Summer 2008: A Wagner Matinee
A Wagner Matinee (working title) is a dance theater piece that mixes video, photography and dance, overlaying personal narrative atop Willa Cather’s short story of the same name.
Set to a score comprised of recordings from the 1920s, family stories, and an original composition, the dance will weave the text of Cather’s tale with movement and personal anecdote, attempting to inhabit the space between the writer and the reader, history and memory, fiction and transcendence. Photographer and Nebraska resident Michael Farrell will collaborate.
The work will premiere in June 2008 at the Red Cloud Opera House during the Willa Cather Spring Conference in Red Cloud, Nebraska, where Cather spent her youth. Plans are currently underway to present the work in other Nebraska locations and in New York City so stay tuned!
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