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Cello Suite No. 5 for Viola and Dancer

(2023)

Tze Ying Wu , Viola Performance

Laura Neese, Dancer-Choreographer

Cello Suite No 5 in C Minor
J.S. Bach, composer

This duet inserts a dancing body onto a classical music stage,  disrupting a typical concert hall setting. Through kinesthetically visualizing Bach's Cello Suite No. 5 in dialogue with Wu's evocative viola interpretation, Neese alludes to
 court dance, folk dance, improvisational dialogue, and the depth of emotion sounding from strings to sinew...


 

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