LAMENTATIO = music + dance + multi-media journey

by James Bash on November 19, 2009

LAMENTATIO is a new show by the Agnieszka Laska Dancers (ALD) and Danscoreo and Impetus Arts (IA). According to its creators , the show will be a “multi-media journey into the lyrical souls of the victims of the Global War Of Terror.”

November 18-19-20-21 @ 8pm – Sun. 22 @ 3pm, 2009
Imago Theatre space (17 SE 8th Ave., Portland)

Here is more information from the Press Release:

New choreography by ALD and IA Directors, Agnieszka Laska and Curtis Walker, to a new score by ALD Resident Composer, Jackie Gabel composed around excerpts from the Missa pro defunctis – Requiem of Roman Maciejewski, with projected montages by video artist, Takafumi Uehara. Poetry is from “POEMS FROM GUANTANAMO, THE DETAINEES SPEAK,” edited by Marc Falkoff, U. of Iowa Press, 2007 and “HERE, BULLET” by Brian Turner, A. James Books, 2005. Performance video footage will be edited/authored to DVD and submitted to international film festivals.

LAMENTATIO is a companion piece to THE FALL ‘01 – (premiered 09/11/06), a dance-theatre epic about the empire at the precipice of its fall. It focuses on the suicidal Global War Of Terror. LAMENTATIO examines the emotional and physical damage to victims on all sides. As for polemics, LAMENTATIO is a call for re-humanization of all victims. Any veteran and any refugee of any armed conflict from anywhere in the world will be freely admitted to any showing in this premiere run, as well as all persons of mixed abilities.

One Response to “LAMENTATIO = music + dance + multi-media journey”

Jack Gabel, ALD Resident Composer says:

November 19, 2009 at 6:15 pm

Weblink is to the ticket purchase page for LAMENTATIO – only 4 shows currently scheduled – don’t miss it – sample streaming video to companion piece: THE FALL ‘01 – http://www.thefall01.info/ – from 2006, more pertinent than the 2003 photo above – thanks for the posting, James.

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James Bash

James Bash writes articles for a variety of publications, including magazines such as Opera America, Open Spaces, Opera, MUSO, International Arts Manager, American Record Guide, Symphony, Opera Canada, and PSU Magazine. The newspapers include Crosscut, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Oregonian, The Columbian, The Portland Tribune, The Register-Guard, and Willamette Week. James has also written a number of articles for the Oregon Arts Commission. James was a fellow to the 2008 NEA Journalism Institute for Classical Music and Opera. He is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America (mcana.org) and lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kathy.