Unbeknownst (2022)
For viola and piano (and four dancers)
Duration: 16 minutes
Choreographer: Gabrielle Lamb
Supported by a commissioning grant from the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation and a project grant from New Music USA.
World premiere: May 21-22, 2022
Mark Morris Dance Center
Elise Frawley, viola; Jonathan Howard Katz, piano
Dancers: Rohan Bhargava, Sydney Chow, Nico Gonzales, Evita Zacharioglou
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My second collaboration with choreographer Gabrielle Lamb, Unbeknownst began as a response to a short story by Ben Loory, titled “The Rope and the Sea.” While our creation was not a literal rendering of the narrative by any means, it borrowed from the story images of water and of death, a sense of circular time, and the idea of meeting one’s doppelgänger.