Resilience
Mar 14, 2027 - 3:00 pm
Resilience
Voices in pursuit of human rights, a brilliant dance premiere and a timeless favorite
Soprano Vanessa Isiguen stars in the world premiere of Afghan-born composer Milad Yousufi’s new work that blends storytelling and music to give voice to the lived experiences of Afghan women. Boy and a Makeshift Toy, part of Armenian American composer Mary Kouyoumdjian‘s Children of Conflict series, is a poignant portrait that captures the realities of children growing up amid the devastation of war. Spectrum Dance Theater’s award-winning Donald Byrd returns with his phenomenal dancers in premiere choreography of dances to Erwin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet. Schulhoff, whose iconoclastic challenges to stylistic convention gained him a broad following between the two world wars, faced his end in a Nazi labor camp. Plus, a timeless favorite: selections from The Three-Penny Opera by Kurt Weill, in a jaunty arrangement for saxophone quartet! Weill’s music would go on to openly challenge and mock the Nazi regime.
Guest Artists:
Vanessa Isiguen, soprano
Milad Yousufi, piano Parastou Ashori, narrator
Michael Brockman and friends
Spectrum Dance Theater
MOR Ensemble:
Mikhail Shmidt, violin; Natasha Bazhanov, violin; Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola; Walter Gray, cello; Jonathan Green, double bass, Laura DeLuca, clarinet; Cristina Valdés, piano.
