"Night Winds" excerpt from Loie Fuller-inspired "Roman Sketches"

Jody Sperling performs solo in style of early modern dance pioneer Loie Fuller. "Roman Sketches" is 5-part suite set to music of Charles Griffes that is a lush synthesis of lighting, music, and motion. In this final section, Sperling works up tempest with her gigantic wings while hovering on a box containing a light within. Lighting: David Ferri; Piano: Jeffrey Middleton; Costumes: Michelle Ferranti. Videotaped at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, May 11, 2007. This work was made, in part, during a residency commissioned by Vermont Performance Lab, LLC. and Marlboro College. WWW.TIMELAPSEDANCE.COM

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• loie
• fuller
• baryshnikov
• arts
• center
• color
• lighting
• jody
• sperling
• charles
• Griffes
• roman
• sketches
• light
• under-lighting
• night
• winds
• BAC
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[ellenjoh]

This is mislabeled. the music is NOT Night Fall from the Roman Sketches

[jodytld]

You are right, this is NOT "Nightfall" but rather "Night Winds" which Griffes composed as part of "Three Tone Poems." I use this music as a coda to my choreographic work "Roman Sketches." This dance suite is in five sections, the first four of which are set to Griffes' piano suite "Roman Sketches" ("The White Peacock," "Nightfall," "Fountains of Acqua Paolo," and "Clouds"). For simplicity's sake, I refer to the entire five section dance as "Roman Sketches." A few clips are on view here.

[xXxpOiZuNcUpCaKexXx]

Beautiful performance. Your graceful movments combined with the changing color lights and piano create a gorgeous visual scene. Lovely!

[moonmoninoom]

Hola. HERMOSO!!!!. Soy estudiante de coreografía. (Chile). Me gustaría saber cuál es la tela que utilizan.

[ottavopeccatocapital]

THIS IS A VERY ART!

[saveplanetpluto]

Beautiful. The bellydancing Isis wings section will drop dead in awe of your super-big wings!

[sfilkins2009]

When playing this particular music, I love the thought of seeing a visual such as this full of color and movement. It really does it justice. Griffes is a favorite composer of mine, and his music is definitely in my piano repertoire along with Debussy, MacDowell, and Scriabine. There may be a few out there who understand just what I mean...the music can be felt in the veins...viscerally

[robertodedomenico]

lovely proposal, both video and dance!

[svealove]

i'm actually playing this piece right now, and i love it!  the vid is beautiful!