Silvia Costa | Love, Icebox
- Ifat Nesher
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Love, Icebox
12, 13 | 12 | 2025
musical work by Bryce Dessner Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham (Red Hook, NY: John CageTrust, 2019) takes its shape from 39 letters—transcribed and chronologically ordered, some reproduced in facsimile—with Foreword, Commentary, and Afterword by editor, Laura Kuhn.
As a whole, they illuminate beautifully something of the emotional and domestic spaces the two men forged in courtship. Illustrations further include images of their final New York City loft, photos of the two men (together and apart), and thumbnail shots of personal and household objects left behind that serve now as reminders of the substance and rituals of their long, shared life.
Bryce Dessner: composer, musical creation – commissioned by the Fondation Louis Vuitton
Benjamin Lanz: electronics
Tom Visser: lighting design
Silvia Costa: dramaturgy and staging
Isabelle Huppert: actress
Alice Sara Ott: piano
