 photo: R. Michaels
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Late Echo (choreography Catherine Gallant) is a work for five dancers. The choreography gleans images from John Ashbury’s 1979 poem, Late Echo. The dance looks slowly and closely at the minute reflections in nature’s eye, moving our “chronic inattention” to aliveness as the movement shifts and drifts between the dancers, the projected video images and the space. A palpable urgency propels the movement through deep shadows and uncertain destinations. With dancers Kathleen Caragine, Colleen Edwards, Rosy Gentle, Amelia Sanders, Rebecca Seow
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We have created a re-invention of a work inspired by the 1992-93 reconstruction by Julia Levien of Duncan's 1921 work to Chopin's Polonaise Op. 40 No. 2. The dark brooding nature of Chopin's music underlies the rise and fall of the undulating torsos as a group of dancers moves in close proximity. They seem to be wanderers, searchers, refugees moving cautiously amid unspecified danger. The original (as taught by Julia Levien) will be present in a way that recedes and emerges through a finely wrought connection to urgent energies of the present. The work will reverberate between the collective movement of the group and individual voices of the journey. The audio environment will include echos of Chopin within a collage of sound including Gloria Coates' Symphony #1.
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