In one logistically uncharacterstic sequence, the older and younger performers square off, one on one, and chant reproachful imprecations at one another. There are guilty reflections on how seldom you go to visit and how glad you are to get away. Initially we get the daughters’ perspective there are evocations of gazing across the tea-table at the woman who bore you, realizing that you hardly know her and she is beginning to lose all memory of you. Even when one detaches herself for a single sentence or paragraph, she seems to be speaking for the collective. For much of the time, though, they speak and move and sing in unison, speaking alternately for both generations. The subject is mothers and daughters.Įverybody on stage is by definition a daughter, and there is one sequence in which each in turn identifies herself and her real-life mother by name. Brigitte Haentjens directed it, which must to a large extent mean that she choreographed it Louise Dupre wrote the text and Erin Moure wrote the English translation. It’s Luminato’s presentation of Necessary Angel’s production of a piece that originated in Quebec in 2006. The next issue of NP Posted will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.

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