Annie-B Parson's "I used to love you" - excerpt

Опубликовано: 22 Февраль 2017
на канале: Martha Graham Dance Company
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In 1941 Martha Graham created "Punch and The Judy", a work that satirized marriage by referencing Punch and Judy shows, replete with bullying and day-to-day marital antagonism. Graham Artistic Director Janet Eilber asked choreographer Annie-B Parson to make it her own, using any of the original material she wished and diverting from it with total freedom.

The new work is created, not as an update, but instead as a conversation with the original work. The piece uses the original video footage as a starting point and remixes the imagery, sound, and dance vocabulary for today. The new dance buries and then unearths the original in contemporary terms by considering the “Martha” character for its sorrow and emotional depth, and re-thinks the thuggish husband as a man of dark dimensionality.