Happy as hell.About her new dance based on the Persephone myth, Jane Comfort says, "Hell has some appeal." The performers sing and dance to Tigger Benford's East/West fusion score for gamelan gamelan Indigenous orchestra of Java and Bali and, more generally, of Indonesia and Malaysia. A gamelan usually consists largely of gongs, xylophones, and metallophones (rows of tuned metal bars struck with a mallet). Gamelan polyphony is complex and many-voiced. instruments, shakuhachi shakuhachi Japanese end-blown bamboo flute. Its notes are produced by blowing across the open upper end, resulting in a distinctively breathy tone. It has five fingerholes. flute, synthesizer, and conch conch (kŏngk, kŏnch, kôngk), common name for certain marine gastropod mollusks having a heavy, spiral shell, the whorls of which overlap each other. shells. The set, by Keith Sonnier, includes neon fiber optic light sculptures in changing colors. Persephone, which Comfort calls "a soul journey to self-enlightenment," is kin to her Bessie Award-winning Underground River, which examined the dream state of an unconscious woman. Both come to the Joyce October 5 to 10. And in honor of the upcoming election, Comfort has revived her devilishly dev·il·ish adj. 1. Of, resembling, or characteristic of a devil, as: a. Malicious; evil. b. Mischievous, teasing, or annoying. 2. Excessive; extreme: devilish heat. wicked Three Bagatelles for the Righteous, in which our presidential nominees, heard on sound bites, appear as stiff-bodied puppets, controlled by handlers. See www.joyce.org. |
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