Dance/Still

Chamber Ensemble

Work Details

Dance/Still
(1982/94)
WORK CODE
ME03
Instrumentation
fl(pic), cl(Ebcl), 2perc, gtr, vn, vc
Premiere
Capricorn, Simon Bainbridge (cond), London, UK, 12 December 1982
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From the Composer

In the early 1980s I undertook two study-visits to India, to the far north to hear the music of the Buddhist Temples and to the south to experience the Hindu dance of Bharatanatyam. The rhythmic liberation I felt as a result of these visits is the most notable element of Dance/Still, a work in two parts which expresses concurrently a ritualised vitality and a religious stillness.