The running dog / Le chien qui court

 

POWERHOUSE, Montreal PQ; GALERIE SANS NOM, Moncton NB; GALERIE LE TOURNASSIN, Amqui PQ; Mt ALLISON UNIVERSITY, Sackville NB 1982-83 – INTERLOCHEN ARTS CADEMY, Interlochen MI 1988 – STAGE ONE, Charleston SC 1990

A one-and-a-half sound piece in two acts with one intermission. The sound circles around the audience.

Part ONE:

Mes Chéris

Jean-Sebastian Bach

Jean Sebastian Bach (encore)

La rue – the street

Dogs

A voir la longueur du chemin

There is such a long way to go

There is no coming back

Sans pieds

Cet instant

Couvre-feu à cinqheures

From here to the wall

Nous traversons le champ

Down to particulars

So, we go mushroom hunting

Reviens vite mon amour

Come back soon my love

 

My darlings

Ecoute – Listen

On recommence – Encore

I am out

Chiens

Crois-tu qu’il attend toujours?

Do you think he is still expecting you?

You will carry a banner

Within the next hour I will be in heaven

And now. To live again? My legs hurt

Curfew at 5pm

D’ici au mur

We cross the field

Passons aux détails

We go mushroom hunting

Quand Pénélope eut, encore un jour…

After Penelope, for yet another day…

Sir – Monsieur – Il y a un détail – There is a detail – Qui manque – Missing…

INTERMISSION

PART TWO:

 

Wolfram Von Eichenbach – Parzifal – Thilo Jörger

Si nous avons tant de tête

La transparence… Sans bras, sans tête, sans jambes

Ulysse – Pour en finir avec l’espoir

If we have so much brains

As a mirror… Armless, headless, legless

Nothing will do

… He contemplates hiring a maid…

It looks like at this point: December 16 1981

Etat de siège en Pologne – State of siege in Poland

Nous ne pouvions nous taire – We had to talk

Nous allons passer au générique

et nous verrons bien…

– Me –

– Johan Sebastian Bach –

On recommence

– The cripple –

How about Baby Jesus?

– Henry matisse –

Le passage d’un mur

– Ulysse & Pénélope

– The boats –

In any case, let’s present the cast

and then we shall see

– Him –

– Johan Sebastian Bach – Encore –

Danke viel mahls

Convalescent

– The androgyne and its double –

– Le nu Rose –

A wall, ten feet high

– Ulysses & Penelope –

– Les petits bateaux –