Mourner’s bench

This spiritual, muscular struggle between a dancer and a bench is inspired by the world of novelist Howard Fast and alludes to the tragic influence of the Ku Klux Klan on a rural, multi-racial community in the southern United States, after the civil war.

This spiritual, muscular struggle between a dancer and a bench is inspired by the world of novelist Howard Fast and alludes to the tragic influence of the Ku Klux Klan on a rural, multi-racial community in the southern United States, after the civil war. The performer asserts himself through a language of movement, highly stylised on the themes of oppression and transcendence. “Sitting on the mourner’s bench”, he recounts the decline, horror and oppression suffered by the black community.

Credits

Creation : 1947 section de la pièce “Southern Landscape”Choregraphy : Talley BeattyRerun in 2009 by : James CarlèsTransmitter : Joan Myers Brown – Cie Philadanco, Philadelphie USADuration : 6 mnMusic : «There is a balm in Gilead» Traditionnal spiritual song 

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