Song of Eurydice
July 15, 2016
Friday Flights
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
SONG OF EURYDICE is a choral and dance-based performance featuring a choir — a hallmark of ancient Greek theater, mixed with contemporary dance. The performance re-envisions the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a call to marginalized artists. Staged among sculptures from antiquity, and moving through the galleries and courtyards of the Getty Center, the story picks up where the ancient tale left off as Eurydice descends into the underworld to contemplate its infrastructure and inhabitants.
Eurydice: mecca vazie andrews
Persephone: Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs
Orpheus: Laena Geronimo
Chorus of Spirits: Jessica Basta, Jiha Lee, Rachel Mason, Tany Ling
Chorus of Stones: Annie Gimas, Alison
Fung, Cortney Alexander, Cristine Tatomer, Dai Janai Lopez
Choreography: mecca vazie andrews
Libretto & score: Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs
Costume by 69
Created with support from Sarah Williams/Women’s Center for Creative Work and Beth Pickens
Photos by Sarah Waldorf
