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November 2009
Free Showing
of the Totentanz Film:
featured by The Moviehouse
March 2009
Showing at the Berkshire Festival of Women in the Arts
Triplex Cinama
Great Barrington, MA
March 2008
at the Max Planck Institute Florence, Italy
Totentanz - The DVD
This page was last updated: January 27, 2010
A documentary on the 2007 multimedia performance of Hugo Distler's Totentanz (Dance of Death) by Crescendo. Chorus, Flute, Narrators, Dancers and a digital animation of a medieval panoramic mural merge, bringing to life a modern version of this ancient morality play. Includes interviews and an art-history study of the characters. Performance ca. 40min, total time 2 hours.
Crescendo Chorus
Christine Gevert
artistic director
Rodrigo Tarraza
flute
Tim Meyers
death (dance)
Duane Estes
death (narration)
Wendy Shifrin
choreography
Bard of Simon's Rock
dance department
Alice & John Myers
digital image
restoration
and animation
Susan Bachelder
producer
Gillian Seidl
dramaturg
Juliet Mattila
translation
Kate Chebatoris
costumes
Dr. Joan DelPlato
art historian
World Class Music here at Home! Choral and Orchestral Concerts in the "off season"
in the Berkshires
