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Ursa Major (Gaspereau Press)
Poetry / Drama $21.95 / 1894031660
In March 2002, Robert Bringhurst's Ursa Major: A Polyphonic Masque for Speakers & Dancers, premiered in Regina. The work was commissioned by choreographer Robin Poitras as part of an evening of modern performance and dance entitled Invisible Ceremonies. In Ursa Major, Bringhurst explores a polyphonic technique that allows multiple speakers - and multiple languages and traditions - to collaborate in the story's telling. The subject of the masque is Ursa Major, the great bear constellation, one of the most universal themes in world mythology. In setting the Cree tradition alongside the mythologies of ancient Greece and Rome, Bringhurst demonstrates the richness of metaphor that North Americans have inherited. This publication is an attempt to express the masque's performance in typographic form. The book includes a detailed afterword written by Peter Sanger... Robert Bringhurst will be at the Festival of Words in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan from July 24 to 27, 2003, together with John Noestheden's Ursa Major sculpture at the Moose Jaw Art Gallery and Museum. Bringhurst will also be the guest lecturer at the Gaspereau Press Wayzgoose on October 18, 2003, Kentville, Nova Scotia.
[Gaspereau Press, 2003]
In March 2002, Robert Bringhurst's Ursa Major: A Polyphonic Masque for Speakers & Dancers, premiered in Regina. The work was commissioned by choreographer Robin Poitras as part of an evening of modern performance and dance entitled Invisible Ceremonies. In Ursa Major, Bringhurst explores a polyphonic technique that allows multiple speakers - and multiple languages and traditions - to collaborate in the story's telling. The subject of the masque is Ursa Major, the great bear constellation, one of the most universal themes in world mythology. In setting the Cree tradition alongside the mythologies of ancient Greece and Rome, Bringhurst demonstrates the richness of metaphor that North Americans have inherited. This publication is an attempt to express the masque's performance in typographic form. The book includes a detailed afterword written by Peter Sanger... Robert Bringhurst will be at the Festival of Words in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan from July 24 to 27, 2003, together with John Noestheden's Ursa Major sculpture at the Moose Jaw Art Gallery and Museum. Bringhurst will also be the guest lecturer at the Gaspereau Press Wayzgoose on October 18, 2003, Kentville, Nova Scotia.
[Gaspereau Press, 2003]
Submitted on June 23, 2003 in By David.
