- Du Yun
Zolle (2005)
- Channel Du Yun Publishing (World)
A Cockroach's Tarantella and Zolle may be performed as an evening-length diptych.
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- Narrator, Female Voice, Tenor
- 55 min
- the composer
Programme Note
Composer note
In Zolle (It., big chunk of earth), a dead woman is a land-watcher. She wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked: an immigrant in death as in life. In her haunted travels between the worlds of life and the afterlife, she is unable to choose between the living and the dead, at a loss to let go of either. Finally, with her sorrows, solitudes, and peacefulness, she lets go of both, turning into a part of the earth.
— Du Yun
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