LAMINARIA: Performance in Process
Description:
Description: Fairytale meets noir meets classical music, LAMINARIA evokes imagery of an underwater shadow ghost emerging from a kelp forest. A 45 minute chamber music suite featuring 10 musicians and 3 modern dancers.
Performed by CACEnsemble
And the
Wendy Osserman Dance Company
See this performance in an open rehearsal atmosphere giving insight to our process of choreographing dance to music.
45 minute in process performance and 15 minute talk. The artists explain how they worked to align this flexible music score with live dance through guided improvisational sections and cues.
Fairytale meets noir meets classical music, LAMINARIA tells the story of an underwater shadow ghost emerging from a kelp forest. Laminaria (the Latin word for kelp) is used medicinally to induce labor in women and serves as a metaphor for rebirth, transformation and loss. The suite was written by Concetta Abbate, violinist/singer/composer for a 10 piece chamber orchestra- Strings, woodwinds, piano, brass and percussion and presented NYC at the Dimenna Center and El Museo del Barrio in NYC.
This event will be performed in collaboration with dancers from the Wendy Osserman Dance Company.
