Growth in Motion

Primoridal Round

Choreography by Fanchon Shur and Karen Wissel, Music by Bonia Shur








Birth is a beginning, death is a destination, and life is the journey…
Rabbi Alvin I. Fine

                                
Primordial Round is a kinesthetic and instrumental fusion of extreme passion. The spiraling vine meets the breaking branch.  Kol Nidrei (All My Vows), the ancient melody sung on the Day of Atonement, as arranged by Bonia Shur for solo viola, is filled with tensions and releases that mirror our encounter with destiny.  We reflect on our vows that we may never fulfill.

Primordial Round was created and performed by Fanchon Shur and Karen Wissel at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati, Ohio for the 2008 Choreographer's Festival.