We celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ever-innovative and searching Klockriketeatern with fond memories of our 2019 collaboration, Aniara: fragments of time and space.
It turns out our lost spaceship has found its way back to Earth, briefly, with an opportunity to relive some of our favorite moments in the 90-minute, staged production we premiered in Philadelphia, then took to the Haarlem Choral Biennale in The Netherlands and finally to Helsinki, where Klockrike hosted us at the Finnish National Opera.
Four new videos: the first, Aniara Revisited, a distillation of the story into brief vignettes with music by Robert Maggio, libretto and direction from Klockrike's director Dan Henriksson, our Finnish production team with actors and dancer, and, of course, us! There are also videos of three complete scenes, including the crowning achievement of the project, its finale: "Who knows the last answer at the bottom of the question?"
Donald on Movement 17 "Beneath the Catalpa Tree" that look back at this work with our new videos, from the perspective of distance, time, and separation – not unlike what Harry Martinson left us in the voices of the drifting, lost travelers of his masterwork, Aniara.
Congratulations to Klockriketeatern on 30 years of creative inventiveness.
Thanks for joining us on the ongoing journey we call...
Aniara.
