Her Scars — A Ballet in 11 Scenes

[Ed Sharpe]

I do not know if I have shared this before:

Her Scars — A Ballet in 11 Scenes

Her Scars




Be warned it is 48 minutes long.

Scene 1 — Moon Rise,

Scene 2 — Demon Dance,

Scene 3 — Water Ablutions,

Scene 4 — Creature Dance,

Scene 5 — Demon Dance II,

Scene 6 — Katas,

Scene 7 — The Demon King Enters,

Scene 8 — Battle!,

Scene 9 — Healing,

Scene 10 — Funeral,

Scene 11 — Moon Set


The ballet is scored for a chamber ensemble consisting of:

• Solo Flute (doubles on Alto Flute)

• Double Reed Nonet

• String Nonet
• Percussion Octet

[dko22]

managed to get through this -- some of it is very interesting and atmospheric and well scored as well, particularly for percussion (although you could do with a less mechanical library to really bring things out). One might expect "funeral" to be the tragic heart of the piece and here the harmony felt to me a bit too conventional to entirely leave its mark. "Moon set" on the other hand, was a really effective conclusion.

There's no explanation of the story -- is this entirely your own imagination or drawn from a real tale?