CelloPointe

The Artist

CelloPointe, the brainchild of the Wiley family, celebrates the merging of chamber music and contemporary ballet with a dedication to creating new works and paying homage to beloved classics. Started in 2011 as a simple duet project between father and daughter, CelloPointe has blossomed under the leadership of wife and mother Marcia to become a Manhattan based music and dance ensemble that tours nationally. Its greatest strength has been the cultivation of talented friendships within each family member’s prospective industry. Famed colleagues and rising-star students of cellist Peter Wiley pay tribute to chamber music. Manhattan based freelance dancers join Dona Wiley in gathering the most innovative choreographers that New York City has to offer, often through relationships forged through past projects. Executive Director Marcia Wiley bridges the gap between musicians and dancers, creating cutting-edge programming to highlight the virtuosity of all artists. The result is a tight family of artists that thrives on collaboration and is committed to bringing a profound experience to their audience.

The Artistry

CelloPointe functions on a unique concert structure that equally highlights the talents of both musicians and dancers. In a CelloPointe concert, chamber music pieces with musicians alone on stage divide the collaborative musician and dancer pieces. The result is a rich musical experience for the audience, with enough variety of composers, eras, and genres to please even the toughest crowd. It draws the focus back from the use of music as a background, and pulls it into the foreground with a dual purpose to create a seamless evening for the audience- no clumsy set changes, and no drawn out pauses. It is inspired by the classic and simple structure of a true chamber music concert. A CelloPointe concert will fill your senses from start to finish and make you re-evaluate the role of music in dance.

Photo Credits: Rachel Neville Photography, Jaqlin Medlock Photography, Cherylynn Tsushima, Mike Fitelson

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Sponsor Opportunities

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Music in Motion

March 25, 2018

Manhattan Movement Arts Center, New York, NY

Hayden’s Ferry Chamber Series

January 2019 – Tempe, AZ

What Others Say

“A moving tribute to chamber music…”

– Kurt Muroki

“…the musicians performed in such a compelling manor, the dancers exhibited such imagination and deeply felt connection to the music, that I was for the moment seduced into thinking that it could be done no other way but with music and dance inseparably wedded together.”

–Arnold Steinhardt, ‘Key of Strawberry’

“[CelloPointe is] unique in that the musicians and dancers perform on stage together, creating an intimate atmosphere and a stirring combination of the traditional and avant-garde.”

–Carolyn Arnold, Fairfield University Magazine

“I have had the pleasure of seeing the last three performances of CelloPointe that Marcia produced and directed. She has an innovative style, a creative eye for detail, a superb sense of design for staging, costumes and programming, and an unparalleled skill in arranging music for the ensemble of string instruments. The spring…concert is a much anticipated event by those of us who have found her performances to be as awe-inspiring as they are deeply meaningful, expressive creations.”

–Dr Adria Kelleher

“Few things in life have been more inspiring than the privilege of performing the monumental Goldberg Variations by Bach with my wonderful colleagues Steven Tenenbom and Peter Wiley.  That is, until it was brought even more to life in performances with the wonderful artists of CelloPointe.  I am so fortunate and grateful to be part of this great project!”

– Ida Kavafian