Lamentation//

Jeremy Wade

In 1930, American choreographer Martha Graham created a four-minute solo for a female dancer shrouded in purple silk titled "Lamentation." A body ridden with pain contorts in great anguish to reach over and over for someone or something that is not there. This dance of sorrow is certainly one of Graham's most famous, a mourning ritual made in response to the atrocities of WWII accompanied by Zoltán Kodály's 1910 Piano Piece, Op. 3, No. 2. Graham stated "Lamentation" was "not only the sorrow of specific person, time or place but the personification of grief itself." How do we reconcile with all of this loss on such a large scale today? How do we live amidst all of this death? Dances of death and mourning have long served as sites to transform the darkness, pain and loss not necessarily into light but into rituals or rites of passage that help us to continue to live amidst loss. Lets watch Graham's Lamentation and then take some time to grieve for all this dying together. I will invite us to take in the suffering of the world and then dance the sorrowful dance of death it self.

Jeremy Wade//
is a performing artist. He premiered his first piece, “Glory” at Dance Theater Workshop, New York City in February of 2006, for which he received a Bessie Award. Since then, Wade has been living in Berlin and working closely with the Hebbel Theater. Besides the creation of performances and a rigorous teaching practice he is a curator of events such as "Politics of Ecstasy," 2009 "Creature Feature" 2011 and "The Great Big Togetherness" 2014.

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