Hi Everybody!
I am right now in the moderately tiny country of Luxemburg preparing to dance in an Organ Festival (the instrument-- now I am imagining stomachs and lungs and spleens flying around everywhere) choreographed by Klaus Abromeit for Berlin, one of the wackiest baroque dance choreographers.
First of all, you should know the town is called Dudelange. And we are staying at the home of Herr Dondelinge.
The town itself is quite small, but the church where we are performing is amazing. It was built in 1927-- the town was founded around a steel mill at that time. It has gothic ceilings and every inch is beautifully frescoed. The dance piece will be performed there, and it is based on the frescoes of the saints in the church with videos from the steel mill around the turn of the 20th century. So far, I am embodying Eve, Sarah (yay!), and Elisabeth the sister of Moses.
We are eating lunch every day at the restaurant next to the chruch, a charming place with what the Germans call "Hausmanns Kost" and the Americans would call "Down-home Cooking". It is filled with the older citizens of Dudelange, and they all turned to stare at us when we walked in the first day. That felt a little strange, but the food was incredible-- ham, mashed potatoes and saurkraut.
More later!
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Very interesting that the church in a small town will sponsor an innovative dance piece. Hope all is well.
Have you ever seen the French production of Le Roi Soleil? someone had a DVD copy of it at our rental house last week and I thought of you
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