Georges Aperghis' 14 Recitations for solo voice
Performance length: 50 minutes
Requirements: Highly adaptable, can work in multiple settings from black box theatre, concert stage, and salon room and classroom. One or two performers (with or without dance), stage lighting optional.
For booking inquiries, please message Stephanie via her contact page.
Performance length: 50 minutes
Requirements: Highly adaptable, can work in multiple settings from black box theatre, concert stage, and salon room and classroom. One or two performers (with or without dance), stage lighting optional.
For booking inquiries, please message Stephanie via her contact page.
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Recitations, written in 1973, is a 40-minute work for solo voice. Divided into 14 movements, this piece breaks down traditions of music and theater through atonality, extended technique (including operatic singing, speaking, sputters and screams), puzzles and repetitions. The text is derived from the French language but the translation is meaningless and nonsensical as it groups random words and even breaks down words to random syllables.
In one performance, contemporary dance is incorporated into the performance as a means to materialize a full drama through multiple mediums. In some movements, the singer and dancer performed separately, and in other movements, their art was collaborative and they even physically danced together. This theatrical experience seeks to express the many facets and sufferings of domestic abuse victims through the interaction between movement and voice. In our mission to educate the public on topical issues through art, we hope that our performance provides an aesthetic (aural and visual) tangibility and understanding of an experience that is often silenced by fear. As contemporary artists and fellow advocates of social justice, we believe that the expression of issues through art is a necessary voyage to provide audiences awareness and a deeper sense of empathy for our fellow man or woman.
Performance history:
February 7-10, 2020 - Interference Series, Flagstaff, AZ
November 13, 2019 - Gould Memorial Library, New York, NY
April 7, 2019 - Third Life Studio, Boston, MA (with dance)
February 22nd, 2019 - Shapeshifter Lab, New York, NY
April 15th, 2018 - Gallery 263, Boston, MA
March 23rd, 2018 - Spectrum, New York, NY