The Museum, from the Reimagining Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite

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In “The Museum,” Sleeping Beauty has been found in the modern era, sleeping in her casket deep in the forest, and is placed on display in a museum. “She looks so alive!” “Do you think she can hear us?” “What do you think she dreams about?” “There’s no life without Beauty.”

Description

The Museum, from the Reimagining Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite

"The Museum" - from Craig Harris' Reimagining Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite. — “The Museum” – Performance photo from Craig Harris’ *Reimagining Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite*. © Ballet of the Dolls 2002

“The Museum” is the opening scene from the Reimagining Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite – music by Craig Harris originally composed for the dance theater production Sleeping Beauty by Minneapolis-based company Ballet of the Dolls.

Reimagining Sleeping Beauty is Craig Harris’ ballet suite revisiting the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. In Reimagining Sleeping Beauty, Sleeping Beauty remains in hibernation in the middle of the forest until she is found after 100 years, and she is put on exhibition in a museum. Sleeping Beauty awakens and finds herself in our current era, faced with confusing notions about beauty and meaning in life. Her story unfolds, and Sleeping Beauty returns to the moment of her demise, when she pricked her finger on the spinning wheel and fell into a deep sleep.

Reimagining Sleeping Beauty was originally developed in collaboration with Artistic Director/Choreographer Myron Johnson and dance-theater company Ballet of the Dolls in 2003, and produced at the company’s space The Dance Factory. Reimagining Sleeping Beauty has been adapted from that original scenario.

In “The Museum” Sleeping Beauty has been found in the modern era, sleeping in her casket deep in the forest, and is placed on display in a museum. Visitors to the museum listen on headsets to stories about her origin and to academic research about the meaning of the story. They consider Sleeping Beauty’s existence as a beautiful woman preserved in a long term coma:

“She looks so alive!”
“Do you think she can hear us?”
“What do you think she dreams about?”
“There’s no life without Beauty.”

Learn more about The Red Shoes Ballet Suite here, including some video excerpts and details about the production.

“The Museum” is one of several compositions available from Craig Harris’ Reimagining Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite. The music for the Reimagining Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite includes “The Museum,” “Beauty Awakens,” “Wall Street,” “Makeover,” “Only in My Dreams,” “Lookalike,” “Gabriverdi – the Royal Family Welcomes the Birth of Beauty,” “Beauty Is…,” “Deep Sleep,” and “Sleeping Beauty Fairy Tale.”

The Reimagining Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite is available as a physical CD, and sound tracks are available for download as a compilation or as individual tracks in mp3 format (great for general music listening), or in wav format (high resolution listening and public presentation). The CD containing Reimagining Sleeping Beauty also includes the music from Craig Harris’ The Red Shoes Ballet Suite.

Credits

Concept and Scenario by Craig Harris and Myron Johnson
Composer and Sound Design: Craig Harris
Piano: Craig Harris
Voices: Lisa Conlin, Zhauna Franks, Candy Kuehn, Maya Harris, Lea Harris, Craig Harris, Grant Whittaker, Robert Skafte, Steve Carlino, Stephanie Fellner, Michael deLeon

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