Blog Post No. 10: Escondida No. 3
"Escondida No. 3," is one of my shorter ballets. (To date there are nine.)
Synopsis
The Dancer, Escondida and her husband, the conductor directs a well-known dance company.
Because he has the same name as a terrorist, he is thrown in jail.
Their daughter, a prodigy, the youngest member of their company,
The dancer. on hearing that her husband will be released soon, is hopeful.
When this does not happen, her anxiety is intensified.
She lightens up enough to play with her daughter...
After a million chores and weeks of anxiety, she becomes exhausted.
Falling asleep, she dreams of her joyous wedding day only to awake to
despair.
She becomes manic.
Her despair morphs into resolve.
Which gives way to loneliness.
Her husband is released when the media makes headlines about the mistaken
identity. They are about to celebrate when they hear
that new member of their dance company has been abducted, thrown in a prison
in an undisclosed location.
Husband and wife are overcome with compassion for all those who are unjustly
treated and whose safety is at greater risk because there are not well-known...
just good hard-working, often talented, good people caught up in a nightmare.
