zoe|juniper & Northwest Film Forum: This is Beethoven – ordinary grief / the people to come (on-demand until 12/19/2020)
Free (Free)
Film contains nudity; viewer discretion is advised.
Christiana Axelsen, dance
Shane Donohue, dance
Michele Dooley, dance
marco farroni, dance
Nia-Amina Minor, dance
Stefan Richmond, dance
Symone Sanz, dance
David Rue, dance
ordinary grief / the people to come
Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey, co- directors and editors
Juniper Shuey, cinematography
Zoe Scofield, choreography
Max Bernstein, sound design
Zoe Scofield, costumes
Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey (zoe | juniper) create a dance film in dialogue with Beethoven’s handwritten scores for his late quartets. The screening of this new work is presented in collaboration with Northwest Film Forum's virtual cinema.
“Since the beginning of quarantine, the world-wide recognition of urgencies surrounding anti-racism action, and the subsequent crumbling of all productions and plans, I have been in a perpetual state of shock. This time is asking me to return to my process at it’s very basic level, making art with what I have in front of me. I must admit, I am not much of a Beethoven connoisseur, I don’t know his music beyond the greatest hits. So I decided to begin with “listening” to his late quartets, and by sitting with the printed score and allowing the notes to turn into movement. To read the timing, pace, tempo and quality through his hand and physicalize it. I traced his notes with my fingers, found shapes in their arrangements, saw dancers, stage, space, and time. It began to feel like a duet with Beethoven, a re-animation of him not just through his music, but alongside the movement of his hand across the page as it made physical the sounds in his head he could no longer hear.”
– Zoe Scofield, zoe | juniper Co-Artistic Director and Choreographer
The broadcast will begin at 8pm Pacific.
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