The piece opens with Coe and Tynes in typical concert dress. She wears a burgundy gown with plain black hair and he wears a tuxedo. But he also wears a black blindfold, so you can feel the expansiveness of BAM’s Fishman Space stage. Early on, the audience sees Kou’s video clip of him. winning performance His entry into the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1994 at the age of 17 was an early highlight of his traditional career.
But soon Coe reveals her true hot pink hair. The duo wear matched a black tank top with a voluminous black skirt.
Musically and narratively, “Everything Rises” highlights the fact that Coe and Tynes and their creative partners are constantly switching chords depending on where they are and who they are with. . Ueno imaginatively portrays the frequent alternation of ways of life, drawing text from their experiences and sampling audio recordings of interviews with the matriarchs of each family. Koh’s mother, Gertrude Sunja Lee Koh, who fled the Korean War to the United States, and Tynes’ grandmother. , Alma Lee Gibbs Tynes, descendants of enslaved people.
Ueno weaves clips of these women who tell chilling and raw stories. Alma recalls when one of her relatives was lynched. on the tree. โ
“Everything Rises” also has moments of melancholic tenderness, such as the lullaby-like “Fluttering Heart,” a testament to its enduring resilience. Over the course of the show, Tyne and Coe hug each other, both literally and figuratively. Listen, acknowledge, and amplify each other’s stories.