A first showing of Pomegranate & Ash, an experiment in APL’s Theatre of Polyphony.
Pomegranate and Ash takes TS Eliot’s Ash Wednesday, Monteverdi madrigals, the Hymn of Demeter, music from the Shaker tradition, and each performer’s personal biography as source material for an original performance rooted in themes of separation, loss, and reunification.
Pomegranate & Ash is an ongoing, ever-evolving project, bridging the primary domains of APL’s artistic work: public performance and ensemble training.
PERFORMERS
- COMPANY MEMBERS: Annie Paladino, Jesson Mata, Joseph Lavy, Margaretta Campagna, Sara Kaus, Trevor Young Marston, and Zhenya Lavy.
- APPRENTICES: Catherine Lavy, Emily Jo Testa, Henry James Walker, and Linnea Ingalls.
ABOUT THEATRE OF POLYPHONY
Theatre of Polyphony is a performance genre devised by Akropolis Performance Lab, resulting from APL’s process of weaving together simultaneous lines of independent performance — a cappella multi-phonic song, movement, dance, physical action and spoken text — into a rich, multi-faceted performance event. We not only search for the precise, dynamic use of poetry, song, movement, dance, and action but cultivate the Song of Movement, the Dance of Voice. The Poetry of Image, The Action of Psyche/Spirit. More than a simple layering of each element to create a unified structure, Theatre of Polyphony is the manifestation of each element embedded within the others.
