Clouds and Michael Lett invite you to the launch of a new publication:       
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Sriwhana Spong
Nijinsky
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Thursday 15 July, 6pm
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split/fountain
452 Karangahape Road
Auckland
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ISBN: 978-0-9582981-8-6
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Softcover
112 pages
English
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Edition: 800
Dimensions: 151 x 200 x 10mm
Weight: 250gm
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NZD$45  '
    
Nijinsky relates to a series of Sriwhana Spong films that are a re-imagining of a George Balanchine ballet, The Song of the Nightingale, originally choreographed in 1925 for the itinerant Ballet Russes company.

Based on the only fragments remaining of the avant-garde original (the Stravinsky score, documentation of the Matisse designs for set and costumes, and some of the costumes themselves), Spong’s films and the book’s contents exhort the Balanchine maxim, “Before is over. Performance is now”. Nijinsky channels the presence of the famous chimeric dancer for whom the book is named, and involves stills from the films along with collage works that overlay geometric forms onto ballet photographs cut from picture books.
Texts by Sarah Hopkinson, Gwynneth Porter, Keith Money, Sriwhana Spong.

This book project has been supported by Creative New Zealand, and was co-published with the Auckland gallery Michael Lett on the occasion of the screening of Spong’s Lethe-wards at Art Basel in June 2010.      
Nijinsky will be available at a discounted price at the launch, and thereafter from selected bookshops and www.clouds.co.nz for $45 (includes GST).

For further information visit:
www.clouds.co.nz/sriwhana-spong-nijinsky  
  
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Clouds publishing
PO Box 68-187
Newton, Auckland 1145
Aotearoa New Zealand
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