Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015)

In this landmark piece, choreographed by Kathryn Roszak and performed by Danse Lumière, a company recognized for adapting great works of literature to the stage through the fusion of dance, music, and theater, dancers echo Tomas Tranströmer’s unique collages of everyday narrative, interrupted by flashes of strong emotion, and penetrated by a palpable sense of the world’s beauty.

Supported in part by a grant from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. Copresented with Scandinavia House (rmharris)… (mer)

Swedish Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer, poet, psychologist, and translator, is perhaps best known for his mastery of the poetic image. Presenting some of the poet’s most resonant and ambitious poems, Tony Hoagland explores his collage-like layering of contrasting perceptions and registers that, defying logical apprehension, come together, defining Tranströmer as a master craftsman of sensibility. (rmharris)… (mer)