The E-Mail Dances (’96, ’97, ’98)

‘Yellow Star’ ‘Re-Relative?’ ‘Woman in a Room, Woman in the Moon’ ‘Contest’ ‘Remembrance’

Conceived, directed and choreographed by Louise Reichlin
Video Art by Michael Masucci
Costumes by Linda Borough
Music by Klezmer Conservatory Band (Lyrics: M. Oysher/ Music: traditional), Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Alfred Desio, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn & Michael Brooks

Funded in part by a grant from an EZTV/Cyberspace Media Access Award for production/Collaboration

“The E-Mail Dances” has multiple evolving versions. Premiered in 1996, Reichlin’s Internet search and personal quest to find missing pieces and people from her past is set in the context of exploration on the World Wide Web. The work includes both video and live dance, and its versions have ranged from large stage sets with multiple projections with a cast of 12, to an “Art & Technology” project for the Orange County Museum of Art in collaboration with the Philharmonic Society of Orange County. This was impetus for an “Educational Version 1.0, performed solo for narrator/dancer and video 20 times for high school students bussed to the museum.