Firebird Cycles
performance art installation for
chamber orchestra and dancers (2017)

Premiered by Density512 with dancers Oluwaseun Olayiwola and Lizzy Tan
in SoundSpace: A Portrait of Alice Coltrane at the Blanton Museum of Art.
1.1.1.1, 1.1.1.0, vib.

Excerpted from “At Home With The Coltranes, Listening To Stravinsky”All Things Considered, July 19, 2012 And while Ravi Coltrane now plays jazz, it was his mother's love for a very different kind of music that provided the childhood soundtrack for him and his siblings….Coltrane says his and his siblings' favorite part of The Firebird was its finale. "The very end of the piece begins in this very tranquil way and builds into this overture, this very simple theme," he says. "We used to dance around to it like we were on the stage. It is a ballet, The Firebird, so I guess we were channeling that idea."