"Three Sisters In Autumn" for four sopranos, Op. 57 by William Kenlon
Channel: William Kenlon
Date: 2015-04-15

Created in collaboration with choreographer Monica Warren of the Alight Dance Theater, "Three Sisters In Autumn" was a site-specific performance piece for four high-voiced female singers and five dancers.  It was conceived as part of an October 2014 performance in the Three Sisters Garden in Greenbelt, Maryland's Schrom Hills Park.

The text is drawn from words that the dancers produced in a free-writing exercise during the rehearsal process, save for one line ("I want to unfold") lovingly borrowed from Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "I Am Too Alone In This World, Yet Not Alone Enough."

Recording performed by Joanna Jones, Amy Broadbent, Katie Baughman, and Caitlin DeLatte, March 2015.

Text:

I want to unfold
My grasp of things true
Loss and abundance—a cycle
Perhaps not a complete ending
Or beginning

Decay
Depth
Details
Retreat
Contemplate
Wood and water;
Growth and decay;
Life is abundance

Abundance, in the unknown of darkness
You walk in un-aware
Un-awake
Un-surprised
And you walk out with all things
Abundant

More info:
http://www.williamkenlon.com/
http://www.alightdancetheater.org/