The sonic assault starts right away. From on high, the pair train clarinets down upon the defenseless audience in a shrill and gurgly fanfare. You might notice that handlettered sheets of cardboard subtly bear the word "fanfare," a nod to Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man as well as a sign of the DIY spirit of the production. Music making employs stand-alone instruments (clarinets, kazoos), a snaggle of increasingly snaggled, endangered electronics and the whimsy of amplified stuff simply hitting or being dragged along the floor. Movement involves, among other things, whippet-thin Heron risking life while, strapped into pointe shoes, he laboriously climbs to the top of a stack of tables, or channeling Graham's iconic Lamentation, tense angles stretching the fabric of what a U Michigan arts blogger once called "The Infamous Giant Sock Thing."
Heron's centerpiece work as Graham is a thing of mystery and scrupulously contained drama, gorgeous in its own way.
Appalachian Spring Break concludes with two performances tonight: 8pm and 10:30 pm. For information and tickets, click here.
JACK
505 1/2 Waverly Avenue (between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue), Brooklyn
(map/directions)
No. Not Scotty Heron this time. The real Martha Graham performs Lamentation. (photo: Herta Moselsio) |
Heron's centerpiece work as Graham is a thing of mystery and scrupulously contained drama, gorgeous in its own way.
Appalachian Spring Break concludes with two performances tonight: 8pm and 10:30 pm. For information and tickets, click here.
JACK
505 1/2 Waverly Avenue (between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue), Brooklyn
(map/directions)
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