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"You'll feel this concert in
your bones!"
Saturday,
June 17,
7:30 pm & Sunday, June 18, 3:00 pm
HEARTBEAT: Celebrating Rhythm & Body
Great American History Theater, 30 E. 10th St., St. Paul
Concert Repertoire Download
Featuring special guest Mu Daiko, a Taiko drum ensemble from
Mu Performing Arts. If you have never experienced Taiko drumming,
now is the time! This multi-disciplinary concert utilizes a unique
combination of choral music and drumming to explore how bodies are
both cherished and misrepresented in our culture. Taiko is a fully
embodied Japanese art that blends drumming with choreographed
movement. Taiko performances are highly bodied-centered, loud,
strenuous, and pulsating with adrenaline. Our concert features a
unique new commission by Taiko drummer and singer, Holly Coughlin.
Her composition incorporates a pattern of Taiko "callssung"
by the chorus to guide the movement of the drummers.
Meet the
Composer! You are invited to meet and talk with composer and
Taiko artist Holly Coughlin, and Artistic Director Jane Ramseyer
Miller, thirty minutes before each concert on June 17 and 18. Come
and hear more about how this partnership happened and what process
was used to create a collaborative work of art!
Concert
Repertoire - here's an overview of the
music we'll be singing at this concert:
- Deep
River: African American Spiritual.
Expresses the desire to transcend earthly injustice to attain
inner peace, freedom, and a sense of belonging.
- Easter
Island: Whimsical and rhythmic
tongue-in-cheek look at body image and an "ideallife.
- Eventual
Dentures: OVation's commentary on the
inevitable demise of our bodies.
- Gate
Gate: This piece will be a joint piece
choreographed for One Voice and the Mu Diako by Holly Coughin.
Sanskrit text.
- I
Hide Myself: Eric Whitacre sets this
beautiful love poem by Emily Dickinson as a stunning collage of
color, dissonance and resonance.
- Naked
in the Leaves: This song celebrates
the beauty of aging and loving the person as well as their aging
body.
- No
Mirrors in My Nana's House: A
wonderfully rhythmic piece from the view of an African American
child growing up with her grandmother who saw her as lovely and
beautiful without any shame of racism.
- Shadows
on the Rock: A song written for the
50th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki - marks a moment in
history when American and Japanese culture were permanently
linked. On this day the image of a human skeleton was embedded
into solid rock during the nuclear blast.
- Song
for the Roly Poly People: A funny, but
poignant celebration of large bodied people.
- These
are My Own: SSAA selection from
Montreal GALA that brought the house down. A hilarious
celebration of women's bodies.
- Tjak:
a vocal percussive piece akin to Taiko in its rhythms and calls.
- Taiko
Commission: One Voice Alumni, Holly
Coughlin, will compose the world's first piece for Taiko
drummers and an 80+ voice chorus. The choir parts will
incorporate the calls and chants used by Taiko drummers to
direct the flow and movement of the choreography.
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