Necessary Monster
dal 28/7/2011 al 29/7/2011
Segnalato da
28/7/2011
Necessary Monster
YBCA - Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco
A set of nine songs performed by seven musicians and an actress
Carla Kihlstedt is the composer, violinist, primary vocalist and co-director, along with Rinde Eckert. The libretto is by poet Rafael Oses. In this performance, the audience follows the delirious journey of a writer cajoled by creatures of her own imagining as she tries in vain to corral and contain them in an orderly field guide. Each song is a manifestation of an imaginary creature culled from the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings - a collection of his favorite imagined creatures from around the world and throughout history. Necessary Monsters is a celebration of creativity and of the act of self-reflection. All of the beings in the Borges book are the result of people having had the courage to look into their own minds and articulate what they saw, whether it's dark and disturbing, or humorous and beguiling. The act of manifesting these beings is ultimately an act of compassion. These beings inhabit all of us, and allow us to recognize ourselves in each other.