Auriga

The piece was part of ESDC’s 2017 collaborative project with four composers from the College of St. Rose. To create the dance, Sinopoli visualized and tried to recreate three orbits slowly moving around, through and upon each other. Andrew McKenna Lee’s title, Gravity and Air, comes from his Scordatura Suite, which is a 2003 collection of three pieces for solo guitar. A musical melody (the “air”) develops and grows overtop of a slowly unfolding, repeated chord (the “gravity”) with the two slipping together at the end.