Department of Music

Post performance discussion with:

Katie Schetlick, UVa dance lecturer

Ted Coffey, UVa professor of music composition

In Once Gone, Levine and DeLuca create a tightly structured system of sound and movement. The imperfection of the repetition inherent in this system becomes quickly palpable and a central source of the work's resonance. As the piece stretches out over time, the form decays and produces residue. The work speaks of change and disappearance, human effort and what remains after an ending.

Abigail Levine is a New York-based choreographer, performer, and writer. Her works bring together dance’s bodily specificity with performance art’s experiments with time and human action. They have been shown in the US, Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, Canada and Taiwan, recently at venues including the Movement Research Festival, Mount Tremper Arts Festival, Center for Performance Research, Roulette, Art in Odd Places, Judson Church, Foro Performática, and SESC São Paulo.

Erik Deluca is a composer, sound artist, and scholar of sound who has lectured, performed, and exhibited at such places as MASS MoCA, the Anchorage Museum, Society for Ethnomusicology, June in Buffalo, Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, Art Basel Miami, Issue Project Room, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Diapason Gallery, the Hammer Museum, Society for Electroacoustic Music, International Computer Music Conference, and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. Erik is a lecturer in the music department at the University of Virginia.