{"id":571,"date":"2021-06-12T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/?p=571"},"modified":"2022-09-26T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:12:08","slug":"everything-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/productions\/everything-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Song Everything\/ Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Choreography and Costume:<\/strong>\u00a0Martha Graham<\/p>\n

Restaging:<\/strong>\u00a0Miki Orihara<\/p>\n

With:<\/strong>\u00a0Miki Orihara<\/p>\n

Neon Installation:<\/strong> Tim Etchells<\/p>\n

Music:<\/strong>\u00a0Henry Cowell
\nLight design reconstruction:<\/strong>\u00a0David Finley
\nLight:<\/strong>\u00a0Martin Beeretz
\nSound:<\/strong>\u00a0Mattef Kuhlmey<\/p>\n

“Deep Song” premiered at the Guild Theater in New York in 1937. Set to music by Henry Cowell, the dance was composed in response to the Spanish Civil War.\u00a0Deep Song<\/em>\u00a0was a cry of anguish, an embodiment of Martha Graham\u2019s fears for a world torn apart by man\u2019s inhumanity to man. \u201cThe fierce, fighting anguish of\u00a0Deep Song\u00a0<\/em>is as direct and as objective as a shout,\u201d wrote one critic.
\nAccording to program notes, \u201cthe forms of the dance \u2013 its swirls, crawls on the floor, contractions and falls \u2013 are kinetic experiences of the human experiences in war. . . It is the anatomy of anguish from tragic events.\u201d The tragedy of Spain is universalized through the choreography. \u201cIt is not Spain that we see in her clean impassioned movement; it is the realization that Spain\u2019s tragedy is ours, is the whole world\u2019s tragedy.\u201d The dance disappeared from the repertory in the 1940s, and it was not until 1989 that it was reconstructed by Graham with Terese Capucilli.<\/p>\n

Long-time Graham dancer and Dance On Ensemble member Miki Orihara will dance a restaging of \u201cDeep Song\u201d a<\/span><\/span>s part of the program \u201cMaking Dances\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Everything\/Nothing” is neon text installation created by artist and performance maker Tim Etchells, in response to Martha Graham\u2019s seminal work Deep Song<\/em>. Designed to be hung above the stage as the choreography is danced by Miki Orihara , the full text of Etchells\u2019 work is a quotation from Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca\u2019s 1931 poem \u2018Ay!\u2019 reading simply: Everything in the world is broken.\u00a0Nothing but silence remains.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Arranged as a constellation of neon words in dispersed arrangement above the stage Etchells\u2019 work enters a porous dialogue with Graham\u2019s choreography, the words illuminated one at a time to make a brief time-based intervention in the work, in which Lorca\u2019s text haunts the air above and around the piece. In the gesture of bringing this particular text into dialogue with Deep Song<\/em>, Etchells closes a circle of connection between the legacy of flamenco\u2019s deep song, Graham\u2019s powerful choreographic response to the Spanish Civil War, and Lorca himself who lost his life during the conflict. Placing fragmentary language, as individual words, in dialogue with Graham\u2019s ambiguous choreography of a suffering female figure, Etchells\u2019 neon directly addresses the concerns and context of the dance as well as acknowledging the limits of language when it comes to speaking of traumatic experience.<\/p>\n

This work can also be presented singularly in the appropriate conditions.<\/p>\n

This production of\u00a0Deep<\/em>\u00a0Song<\/em>\u00a0is presented by arrangement through Martha Graham Resources, a division of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Choreography and Costume:\u00a0Martha Graham Restaging:\u00a0Miki Orihara With:\u00a0Miki Orihara Neon Installation: Tim Etchells Music:\u00a0Henry Cowell Light design reconstruction:\u00a0David Finley Light:\u00a0Martin Beeretz Sound:\u00a0Mattef Kuhlmey “Deep Song” premiered at the Guild Theater in New York in 1937. Set to music by Henry Cowell, the dance was composed in response to the Spanish Civil War.\u00a0Deep Song\u00a0was a cry of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"content-produktionen.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}