{"id":568,"date":"2014-07-17T04:01:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/?page_id=568"},"modified":"2023-08-07T08:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T08:41:58","slug":"sunset-o639-hours","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/?page_id=568","title":{"rendered":"Sunset o639 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sunset o639 Hours<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20229827895_8e8fdca8b0_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20229827895_8e8fdca8b0_b-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20229827895_8e8fdca8b0_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20229827895_8e8fdca8b0_b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20229827895_8e8fdca8b0_b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20229827895_8e8fdca8b0_b-800x534.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choreographer: Matthew Neenan<br>Composer: Rosie Langabeer<br>Co-creator: Andrew Mars<br>Produced by BalletX,<br>Premiered in Philadelphia July 9th 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;This new ballet is based on pilot Capt. Musick, his crew, and plane, the <em>Samoan Clipper<\/em> on the inaugural air mail service between New Zealand and the USA Dec 1937 &#8211; Jan 1938.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/11\/arts\/dance\/sunset-o639-hours-a-balletx-world-premiere.html?_r=2&amp;referrer=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cit\u2019s both eccentric and affecting.\u201d&nbsp;NYTimes<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sunset o639 Hours clips\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PrwZJRaM9DM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sunset-o639-hours-colby-and-andy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-634\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sunset-o639-hours-colby-and-andy-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"sunset o639 hours colby and andy\" class=\"wp-image-634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sunset-o639-hours-colby-and-andy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sunset-o639-hours-colby-and-andy-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sunset-o639-hours-colby-and-andy-624x415.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sunset-o639-hours-colby-and-andy.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New York Times Article: The Choreographer Matthew Neenan of BalletX Nears the Stratosphere<\/strong><br><strong><span class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"BRIAN SEIBERT\">BRIAN SEIBERT<\/span><\/span><time class=\"dateline\" datetime=\"2015-08-06\">AUG, AUG 6, 2015.<br><\/time><\/strong><br><strong>\u201cMs. Langabeer\u2019s contribution is crucial to the work\u2019s evocation of period, place and dream. She and three other musicians play onstage, sometimes on eccentric electronic instruments invented by Neil Feather. It all supports Mr. Neenan\u2019s choreographic fantasy: dancers as plane parts and passengers, crewmen and islanders, birds and letter writers, the missing and those who miss them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A version of this article appears in print on August 9, 2015, on page AR11 of the New York edition with the headline: A Choreographer Nears the Stratosphere.<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Karangahape-Cowboy-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Karangahape Cowboy \u2013 from <em>Sunset, o639 Hours<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>New York Times Review: \u2018Sunset, o639 Hours\u2019 by BalletX at the Joyce Theater<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"SIOBHAN BURKE\">SIOBHAN BURKE<\/span><\/span><time class=\"dateline\" datetime=\"2015-08-12\">AUG. 12, 2015<\/time><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Rosie-Langabeer-Andrew-Mars.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1224\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Rosie-Langabeer-Andrew-Mars-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Rosie Langabeer Andrew Mars\" class=\"wp-image-1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Rosie-Langabeer-Andrew-Mars-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Rosie-Langabeer-Andrew-Mars-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Rosie-Langabeer-Andrew-Mars-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"story-continues-3\"><strong>\u201cMr. Neenan and Ms. Langabeer shrewdly integrate the 10 dancers with a band of four multi-instrumentalists. The music ranges from \u201930s swing for a New Year\u2019s Eve scene in Auckland (\u201cThis one goes out to the Captain,\u201d Ms. Langabeer croons) to a woozy soundscape during an Act II layover in Pago Pago. Letters, read aloud, thread through the score, a reminder of the Captain\u2019s cargo. The stage bristles with the energy of a busy transit hub, and Maiko Matsushima\u2019s d\u00e9cor \u2014 four warped, suspended panels ascending on a diagonal \u2014 suggest both a steady takeoff and scattered debris.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Diamond.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I Was A Diamond&nbsp;\u2013 from&nbsp;<em>Sunset, o639 Hours<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp; &#8220;The back and forth with Langabeer, whose own voice figures largely in love songs full of wistful yearning and completion, is golden. She plucks sound snippets from everywhere, evoking insect creatures, the very movement of earth and sea, sounds of machinery whirring and working\u2014engines and electronica. The blast of brass, the thrum of strings.&#8221;&nbsp;<span>Lisa Kraus, Thinking Dance<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sunset-o639-hours-letter-one.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sunset-o639-hours-letter-one-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Marsh\" class=\"wp-image-636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sunset-o639-hours-letter-one-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sunset-o639-hours-letter-one-624x453.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sunset-o639-hours-letter-one.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunset o639 Hours Choreographer: Matthew NeenanComposer: Rosie LangabeerCo-creator: Andrew MarsProduced by BalletX,Premiered in Philadelphia July 9th 2014 &nbsp;This new ballet is based on pilot Capt. Musick, his crew, and plane, the Samoan Clipper on the inaugural air mail service between New Zealand and the USA Dec 1937 &#8211; Jan 1938. \u201cit\u2019s both eccentric and affecting.\u201d&nbsp;NYTimes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/?page_id=568\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunset o639 Hours<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-568","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.rosielangabeer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}