Death
and Transfiguration are ideas visualized in a dramatic dance video
choreographed by Valentina Oumansky, inspired by Robert Louis
Stevenson’s essay, AES TRIPLEX meaning “impenetrable defense.” Dance,
music and literature are combined in this unique video entitled AES
TRIPLEX CIRCA PECTUSã which uses a card game to parody death. The cast
of actor-dancers, including Dennis Schaller (Stevenson) and Tarumi
Takagi-Inouye (Wild Card), performs to a rarely heard “Theme and
Variations” by Beethoven, and Stevenson’s words are pronounced
trippingly on the tongue by the late-great Stephen Elliot.
“The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing, when, trailing with him clouds of glory, this happy-starred, full-blooded spirit shoots into the spiritual land.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
“The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing, when, trailing with him clouds of glory, this happy-starred, full-blooded spirit shoots into the spiritual land.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
© 2014
Death and Transfiguration by Valentina Oumansky
Death and Transfiguration by Valentina Oumansky was a Featured Poet who read his poetry at the February 2014 Second Sunday Poetry Series
Death and Transfiguration by Valentina Oumansky was a Featured Poet who read his poetry at the February 2014 Second Sunday Poetry Series