Philip Glass’s Songs from Liquid Days celebrate the immediacy of the Pop singing voice, but they also deal with elusive lyrics by songwriters Suzanne Vega and Paul Simon. The Songs have an almost ritual theatrical power, the instrumental layers building relentlessly – it is overwhelming music with a mesmerizing accumulative power, grandiose brass, fluttering woodwind, and under it all a percussive beat worthy of Studio 54!
Richard Alston’s Blow Over races along to the exhilarating pulse of Songs From Liquid Days by Philip Glass. This is not Glass in cool, serene mood, oh no – this is music urgently driven and the dancers have to fly to keep up, in great leaping arcs of energy.
Co-commissioned by Sadler's Wells and Dance Umbrella. First performed by Richard Alston Dance Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 2 October 2008.