Kim Brandstrup
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Premiere
12 September 1983, Bluecoat Arts Centre , Liverpool
Creative team
Commissioner
Spiral Dance Company
Choreography
Kim Brandstrup
Music
John Cage
3 Dances for prepared Piano
Design
Helen Turner
Dancers
Caroline Roemmele
Tam
Steinvor Palsson
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Spiral Dance Company
Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, September 1983
"The Narrow Road to the Deep North" was Kim Brandstrup's first professional commission.The then artistic director of Spiral Dance Company Tim Lamford had seen 'Les Noces' which KB had choreographed while still a student at London School of Contemporary Dance and asked him to create a trio for the company. Set to John Cage's 'Three Dances for Prepared Piano' the work had a meditative ritualistic quality inspired by the gamelan sounding piano and was indebted in both style and tone to Merce Cunningham.