Morgan’s Last Chug

Choreographer: Emmanuel Gat

Morgan’s Last Chug, is a study on layered temporality. A multifaceted look at the experience of passing time, through both the choreographic and the audible. Through a series of relentless variations, using different modalities of time related composition, the dancers explore dance as an inherently musical practice, bringing forth its temporal aspects and mechanisms. Beckett’s compelling monologue from “krapp’s last tape”, in itself a theatrical counterpoint between live and recorded text, highlights the innumerable ways in which the human experience is inhabited and highlighted by passing time.

Premiere
September 17, 2013 at Maison de la Danse in Lyon, France

Sound Design
Emanuel Gat

Lighting and Costume Design
Emanuel Gat

Assistant Choreographer
Genevieve Osborne 

Music
J.S. Bach, French suite #1 in D minor BWV 812. Piano, Glenn Gould. H. Purcell, Funeral Music For Queen Mary – March. Andrew Parrott, Taverner Consort & Players

Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
Performed by Jim Norton
The recording is used with permission from Naxos AudioBooks

Length
20 Minutes

Morgan’s Last Chug