Lake, MI
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| Jun
15 |
The Ninth Ward at Babeville |
Buffalo, NY
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| Jun 24 |
Stoltz Listening Room |
Easton, MD |
| Jul 21 |
Ladybug Festival - Loma Coffee |
Wilmington, DE |
| Jul 24 |
The Burren |
Somerville, MA |
| Nov
18 |
Nikolaisaal
Potsdam |
Potsdam,
Germany |
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