The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
I. Morning Song
Moss with Rudner, Wright, Garcia-Lorca, Rinker, Wiener and Rawe
II. First Assumption
Hailey
III. Egg Stories
Hailey and Wright
IV. Beginnings
Moss with Rudner, Wright, Garcia-Lorca, Rinker, Wiener and Rawe
V. Second Assumption
Hailey
VI. Which Came First
Hailey with Wright, Garcia-Lorca, Rinker, Wiener and Rawe
VII. Two and Two
Moss with Tharp, Rudner, Wright, Garcia-Lorca, Rinker, Wiener and Rawe
VIII. Third Assumption
Hailey
IX. Eggs
Garcia-Lorca and Wiener
Isabel Garcia-Lorca, Tom Rawe, Kenneth Rinker, Sara Rudner, Twyla Tharp, Nina Wiener, Rose Marie Wright
Actress: Marian Hailey
Production Stage Managers: Pennie Curry and Richard Cleary
From the original program: "Morning Song, Beginnings, Two and Two, Eggs, The Egg Stories and Which Came First by Jeffrey Moss. The line “Eggs don’t bounce,” is from Mr. John Percival’s review of Twyla Tharp’s piece Re-Moves (Dance and Dancers, May, 1967).
The premiere of In The Beginnings was made possible by the good spirits of Suzanne Weil."
In The Beginnings was billed as a collaboration between Tharp, the dancers, Jeffrey Moss (composer / writer), Jennifer Tipton (lighting designer) and Marian Hailey (actress). The theatrical elements came together to form an absurdist play. The loose-limbed, free-swinging choreography is accompanied alternately by music and monologues.
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Wright and Rinker perform in St. Paul in 1975.
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Wright and Rinker with musicians.
<p>©Tom Rawe</p>
Company dancers in a performance excerpt.
Original score composed by Jeffrey Moss.