Laurie Anderson mourned America in 45 minutes—before it got weirder.
A distilled, up-to-the-minute portrait of our agitated nation, its politics, its economics, its delusions and its dreams. Laurie Anderson's tone is less outraged than elegiac, mourning for lives lost, ideals misplaced. The music is dramatically stripped down to a handful of players, centered around Anderson's haunting violin and voice, frequent Bill Frisell band-mate Eyvind Kang's viola and Peter Scherer's keyboards.
Score
Anderson's violin weeps, Frisell haunts
Direction
Braden King keeps it intimate, unflinching
Writing
Poetry that punches without raising voice
Director
Braden King
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Premiered at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, literally performing national anxiety on a world stage.
ANOHNI's early appearance here predates her own politically charged solo work by half a decade.
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