HARRY PARTCH

Harry Partch “the harry partch collection, volume 4” o enfeitiçado Partch lançou o primeiro trabalho exclusivamente destinado á dança(and mime-dance at that; he was not overly enamored in his lifetime of so-called “modern dance”). Desenho fortemente da sua profunda afeição à music-theatrical, performances das tradições do teatro grego, bem como as de África, Bali, ópera chinesa, partch concebia uma música contemporânea americana apartir do ritual-theater, onde os músicos não só sabiam tocar, mas também tinham por vezes uma função como de impulsionadores-cantores-actores. “the bewitched is in the tradition of world-wide ritual theatre. it is the opposite of specialized. i conceived and wrote it in california in the period 1952-55, following the several performances of my version of sophocles' oedipus. in spirit, if not wholly in content, it is a satyr-play. it is a seeking for release—through satire, whimsy, magic, ribaldry—from the catharsis of tragedy. it is an essay toward a miraculous abeyance of civilized rigidity, in the feeling that the modern spirit might thereby find some ancient and magical sense of rebirth. each of the 12 scenes is a theatrical unfolding of nakedness, a psychological strip-tease, or—a diametric reversal, which has the effect of underlining the complementary character, the strange affinity, of seeming opposites.” — harry partch