videos from the Known World Dance Masque

[kareina]

Those of you who actually read my posts may remember that lord_kjar and I participated in the choir performances at the Masque the evening of the Grand Ball at the Known World Dance event in Germany in April. It turns out that someone got video of the Masque performances, which consisted of first a spoken introduction telling the audience something of a legend from Greek Mythology, then the choir singing about that tale, then the dancers enacting the tale via dance. Hopefully the links work for everyone--they work for me, but then I am part of the FB group to which they were posted, so of course I can see them:

Masque - Entrance of Gaita and Singers

Masque Part 1 - Pizochara - The Argonauts and the Lemnosians

Masque Part 2 - Mercantia - Paris, the Golden Apple, and the Three Goddesses

Masque Part 3 - Anello - Achilles and Penthisileas

Masque - Part 4 - Tesara (Penelope weaving and unweaving the tapestry)

Comments

[darttn.livejournal.com]

The singing and dancing were good, but it seemed like it lasted a long long time. Also, I had a hard time hearing the words of the MC, or whatever his title was. I would think you had a great time though!
Love you
Mom

[kareina.livejournal.com]

Keep in mind that these performances were spread out over an entire evening, with lots of dancing in between each one, so the audience didn't really get restless. He was easier to hear in person--the sound quality on the video isn't very good. If you want to see pdf's of the lyrics and sheet music we sang let me know and I can email it to you.