Fjeld
A dance inspired by images from the Old Testament, Renaissance and Symbolist painting, and the gorgeous liturgical music of Arvo Pärt, Fjeld is an enigmatic work ending with a trio of men whose weighted limbs and torsos are in constant, twisting motion. The gentleness of their support for each feels to me to be imbued with the presense of AIDS
Premiered Toronto, 1990
Created with and performed by Kate Alton, Miriane Braaf, Monica Burr, Bill Coleman, Pascal Desrosiers, Karen Duplisea, Christopher House, Rosemary James, Laurence Lemieux, Michael Sean Marye, Graham McKelvie, Coralee Mclaren, Crispin Redhead, Suzette Sherman
Music
Arvo Pärt, from Arbos
Lighting
Roelof Peter Snippe
Costumes
Denis Joffre
"Fjeld is a splendidly creative work...House provides resonant images rather than ready answers: images of pity, of mutual dependence and support, of human souls in a lonely environment."
Toronto Star
"...a series of post-holocaust vignettes, quite impressive in their visual power."
New York Post
Photo of Graham McKelvie, Michael Sean Marye and Crispin Redhead by Cylla von Tiedemann / Photo of Nicole Rose Bond and Erin Poole by Guntar Kravis