In EARLY SHAKER SPIRITUALS, The Wooster Group channels the 1976 LP of the same name recorded by the Sisters of the Shaker Community in Sabbathday Lake, Maine, giving a new live rendering to their songs and finding inspiration for a series of dances.
EARLY SHAKER SPIRITUALS returns to an artistic practice that the Group has used throughout its history: working with record albums as source material for original productions, among them HULA (1981) and L.S.D. (…JUST THE HIGH POINTS…) (1984).
The piece also expresses the Group’s long-standing interest in the Shakers, a millenarian, celibate, communitarian sect. In 1980, Elizabeth LeCompte, Kate Valk and other members of the company visited the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community and met with Sister R. Mildred Barker. Around that time, the company first began listening to the record album that forms the basis for this piece.
Limited return engagement
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Early Shaker Spirituals - A Record Album Interpretation
First Preview: Dec 7, 2017
Opening Date: Dec 7, 2017
Closing Date: Dec 17, 2017
Running Time: 01:05
Playing @
The Performing Garage
33 Wooster St, New York City, NY 10013
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 13
Audience Advisory: All performances SOLD OUT Available seats will be sold when the theater opens.
Sun Dec 17 at 3:00 pm â۠special benefit peformance - $100
Performance Schedule
TUESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 & 7 PM (December 10th only)
Director
- Kate Valk
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