“‘What infinite use Dante would have made of the Bowery!’ Theodore Roosevelt declared in 1913.” [. . .] –Sam Roberts, The New York Times, April 17, 2013
Dante’s Fire-Con
“With “Geek!” the playwright Crystal Skillman and the troupe Vampire Cowboys fly high the freak flag of fantasy. An ode to fangirls and fanboys, the show, in Cowboys tradition, celebrates the universe of anime, comics, science fiction, manga and Hollywood effects spectaculars. It’s a milieu Ms. Skillman clearly knows well and depicts with affection. At an Ohio anime convention called Dante’s Fire-Con two fans take on the guises of their fictional heroines…” [. . .] –Andy Webster, New York Times, March 29, 2013
See also: Incubator Arts Project, New York
Reading of the Inferno at St. John of the Divine, NYC
“For the 20th consecutive year, the great Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine hosts this free late-night reading of Dante’s epic poem of Hell and damnation. Those scheduled to read include the cathedral’s poet-in-residence, Marilyn Nelson. It’s worth the trip to hear grand verse ring out in the church at night.” —Time Out New York, Thursday, March 28, 2013
Contributed by Emma Pyle (Bowdoin, ’12)
Sean Curran Company, Fireweather (2013)
“How do they dance in hell? According to Sean Curran’s new Fireweather, the first half of his company’s program at the Joyce Theater, the damned gravitate to the floor. Stretch and spring up as they might, something keeps pulling them down.
Both Fireweather and its score, Charles Wuorinen’s ‘Mission of Virgil,’ are inspired by Dante’s Inferno. In a program note Mr. Wuorinen stresses that his atonal composition isn’t narrative and that his attitude, like Dante’s, is mocking. Mr. Curran’s attitude is more reverent, and his dance much more like an illustration.
Though there is no clear Dante or Virgil, there is a journey deeper into the circles of the underworld, with projected titles to announce each section. Warriors march and kick. Bodies mass into six-armed monsters. A naked Satan struts and stumbles. The adulterers Paolo and Francesca circle each other and kiss.
Much of the choreography has a monumental quality that recalls the mythic works of Martha Graham. Tense tableaus are composed like the paintings of old masters. Yet despite strong dancing and choreographic craft, the work falls short of its august models. The titles that guide us set up expectations nearly impossible to fulfill.” –Brian Seibert, The New York Times, February 1, 2013
Charles Wuorinen, “The Dante Trilogy” (1993-1996)
“In his long composing life, Charles Wuorinen has drawn on an extremely wide range of intellectual and musical inspirations, including many from science and literature. The Dante Trilogy is among his most ambitious compositions, its source one of the great works of the Western intellectual canon. The three ballets each correspond to one of the books of Dante’s Divina Commedia: The Mission of Virgil to Inferno, The Great Procession to Purgatorio, and The River of Light to Paradiso; although rather than attempting to mirror the whole of Dante’s narrative, Wuorinen’s music relates to the detail and atmosphere of the books.” —Naxos
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