Transcendent Spirits: Lift 40 Voices and Dance
Streaming highlights: the New York Chorale Society, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and City Ballet’s ‘Prodigal Son.’
Larissa Gerszke and Chalvar Monteiro in Claudia Schreier’s duet to “God Is Seen" at the Irondale, a church turned performance space, in Brooklyn.Credit...via New York Choral Society
By Marina Harss
Watching: New York Choral Society, ‘God Is Seen’
Like dance and the other performing arts, choral singing has had a tough year. Singing is breath, breath carries germs, and these days large groups of people singing together is the stuff of nightmares. But the urge to raise voices in song together, like the urge to move to music, is powerful. Now, the New York Choral Society is combining the two — dance and song — in a new short film to be released on Feb. 23.