Created for
Richard Alston Dance Company
 

Music
Philip Glass - Songs from Liquid Days (1986)
 
Lighting
Charles Balfour
 
Costumes
Peter Todd

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Duration

24 minutes

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Originally danced by a cast of

5 women 5 men 

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Video Excerpt

Filmed, edited and produced by The Place.​

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Philip Glass's Songs from Liquid Days celebrate the immediacy of the non-operatic singing voice, but with intriguingly elusive lyrics by Suzanne Vega and Paul Simon. The Songs have an almost ritual theatrical power and they motivated me to make a dance with flying rapid steps, red-blooded movement that flies through the space but with much intricate detail.

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I'd almost forgotten Blow Over, but coming back to it in preparing this website I had the sudden feeling that it might be one of the best dances I ever made. I'm excited to see it again and the terrific way it was performed. 

 

Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and Dance Umbrella. First performed by Richard Alston Dance Company at Sadler's Wells on 2 October 2008.