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Choreography by Jonathan Hollander for ensemble of 5 dancers; Commissioned musical score by Frank Carlberg scored for voice, piano and percussion, performed live by Christine Correa, Frank Carlberg and Yousif Sheronick; lighting design by Barry Steele; texts from the notebooks of 20th Century French painter Georges Braque.
Carlberg’s score and Hollander’s choreography form a tapestry of rhythmic and geometric interplay, with ascending arpeggios echoed between voice, piano, tolling bells and the rising and falling dancers. Stylistic references draw equally from the contrasting worlds of honky-tonk, French music hall and Arabic cabaret; as well as Braque’s oeuvres, from his early cubist works through his late forays into the mysticism evoked by the swoopings of birds in flight.
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