Dear Friends,
Our Dance of the Month on June 4, 2016 from 3-5pm at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn will be “The Submission” from 1717 with choreography by Kellom Tomlinson. Described as being danced by The French Children, it begins with a slow triple meter, shifts into a minuet (characterized by Tomlinson as a brisk dance) and ends in a Rigaudon. We intend to get through the first and possibly second sections of the dance. Leah Nelson is playing violin and Carly Fox of the NYBDC, who first worked on this dance with former NYBDC member Ken Pierce in one of his workshops, has seduced an unknown dancer into submission so to speak and they will show the class their interpretation of this beautiful notation.
1717 is also the year of Alexander Pope’s final version of his mock-epic poem, “Rape of the Lock.” Our dance, “the Submission,” was described as “a new ball dance to be had at the author’s lodgings,” and was being sold by Tomlinson first in 1717. Perhaps we can imagine Pope and his circle either dancing or being entertained by watching this dance at social gatherings at Hampton Court.
The world premiere of a contemporary opera by Deborah Mason, Rape of the Lock, will be presented in an Open Rehearsal on June 6th and then in performance June 8th and June 9th at Roulette in Brooklyn. This opera was reviewed by New York Times critic, John Rockwell, during its infant stages (not yet completed) at a City Opera series and he said” “The Rape of the Lock,” a work in progress … offered her adaptation of Pope’s text clothed in wonderfully lush, intricate and contrapuntally energetic music. For me, she was the most pleasant surprise of the series.”
He is right! Do not miss this exciting premiere with semi-staging by Catherine Turocy and filmed projections of movement scapes and choreography by Caroline Copeland for NYBDC members Carly Fox Horton, Meggi Sweeney Smith and Alexis Silver.
The opera was chosen by New York Opera Fest to launch their new opera festival!
ARTISTS:
DEBORAH MASON, Composer
CATHERINE TUROCY, Director
CAROLINE COPELAND, Choreographer
DAVID GRUNBERG, Conductor
AMY COFIELD WILLIAMSON, Soprano (Belinda)
SEAN FALLEN, Tenor (Ariel)
JUSTIN RYAN, Baritone (Baron)
KEITH HARRIS, Baritone (Sir Plume)
JACQUELINE HORNER-KWIATEK, Mezzo Soprano (Clarissa, Eloisa)
ERIKA PERSON, Mezzo (Crispissa)
CHELSEA FRIEDLANDER, Soprano (Zephyretta)
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