Work
Stranger Dances
for piano
About
Not stranger 'than', but a stranger 'to': these are unhuman, foreign and alien dances of Nature.
The Splash of a raindrop, the flow of a tide, the roll of the stars. These things are too small and too big for us. They do not perform for us. They are not to be fathomed. They are not to be summoned, constrained or halted. They happen in their own time and place. They do not perform for us, but we may see them and wonder.
Do we recognise in this stranger a part of ourselves?
Commissioned note
Premiered by Ian Pace, York, 14 March 2004.
Performance history
14 Mar 2004: Premiered by Ian Pace, York, 14 March 2004.