FIRST AND SECOND SONG CYCLES

Director
Ben Spatz

Performers
Ben Spatz
Michele Farbman

Venues
Chez Bushwick studio (2009)
Dance Theatre Workshop studio (2009)
Panetta Movement Center studio (2009)
Private loft in Tribeca (2007)

These song cycles were developed between 2006 and 2009 as a research project in song, movement, and action. "First Song Cycle" was developed first with two people and then as a solo work created and performed by Ben Spatz. "Second Song Cycle" was created and performed by Michele Farbman under the direction of Ben Spatz. Both song cycles were structured around a sequence of invented, nonlexical songs through which a line of associations and precise actions was followed. There were no costumes or characters in the usual sense, but fragments of narrative did appear.

This period of work is described in the book Letters to an Empty Room.