Agnieszka Laska celebrates the 200th anniversary of fellow Polish expatriot artist Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin in a new work, typical of her intensely dramatic and musical choreography, bringing to the stage dancers, actors and musicians, performing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor in a new arrangement for string quartet by fellow Krakow artist, Bartlomiej Kominek.

The concerto, it is believed, was inspired by Konstancja Gladkowska, the first great love in the composer's life. Over his decades of self-imposed exile in Paris, Chopin wrote often to Konstancja. Laska's tribute to the legendary composer is based on his lost letters to his lost love.

Choreography by Agnieszka Laska (Agnieszka Laska Dancers), Jerzy Maria Birczynski (Balet Form Nowoczesnych), Luis Arreguin (Las PLeyades Danza Contemporanea), interpreted by Claudia Izquierdo, Luis Arreguin, Alejandro Chavez, Jorge Ronzon (choreography/dance)

Music of Fryderyk Chopin performed by Chie Nagatani (solo piano), Elena Hirsu (violin), Darin Qualls (violin), Romaric Pokorny (viola), Diane Chaplin (cello)

The letters interpreted by Jean Sherrard (actor), Christopher Schindler, (solo piano)

Canadian pianist Chie Nagatani will interpret the score, joined by a quartet of top regional professionals. At the IBLA New York Awards 2002 -Lincoln Center - Chie Nagatani's performance of the first movement from Prokofiev's Concerto No. 3... delivered a positively intelligent, crisp, clear and powerful performance of Prokofiev's alternately lyrical and explosive music. -- JD Hixson, founder and Artistic Director of STUDIO for New Music (NY).

World Trade Center Auditorium
121 SW Salmon Street, Building Two
Portland, OR 97204       [map]

info.phone = 800.757.7384
email = ALDancers@comcast.net
www.url = www.a-laska.com

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