Rosenkranz
mixed-media performance art collaboration of 17th century chamber music with image, dance and poetry
2019-ongoing
premiere
30 December 2019
Philadelphia, United States
:: DUE TO THE COVID-19 QUARANTINE, ALL PROGRAMMED CONCERTS IN SPRING & SUMMER 2020 HAVE BEEN POSTPONED! ::
The Rosenkranz Sonaten, the Mysteries of the Rosary (1672) by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber consist of a 15 sonata cycle in which the violin is retuned 'scordatura' for each mystery, followed by the Passacaglia for Solo Violin. Performed on historical instruments, the program is a multimedia collaboration bringing together an exploration of image, dance, and poetry reimagined in a contemporary context. The program is divided into three parts. The project contemplates upon our experience of spirituality and how it informs our worlds, by exploring and engaging with the experience of representation and difference, refugee migration, global violence, and nature and the anthropocene, as people negotiatiate climates, disease, capital, violence and power as they are are on the move. In this space, we use our collaboration in art to meditate on how the spiritual provides an opportunity to empower in the face of disempowerment in within the pillar of strength global collaborations provides.
I. Joyful. Birth.
II. Sorrowful. Movement.
III. Glorious. Nature.
Neepa Acharya, violin
John Walthausen, keyboards
Patrick Jones, recitation
Martina Smrekova, sceneography
with collaboration from
Daniel Castro Garcia, images
Brandon Oliver Lewis, poetry