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Previews:
November 8, 2008
Opened:
November 19, 2008
Ended:
January 2009
Country:
USA
State:
New York
City:
New York
Theater Type:
off-Broadway
Theater:
Minetta Lane Theater
Theater Address:
18 Minetta Lane
Phone:
212-307-4100
Website:
gardenofearthlydelightsnyc.com
Genre:
Dance Theater
Director:
Martha Clarke
Choreographer:
Martha Clarke
Review:
Martha Clarke's Garden of Earthly Delights, based on a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, is a masterpiece of Performance Art. It has images and utilizations of the human body you've never seen before - anywhere, even in the painting.
With a brilliant soundscape by Richard Peaslee, magical set and lighting by Christopher Akerlind and monotonal costumes suggesting nudity by Jane Greenwood, we have beautiful bodies in slow sensual adagios in mid-air, mythic conflict, dancing peasants, potatoes, violence, medieval religious ceremony, witches flying on broomsticks, and all lifted by the sounds --- percussion, wind, string.
Clarke has created an amazing, innovative, stunning piece of Theatrical Art.
Cast:
Sophie Bortolussi, Benjamin G. Bowman, Marjorie Folkman, Kurt Froman, General McArthur Hambrick, Whitney V. Hunter, Gabrielle Malone, Jennifer Nugent, Matt Rivera, Jenny Sandler, Isadora Wolfe
Technical:
Costumes: Jane Greenwood; Set/Lighting: Christopher Akerlind; Flying by Foy; PR: Richard Kornberg
Critic:
Richmond Shepard
Date Reviewed:
December 2008
