Music
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Call to Prayer
by Angie Minkin
after seeing Stabat Mater by the Garrett-Moulton Dance Company, 9/6/18
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music is a fluid river—
five dancers vault from a choir of hands beautiful men in navy skirts muscular women in purple shifts flow together— simultaneous canon, contrapuntal rhythms violins and cellos mourn dancers unfurl long limbs defy gravity leap on beams of light skate in shadows yearn in undulations sharp contractions— strong, precise lines eighteen hands form silhouettes freeze form each dynamic being bodies intersect separate in flight our hearts break tears flow on blue streams— we search for sanctity a single dancer grounded, stoic suspends the others in controlled chaos he collapses lifted high he ascends to the morning star alone |