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Day on Earth
Year of production
1995
Year of creation
1947
“Day on Earth, in critic Margaret Lloyd’s words, is an “exquisite pastorale,” an objectified telling of man’s brief, but self-perpetuating, passage on earth. Shown are life’s joys and its trials–the warmth of love and family dependence, the anguish of leave-taking and of death. And throughout there is the theme of work–work as challenge, as necessity, as opportunity, and as solace for grief. Only four dancers are used to relate this saga and it is told in the space of 20 minutes. No more dancers, no more time, it seems clear at the end, are necessary.”
Source: Masterpieces by Doris Humphrey and Aaron Copland, John Mueller, November 1, 2007 Originally published in Dance Magazine, February, 1979
Choreography
Company
Collection
Year of production
1995
Year of creation
1947
Lights
Steve Woods
Music
Aaron Copland – Piano Sonata (1941), played by Michael Cherry
Performance
Paul Dennis, Nina Watt, Carla Maxwell, Chelica Kimerling,
Production of video work
The Joyce Theater, New York
