Deep Sleep, from the Reimagining Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite

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Deep Sleep, from the Reimagining Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite

“Deep Sleep” is the ninth 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.

In “Deep Sleep” Beauty realizes that modern ideas about Beauty and meaning in life are fleeting and superficial, and that she has no place in the modern world. She returns to her casket, relives the experience pricking her finger on the spinning wheel, and falls back into a deep sleep, perhaps to reawaken sometime in the future when the world has become a more welcoming and meaningful place.

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.

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

“Deep Sleep” 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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