Floating Island

Floating Island
New and recent works for music and dance

Joins us for a multi-medium program, showcasing a new commission alongside songs by BC composers in a celebration of women's voices.

Composed by Kara Gibbs, Floating Island explores themes of gender, pastoral beauty, and feminist history through music, electroacoustic soundscape, and movement. Anchored by an original setting of the poetry of Dorothy Wordsworth, the piece will feature live and pre-recorded vocals, and recordings of the natural soundscape in Wordsworth’s hometown.

Floating Island is co-created by a team of non-binary and women artists, reflecting on forgotten histories and themes of climate stewardship.

Perri Lo piano
Alyssa Nicole Samson and Taryn Plater mezzo-sopranos
Elle Derkitt and Denae Harpham dancers
Rhiannon Beausoleil-Morrison and Emma Hall choreographers
Kara Gibbs composer

  

Floating Island was commissioned by Opera Unbound with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the SOCAN Foundation.

This performance is sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre BC.

 

Learn more: www.operaunbound.com/floating-island