Creation Date

February 9 2012

Description

Lines for Winter (Inspiration for Solo Echo) by Mark Strand:
Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself -
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back
and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are.

Music

Johannes Brahms: "Allegro non Troppo from Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Opus 38", "Adagio Affettuoso from Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Opus 99" from the album Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano. Poem by Mark Strand: "Lines for Winter" from Selected Poems.

Related Productions

Solo Echo, July 13 – 16 2016
Solo Echo, July 15 – 17 2016

Work Credits

Crystal Pite (costume designer)
Joke Visser (costume designer)
Johannes Brahms (composer)
Crystal Pite (choreographer)
Mark Strand (writer)