I will be in Chicago this Friday for the Do Not Deny Me party with Featherproof, but if I were in new York, I would not miss June 5th's one-night-only music and dance performance, "it was this : it was this:" as part of my friend Anne Fernald's Woolf in the City!
it was this: it was this:
songs and dances inspired by the life and work of
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group
with Princeton & Stephen Pelton Dance Theater
at the 19th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference
Friday June 5th, 2009 8pm
Pope Auditorium, Fordham University
113 W 60th St, New York, NY 10023
Tickets $20. Available at at the door. Noted,
"Southern California frolic meets Northern California serious in a one-night only collaboration of song and dance.
Princeton, the Los Angeles-based trio, join forces with San Francisco’s Stephen Pelton Dance Theater in it was this: it was this: an evening of songs and dances inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group.
Princeton will perform all of the songs from their recent EP Bloomsbury, each lyrically focused upon a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Portraits of Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes are each presented in a different musical framework with lush orchestral arrangements. The band is comprised of twin brothers Jesse and Matt Kivel and Ben Usen. The band will be joined by 8 additional musicians in recreating their frolicsome, exuberant take on the cast of Bloomsbury characters.
Stephen Pelton Dance Theater, known for known its intimate theatricality and emotional intensity, may be familiar to audiences from previous Woolf conferences. This year the company will perform several new works including the premiere of it was this: it was this: a choreographic study of Woolf’s punctuation. Using a single paragraph from To the Lighthouse, the company dances their way from the first word to the last, pausing briefly for every comma, parentheses and semicolon in-between. The company also performs a revised version of The Death of the Moth, first seen at the Plymouth State Conference in 1997.
The artists will combine forces for the premiere of Lytton/Carrington, a portrait-in-miniature of this most original of love stories.”
where in the name of all that's holy can i get that shirt?
Posted by: Jessica | June 03, 2009 at 02:24 PM
Princeton!
Posted by: Lauren Cerand | June 03, 2009 at 03:11 PM
So excellent...love to wear it :)
Posted by: True | June 11, 2009 at 08:03 AM