WOMEN OF SALT AND LONGING

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Mezzo soprano Judith Barnes offers a meditation in music and movement on physical and spiritual homes loved and lost. Traversing the psyches of women who depart, exiled or forbidden, navigating a shifting landscape, singing of death and transfiguration, an exile’s farewell, a lamentation for a widowed city, she turns back for one last look, immured in a world of salt and longing.

To hear excerpts from the performance: https://youtu.be/zuXWDf6jlqE?si=YmN21y2LJ_EgWdAY


Conceived and performed by Judith Barnes, mezzo soprano
With Heather Green, Yuri Ogasawara, and Irena Romendik
Piano: Doug Han
Sculptures by Judith Barnes
Costume design: Irena Romendik
Artistic Advisor: Steve Witting

Program:
La Maison from Poèmes pour Mi by Olivier Messiaen
Addio Roma from L’incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi
Lamentation from the Jeremiah Symphony by Leonard Bernstein
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June 15, 2018, 7:30 PM
Voorhees Theater at City Tech, 186 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY
Women of Salt and Longing formed part of a shared evening of performances featuring Timothy Scott, Sophia Treanor & Nicolas Noreña / BK Dance Project/ Jeff M. Shortt,  and Taragano Theatre.
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photography by Shige Moriya for LEIMAY
Women of Salt and Longing was created as part of a fellowship with LEIMAY and presented at SOAK, LEIMAY’s annual multidisciplinary festival. For more information, click HERE