The Portuguese Suite
October 20, 2007
Wellspring/Cori Terri & Dancers present The Portuguese Suite
The Portuguese Suite, is composed of nine dances all constructed in relation to both medieval love spells involving a particular herb or fruit considered by early herbalists to possess magical properties and a traditional Portuguese fado song recorded by the legendary Portuguese singer Amália Rodrigues. It is said that this particular style of singing known as fado or “fate” was born from the half singing, half weeping laments of the wives of sailors who set sail and left them alone on the mainland for long periods of time. These dances, for two ethnically diverse men and a chorus of seven carpideiras or "weeping women," explore the broad emotional range from ecstatic to dolorous and from tender to dangerous within inter-cultural relationships between male lovers.
Epic Center's Wellspring Theater
359 S. Kalamazoo Mall
Suite 204
Kalamazoo, Michigan
49007
October 18th-20th, 2007 at 8pm
(for Tickets call the Community Box Office at 269/387-2300 or 800/228-9858)