Radiance

Summer 2016 • the Long Center

SUMMARY:

The staging of this transcendent work included performing on the Long Center’s terrace, ring and columns, as well as the making of two “celestial harps.” These “harps” were created by connecting the columns with multi-level steel cables, allowing  dancers to move across and ‘play’ notes as the mic’ed cables capture the sounds of their feet. These 20 x 30 foot “harps” will be located at both ends of the terrace.

ABOUT RADIANCE:

There is a presence,  an energy that vibrates through all of life, a field of Light connecting us to stars, planets, this earth, animals,  and to one another. BLL’s Artistic Director, Sally Jacques, recounts one experience of this Light:

“When I was a teenager I hitchhiked throughout Europe.  One night I was dropped off in a village in France in the mountains. It was late so I wandered around until I found a field laid down and went to sleep.  When I awoke I was lying next to a field of wild red poppies, which was next to a field of strawberries and green peas. The early morning sun was radiating rainbow colored sheaths of light over the fields and village.  It was breathtaking.  Radiance is about this Light, this Light that is within each of us.”