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[purgatorio] POPOPERA

Created by MAPP International Productions (See other events)
  • Sep 24, 2009 at 8:00pm to Sep 25, 2009 at 8:00pm
  • Location: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland
  • Latest Activity: Oct 11, 2023
After their kaleidoscopic HELL (2006), Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten continue their journey through Dante’s Divine Comedy. In [purgatorio] POPOPERA, Bang on a Can composer Michael Gordon enriches the typical EG | PC research on the relationship between dance and music using structural elements from rock music. Six dancers intertwine with gleaming black electric guitars. A cross? A third arm? A lump of suffering? Dancers mutate into instruments. Raging guitars become fragile flesh and blood sound-boards. Chained by strings a crowd of dancers seeks purification in a redeeming rhapsody. [purgatorio] POPOPERA blends raw unpolished musicality with fine physical virtuosity and dissolves the borders of music and dance.
Tags: dance, performance grecousa
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