{"id":23031,"date":"2013-09-30T12:26:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=23031"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:26:39","slug":"missa-brevis-nexus-of-faith-art-and-war-at-rdt-and-umoca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/missa-brevis-nexus-of-faith-art-and-war-at-rdt-and-umoca\/","title":{"rendered":"Missa Brevis: Nexus of Faith, Art and War at RDT and UMOCA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Repertory Dance Theatre rehearses Jos\u00e9 Lim\u00f3n’s Missa Brevis.<\/p><\/div>\n

Repertory Dance Theatre\u2019s<\/a> reconstruction of the monumental Jos\u00e9 Lim\u00f3n classic \u201cMissa Brevis\u201d in its season opener Legacy<\/i> (Oct. 3-5) is an occasion for rejoicing. Few modern dances have been as celebrated as this deeply moving memento to the courage of the Polish people rising from the ashes of World War II. Choreographed by the lapsed Catholic Lim\u00f3n, the work is a kind of secular prayer set to a mass for organ and choral composed by the famous Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly. Kodaly (pronounced \u201cCo-Die\u201d) created “Missa Brevis in Tempore Belli\u201d or \u201cshort mass in a time of war\u201d at the end of WWII under great hardship during the siege of Budapest. Though Kod\u00e1ly’s home was devastated, his manuscripts were later recovered intact and the music’s first performance was given in the cellar of a bombed-out church in the Hungarian capital.<\/p>\n

“But more than a commemoration of bravery and spirit under hardship, \u201cMissa Brevis\u201d is also a work that cracks open a deep reflection on how art \u2014 in this case dance \u2014 connects and disconnects with faith and war,” says RDT director Linda C. Smith.<\/p>\n

RDT, in partnership with the <\/b>Utah Museum of Contemporary Art<\/b><\/a> <\/b>(UMOCA) notes the significance of \u201cMissa Brevis,\u201d a dance for 22 that will appear in both Salt Lake at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center and later this winter at Brigham Young University, by hosting a symposium funded by a grant from the <\/b>Utah Humanities Council<\/b><\/a>. <\/b>The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Missa Brevis<\/i><\/b>: Nexus of Faith, Art and<\/i> War<\/i><\/b> will convene at UMOCA Oct. 2 at 7 pm and will feature five individuals, all of whom have a different expertise and thus a different perspective on the subject. Using the dance as a departure point, the panel, which includes Father Andrzej Skrzypiec, pastor of St. Ambrose Catholic Church and a Polish national, <\/strong>will discuss how art is informed by, contradicts, enlarges and interprets religious identity, practice and faith, particularly in a time of modern war.<\/p>\n

Contemporary religion and art are sometimes seen as being segmented from each other, even though, traditionally, art and faith have often been fused. What does art and an individual’s response to art look like when survival in a time of war is at stake? Can art function as a prayer, as choreographer Jose Limon intended for his work \u201cMissa Brevis\u201d? Can a non-believer (as with Lim\u00f3n) access and accent expressions of traditional faith through his\/her art and thus provide a bridge of understanding among faith communities and nonbelievers? These are some of the questions the panel will explore.<\/p>\n

A short excerpt from the 35-minute dance will be screened, and attendees can purchase at the event deeply discounted tickets to Legacy<\/i><\/a>, RDT\u2019s season opener where \u201cMissa Brevis\u201d will be performed, along with other historical modern dance works by Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Bill Evans and Ze\u2019eva Cohen\u2014all legacies in the history of modern dance and of Repertory Dance Theatare.<\/p>\n


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DATE: Oct. 2, 2013
\nTIME: 7:00 pm
\nLOCATION: Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple (801) 328-4201 (adjacent to Abravanel \/ Symphony Hall)
\nFree and open to the public<\/p>\n

Moderator:
\n<\/b>Maximilian Werner, (Asst. Professor, Writing Program UofU and author)<\/p>\n

Panelists:
\n<\/b>Father Andrzej Skrzypiec (Pastor, St. Ambrose Catholic)
\n<\/strong>Caroline Prohosky (Contemporary Dance, BYU)
\nDr. Jerry L. Jaccard, BYU School of Music, specialist in (Missa Brevis composer) Zoltan Kodaly method
\nDodge Billingsley, CFR Media\/Combat Films and Research<\/p>\n

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