Angel Reapers
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 29, 2011
Closed Dec 11, 2011
Opened Nov 29, 2011
Closed Dec 11, 2011
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Angel Reapers is a multidisciplinary work suggested by the life of Ann Lee (1736-1784), founder of the Shaker movement. Mother Ann, as she became known, was a visionary, mystic and powerful spiritual leader. Preaching celibacy, she demonstrated that through shaking and trembling movements, sin could be purged from the body.
The plot of Angel Reapers is woven throughout with movement, song and dance to bring to life this extraordinary 18th century woman and the singular world she created.
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The program for Angel Reapers, now getting its New York premiere at the Joyce Theatre, contains a note that goes a long way towards explaining the impetus for this initially effective but eventually questionable dance-theater piece -- focused on Shaker theology and practice -- by Pulitzer Prize winner Alfred Uhry and award-winning director and choreographer Martha Clarke.
The note -- written just after the start of the 19th Century by William Rathburn after observing a Shaker community's routines -- refers to, among other things, "a-groaning," "trembling," "muttering," "singing," "dancing," "agonizing," "jumping up and down," "fluttering," "shooing," "hissing," "drumming," "laughing" a[...]