Karin Stevens Dance & the ULP: 'Saci – A Brazilian Folktale' & 'The Greater Trumps'
$50 / $35 / $25 / $20 / $15 / $5
Jovino Santos-Neto – Saci – A Brazilian Folktale
Stravinsky/Thorpe – The Greater Trumps
Two fixtures of the Seattle arts scene, Karin Stevens Dance and the Universal Language Project, join forces with a shared vision of creating timely works responding to relevant social issues and the human experience. On the bill are two pieces: Saci – A Brazilian Folktale, composed by three-time Latin Grammy nominee Jovino Santos-Neto, and The Greater Trumps, Libretto by Doug Thorpe and music by Igor Stravinsky.
The original production of Saci was paired with Stravinsky’s seminal work, The Soldier’s Tale. By commission from the Universal Language Project, Mr. Santos-Neto has composed music using the same instrumentation as Stravinsky, but written in the style of his native Brazil and utilizing Brazilian folklore as subject material. The Saci (sah-see) has been a mythological character of Brazilian folklore since the early 1800s – an amalgam of different cultural strains, combining elements from Native Brazilian tribes, African slaves, and Portuguese colonizers.
These two works are designed to be experienced together. Composed at the start of World War I, the ground-breaking The Soldier’s Tale was largely inspired by the difficulties of making dramatic art in a time of financial crisis – not unlike making art in the 21st Century. With Stravinsky’s music and an exciting new libretto by Doug Thorpe, The Greater Trumps will create a re-imagined and politically charged work tackling concerns of our time, and celebrating nearly 100 years since the original music’s premiere.
Tickets: $50 Arts Advocate, $35 Fan Reserved, $25 GA, $20 senior, $15 student, $5 Teen Tix
About Karin Stevens Dance
Karin Stevens Dance (KSD) believes that dance is a radical, vital art key to our future in this 21st Century. KSD's contemporary dance artworks strive for beauty through richly textured patterns that embody the complex, turbulent layers of our time, our cultural spaces, and our relationship to environments. We advocate for live, local, new music, partnering and collaborating with musicians and composers. We re/connect us to our bodily selves, to each other and to the greater ecologies of our collective dance. Our work embraces the mystery, suffering, wonder, and bewilderment in our interdependent existence through re/imagination, transformation, and healing for our collective well-being.
http://karinstevensdance.com/