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Aphorisms: A Tribute to Ursula Mamlok
October 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$10 – $15
Aphorisms: A Tribute to Ursula Mamlok with dancers from New Chamber Ballet, flutist Roberta Michel, and the Momenta Quartet
Performances:
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 at 7PM + Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 at 7PM
TICKETS – $15 General Admission / $10 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID
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Aphorisms is a tribute to composer and Black Mountain College student Ursula Mamlok, inspired by her life, art, and triumph over persecution and oppression. The performance is choreographed by Miro Magloire and performed by the Momenta Quartet, flutist Roberta Michel, and the New Chamber Ballet. Presented here as a new performance iteration created especially for Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, this event integrates live chamber music and dance to celebrate Mamlok’s work and legacy. BMCM+AC will present two evening performances (Oct. 14th and Oct. 15th) in the museum’s main level gallery, in conjunction with the exhibition Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College.
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About the Performances:
Aphorisms presents six works by Ursula Mamlok, performed live, enriched by Miro Magloire’s contemporary ballet choreography. Magloire, a former composition student of Mauricio Kagel and the founder of the New York City-based New Chamber Ballet, has pioneered a captivating new form of music-and-dance collaboration: ‘unplugged’, without stage sets or theatrical lights, and with the audience seated around the stage and up close to the performers.
Aphorisms opens with the eponymous composition for solo violin, in which Mamlok’s extremely reduced sound language appears in counterpoint to two simultaneous trios of dancers. Her trio Music for Stony Brook reverses the relationship: this time the dancers perform as soloists. This is followed by a fast-paced dance duet to Sintra for flute and cello, and a rousing dance to the composer’s String Quartet No 2. The performance concludes with a danced finale to Ursula Mamlok’s Terzianum.
Aphorisms received its world premiere this April in Berlin, Germany, and will be seen here in a new version created especially for Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. It follows an earlier production entitled Stray Bird, based on a different musical selection and choreography, which premiered in New York in 2017 and went on to great acclaim in sold-out performances in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and opening the Jewish Culture Days in Magdeburg, Germany.
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