Dialogue with Rothko — Carolyn Carlson — photo © Yoshi Omori
“It’s very difficult to tour now in Italy with its money problems,” Carolyn Carlson tells me, which makes producer Daniele Cipriani a brave man indeed: he is bringing her new piece Dialogue with Rothko to Rome, with workshops to follow.
Why Mark Rothko?
It started as a commission to do a short haiku or prose on a painter whose work can be seen in the Centre Georges Pompidou. I love Rothko, so I asked them if they had a Rothko painting and they said yes. That painting happened to be Black, Red over Black on Red. So I wrote 47 pages of prose about this painting.
Carlson often uses poetry as the starting point for her creations, so it’s not a surprise that the book became a performance piece.
One of my production managers said, “Why don’t you do a solo?” and that’s how this was born.
I keep saying that it will be the last solo, but probably not. In my career I have danced about ten major solos, each of about an hour and a half. It’s part of my passion because in a solo you share your solitude, that’s what I think solos are about, it’s a focus.… [continue reading]
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