6 Variations
(on a Haunted Wood) OPENING DAY PERFORMANCE AT THE QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART, MAY 10, 2009
Video by Mariam Ghani Choreography by Erin Ellen Kelly Score by Shahzad Ismaily Text adapted from Dante, W.H. Auden & Forugh Farrokhzad Performed by Erin Ellen Kelly & Yana Kraeva
The performance 6 Variations, developed collaboratively by Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly, starts with a story of a haunted wood--a constantly recurring sign of the terror and possibility of the unknown. The performance traces this notion across three different texts from different times, languages and places, while simultaneously translating it across multiple mediums and bodies through video projections, movement, and music.
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