Moral/Passion, 1985-6

4 performers, recorded score, spoken text, 13 slide projectors, flaming fountain, wind machine
55″

Everything contains its opposite – Moral/Passion addresses this idea through the subject of love. Our western legacy has given us a dualistic outlook on the world – good and evil, heaven and hell, strong and weak, right and wrong – a high contrast viewpoint on life. Perhaps the didactism of this dualism instructs us towards conflict and a world in which there is always the oppressor and oppressed.

Scene order (1986):
Scene 1: Before a Storm
Scene 2: Blue Girl
Scene 3: Lost Limb
Scene 4: Lost Child
Scene 5: Lost Belief
Scene 6: Liebestod
Scene 7: The Sea
Scene 8: Headdress
Scene 9: Monuments
Scene 10: Forest
Scene 11: Plaisir d’amour
Scene 12: Desire

Credits (for 1985):
Elizabeth Chitty (conception, writer, choreographer, director)
Paul Hodge (composer)
David Hlynsky (photographer)
Jim Plaxton (lighting co-designer)
Susan Swan (text editor)
Mary Wright (lighting co-designer)
Shelagh Young (costume designer)
Performers:
Ricardo Abreut
Berenicci
Margaret Dragu
Alan Rosenthal

Production Manager: Brian Robinson
Publicist: Claudia Wittgens
Poster Design: R.A. Gledhill
Assistant to David Hylnsky: Alexander Maschas
Lighting Assistant & windmachine operator: Bonnie Anderson
Pyrotechnics: Steven Davey
Plaisir d’amour percussionist & vocalist: Richard Abreut & Elizabeth Chitty
Lift coaches: Michael Copeman & Judith Miller

Moral/Passion, Winnipeg Art Gallery; co-produced by Cultural Desire Projects and the International Intermedia Performance Festival, curator Gilles Hébert, 1986
Moral/Passion, Great Hall, Toronto, Cultural Desire Projects, 1985
workshop, Moral/Passion, Great Hall, Toronto, 1984

Photo credits: all images projected in the performance and the featured image (Scene 12: Desire) by David Hlynsky.
Performance documentation: Judy Whalen