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Saturday (April 25) San Diego State University Director of Choral Studies Patrick Walders conducted Stephen Paulus’ profound Holocaust oratorio “To Be Certain of the Dawn” with a 140-voice massed choir and full orchestra at College Avenue Baptist Church . . .
Parodies are hard to master, especially when it comes to film and theatre. There are popular big screen comedies and live productions that pay tribute to particular genres.
“I listened to Vivaldi’s music for six months, and I couldn’t imagine a piece,” said Cohan,” but finally at sunset I knew I could choreograph it. The mother stands at the cross weeping…it took me months and I worked with Kate. It’s formed mathematically, and we have to make it meaningful. Dance is an extreme form of movement language.”
When we had to do a movement phrase crossing the floor, I started to think that being onstage was a very bad idea. This year’s Live Arts Fest offered not just a look at dance legacies, but actual somatic experience. Plus a lesson that choreographers age incredibly well … Bella Lewitzky started her company at 50 and led it for 30 years; and Robert Cohan, whom the little festival that could brought from London, showed a fresh new work he’d created at 90.
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