when: 06 - 10 January 2021 | venue: Carriageworks | cost: Adult: $39 | Concession: $35 | address: 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh NSW 2042 | tickets: https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/poem-for-dried-up-river
published: 17 Nov 2020, 5 min read
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Poetry, music, physical theatre and art installation meet in a mesmerising combination.
Struggle, exertion - where does it first show up in the body? In the breath. And that's how Jane Sheldon's _poem for a dried up river _begins: in summer darkness with the sounds of breathing floating over chirping cicadas. Gradually two sopranos emerge from the soundscape, their labour divided - instrument and words.
This riveting performance melds opera, poetry, physical theatre and art installation in a mesmerising, unique combination. Alice Oswald's text about a figurine of a naiad trying to coax water from a bed of limestone 'unfolds like a cry of environmental despair'. Sheldon's exquisite palette of musical colours plays on contrasts: dry and wet, weak and strong, barren and fecund. Elizabeth Gadsby's powerful installation mirrors the nymph's exertions with the unrolling of a 200kg path of clay.
Jane Sheldon reunites with Sydney Chamber Opera for another collaboration filled with detail and nuance, and a profound sense of connection.
Carriageworks is a Covid-Safe venue. Find out more.
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Poetry, music, physical theatre and art installation meet in a mesmerising combination.
Struggle, exertion - where does it first show up in the body? In the breath. And that's how Jane Sheldon's _poem for a dried up river _begins: in summer darkness with the sounds of breathing floating over chirping cicadas. Gradually two sopranos emerge from the soundscape, their labour divided - instrument and words.
This riveting performance melds opera, poetry, physical theatre and art installation in a mesmerising, unique combination. Alice Oswald's text about a figurine of a naiad trying to coax water from a bed of limestone 'unfolds like a cry of environmental despair'. Sheldon's exquisite palette of musical colours plays on contrasts: dry and wet, weak and strong, barren and fecund. Elizabeth Gadsby's powerful installation mirrors the nymph's exertions with the unrolling of a 200kg path of clay.
Jane Sheldon reunites with Sydney Chamber Opera for another collaboration filled with detail and nuance, and a profound sense of connection.
Carriageworks is a Covid-Safe venue. Find out more.
Go see poem for a dried up river 2021.
poem for a dried up river 2021 is on 06 - 10 January 2021. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Eveleigh.
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