"The transparency and fluency of
the historical layers with which Franko was working was
fascinating, as was the dancers' self-awareness in realizing
them."
--Rita Felciano, Dance View
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Sea Chant Over Long Island,
July
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choreography: Mark Franko
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music: Marin Marais "Carillon,"
and Claude Debussy, "La Mer"
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dancers: three
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running time: 15 minutes
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"I wasn't prepared for the
contemporary little gem that emerged Monday
evening. It did have wonderful references that kept
shooting images into the mind, but they were
modernist -- of the Ballet Russes, of course,
Le Train
Bleu, Danilova in her
bathing cap in the original Apollo,
Nijinsky's nymphs, but also of Picasso and those
classical figures gamboling on the beach
intertwined in half-reclining poses, and of Elie
Nadelman with his buoyant balloon-like bathers.
Then there was the angst and bursts of sound that
both played into the alienated, disturbing aspect
of the piece and at the same time into the
sophisticated humor and '20s chic. . . . I was
vastly impressed with Juliet Neidish's dancing . .
. the dramatic power and sense of monumentality
that came from that delicate body."
-- Gay Morris
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This work combines baroque
vocabulary, Ballets Russes images of the 1920s, and
a contemporary beach scene as a tribute to the
victims of TWA flight 800 in the context of a
"composto" of baroque music and impressionism, the
flow of water and baroque gesture.
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For booking
information:
contact Mark Franko by
email
or in San Francisco at
1033 Stanyan Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
or in New York at 35 West 92nd Street, 7D, New
York, N.Y. 10025
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