Voyage LA
Q: We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
A: I started as a dancer before finding my way to music. This has been a key element in how I experience and approach music as a creator. Visceral experience and expression is everything for me. I’m chasing movement, always through my music.
Shout Out LA
Q: Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
A: I was raised in the theater, acting and singing in plays and musicals and as an apprentice ballerina with New Century Ballet Company before I picked up guitar and began writing songs. From songs, I moved to arranging music for acapella groups, composing and engineering electronic music, and composing music for chamber ensembles and orchestras…
Produced By A Girl Records
An interview with Produced By A Girl Records, ‘Girls who are crushing it in music, art, etc. and want to share their most inspiring stories to motivate and inspire other women.’
Processing Grief Through Songwriting
“Hope Littwin is composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Her newest song release “Hollow” is an exploration of how childhood trauma affects us once it is triggered and awakened later in life. Recently she has been leading virtual songwriting courses to teach people how to tell their story through music.
In this episode we also talk about how music can be a portal to deeper connection with self. This can happen as the artist is creating it as well as for the listener who connects with the music as he/she listens.” - Kendra Rinaldi, Grief, Gratitude and The Grey In Between Podcast.
The Emotional Language of Music - Podcast interview
Creation is Conversation - Podcast Interview
“Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer and recording artist, Hope Littwin, joins me today to have a vivid and vital conversation about the intersection of creativity and mental health. After finding herself trapped in the artistic and monetary confines of the high-art conservatory world, Hope shares with us how she is becoming an independent artist in every sense of the word.” - Steel Maggie, Mind Made Wrong Podcast
“On this episode, Hope Littwin—singer, songwriter, composer, and overall musical creative—helps us understand how music should reflect that wide spectrum of human emotions and how we should embrace the nuances of what we’re feeling.” - Daniel Rinaldi, One Planet Music Podcast
May 16th 2016: Podcaster Matthan Black and Hope Littwin discuss her debut album, Husk. Topics include the album, the recording process, her love of Mozart and Bach, and having the guts to do your own thing. Husk is live on iTunes and CDbaby.
Bohemian Riot Magazine Interview
By Bohoriotmag | October 27, 2016
The music for Cask is all original. This year you worked on the music with musical composer, Hope Littwin. What is the process of melding the music with the experience like?
"I love working with Hope. She creates some of the most influential sounds of my soul – and this is our third project creating together. We have a method in our creation process now.
First, we talk … just two girls talking about thoughts and stories of our experiences that connect to the concept of the dance. I don’t tell her an instrument or tempo even. I tell her how I feel, how the movement feels, how the story feels. And she creates the audio vision.
Photo by Christin Paige Minnotte
Once she feels that she understands where my heart is with the piece she sits with that for a bit creating different sounds that bring that feeling to life.we have a very intuitive connection – which is why we have worked together on three projects.
Then I begin creation with the choreography. I create the dance to no music – from beginning to end. But I do record every rehearsal and send her the video so she can watch it and compose the music to what she is seeing. She has complete freedom to create whatever she hears. She’s a brilliant woman and I trust her completely. I also like this because it’s a layer to the show that gives it new life toward the end of the rehearsal process.
In fact – the dancers [have] only done the dance to the music a few times a couple of days before the show. It’s really exciting — it’s my favorite part “waiting to hear what Hope has created”. I’m so incredibly grateful for her and her gift."
Flowers for Spring Reviewed by Artburst Miami
by Catherine Hollingsworth
Miami choreographer Marissa Alma Nick is a storyteller. Her company Alma Dance Theater brings a particularly female inner world to the stage, through lush and sensual choreography. We spoke with Nick about Flowers for Spring, and its meaning for her personally.
Can you talk a little bit about the feminine aspect of this piece?
The femininity of it, the graceful beauty, there’s kind of a sensuality in Abuela Maria. I’m wearing one of her nightgowns actually, that she brought from Cuba. She was a very sensual woman, and was a nightlife woman. She loved hosting big parties at the Tropicana and things like that. So that comes out. And I wanted to explore what it must be like at that age. I’m not there yet but I can imagine, me, now, I love being a woman and part of that is because of the way I express my sensuality. And I think part of the … I don’t know if discomfort is the word, but the feeling of losing yourself as you get older, I feel like a big part of that for women is feeling the loss of their sexual nature or sensual nature.
Photo by Elijah Peck