MORTON FELDMAN DANCES
MORTON FELDMAN DANCES, Playing Feldman is like finding a room for myself a transparent and bright place where the heartbeats slow down and deepen and the movement gets precise in my mind in my breath in my dance This video has been taken by David Reid during a public performance in Conway Hall London Besides the unpublished works of his youth from the Feldman collection at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel Switzerland and the last great piano piece written shortly before his passing Palais de Mari I play the piano and do choreographic movement at the same time interpreting some pages written for dance in the 1950s Part of this project which had its first performances in Venice Teatro Fondamenta Nuove and in Padua for the Centro dArte of the University has been recorded in the USA on CD as a world premiere The choreography of the Three Dances was performed for the first time in London in March 2006 for the launch of the book Morton Feldman Says edited by Chris Villars www debora petrina com