John Kelly - Find My Way Home - New York Live Arts



Date: 10/21/11 through 10/29/11
Ages: All
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Description: Performance artist John Kelly remounts his Bessie Award winning Find My Way Home, based on the ancient Greek Myth of Orpheus & Eurydice. Originally commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop in 1988 (revised in 1998) and set in the Great Depression, Find My Way Home recasts Orpheus as a famous 30's radio crooner who makes a pact with the gods and descends into hell to bring Eurydice back to life. Created during the height of the AIDS epidemic, Find My Way Home deconstructs genres of opera, period dance, and cinematic acting, and includes scenes and arias from Gluck's baroque opera Orfeo Ed Eurydice, (sung in Kelly's countertenor voice), together with film sequences, set and costume design, and a company of 11 singers and dancers.