AD MORTEM
AD MORTEM
A multimedia concert
devised by Johannes Birringer
choreography by Deborah Hay
original music by Paul English
featuring:
soprano: Isabelle Ganz
dance: Deborah Hay
bass clarinet: Richard Nunemaker
synthesizer: Paul English
synthesizer: Brian Green
Houston
1990
Diverse Works, November 30 – December 2
Lawndale Art Center, December 7-9
All proceeds from this performances were dedicated to the Houston AIDS Foundation.
The company has received numerous grant awards, including TCA grants and generous support from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County, The Goethe Institute, Lawndale Art Center and Diverse Works. AD MORTEM was also supported by a generous grant from The Society for Contemporary Performance Arts Grant, New York City.
This is desire: to live in the balance
and not to have a home within time
And these are wishes: soundless dialogues
during daily hours with eternity
And this is life. Out of a yesterday
rises the loneliest hour
which, smiling unlike its other sisters
remains silent in the face of the eternal.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
The concert is dedicated to all those who have gone and who were with us.