"Created by the very busy Aletta Collins, Awakenings was commissioned and energised by Daniel Katz, a Rambert sponsor. He and Tobias Picker, the American composer for the piece, were introduced to each other by Sacks. Both Katz and Picker had grown up with Tourette’s syndrome, its physical tics being similar to those of the Awakenings patients. Music gave the patients a tempo and some control....
Awakenings is an essay in damaged cognition. Eight patients each emerge from tragic stillness to a consciousness characterised by awkward tics and wild or overly slow movements....
Picker’s score has soulful emotion mixed with strident, eerie phrases. Picker, incidentally, was once an accompanist for Martha Graham...."
extract from review by Kevin Berry: THE STAGE
http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/29684/the-awakenings-tour-hush-rainforest-
No comments:
Post a Comment