My Serenade (2009)

Premiere: Joyce SoHo, January 2009

Choreography: Rebecca Lazier in Collaboration with Performers
Music: Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings in C Major
Sound Designer:
Costume Designer: Heidi Barr
Lighting Designer: Aaron Copp
Performers: Karen Carbonell, Jennifer Lafferty, Storme Sundberg, Rommel Salveron, Emily Stone
Duration: 32 minutes

Performed: 92nd Street Y, Harkness Dance Project, NY; The Yard, Great Dancers: Great Dances, MA; White Mountain Summer Dance Festival, MA; James Madison University, VA; Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, MA; Rutgers University, NJ; Princeton University, NJ; Symphony Space, Dance Sampler, NY

My Serenade builds from the intimate to the grandiose, from a rehearsal to a performance. My Serenade is a response both to Tchaikovsky's score and to the choreography of the same name by George Balanchine. Lazier considers both works as artifacts, existing within their historical context and torn out of that context they provide a backdrop of expectations and set of ideals to question.  The source of the sound score changes from movement to movement. First a television, then phonograph, and then tape decks provide anachronistic images which layer onto the developing performance.