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Our Unfortunate Deaths (2010)

Commissioned and premiered by Mocean Dance (2010)
Choreography: Sharon Moore
3 dancers
35 minutes

In a desperate grasp to invigorate their dwindling lives, three women (once a royal sisterhood) use their beauty, prowess and brutal force to stay alive. Each strike, each breath, each deliberate move to persist wraps them further in an entwining nightmare. Their only escape is the passion in which they take part in their old world games and long ago manners. Part fable, part murder mystery, part physical marathon “our unfortunate deaths” is a story of survival…however messy that may be.

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Music: Bach - Concerto in D minor; Beethoven – Piano Sonata #13 in E flat and Piano Sonata #15 in D

Costume Design: Rachael Grant

Lighting Design: Martin Saintonge

Photograph by Holly Crooks