Doug Varone's To My Arms / Restore is an evening-length two-part work.
Set to a suite of exquisite operatic arias by Georg Fredric Handel, To My Arms (Part 1) builds a rich and distinct landscape of love and loss within a suite of eleven dances, evoking a strange otherworld of intimacy.
In stark contrast, Restore (Part 2) is visceral and tactile, driven by the 21st-century sound of Festival Voices and Nico Bentley’s Handel Remixed, a score that fuses the fundamentals of Handel’s 18th century choral score Dixit Dominus with beats more commonly heard in clubs around the globe; the result is a marriage between a score and a dance that is unabashedly glorious.
Approximately 70 minutes with intermission.
