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Looking ahead... · Apr 8, 10:33 PM

I will be out of town, but you might be interested in going, if you are in New York at the end of May. The music is primarily a reordering and judicious editing of earlier pieces, with a few surprise additions.

Thursday-Saturday,
May 29-31, 2008 at 7:30pm
Reservations 212.349.0126
Chen Dance Center
70 Mulberry Street, Floor 2
Chen Dance Center

More details and pretty pictures via ETG_spr2008.pdf

The Choreographer — Marie Alonzo Snyder — told me at the beginning of our creative process:

The work is inspired by research and writings I have been doing about
staged images of acculturation that explores rediscovering one’s cultural
identity, reinventing oneself, and affirming one’s heritage. These life
transitions are marked by a perpetual cycle of endings and beginnings
throughout one’s life. The burden of rediscovery, reinvention and
affirmation becomes more focused as the cultural link to one’s country of
origin gradually weakens and simply fades as the years go by.

...touches on the idea about discovering what is really English, Indian or Japanese as a result of detachment.

She’s also doing interesting things with costumes and scenery and the like:

... the stream of people. In
life, people blend in among other type, race, culture, age, and religion of
people. The drape represents the entire wholeness.
The …whole stream consists of millions of different identities/
individuals. The finding of identity requires other people in order to see the difference.

Primary colors are the core colors which produce all other colors. I interpreted them as individual identities that you cannot change their nature. I also wanted to distinguish them from the stream…

You can also preview some of the music here

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