Global - The the steel orchestra music genre’s giants like Pat Bishop, Dr. Geraldine Connor and Dr. Dawn Batson that have previously highlighted Pan and Dance.
Carnival Messiah by Dr. Geraldine Connor
In speaking with Dr. Batson—Professor of Music, and Chair of Visual and Performing Arts, Florida Memorial University—about the NYU Steel/New York Theatre Ballet collaboration, she noted in part that “Pan music like the music of the ancestors, has never been divorced from dance. Sometimes we in the Western world try to create false boundaries and put music, art, literature and dance into separate compartments, and only with expressed permission do we allow them to mingle. True expression tells a story and in the artistic world of Pan all the elements combine to tell that story.”
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