Composer, Mary Ellen Childs


Excerpts from Wreck
	1. The Gathering (begins at 0:00)
	2. The Box  (begins at 4:15)
	3. Touching     (begins at 7:10)
(clarinet, violin, 2 cellos, percussion)
performed by the Wreck Ensemble 

Wreck was written for a full-evening dance work by Black Label Movement dance company (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA). Wreck is set inside the last watertight compartment of a recently sunk ore boat at the bottom of Lake Superior. The work explores the depths of physical and psychological endurance and human fortitude in the face of impending destruction.

WRECK excerpts (The Gathering, The Box, Touching)

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