Anna Garano, composer, classical and flamenco-trained guitar, classical, flamenco, guitar, Anaïs Alexandra Tekerian, Yale University, Zulal, Armenian music, Armenian a cappella trio, Kevork Mourad, New York City, NY, CD, song, Armenian song
Anna Garano, composer, classical and flamenco-trained guitar, classical, flamenco, guitar, Anaïs Alexandra Tekerian, Yale University, Zulal, Armenian music, Armenian a cappella trio, Kevork Mourad, New York City, NY, CD, song, Armenian song
Anna Garano and Anaïs Tekerian premiered Lost Spring at the MuCEM in Marseille, on April 10, 2015, at the Morgenland Festival, Germany, in July 2015, at Musical Bridges Across the World in San Antonio, TX, February, 2017, and National Sawdust, March 2017.
Tangled Lines Productions
Created by Anaïs Alexandra Tekerian and Kevork Mourad
Direction and visuals : Kevork Mourad
Writing and performance : Anaïs Alexandra Tekerian
Music (guitar and composition): Anna Garano
Choreography: Marjorie Folkman
Dance: Amber Star Merkens
and featuring Cirène Mourad
One hundred years after the Armenian Genocide, a mother must explain this troubled history to her daughter. But how does one explain inhuman cruelty to innocence itself? And by what right does one transmit righteous anger to a child of a new century, of a different world?
The mother must examine her own heritage, her obligation to it and to her child. This search leads to the lost story of her great-grandmother Ferideh, whose survival of the Genocide will teach her lessons more profound even than those of redemption and endurance.
Mixing theater, dance, and a soundtrack inspired by Armenian traditional music, and further brought to life by the live drawing of painter Kevork Mourad, this multi-disciplinary creation is the poetic journey of a woman in quest of her history, in quest of meaning, in quest of a lost spring…
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