Post by jek on Jul 13, 2018 7:28:26 GMT
Hard to categorise this. There is music, dance, enormous projections - all in the Tate turbine hall and all telling the story of Africans in the First World War. You can get a flavour of it from this video: www.1418now.org.uk/commissions/the-head-and-the-load/gallery/#item-1
It's a short run (I saw it last night) and is completely sold out but it is going to be viewable online on the 1418 now website from 21st July. It made me really sorry to have missed the Kentridge directed Lulu at the ENO.
The turbine hall has proper raked seating for this which given it is 90 minutes long was a blessing after having recently stood through the LSO Stockhausen/Messiaen at the same venue. The piece positively vibrates with righteous anger for what befell hundreds of thousands of African carriers. The 1418 programme has been a real commissioning powerhouse. I feel really lucky to have seen this.
It's a short run (I saw it last night) and is completely sold out but it is going to be viewable online on the 1418 now website from 21st July. It made me really sorry to have missed the Kentridge directed Lulu at the ENO.
The turbine hall has proper raked seating for this which given it is 90 minutes long was a blessing after having recently stood through the LSO Stockhausen/Messiaen at the same venue. The piece positively vibrates with righteous anger for what befell hundreds of thousands of African carriers. The 1418 programme has been a real commissioning powerhouse. I feel really lucky to have seen this.