A performance made of
3 short pieces by Vera & Albert

Beautiful Dance Your Eyes Oh Souvenir

Listen with your eyes. What does it mean to listen? How can the listening experience, the structures of music, be transcribed into movement and expressed in performance? In the Trilogy we have tried not to dance to the music, but to dance in the music, to get inside it and dissect the act of listening. While Beautiful Dance, Your Eyes, and Oh Souvenir all explore very different forms of music: a piano sonata, a rock song, and an operatic duet, what binds the project together is a method, a set of concerns. The Trilogy is an attempt to develop a form of acoustic reading: a detailed, precise translation between the separate languages of music and movement. We try to enter into the music, discovering its structures, and transcribing them onto our bodies. This is an invitation to observe and to listen.