THE
BRAVERY OF WOMEN is a
performance piece (violin, voice, mime) with live video. It uses the
Egyptian legend of Isis & Osiris as a way of investigating the act
of practising the violin. It also examines the role played
by adversity in causing extraordinary acts of human courage.
According to Egyptian legend, Osiris's body was divided into
14 pieces
by his brother, Typhon. Isis (Osiris's wife) collected the pieces of
her
husband's body and put them together again in order to become pregnant.
In THE BRAVERY OF
WOMEN, the violinist reassembles
fragmented phrases from a Bach sonata. Just as Isis rebuilt the human
form, so the violinist rebuilds a musical work.