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Armitage Gone! Dance Unveils New Choreography to Morton Feldman's Patterns in a Chromatic Field at New York's Joyce Theater

Jan. 09, 2008

Armitage Gone! Dance collaborates with painter David Salle in a program entitled Connoisseurs of Chaos, featuring dance and imagery set to Morton Feldman's monumental work Patterns in a Chromatic Field for cello and piano. With performances from January 22 through 27 at New York's Joyce Theatre, Artistic Director and chief choreographer of Armitage Gone! Dance, Karole Armitage, remarks on the attraction of the music of Morton Feldman:

Choreographing a new dance is like falling in love - the vertigo of the unknown becomes ever more interesting as the thing takes on a life of its own. In my new work to composer Morton Feldman's Patterns in a Chromatic Field, there is tremendous yearning, exquisite lyricism, driving rhythms, and purely sensual experience.

Feldman's music appeals to me not only for its beauty but also for its rigor and intimacy. It is apparent that the music is extremely personal and not made from a set of rules. It captures something spiritual in its mathematical precision - which is a way of understanding the universe - and in the way he uses repetition and decaying sound to evoke memory and the transience of things.

The program features a film projection by David Salle as well as costumes by Peter Speliopoulos and lighting by Clifton Taylor. Patterns in a Chromatic Field will be performed live by cellist Felix Fan and pianist Andrew Russo.

For more information on the life and work of Morton Feldman, please visit www.universaledition.com.

For more information on Armitage Gone! Dance's Connoisseurs of Chaos visit www.armitagegonedance.org.

Morton Feldman
Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981)
for cello and piano
90'

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