Angels & Demons at Play
Recitation of "The Shadow of the Fire" - Dwight Frizzell | Choreography -
improvised | Music - Sun Ra (arr. Conway) | Dancers: all dancers
"Angels & Demons at Play" is an interdisciplinary work involving dance, shadow puppets, electronic visual media and live music provided by members of Gamelan Genta Kasturi. The focus of this piece is the exploration of the interplay of positive and negative energetic forces using the vehicle of traditional Balinese dance drama, masked dance and shadow puppet theater as points of departure for the collaborators to create an original multi-media work.
The Collaborative Partners
Choreography | Penelope Hearne, Kalen Compernolle, Tuesday Faust
Costumes | Bryan Brock, Krystal Jolicoeur, Brie Blakeman, Tracie Davis
Music | Patrick Alonzo Conway, Sun Ra
Electronic Visual Media | Dwight Frizzell, Emily Kissner
Shadow Puppets | Allan Winkler
Lighting Design | Rachael Shair
Poetry | Sun Ra excerpts from "The Immeasurable Equation"
Live music
Gamelan Genta Kasturi with special guests Dwight Frizzell and Shawn Hansen
The City in Motion Apprentice Company | Lilly McGonigle, Amber Brownlee, Leah Brownlee, Lydia Knopp, Dominique Vaughan, Sierra Laing, Julia Badji,
Nakysha Osadchey, Greer Madole, Madeline Cozad, Marina Vianello,
Guthrie Kimball
The musicians of Gamelan Genta Kasturi
Patrick Alonzo Conway - Director soprano sax, autoharp, percussion, pemade, ugal Berend Niehorster-Cook flute, jublag, pemade Malcolm Cook bass guitar, tenor sax, penyacah, jublag, pemade Sam Hughes alto & baritone sax, pemade, kantilan Thaylia Smith jegogan Mickey Willard pemade, kantilan Allan Winkler drumset, gongs Wayne Yockey pemade, suling, geng-gong Joshua Zornes jublag, kajar
Special guests
Dwight Frizzell clarinet & alto clarinet
Shawn Hansen piano, toy piano, jublag
From a performance 2/27/2011 at La Esquina in KCMO presented through the Charlotte Street Foundation Urban Culture Project
lyrics
Closing Recitation
THE SHADOW OF THE FIRE
The vibrations of the sounds seem the same
But the meanings of the sounds
Take separate directions
At the crossroads
Of the cosmic point of the arrow
.........................................................................
Beyond this age
Through the darkness of the light years
And the light years of the darkness
Is the pure light of the pure darkness
And the pure darkness of the pure light
The light is as the darkness
Because the light is the image
And the shadow of the fire.
Patrick Alonzo Conway/SyncreticaKansas City, Missouri
Patrick Alonzo Conway is a percussionist, wind player and composer. He has studied with noted master drummers from around
the world and has traveled to Cuba and Bali to study. Pat holds a Masters in Music Composition from the UMKC Conservatory, was a founding member of newEar and works with Chris Hazelton's Boogaloo 7, Matt Hopper's Agora Peoples Liberation Big Band of Greater KC, and BCR....more
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