Ballet upon Carrion

For today's Video Find, I was looking for something along the lines of a madrigal or polyphonic Renaissance music. Along the way I ran into stuff by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The connection being that since the early seventies Pärt has looked more and more to early music, including sacred music, for inspiration. The same choral groups that like to sing from the 16th Century Cancionero de Upsala often like to do Pärt's later works, so if you search for one you get the other.

There are two dances on this video choreographed to two parts of Tabula Rasa [double concerto for two violins, string orchestra and prepared piano, composed in 1977]. It's the first of the two that really blew me away. The choreographer is Miguel Robles. According to the curriculum vitae on his website, the work was done for the Festival de danza de Buenos Aires, 2002.

Tabula Rasa - Miguel Robles/Arvo Pärt