Description

Inspired by the music of Rachmaninoff's 'All-Night Vigil', comes my decade-long dream of staging and choreographing to a full compliment of live choristers. Staged, lit, and choreographed as a true interdisciplinary work, 'Vespers' merges the rich harmonic tapestry of 100 live vocalists with the power of athletic contemporary movement.

Counter to the traditional division of choir and dance, where one performs to the other, 'Vespers' interweaves the movement through the corridors of singers' bodies as a living stage. The concept: to reframe the historic connotations of the 'All-Night Vigil' away from the secular and towards the contemporary lens of artistic and personal reflection left by Sergei Rachmaninoff in his pivotal work.