Loss & Desire

Loss and Desire is a solo danced through a voyage of the four elements using water, dirt, and fire.  Air is represented by the movement and fire by a stunning installation of forty feet of red fabric.  The past is left behind and buried,the future is planted for renewal and rebirth in which the passion and desire of life can be felt. Read Village Voice Review.

The imagery and text was motivated by the book “Death and the Dervish” by Bosnian Muslim author Mesa Selimovic about the Ottoman occupation of Bosnia.

Choreographed & Performed by Valerie Green

Music is by Goran Bregovic, Kamasutra, and Gypsy Fire

Length: 16 min.

Performance History

• Cunningham Studio as part of Dance Entropy NYC season “Naked-Desire” Jan. 2005
• 92 St. Y Fridays at Noon Dec. 2003
• Field Day-Sheffield, Vermont Aug. 2003
• Premiered at International Fringe Festival of Independent Artists in Toronto, Canada Aug. 2003