| Title |
Strange Tongues |
|
| Year |
1997 |
| Length |
40 minutes, includes site specific locations |
| Number of Performers |
6 |
| Concept & Choreography |
Anne-Marie Mulgrew |
| Music |
Original score by Peter Price |
| Set/Lighting/Installation |
Vida-Vida |
| Costumes |
Bright Color Suits |
| Performed by |
Joseph Cicala, Jen Filer, A. Mulgrew, Christie Shertzer |
| Premiere |
Parallax Picture Studios, June 1, 1997, Philadelphia, PA |
| Additioanl Performances |
Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Sept. 9-11, 1998 University of PA Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Sept. 20, 1997 |
| STRANGE TONGUES first appeared as a work-in-process solely under the direction of Ms. Mulgrew* at Group Motion Studio, January 1997 for three dancers. Inspired by the book, Do's and Taboos from Around the World, personal travels, free ranging events, gestures and dress, the work premiered as a post industrial fantasy for 6 dancers in its collaborative form at Parallax Pictures using the site as a new source. The work uses scrim size slides, six performance areas for solo and group work, a computer sound score that integrates music, industrial sounds, voice, street sounds and techno rhythmic tracks. There were five solo dance sections in five site-specific areas and a center stage portion. Costumes are bright colored suits. Length is 40 minutes. There were three parts namely, A View from Above (The Wall Space, The Descent), Part 2, In-Ant-Pos- Ex Teriors, (Caught in a Time Zone, The Duet, Box Dance), Part 3, Foreign Yet Familiar (The Jacket Dance, Being Where it is, Familiar Territory). |
