Roaratorio

(1983 – recreation 2010)

(1983 – reprise 2010)

Choreography : Merce Cunningham

Music : John Cage

Created by John Cage, based on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, Roaratorio is a completely crazy project that was intentionally unfinished, tending towards the infinite. Roaratorio is an atypical piece amongstthe works of Merce Cunningham. The choreography seems to give body to James Joyce’s literature, like an incarnation of the tongue beyond language.

Générique

Choreography : Merce Cunningham

Music : John Cage, « Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake »

Set, light : Mark Lancaster

With : Brandon Collwes, Dylan Crossman, Julie Cunningham, Emma Desjardins, Jennifer Goggans, John Hinrichs, Daniel Madoff, Rashaun Mitchell, Marcie Munnerlyn, Krista Nelson, Silas Riener, Jamie Scott, Robert Swinston, Melissa Toogood, Andrea Weber

Reprise 2010 : Patricia Lent, Robert Swinston

Duration : 1 heure

Filmed by Marie-Hélène Rebois for the special journey about “Montpellier Danse 30 years old ” – Arte july 3rd 2010

Production : Leslie Grunberg, les films Pénélope