For this event, ARK will be performed at St. Markus Kirke, where we will also be making a recording for release on the LAWO Classics label.

The University Museum of Bergen’s Natural History Collection is an archive of histories, discoveries and speculations. It is a chronicle of adventures – not only human and animal but also vegetable and mineral; a place in which we are invited to contemplate our past, present and future impact on this earth.
It is also a place of refuge for shadows and reflections.

Under the spell cast by this collection, Alwynne Pritchard has created ARK, a performance of poetry, storytelling, music and song created especially for Bergen's Ensemble Currentes.

"I take a step and in one step I am enveloped in enshrouded by shadow beak and shadow claw
I am in shadows cast in shadows (and reflections)
such that this timespace
a liminal crepuscular time is at all times night and day"
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Performers:

Alwynne Pritchard: text, music, reading and voice
Jostein Gundersen: recorders
Ingvill Holter: voice
Kjetil Almenning: voice
Stein Urheim: guitars
Hans Knut Sveen: keyboards
Hans Lub: violin
Mikko Perkola: bass viol

Language: English
Photo: Alwynne Pritchard

With funds from Det norske komponistfond, Arts Council Norway and Bergen kommune.