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REVERBERATIONS

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Channel: ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS · 2016 · Education

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Film by Eric Minh Swenson.

Debuting at the Museum of Tolerance (MOT) in Los Angeles, on Wednesday, November 9th at 6:30PM, REVERBERATIONS, will be a powerful artistic exploration of humanity's lack of transparency during the darkest of times. REVERBERATIONS was first conceived by award winning composer Michelle Green Willner upon receiving the WORD Grant (Bruce Geller Memorial Prize) to have her suite, The Stain of Blood receive its west coast premiere. Written for dramatic mezzo-soprano, bass-baritone, violin and piano, it is inspired by a series of poems by renowned Israeli poets Avraham Ben-Yitzhak, Amir Gilboa and David Avidan. 

The poems capture an urgent sense of oncoming darkness and survival. Building on these powerful words, Green Willner has teamed up with Doni Silver Simons, an internationally exhibited artist known for innovative performance and cross- disciplinary collaborations. The Museum of Tolerance performance will take place on the anniversary of Kristallnacht and will honor the memory of Elie Wiesel.

This multi-sensory evening will transport the audience from 2016 Los Angeles to 1938 Germany. Together we will experience how the sounds of shattering glass signaled the tragic start to the breaking down of Europe. The evening will include 8 performers, including Nicole Powell, Angela Todaro, Suzanne Erickson
and musicians, including Sharon Jackson, Mischa Morgovskaya, Monika Bruckner and Kevin Dalbey (both LA Master Chorale singers). Watch as a mother, father, and child pose for idyllic family pictures only to be pulled apart by the oncoming war. Hear the haunting Kristallnacht, for electric violin, as it resonates in your ears and hearts sounding a siren’s call of remembrance. Experience dancers’ rhythmic movements as they depict this tragic collective. By joining forces, both Silver Simons and Green Willner are pushing their creative portfolios to new boundaries exploring how historical trauma traverses generations. It will be a night marked by reverberations, remembrance, and reflection.

For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at thuvanarts.com/take1

Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts : http://m.huffpost.com/us/author/eric-minh-swenson/

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